Chapter 8 of Blackie, a Lost Cat: Her Many Adventures is here in full — 192 sentences across 39 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 8 of Blackie, a Lost Cat: Her Many Adventures is here in full — 192 sentences across 39 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones: “There she is! There’s that lady’s black cat! She said she’d give a dollar to whoever found her! I’m going to get that dollar!
Chapter 8 of Blackie, a Lost Cat: Her Many Adventures is here in full — 192 sentences across 39 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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possessive form of “boy” — a youthful male person
a person who is being chased
From this reading “BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:”
the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 cents
From this reading “She said she’d give a dollar to whoever found her!”
possessive form of “lady” — a polite name for any woman
covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
From this reading “BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:”
wade or dabble in a puddle
From this reading “BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:”
encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators
From this reading “BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:”
plural of “tone” — the quality of a person's voice
From this reading “BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:”
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large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal
In this reading “There’s that lady’s black cat!”
without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening
In this reading “BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:”
In this reading “BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:”
In this reading “BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:”
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 BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:
(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 BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:
at or toward the back of something
From this reading BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:
being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
From this reading There’s that lady’s black cat!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:
possessive form of “boy” — a youthful male person
From this reading BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:
feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats
From this reading There’s that lady’s black cat!
a person who is being chased
From this reading BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:
the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 cents
From this reading She said she’d give a dollar to whoever found her!
having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy
From this reading BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:
set up or found
From this reading She said she’d give a dollar to whoever found her!
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading I’m going to get that dollar!
cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
From this reading She said she’d give a dollar to whoever found her!
the act of departing
From this reading I’m going to get that dollar!
detected or perceived by the sense of hearing
From this reading BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I’m going to get that dollar!
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:
possessive form of “lady” — a polite name for any woman
From this reading There’s that lady’s black cat!
covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
From this reading BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:
on one occasion
From this reading BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:
wade or dabble in a puddle
From this reading BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading She said she’d give a dollar to whoever found her!
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading She said she’d give a dollar to whoever found her!
encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators
From this reading BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading There’s that lady’s black cat!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:
in or at that place or location
From this reading “There she is!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There’s that lady’s black cat!
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading She said she’d give a dollar to whoever found her!
plural of “tone” — the quality of a person's voice
From this reading BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:
the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
From this reading BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:
binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
From this reading BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:
at the time that
From this reading BLACKIE IS CHASED Blackie was lapping up the water from the little puddle, when all at once, from behind her, she heard a boy’s voice shouting in eager tones:
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading She said she’d give a dollar to whoever found her!
Chapter 8 of Blackie, a Lost Cat: Her Many Adventures by Richard Barnum holds 192 sentences, grouped into 39 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.
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