Chapter 18 of Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 is here in full — 143 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 18 of Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 is here in full — 143 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
_Aboard the Bandit Flyer_ I was dimly conscious of being inside the cubby of the car, with bandits sitting over me. The car was rolling through the village streets. Ascending. We must be heading for Spawn's mine. I thought of Jetta.
Chapter 18 of Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 is here in full — 143 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
on a ship, train, plane or other vehicle
moving or going or growing upward
From this reading “Ascending.”
an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band
From this reading “_Aboard the Bandit Flyer_ I was dimly conscious of being inside the cubby of the car, with bandits sitting over me.”
plural of “bandit” — an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band
From this reading “_Aboard the Bandit Flyer_ I was dimly conscious of being inside the cubby of the car, with bandits sitting over me.”
in a dim indistinct manner
From this reading “_Aboard the Bandit Flyer_ I was dimly conscious of being inside the cubby of the car, with bandits sitting over me.”
an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
From this reading “We must be heading for Spawn's mine.”
uttered with a trill
From this reading “The car was rolling through the village streets.”
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.
In this reading “_Aboard the Bandit Flyer_ I was dimly conscious of being inside the cubby of the car, with bandits sitting over me.”
In this reading “The car was rolling through the village streets.”
In this reading “The car was rolling through the village streets.”
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.
on a ship, train, plane or other vehicle
From this reading _Aboard the Bandit Flyer_ I was dimly conscious of being inside the cubby of the car, with bandits sitting over me.
moving or going or growing upward
From this reading Ascending.
an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band
From this reading _Aboard the Bandit Flyer_ I was dimly conscious of being inside the cubby of the car, with bandits sitting over me.
plural of “bandit” — an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band
From this reading _Aboard the Bandit Flyer_ I was dimly conscious of being inside the cubby of the car, with bandits sitting over me.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading We must be heading for Spawn's mine.
the -ing form of “be”
From this reading _Aboard the Bandit Flyer_ I was dimly conscious of being inside the cubby of the car, with bandits sitting over me.
a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
From this reading _Aboard the Bandit Flyer_ I was dimly conscious of being inside the cubby of the car, with bandits sitting over me.
intentionally conceived
From this reading _Aboard the Bandit Flyer_ I was dimly conscious of being inside the cubby of the car, with bandits sitting over me.
a small secluded room
From this reading _Aboard the Bandit Flyer_ I was dimly conscious of being inside the cubby of the car, with bandits sitting over me.
in a dim indistinct manner
From this reading _Aboard the Bandit Flyer_ I was dimly conscious of being inside the cubby of the car, with bandits sitting over me.
an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
From this reading _Aboard the Bandit Flyer_ I was dimly conscious of being inside the cubby of the car, with bandits sitting over me.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading We must be heading for Spawn's mine.
a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
From this reading We must be heading for Spawn's mine.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading _Aboard the Bandit Flyer_ I was dimly conscious of being inside the cubby of the car, with bandits sitting over me.
relating to or being on the side closer to the center or within a defined space
From this reading _Aboard the Bandit Flyer_ I was dimly conscious of being inside the cubby of the car, with bandits sitting over me.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I thought of Jetta.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading _Aboard the Bandit Flyer_ I was dimly conscious of being inside the cubby of the car, with bandits sitting over me.
the one or ones belonging to the person speaking
From this reading We must be heading for Spawn's mine.
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading We must be heading for Spawn's mine.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading _Aboard the Bandit Flyer_ I was dimly conscious of being inside the cubby of the car, with bandits sitting over me.
above and across; more than
From this reading _Aboard the Bandit Flyer_ I was dimly conscious of being inside the cubby of the car, with bandits sitting over me.
uttered with a trill
From this reading The car was rolling through the village streets.
(photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait)
From this reading _Aboard the Bandit Flyer_ I was dimly conscious of being inside the cubby of the car, with bandits sitting over me.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading We must be heading for Spawn's mine.
plural of “street” — a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings
From this reading The car was rolling through the village streets.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading _Aboard the Bandit Flyer_ I was dimly conscious of being inside the cubby of the car, with bandits sitting over me.
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading I thought of Jetta.
from one end or side of something to the other
From this reading The car was rolling through the village streets.
a community of people smaller than a town
From this reading The car was rolling through the village streets.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading _Aboard the Bandit Flyer_ I was dimly conscious of being inside the cubby of the car, with bandits sitting over me.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading We must be heading for Spawn's mine.
in the company of; together with
From this reading _Aboard the Bandit Flyer_ I was dimly conscious of being inside the cubby of the car, with bandits sitting over me.
Chapter 18 of Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 by Various holds 143 sentences, grouped into 29 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 18 holds 143 sentences of Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930, unabridged, divided into 29 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 18 of Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 by Various exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 143 sentences, grouped into 29 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.
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