Chapter 27 of Bobby Blake in the Frozen North is here in full — 149 sentences across 30 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 27 of Bobby Blake in the Frozen North is here in full — 149 sentences across 30 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
FINDING THE TREASURE For a moment the boys thought they must have misunderstood him. Lost—on an ocean filled with menacing blocks of ice! Lost—in a storm like this! To the chorus of frantic questions flung at him the Eskimo merely replied over and over again with stoic patience: “We lost.
Chapter 27 of Bobby Blake in the Frozen North is here in full — 149 sentences across 30 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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plural of “block” — a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)
From this reading “Lost—on an ocean filled with menacing blocks of ice!”
any utterance produced simultaneously by a group
From this reading “To the chorus of frantic questions flung at him the Eskimo merely replied over and over again with stoic patience:”
a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (“eaters of raw flesh”) but they call themselves the Inuit (“the people”)
From this reading “To the chorus of frantic questions flung at him the Eskimo merely replied over and over again with stoic patience:”
excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion
From this reading “To the chorus of frantic questions flung at him the Eskimo merely replied over and over again with stoic patience:”
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
From this reading “Lost—on an ocean filled with menacing blocks of ice!”
wrongly understood
From this reading “FINDING THE TREASURE For a moment the boys thought they must have misunderstood him.”
a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno
From this reading “To the chorus of frantic questions flung at him the Eskimo merely replied over and over again with stoic patience:”
accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc.
From this reading “FINDING THE TREASURE For a moment the boys thought they must have misunderstood him.”
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.
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temporarily
In this reading “FINDING THE TREASURE For a moment the boys thought they must have misunderstood him.”
anew
In this reading “To the chorus of frantic questions flung at him the Eskimo merely replied over and over again with stoic patience:”
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.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading FINDING THE TREASURE For a moment the boys thought they must have misunderstood him.
anew
From this reading To the chorus of frantic questions flung at him the Eskimo merely replied over and over again with stoic patience:
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading Lost—on an ocean filled with menacing blocks of ice!
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading To the chorus of frantic questions flung at him the Eskimo merely replied over and over again with stoic patience:
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading To the chorus of frantic questions flung at him the Eskimo merely replied over and over again with stoic patience:
plural of “block” — a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)
From this reading Lost—on an ocean filled with menacing blocks of ice!
plural of “boy” — a youthful male person
From this reading FINDING THE TREASURE For a moment the boys thought they must have misunderstood him.
any utterance produced simultaneously by a group
From this reading To the chorus of frantic questions flung at him the Eskimo merely replied over and over again with stoic patience:
a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (“eaters of raw flesh”) but they call themselves the Inuit (“the people”)
From this reading To the chorus of frantic questions flung at him the Eskimo merely replied over and over again with stoic patience:
(usually followed by “with” or used as a combining form) generously supplied with
From this reading Lost—on an ocean filled with menacing blocks of ice!
the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation
From this reading FINDING THE TREASURE For a moment the boys thought they must have misunderstood him.
inflected form of “fling” — throw with force or recklessness
From this reading To the chorus of frantic questions flung at him the Eskimo merely replied over and over again with stoic patience:
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading FINDING THE TREASURE For a moment the boys thought they must have misunderstood him.
excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion
From this reading To the chorus of frantic questions flung at him the Eskimo merely replied over and over again with stoic patience:
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading FINDING THE TREASURE For a moment the boys thought they must have misunderstood him.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading FINDING THE TREASURE For a moment the boys thought they must have misunderstood him.
water frozen in the solid state
From this reading Lost—on an ocean filled with menacing blocks of ice!
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Lost—in a storm like this!
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading Lost—in a storm like this!
no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered
From this reading Lost—on an ocean filled with menacing blocks of ice!
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
From this reading Lost—on an ocean filled with menacing blocks of ice!
and nothing more
From this reading To the chorus of frantic questions flung at him the Eskimo merely replied over and over again with stoic patience:
wrongly understood
From this reading FINDING THE TREASURE For a moment the boys thought they must have misunderstood him.
a particular point in time
From this reading FINDING THE TREASURE For a moment the boys thought they must have misunderstood him.
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading FINDING THE TREASURE For a moment the boys thought they must have misunderstood him.
a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere
From this reading Lost—on an ocean filled with menacing blocks of ice!
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Lost—on an ocean filled with menacing blocks of ice!
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Lost—on an ocean filled with menacing blocks of ice!
above and across; more than
From this reading To the chorus of frantic questions flung at him the Eskimo merely replied over and over again with stoic patience:
good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
From this reading To the chorus of frantic questions flung at him the Eskimo merely replied over and over again with stoic patience:
plural of “question” — an instance of questioning
From this reading To the chorus of frantic questions flung at him the Eskimo merely replied over and over again with stoic patience:
inflected form of “reply” — react verbally
From this reading To the chorus of frantic questions flung at him the Eskimo merely replied over and over again with stoic patience:
a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno
From this reading To the chorus of frantic questions flung at him the Eskimo merely replied over and over again with stoic patience:
behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
From this reading Lost—in a storm like this!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading FINDING THE TREASURE For a moment the boys thought they must have misunderstood him.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading FINDING THE TREASURE For a moment the boys thought they must have misunderstood him.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading Lost—in a storm like this!
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading FINDING THE TREASURE For a moment the boys thought they must have misunderstood him.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading To the chorus of frantic questions flung at him the Eskimo merely replied over and over again with stoic patience:
accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc.
From this reading FINDING THE TREASURE For a moment the boys thought they must have misunderstood him.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading “We lost.
in the company of; together with
From this reading Lost—on an ocean filled with menacing blocks of ice!
Chapter 27 of Bobby Blake in the Frozen North by Frank A. Warner holds 149 sentences, grouped into 30 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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