Chapter 5 of Captain Salt in Oz is here in full — 190 sentences across 38 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of Captain Salt in Oz is here in full — 190 sentences across 38 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Patrippany Island "All hands on deck! Come on! Come _on_!" yelled Samuel Salt running past Ato's galley dragging on his clothes as he ran. "There's an island tuluward, you lubber." "Well, 'tain't a flying island is it?"
Chapter 5 of Captain Salt in Oz is here in full — 190 sentences across 38 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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any of various platforms built into a vessel
From this reading “Patrippany Island "All hands on deck!”
marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner
From this reading “Come _on_!" yelled Samuel Salt running past Ato's galley dragging on his clothes as he ran.”
moving swiftly
From this reading “"Well, 'tain't a flying island is it?"”
a large medieval vessel with a single deck propelled by sails and oars with guns at stern and prow; a complement of 1,000 men; used mainly in the Mediterranean for war and trading
From this reading “Come _on_!" yelled Samuel Salt running past Ato's galley dragging on his clothes as he ran.”
an awkward stupid person
From this reading “"There's an island tuluward, you lubber."”
a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
From this reading “Come _on_!" yelled Samuel Salt running past Ato's galley dragging on his clothes as he ran.”
(Old Testament) Hebrew prophet and judge who anointed Saul as king
From this reading “Come _on_!" yelled Samuel Salt running past Ato's galley dragging on his clothes as he ran.”
in a vehement outcry
From this reading “Come _on_!" yelled Samuel Salt running past Ato's galley dragging on his clothes as he ran.”
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 “Patrippany Island "All hands on deck!”
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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 "Well, 'tain't a flying island is it?"
(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 Patrippany Island "All hands on deck!
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading "There's an island tuluward, you lubber."
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Come _on_!" yelled Samuel Salt running past Ato's galley dragging on his clothes as he ran.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Come _on_!" yelled Samuel Salt running past Ato's galley dragging on his clothes as he ran.
clothing in general
From this reading Come _on_!" yelled Samuel Salt running past Ato's galley dragging on his clothes as he ran.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Come on!
any of various platforms built into a vessel
From this reading Patrippany Island "All hands on deck!
marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner
From this reading Come _on_!" yelled Samuel Salt running past Ato's galley dragging on his clothes as he ran.
moving swiftly
From this reading "Well, 'tain't a flying island is it?"
a large medieval vessel with a single deck propelled by sails and oars with guns at stern and prow; a complement of 1,000 men; used mainly in the Mediterranean for war and trading
From this reading Come _on_!" yelled Samuel Salt running past Ato's galley dragging on his clothes as he ran.
(with “in”) guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child
From this reading Patrippany Island "All hands on deck!
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Come _on_!" yelled Samuel Salt running past Ato's galley dragging on his clothes as he ran.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Come _on_!" yelled Samuel Salt running past Ato's galley dragging on his clothes as he ran.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading "Well, 'tain't a flying island is it?"
a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
From this reading Patrippany Island "All hands on deck!
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading "Well, 'tain't a flying island is it?"
an awkward stupid person
From this reading "There's an island tuluward, you lubber."
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Patrippany Island "All hands on deck!
the time that has elapsed
From this reading Come _on_!" yelled Samuel Salt running past Ato's galley dragging on his clothes as he ran.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Patrippany Island "All hands on deck!
inflected form of “run” — move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
From this reading Come _on_!" yelled Samuel Salt running past Ato's galley dragging on his clothes as he ran.
(of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream
From this reading Come _on_!" yelled Samuel Salt running past Ato's galley dragging on his clothes as he ran.
a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
From this reading Come _on_!" yelled Samuel Salt running past Ato's galley dragging on his clothes as he ran.
(Old Testament) Hebrew prophet and judge who anointed Saul as king
From this reading Come _on_!" yelled Samuel Salt running past Ato's galley dragging on his clothes as he ran.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Well, 'tain't a flying island is it?"
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "There's an island tuluward, you lubber."
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "There's an island tuluward, you lubber."
(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, 'tain't a flying island is it?"
in a vehement outcry
From this reading Come _on_!" yelled Samuel Salt running past Ato's galley dragging on his clothes as he ran.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "There's an island tuluward, you lubber."
Chapter 5 of Captain Salt in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson holds 190 sentences, grouped into 38 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 5 holds 190 sentences of Captain Salt in Oz, unabridged, divided into 38 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 5 of Captain Salt in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 190 sentences, grouped into 38 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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