Chapter 6 of Airship Andy is here in full — 88 sentences across 18 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter VI
Chapter 6 of Airship Andy is here in full — 88 sentences across 18 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Hold on, there!” “Don’t stop me—out of the way!” “Why, whatever is the matter with you?” “The comet has fallen——” “What?” “On our barn.”
Chapter 6 of Airship Andy is here in full — 88 sentences across 18 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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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.
an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
From this reading ““On our barn.””
(astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit
From this reading ““The comet has fallen——” “What?””
having dropped by the force of gravity
From this reading ““The comet has fallen——” “What?””
cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., “keep clean”
From this reading ““Hold on, there!””
a vaguely specified concern
From this reading ““Why, whatever is the matter with you?””
come to a halt, stop moving
From this reading ““Don’t stop me—out of the way!””
how something is done or how it happens
From this reading ““Don’t stop me—out of the way!””
any or all of a kind, it does not matter which
From this reading ““Why, whatever is the matter with you?””
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.
hold firmly
In this reading ““Hold on, there!””
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
From this reading “On our barn.”
(astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit
From this reading “The comet has fallen——” “What?”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Don’t stop me—out of the way!”
having dropped by the force of gravity
From this reading “The comet has fallen——” “What?”
the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading “The comet has fallen——” “What?”
cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., “keep clean”
From this reading “Hold on, there!”
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading “Why, whatever is the matter with you?”
a vaguely specified concern
From this reading “Why, whatever is the matter with you?”
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading “Don’t stop me—out of the way!”
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading “Don’t stop me—out of the way!”
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading “Hold on, there!”
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading “On our barn.”
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading “Don’t stop me—out of the way!”
come to a halt, stop moving
From this reading “Don’t stop me—out of the way!”
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading “Don’t stop me—out of the way!”
in or at that place or location
From this reading “Hold on, there!”
how something is done or how it happens
From this reading “Don’t stop me—out of the way!”
used to ask for information about something
From this reading “The comet has fallen——” “What?”
any or all of a kind, it does not matter which
From this reading “Why, whatever is the matter with you?”
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading “Why, whatever is the matter with you?”
in the company of; together with
From this reading “Why, whatever is the matter with you?”
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “Why, whatever is the matter with you?”
Chapter 6 of Airship Andy by Frank V. Webster holds 88 sentences, grouped into 18 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 6 holds 88 sentences of Airship Andy, unabridged, divided into 18 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 6 of Airship Andy by Frank V. Webster exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 88 sentences, grouped into 18 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 18 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 18 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 6 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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About 253 minutes of reading across 609 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Airship Andy section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Airship Andy, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
