Chapter 2 of A Mother's List of Books for Children is here in full — 389 sentences across 78 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter II
Chapter 2 of A Mother's List of Books for Children is here in full — 389 sentences across 78 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?
Chapter 2 of A Mother's List of Books for Children is here in full — 389 sentences across 78 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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dwell on with satisfaction
From this reading “GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?”
a statement that represents something in words
From this reading “GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?”
a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (“eaters of raw flesh”) but they call themselves the Inuit (“the people”)
From this reading “GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?”
devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain
From this reading “GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?”
study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation
From this reading “GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?”
a member of a group of North American Indian peoples who spoke a Siouan language and who ranged from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains
From this reading “GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?”
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading “GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?”
a native or inhabitant of Turkey
From this reading “GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?”
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?
dwell on with satisfaction
From this reading GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?
a statement that represents something in words
From this reading GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?
a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (“eaters of raw flesh”) but they call themselves the Inuit (“the people”)
From this reading GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?
devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain
From this reading GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?
study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation
From this reading GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?
of or relating to or characteristic of India or the East Indies or their peoples or languages or cultures
From this reading GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?
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 GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?
a member of a group of North American Indian peoples who spoke a Siouan language and who ranged from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains
From this reading GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?
a native or inhabitant of Turkey
From this reading GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?
hope for; have a wish
From this reading GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don't you wish that you were me?
Chapter 2 of A Mother's List of Books for Children by Gertrude Weld Arnold holds 389 sentences, grouped into 78 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 2 holds 389 sentences of A Mother's List of Books for Children, unabridged, divided into 78 reading sections.
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