Chapter 10 of Blown to Bits is here in full — 420 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 10 of Blown to Bits is here in full — 420 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"All right--only stunned, I think. That's him they're just goin' to carry below. Put 'im in my bunk, Mr Moor." "Ay ay, sir." Nigel sprang up.
Chapter 10 of Blown to Bits is here in full — 420 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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at or to a lower level than something
From this reading “That's him they're just goin' to carry below.”
a long trough for feeding cattle
From this reading “Put 'im in my bunk, Mr Moor."”
move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body
From this reading “That's him they're just goin' to carry below.”
secure in or as if in a berth or dock
From this reading “Put 'im in my bunk, Mr Moor."”
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading “Put 'im in my bunk, Mr Moor."”
precisely, exactly
From this reading “"All right--only stunned, I think.”
inflected form of “spring” — move forward by leaps and bounds
From this reading “Nigel sprang up.”
filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock
From this reading “"All right--only stunned, I think.”
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(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 "All right--only stunned, I think.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Ay ay, sir."
at or to a lower level than something
From this reading That's him they're just goin' to carry below.
a long trough for feeding cattle
From this reading Put 'im in my bunk, Mr Moor."
move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body
From this reading That's him they're just goin' to carry below.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading That's him they're just goin' to carry below.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading That's him they're just goin' to carry below.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "All right--only stunned, I think.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Put 'im in my bunk, Mr Moor."
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Put 'im in my bunk, Mr Moor."
and nothing more
From this reading That's him they're just goin' to carry below.
secure in or as if in a berth or dock
From this reading Put 'im in my bunk, Mr Moor."
a form of address for a man
From this reading Put 'im in my bunk, Mr Moor."
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Put 'im in my bunk, Mr Moor."
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Nigel sprang up.
and nothing more
From this reading "All right--only stunned, I think.
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading Put 'im in my bunk, Mr Moor."
precisely, exactly
From this reading "All right--only stunned, I think.
term of address for a man
From this reading "Ay ay, sir."
inflected form of “spring” — move forward by leaps and bounds
From this reading Nigel sprang up.
filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock
From this reading "All right--only stunned, I think.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading That's him they're just goin' to carry below.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading That's him they're just goin' to carry below.
judge or regard; look upon; judge
From this reading "All right--only stunned, I think.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading That's him they're just goin' to carry below.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading Nigel sprang up.
Chapter 10 of Blown to Bits by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne holds 420 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 10 holds 420 sentences of Blown to Bits, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 10 of Blown to Bits by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 420 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.
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