Chapter 16 of All Around the Moon is here in full — 161 sentences across 33 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 16 of All Around the Moon is here in full — 161 sentences across 33 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE. Exceedingly narrow and exceedingly fortunate had been the escape of the Projectile. And from a danger too the most unlikely and the most unexpected. Who would have ever dreamed of even the possibility of such an encounter? And was all danger over?
Chapter 16 of All Around the Moon is here in full — 161 sentences across 33 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/32 · 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.
come together
From this reading “Who would have ever dreamed of even the possibility of such an encounter?”
to an extreme degree
From this reading “Exceedingly narrow and exceedingly fortunate had been the escape of the Projectile.”
having unexpected good fortune
From this reading “Exceedingly narrow and exceedingly fortunate had been the escape of the Projectile.”
half of the terrestrial globe
From this reading “THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE.”
a future prospect or potential
From this reading “Who would have ever dreamed of even the possibility of such an encounter?”
a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled
From this reading “Exceedingly narrow and exceedingly fortunate had been the escape of the Projectile.”
in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line
From this reading “THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE.”
not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred
From this reading “And from a danger too the most unlikely and the most unexpected.”
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.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading And from a danger too the most unlikely and the most unexpected.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading And was all danger over?
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading Who would have ever dreamed of even the possibility of such an encounter?
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Exceedingly narrow and exceedingly fortunate had been the escape of the Projectile.
the past participle of “be”
From this reading Exceedingly narrow and exceedingly fortunate had been the escape of the Projectile.
the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury
From this reading And from a danger too the most unlikely and the most unexpected.
conceived of or imagined or hoped for
From this reading Who would have ever dreamed of even the possibility of such an encounter?
come together
From this reading Who would have ever dreamed of even the possibility of such an encounter?
the act of escaping physically
From this reading Exceedingly narrow and exceedingly fortunate had been the escape of the Projectile.
divisible by two
From this reading Who would have ever dreamed of even the possibility of such an encounter?
at any time
From this reading Who would have ever dreamed of even the possibility of such an encounter?
to an extreme degree
From this reading Exceedingly narrow and exceedingly fortunate had been the escape of the Projectile.
having unexpected good fortune
From this reading Exceedingly narrow and exceedingly fortunate had been the escape of the Projectile.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading And from a danger too the most unlikely and the most unexpected.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Exceedingly narrow and exceedingly fortunate had been the escape of the Projectile.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Who would have ever dreamed of even the possibility of such an encounter?
half of the terrestrial globe
From this reading THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE.
used to form the superlative
From this reading And from a danger too the most unlikely and the most unexpected.
make or become more narrow or restricted
From this reading Exceedingly narrow and exceedingly fortunate had been the escape of the Projectile.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Exceedingly narrow and exceedingly fortunate had been the escape of the Projectile.
above and across; more than
From this reading And was all danger over?
a future prospect or potential
From this reading Who would have ever dreamed of even the possibility of such an encounter?
a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled
From this reading Exceedingly narrow and exceedingly fortunate had been the escape of the Projectile.
in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line
From this reading THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE.
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading Who would have ever dreamed of even the possibility of such an encounter?
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE.
to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
From this reading And from a danger too the most unlikely and the most unexpected.
not expected or anticipated
From this reading And from a danger too the most unlikely and the most unexpected.
not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred
From this reading And from a danger too the most unlikely and the most unexpected.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading And was all danger over?
which person or people
From this reading Who would have ever dreamed of even the possibility of such an encounter?
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading Who would have ever dreamed of even the possibility of such an encounter?
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