Chapter 3 of Will Rossiter's Original Talkalogues by American Jokers is here in full — 429 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 3 of Will Rossiter's Original Talkalogues by American Jokers is here in full — 429 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
O, joy! exceeding joy! Exit sorrow until act third. ACT III Scene 1: Home of the poor flower-girl, on Fifth Avenue, New York. Heroine discovered in boudoir of her wretched million-dollar residence. Enter French maid with card.
Chapter 3 of Will Rossiter's Original Talkalogues by American Jokers is here in full — 429 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/85 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
a line of approach
From this reading “ACT III Scene 1: Home of the poor flower-girl, on Fifth Avenue, New York.”
a lady's bedroom or private sitting room
From this reading “Heroine discovered in boudoir of her wretched million-dollar residence.”
one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes
From this reading “Enter French maid with card.”
far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree
From this reading “O, joy! exceeding joy!”
an opening that permits escape or release
From this reading “Exit sorrow until act third.”
a quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon
From this reading “ACT III Scene 1: Home of the poor flower-girl, on Fifth Avenue, New York.”
the main good female character in a work of fiction
From this reading “Heroine discovered in boudoir of her wretched million-dollar residence.”
any address at which you dwell more than temporarily
From this reading “Heroine discovered in boudoir of her wretched million-dollar residence.”
English keeps certain words together, and knowing the pair is worth more than knowing each word alone. Every partnership below was counted across our whole published library, and earns its place by appearing far more often than two unrelated words of the same frequency would.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
In this reading “O, joy! exceeding joy!”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ACT III Scene 1: Home of the poor flower-girl, on Fifth Avenue, New York.
perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
From this reading Exit sorrow until act third.
a line of approach
From this reading ACT III Scene 1: Home of the poor flower-girl, on Fifth Avenue, New York.
a lady's bedroom or private sitting room
From this reading Heroine discovered in boudoir of her wretched million-dollar residence.
one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes
From this reading Enter French maid with card.
discovered or determined by scientific observation
From this reading Heroine discovered in boudoir of her wretched million-dollar residence.
to come or go into
From this reading Enter French maid with card.
far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree
From this reading O, joy! exceeding joy!
an opening that permits escape or release
From this reading Exit sorrow until act third.
a quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon
From this reading ACT III Scene 1: Home of the poor flower-girl, on Fifth Avenue, New York.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ACT III Scene 1: Home of the poor flower-girl, on Fifth Avenue, New York.
the Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France
From this reading Enter French maid with card.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Heroine discovered in boudoir of her wretched million-dollar residence.
the main good female character in a work of fiction
From this reading Heroine discovered in boudoir of her wretched million-dollar residence.
where you live at a particular time
From this reading ACT III Scene 1: Home of the poor flower-girl, on Fifth Avenue, New York.
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
From this reading ACT III Scene 1: Home of the poor flower-girl, on Fifth Avenue, New York.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Heroine discovered in boudoir of her wretched million-dollar residence.
the emotion of great happiness
From this reading O, joy! exceeding joy!
a female domestic
From this reading Enter French maid with card.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Heroine discovered in boudoir of her wretched million-dollar residence.
not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
From this reading ACT III Scene 1: Home of the poor flower-girl, on Fifth Avenue, New York.
a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
From this reading O, joy! exceeding joy!
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading ACT III Scene 1: Home of the poor flower-girl, on Fifth Avenue, New York.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading ACT III Scene 1: Home of the poor flower-girl, on Fifth Avenue, New York.
deserving or inciting pity
From this reading ACT III Scene 1: Home of the poor flower-girl, on Fifth Avenue, New York.
any address at which you dwell more than temporarily
From this reading Heroine discovered in boudoir of her wretched million-dollar residence.
the place where some action occurs
From this reading ACT III Scene 1: Home of the poor flower-girl, on Fifth Avenue, New York.
an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement
From this reading Exit sorrow until act third.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading ACT III Scene 1: Home of the poor flower-girl, on Fifth Avenue, New York.
one of three equal parts of a divisible whole
From this reading Exit sorrow until act third.
up to a particular time
From this reading Exit sorrow until act third.
in the company of; together with
From this reading Enter French maid with card.
of very poor quality or condition
From this reading Heroine discovered in boudoir of her wretched million-dollar residence.
the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose
From this reading ACT III Scene 1: Home of the poor flower-girl, on Fifth Avenue, New York.
Chapter 3 of Will Rossiter's Original Talkalogues by American Jokers by Will [Editor] Rossiter holds 429 sentences, grouped into 86 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 3 holds 429 sentences of Will Rossiter's Original Talkalogues by American Jokers, unabridged, divided into 86 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 3 of Will Rossiter's Original Talkalogues by American Jokers by Will [Editor] Rossiter exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 429 sentences, grouped into 86 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.
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