Chapter 12 of Victor Ollnee's Discipline is here in full — 396 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XII
Chapter 12 of Victor Ollnee's Discipline is here in full — 396 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Don't you make game of me," he stammered, warningly. "If you do--I'll--" She raised an amused glance. "What? What will you do, boy?" "Boy!"
Chapter 12 of Victor Ollnee's Discipline is here in full — 396 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/79 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
pleasantly occupied
From this reading “"If you do--I'll--" She raised an amused glance.”
a youthful male person
From this reading “What will you do, boy?"”
a contest with rules to determine a winner
From this reading “"Don't you make game of me," he stammered, warningly.”
throw a glance at; take a brief look at
From this reading “"If you do--I'll--" She raised an amused glance.”
engage in
From this reading “"Don't you make game of me," he stammered, warningly.”
located or moved above the surround or above the normal position
From this reading “"If you do--I'll--" She raised an amused glance.”
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Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
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pleasantly occupied
From this reading "If you do--I'll--" She raised an amused glance.
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading "If you do--I'll--" She raised an amused glance.
a youthful male person
From this reading What will you do, boy?"
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading "If you do--I'll--" She raised an amused glance.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Don't you make game of me," he stammered, warningly.
a contest with rules to determine a winner
From this reading "Don't you make game of me," he stammered, warningly.
throw a glance at; take a brief look at
From this reading "If you do--I'll--" She raised an amused glance.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "Don't you make game of me," he stammered, warningly.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "If you do--I'll--" She raised an amused glance.
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading "If you do--I'll--" She raised an amused glance.
engage in
From this reading "Don't you make game of me," he stammered, warningly.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading "Don't you make game of me," he stammered, warningly.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading "Don't you make game of me," he stammered, warningly.
located or moved above the surround or above the normal position
From this reading "If you do--I'll--" She raised an amused glance.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "If you do--I'll--" She raised an amused glance.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Don't you make game of me," he stammered, warningly.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Don't you make game of me," he stammered, warningly.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading "What?
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading What will you do, boy?"
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "Don't you make game of me," he stammered, warningly.
Chapter 12 of Victor Ollnee's Discipline by Hamlin Garland holds 396 sentences, grouped into 80 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 12 holds 396 sentences of Victor Ollnee's Discipline, unabridged, divided into 80 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 12 of Victor Ollnee's Discipline by Hamlin Garland exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 396 sentences, grouped into 80 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 80 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 80 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 12 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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