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Burning Daylight

Chapter XXXI · Chapter 31

Chapter 31 of Burning Daylight is here in full — 294 sentences across 59 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

By Jack London • Curated US English Learning Edition

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Daylight had been wholly truthful when he told Dede that he had no real friends.

On speaking terms with thousands, on fellowship and drinking terms with hundreds, he was a lonely man.

He failed to find the one man, or group of several men, with whom he could be really intimate.

Cities did not make for comradeship as did the Alaskan trail.

Besides, the types of men were different.

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Chapter XXXI Reading 1/58

Burning Daylight

Chapter XXXI · Chapter 31

Chapter 31 of Burning Daylight is here in full — 294 sentences across 59 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/58 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1

Daylight had been wholly truthful when he told Dede that he had no real friends.

Line 2

On speaking terms with thousands, on fellowship and drinking terms with hundreds, he was a lonely man.

Line 3

He failed to find the one man, or group of several men, with whom he could be really intimate.

Line 4

Cities did not make for comradeship as did the Alaskan trail.

Line 5

Besides, the types of men were different.

All words in this reading · 54

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a

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Alaskan

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From this reading Cities did not make for comradeship as did the Alaskan trail.

and

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From this reading On speaking terms with thousands, on fellowship and drinking terms with hundreds, he was a lonely man.

as

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From this reading Cities did not make for comradeship as did the Alaskan trail.

be

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From this reading He failed to find the one man, or group of several men, with whom he could be really intimate.

been

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From this reading Daylight had been wholly truthful when he told Dede that he had no real friends.

Besides

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From this reading Besides, the types of men were different.

Cities

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From this reading Cities did not make for comradeship as did the Alaskan trail.

comradeship

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From this reading Cities did not make for comradeship as did the Alaskan trail.

could

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From this reading He failed to find the one man, or group of several men, with whom he could be really intimate.

Daylight

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From this reading Daylight had been wholly truthful when he told Dede that he had no real friends.

Dede

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From this reading Daylight had been wholly truthful when he told Dede that he had no real friends.

did

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From this reading Cities did not make for comradeship as did the Alaskan trail.

different

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From this reading Besides, the types of men were different.

drinking

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From this reading On speaking terms with thousands, on fellowship and drinking terms with hundreds, he was a lonely man.

failed

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From this reading He failed to find the one man, or group of several men, with whom he could be really intimate.

fellowship

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From this reading On speaking terms with thousands, on fellowship and drinking terms with hundreds, he was a lonely man.

find

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From this reading He failed to find the one man, or group of several men, with whom he could be really intimate.

for

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From this reading Cities did not make for comradeship as did the Alaskan trail.

friends

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From this reading Daylight had been wholly truthful when he told Dede that he had no real friends.

group

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From this reading He failed to find the one man, or group of several men, with whom he could be really intimate.

had

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From this reading Daylight had been wholly truthful when he told Dede that he had no real friends.

he

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From this reading Daylight had been wholly truthful when he told Dede that he had no real friends.

hundreds

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From this reading On speaking terms with thousands, on fellowship and drinking terms with hundreds, he was a lonely man.

intimate

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From this reading He failed to find the one man, or group of several men, with whom he could be really intimate.

lonely

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From this reading On speaking terms with thousands, on fellowship and drinking terms with hundreds, he was a lonely man.

make

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From this reading Cities did not make for comradeship as did the Alaskan trail.

man

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From this reading On speaking terms with thousands, on fellowship and drinking terms with hundreds, he was a lonely man.

men

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From this reading He failed to find the one man, or group of several men, with whom he could be really intimate.

no

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From this reading Daylight had been wholly truthful when he told Dede that he had no real friends.

not

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From this reading Cities did not make for comradeship as did the Alaskan trail.

of

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From this reading He failed to find the one man, or group of several men, with whom he could be really intimate.

On

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From this reading On speaking terms with thousands, on fellowship and drinking terms with hundreds, he was a lonely man.

one

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From this reading He failed to find the one man, or group of several men, with whom he could be really intimate.

or

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From this reading He failed to find the one man, or group of several men, with whom he could be really intimate.

real

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From this reading Daylight had been wholly truthful when he told Dede that he had no real friends.

really

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From this reading He failed to find the one man, or group of several men, with whom he could be really intimate.

several

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From this reading He failed to find the one man, or group of several men, with whom he could be really intimate.

speaking

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From this reading On speaking terms with thousands, on fellowship and drinking terms with hundreds, he was a lonely man.

terms

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From this reading On speaking terms with thousands, on fellowship and drinking terms with hundreds, he was a lonely man.

that

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From this reading Daylight had been wholly truthful when he told Dede that he had no real friends.

the

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From this reading He failed to find the one man, or group of several men, with whom he could be really intimate.

thousands

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From this reading On speaking terms with thousands, on fellowship and drinking terms with hundreds, he was a lonely man.

to

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From this reading He failed to find the one man, or group of several men, with whom he could be really intimate.

told

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From this reading Daylight had been wholly truthful when he told Dede that he had no real friends.

trail

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From this reading Cities did not make for comradeship as did the Alaskan trail.

truthful

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From this reading Daylight had been wholly truthful when he told Dede that he had no real friends.

types

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From this reading Besides, the types of men were different.

was

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From this reading On speaking terms with thousands, on fellowship and drinking terms with hundreds, he was a lonely man.

were

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From this reading Besides, the types of men were different.

when

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From this reading Daylight had been wholly truthful when he told Dede that he had no real friends.

wholly

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From this reading Daylight had been wholly truthful when he told Dede that he had no real friends.

whom

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From this reading He failed to find the one man, or group of several men, with whom he could be really intimate.

with

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From this reading On speaking terms with thousands, on fellowship and drinking terms with hundreds, he was a lonely man.

Chapter 31 of Burning Daylight by Jack London holds 294 sentences, grouped into 59 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, 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.

What does chapter 31 of Burning Daylight contain?

Chapter 31 holds 294 sentences of Burning Daylight, unabridged, divided into 59 reading sections.

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Vocabulary met early in Burning Daylight

Words and structures a reader meets early in Burning Daylight, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

Quiet: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Burning Daylight; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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