Chapter 24 of Bluffer's luck is here in full — 151 sentences across 31 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 24 of Bluffer's luck is here in full — 151 sentences across 31 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Well, I ain’t goin’ to git off. Harmony Singer told me that this was my home, didn’t he? No danged weasel-faced lawyer is goin’ to hoodle me out of my home. My work is sat’sfact’ry, and I stay here. Let him come out here.
Chapter 24 of Bluffer's luck is here in full — 151 sentences across 31 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
From this reading ““Well, I ain’t goin’ to git off.”
compatibility in opinion and action
From this reading “Harmony Singer told me that this was my home, didn’t he?”
where you live at a particular time
From this reading “Harmony Singer told me that this was my home, didn’t he?”
a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice
From this reading “No danged weasel-faced lawyer is goin’ to hoodle me out of my home.”
a person who sings
From this reading “Harmony Singer told me that this was my home, didn’t he?”
stay the same; remain in a certain state
From this reading “My work is sat’sfact’ry, and I stay here.”
inflected form of “tell” — express in words
From this reading “Harmony Singer told me that this was my home, didn’t he?”
exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity
From this reading “My work is sat’sfact’ry, and I stay here.”
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 “My work is sat’sfact’ry, and I stay here.”
appear or become visible; make a showing
In this reading “Let him come out here.”
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From this reading “Well, I ain’t goin’ to git off.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading My work is sat’sfact’ry, and I stay here.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Let him come out here.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading No danged weasel-faced lawyer is goin’ to hoodle me out of my home.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Harmony Singer told me that this was my home, didn’t he?
a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
From this reading “Well, I ain’t goin’ to git off.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Well, I ain’t goin’ to git off.
compatibility in opinion and action
From this reading Harmony Singer told me that this was my home, didn’t he?
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Harmony Singer told me that this was my home, didn’t he?
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading My work is sat’sfact’ry, and I stay here.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Let him come out here.
where you live at a particular time
From this reading Harmony Singer told me that this was my home, didn’t he?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading No danged weasel-faced lawyer is goin’ to hoodle me out of my home.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “Well, I ain’t goin’ to git off.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading No danged weasel-faced lawyer is goin’ to hoodle me out of my home.
a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice
From this reading No danged weasel-faced lawyer is goin’ to hoodle me out of my home.
used to make a suggestion or a command including the speaker
From this reading Let him come out here.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Harmony Singer told me that this was my home, didn’t he?
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Harmony Singer told me that this was my home, didn’t he?
not any; not one
From this reading No danged weasel-faced lawyer is goin’ to hoodle me out of my home.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading No danged weasel-faced lawyer is goin’ to hoodle me out of my home.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading “Well, I ain’t goin’ to git off.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading No danged weasel-faced lawyer is goin’ to hoodle me out of my home.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading My work is sat’sfact’ry, and I stay here.
a person who sings
From this reading Harmony Singer told me that this was my home, didn’t he?
stay the same; remain in a certain state
From this reading My work is sat’sfact’ry, and I stay here.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Harmony Singer told me that this was my home, didn’t he?
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading Harmony Singer told me that this was my home, didn’t he?
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading “Well, I ain’t goin’ to git off.
inflected form of “tell” — express in words
From this reading Harmony Singer told me that this was my home, didn’t he?
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Harmony Singer told me that this was my home, didn’t he?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading No danged weasel-faced lawyer is goin’ to hoodle me out of my home.
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading “Well, I ain’t goin’ to git off.
exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity
From this reading My work is sat’sfact’ry, and I stay here.
Chapter 24 of Bluffer's luck by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle holds 151 sentences, grouped into 31 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 24 holds 151 sentences of Bluffer's luck, unabridged, divided into 31 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 24 of Bluffer's luck by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 151 sentences, grouped into 31 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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