Chapter 16 of Bonnie Prince Fetlar is here in full — 153 sentences across 31 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 16 of Bonnie Prince Fetlar is here in full — 153 sentences across 31 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE HIGHLANDER WALKS Oh! how glad we all were to see Big Chief back again. The lad was ashamed of himself. It was just as I thought. He had a good heart under all his follies. "I wanths thomething to eat," cried Big Wig.
Chapter 16 of Bonnie Prince Fetlar is here in full — 153 sentences across 31 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse
From this reading “The lad was ashamed of himself.”
a person who is in charge
From this reading “THE HIGHLANDER WALKS Oh! how glad we all were to see Big Chief back again.”
take in solid food
From this reading “"I wanths thomething to eat," cried Big Wig.”
a revue with elaborate costuming
From this reading “He had a good heart under all his follies.”
a soldier in a Scottish regiment from the Highlands
From this reading “THE HIGHLANDER WALKS Oh! how glad we all were to see Big Chief back again.”
a boy or man
From this reading “The lad was ashamed of himself.”
plural of “walk” — the act of traveling by foot
From this reading “THE HIGHLANDER WALKS Oh! how glad we all were to see Big Chief back again.”
hairpiece covering the head and made of real or synthetic hair
From this reading “"I wanths thomething to eat," cried Big Wig.”
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.
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 He had a good heart under all his follies.
anew
From this reading THE HIGHLANDER WALKS Oh! how glad we all were to see Big Chief back again.
(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 THE HIGHLANDER WALKS Oh! how glad we all were to see Big Chief back again.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading It was just as I thought.
feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse
From this reading The lad was ashamed of himself.
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading THE HIGHLANDER WALKS Oh! how glad we all were to see Big Chief back again.
above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading THE HIGHLANDER WALKS Oh! how glad we all were to see Big Chief back again.
a person who is in charge
From this reading THE HIGHLANDER WALKS Oh! how glad we all were to see Big Chief back again.
inflected form of “cry” — utter a sudden loud cry
From this reading "I wanths thomething to eat," cried Big Wig.
take in solid food
From this reading "I wanths thomething to eat," cried Big Wig.
a revue with elaborate costuming
From this reading He had a good heart under all his follies.
showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy
From this reading THE HIGHLANDER WALKS Oh! how glad we all were to see Big Chief back again.
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading He had a good heart under all his follies.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading He had a good heart under all his follies.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading He had a good heart under all his follies.
the locus of feelings and intuitions
From this reading He had a good heart under all his follies.
a soldier in a Scottish regiment from the Highlands
From this reading THE HIGHLANDER WALKS Oh! how glad we all were to see Big Chief back again.
used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object
From this reading The lad was ashamed of himself.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading He had a good heart under all his follies.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading THE HIGHLANDER WALKS Oh! how glad we all were to see Big Chief back again.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading It was just as I thought.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It was just as I thought.
and nothing more
From this reading It was just as I thought.
a boy or man
From this reading The lad was ashamed of himself.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The lad was ashamed of himself.
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading THE HIGHLANDER WALKS Oh! how glad we all were to see Big Chief back again.
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading THE HIGHLANDER WALKS Oh! how glad we all were to see Big Chief back again.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE HIGHLANDER WALKS Oh! how glad we all were to see Big Chief back again.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "I wanths thomething to eat," cried Big Wig.
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading It was just as I thought.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading THE HIGHLANDER WALKS Oh! how glad we all were to see Big Chief back again.
below or beneath something; less than
From this reading He had a good heart under all his follies.
plural of “walk” — the act of traveling by foot
From this reading THE HIGHLANDER WALKS Oh! how glad we all were to see Big Chief back again.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "I wanths thomething to eat," cried Big Wig.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The lad was ashamed of himself.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading THE HIGHLANDER WALKS Oh! how glad we all were to see Big Chief back again.
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading THE HIGHLANDER WALKS Oh! how glad we all were to see Big Chief back again.
hairpiece covering the head and made of real or synthetic hair
From this reading "I wanths thomething to eat," cried Big Wig.
Chapter 16 of Bonnie Prince Fetlar by Marshall Saunders holds 153 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 16 holds 153 sentences of Bonnie Prince Fetlar, unabridged, divided into 31 reading sections.
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