Chapter 11 of Black April is here in full — 416 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 11 of Black April is here in full — 416 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Le’s run, Cun Big Sue.” Breeze leaped with a quick hop ahead, but her powerful hand clutched his shoulder. “Looka here, boy! I’ll kill you to-night if you leave me. No tellin’ what kind o’ sperits is walkin’.
Chapter 11 of Black April is here in full — 416 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/83 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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at or in the front
From this reading “Breeze leaped with a quick hop ahead, but her powerful hand clutched his shoulder.”
a slight wind (usually refreshing)
From this reading “Breeze leaped with a quick hop ahead, but her powerful hand clutched his shoulder.”
past form of “clutch” — take hold of; grab
From this reading “Breeze leaped with a quick hop ahead, but her powerful hand clutched his shoulder.”
jump lightly
From this reading “Breeze leaped with a quick hop ahead, but her powerful hand clutched his shoulder.”
cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
From this reading “I’ll kill you to-night if you leave me.”
past form of “leap” — move forward by leaps and bounds
From this reading “Breeze leaped with a quick hop ahead, but her powerful hand clutched his shoulder.”
having great power or force or potency or effect
From this reading “Breeze leaped with a quick hop ahead, but her powerful hand clutched his shoulder.”
institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
From this reading ““Le’s run, Cun Big Sue.””
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 “Breeze leaped with a quick hop ahead, but her powerful hand clutched his shoulder.”
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 Breeze leaped with a quick hop ahead, but her powerful hand clutched his shoulder.
at or in the front
From this reading Breeze leaped with a quick hop ahead, but her powerful hand clutched his shoulder.
above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading “Le’s run, Cun Big Sue.”
a youthful male person
From this reading “Looka here, boy!
a slight wind (usually refreshing)
From this reading Breeze leaped with a quick hop ahead, but her powerful hand clutched his shoulder.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading Breeze leaped with a quick hop ahead, but her powerful hand clutched his shoulder.
past form of “clutch” — take hold of; grab
From this reading Breeze leaped with a quick hop ahead, but her powerful hand clutched his shoulder.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Le’s run, Cun Big Sue.”
the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
From this reading Breeze leaped with a quick hop ahead, but her powerful hand clutched his shoulder.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Breeze leaped with a quick hop ahead, but her powerful hand clutched his shoulder.
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading “Looka here, boy!
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Breeze leaped with a quick hop ahead, but her powerful hand clutched his shoulder.
jump lightly
From this reading Breeze leaped with a quick hop ahead, but her powerful hand clutched his shoulder.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I’ll kill you to-night if you leave me.
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading I’ll kill you to-night if you leave me.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading No tellin’ what kind o’ sperits is walkin’.
cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
From this reading I’ll kill you to-night if you leave me.
having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior
From this reading No tellin’ what kind o’ sperits is walkin’.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Le’s run, Cun Big Sue.”
past form of “leap” — move forward by leaps and bounds
From this reading Breeze leaped with a quick hop ahead, but her powerful hand clutched his shoulder.
go away from a place
From this reading I’ll kill you to-night if you leave me.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Looka here, boy!
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading I’ll kill you to-night if you leave me.
not any; not one
From this reading No tellin’ what kind o’ sperits is walkin’.
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 No tellin’ what kind o’ sperits is walkin’.
having great power or force or potency or effect
From this reading Breeze leaped with a quick hop ahead, but her powerful hand clutched his shoulder.
accomplished rapidly and without delay
From this reading Breeze leaped with a quick hop ahead, but her powerful hand clutched his shoulder.
move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
From this reading “Le’s run, Cun Big Sue.”
lift onto one's shoulders
From this reading Breeze leaped with a quick hop ahead, but her powerful hand clutched his shoulder.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading No tellin’ what kind o’ sperits is walkin’.
institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
From this reading “Le’s run, Cun Big Sue.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading No tellin’ what kind o’ sperits is walkin’.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I’ll kill you to-night if you leave me.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading No tellin’ what kind o’ sperits is walkin’.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading No tellin’ what kind o’ sperits is walkin’.
in the company of; together with
From this reading Breeze leaped with a quick hop ahead, but her powerful hand clutched his shoulder.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading I’ll kill you to-night if you leave me.
Chapter 11 of Black April by Julia Peterkin holds 416 sentences, grouped into 84 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 11 holds 416 sentences of Black April, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 11 of Black April by Julia Peterkin exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 416 sentences, grouped into 84 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 84 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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