Chapter 22 of An Australian Girl is here in full — 407 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 22 of An Australian Girl is here in full — 407 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
’Did you have a good passage, Liebe? Tell me the very day on which you left. Why, that was just twenty-four days after I did! And our voyage was longer than usual. We had no storms, but shortly after leaving Mauritius our engine got seriously out of gear, and that made us ten days later.
Chapter 22 of An Australian Girl is here in full — 407 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work
From this reading “We had no storms, but shortly after leaving Mauritius our engine got seriously out of gear, and that made us ten days later.”
a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
From this reading “We had no storms, but shortly after leaving Mauritius our engine got seriously out of gear, and that made us ten days later.”
a parliamentary state on the island of Mauritius
From this reading “We had no storms, but shortly after leaving Mauritius our engine got seriously out of gear, and that made us ten days later.”
in a serious manner
From this reading “We had no storms, but shortly after leaving Mauritius our engine got seriously out of gear, and that made us ten days later.”
for a short time
From this reading “We had no storms, but shortly after leaving Mauritius our engine got seriously out of gear, and that made us ten days later.”
plural of “storm” — a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning
From this reading “We had no storms, but shortly after leaving Mauritius our engine got seriously out of gear, and that made us ten days later.”
being four more than twenty
From this reading “Why, that was just twenty-four days after I did!”
an act of traveling by water
From this reading “And our voyage was longer than usual.”
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.
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In this reading “We had no storms, but shortly after leaving Mauritius our engine got seriously out of gear, and that made us ten days later.”
In this reading “We had no storms, but shortly after leaving Mauritius our engine got seriously out of gear, and that made us ten days later.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading ’Did you have a good passage, Liebe?
later than; following
From this reading Why, that was just twenty-four days after I did!
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading And our voyage was longer than usual.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading We had no storms, but shortly after leaving Mauritius our engine got seriously out of gear, and that made us ten days later.
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading Tell me the very day on which you left.
the time during which someone's life continues
From this reading Why, that was just twenty-four days after I did!
the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives
From this reading ’Did you have a good passage, Liebe?
motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work
From this reading We had no storms, but shortly after leaving Mauritius our engine got seriously out of gear, and that made us ten days later.
a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
From this reading We had no storms, but shortly after leaving Mauritius our engine got seriously out of gear, and that made us ten days later.
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading ’Did you have a good passage, Liebe?
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading We had no storms, but shortly after leaving Mauritius our engine got seriously out of gear, and that made us ten days later.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading We had no storms, but shortly after leaving Mauritius our engine got seriously out of gear, and that made us ten days later.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading ’Did you have a good passage, Liebe?
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading Why, that was just twenty-four days after I did!
and nothing more
From this reading Why, that was just twenty-four days after I did!
happening at a time subsequent to a reference time
From this reading We had no storms, but shortly after leaving Mauritius our engine got seriously out of gear, and that made us ten days later.
the act of departing
From this reading We had no storms, but shortly after leaving Mauritius our engine got seriously out of gear, and that made us ten days later.
location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east
From this reading Tell me the very day on which you left.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ’Did you have a good passage, Liebe?
for more time
From this reading And our voyage was longer than usual.
produced by a manufacturing process
From this reading We had no storms, but shortly after leaving Mauritius our engine got seriously out of gear, and that made us ten days later.
a parliamentary state on the island of Mauritius
From this reading We had no storms, but shortly after leaving Mauritius our engine got seriously out of gear, and that made us ten days later.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Tell me the very day on which you left.
not any; not one
From this reading We had no storms, but shortly after leaving Mauritius our engine got seriously out of gear, and that made us ten days later.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading We had no storms, but shortly after leaving Mauritius our engine got seriously out of gear, and that made us ten days later.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Tell me the very day on which you left.
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading And our voyage was longer than usual.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading We had no storms, but shortly after leaving Mauritius our engine got seriously out of gear, and that made us ten days later.
the act of passing from one state or place to the next
From this reading ’Did you have a good passage, Liebe?
in a serious manner
From this reading We had no storms, but shortly after leaving Mauritius our engine got seriously out of gear, and that made us ten days later.
for a short time
From this reading We had no storms, but shortly after leaving Mauritius our engine got seriously out of gear, and that made us ten days later.
plural of “storm” — a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning
From this reading We had no storms, but shortly after leaving Mauritius our engine got seriously out of gear, and that made us ten days later.
express in words
From this reading Tell me the very day on which you left.
the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
From this reading We had no storms, but shortly after leaving Mauritius our engine got seriously out of gear, and that made us ten days later.
used to introduce the second part of a comparison
From this reading And our voyage was longer than usual.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Why, that was just twenty-four days after I did!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Tell me the very day on which you left.
being four more than twenty
From this reading Why, that was just twenty-four days after I did!
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading We had no storms, but shortly after leaving Mauritius our engine got seriously out of gear, and that made us ten days later.
occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure
From this reading And our voyage was longer than usual.
precisely as stated
From this reading Tell me the very day on which you left.
an act of traveling by water
From this reading And our voyage was longer than usual.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Why, that was just twenty-four days after I did!
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading We had no storms, but shortly after leaving Mauritius our engine got seriously out of gear, and that made us ten days later.
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading Tell me the very day on which you left.
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading Why, that was just twenty-four days after I did!
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading ’Did you have a good passage, Liebe?
Chapter 22 of An Australian Girl by Catherine Martin holds 407 sentences, grouped into 82 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 22 holds 407 sentences of An Australian Girl, unabridged, divided into 82 reading sections.
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