Down the Ice, and Other Winter Sports Stories
Down the Ice, and Other Winter Sports Stories by Harold M. (Harold Morrow) Sherman is available here as the complete text, split into 593 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Down the Ice, and Other Winter Sports Stories by Harold M. (Harold Morrow) Sherman. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #46366.
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Down the Ice, and Other Winter Sports Stories
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This edition of Down the Ice, and Other Winter Sports Stories by Harold M. (Harold Morrow) Sherman carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #46366, divided into 7 chapters and 593 reading sections of 5 sentences each. Every sentence of the source is kept, and each chapter records which sentences cover which part of the story. Any word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
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Down the Ice, and Other Winter Sports Stories is presented in 7 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting Down the Ice, and Other Winter Sports Stories as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 593 sections of 5 sentences each. A section is short enough to hold in mind at once, which suits a reader working in a second language or returning to a long work in short sittings. The sections are gathered into 7 chapters.
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Is this the complete text of Down the Ice, and Other Winter Sports Stories?
Yes. All 2964 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #46366 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
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Project Gutenberg eBook #46366, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does Down the Ice, and Other Winter Sports Stories take to read?
About 247 minutes of reading across 593 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Vocabulary met early in Down the Ice, and Other Winter Sports Stories
Words and structures a reader meets early in Down the Ice, and Other Winter Sports Stories, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
- Interference
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of Down the Ice, and Other Winter Sports Stories; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Strike
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of Down the Ice, and Other Winter Sports Stories; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Under
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- Basket
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of Down the Ice, and Other Winter Sports Stories; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.