Chapter 30 of Carl the Trailer is here in full — 129 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 30 of Carl the Trailer is here in full — 129 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
OFF FOR HOME. “Hurry up there, sir. The colonel is anxious to get all his men in. We are going to have a blizzard.” It was Colonel Forsyth’s bugler who hailed them.
Chapter 30 of Carl the Trailer is here in full — 129 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
eagerly desirous
From this reading “The colonel is anxious to get all his men in.”
a storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds
From this reading “We are going to have a blizzard.””
a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general
From this reading “The colonel is anxious to get all his men in.”
the act of departing
From this reading “We are going to have a blizzard.””
past form of “hail” — praise vociferously
From this reading “It was Colonel Forsyth’s bugler who hailed them.”
where you live at a particular time
From this reading “OFF FOR HOME.”
a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry
From this reading ““Hurry up there, sir.”
term of address for a man
From this reading ““Hurry up there, sir.”
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.
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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 We are going to have a blizzard.”
(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 colonel is anxious to get all his men in.
eagerly desirous
From this reading The colonel is anxious to get all his men in.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading We are going to have a blizzard.”
a storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds
From this reading We are going to have a blizzard.”
someone who plays a bugle
From this reading It was Colonel Forsyth’s bugler who hailed them.
a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general
From this reading The colonel is anxious to get all his men in.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading OFF FOR HOME.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It was Colonel Forsyth’s bugler who hailed them.
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading The colonel is anxious to get all his men in.
the act of departing
From this reading We are going to have a blizzard.”
past form of “hail” — praise vociferously
From this reading It was Colonel Forsyth’s bugler who hailed them.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading We are going to have a blizzard.”
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading The colonel is anxious to get all his men in.
where you live at a particular time
From this reading OFF FOR HOME.
a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry
From this reading “Hurry up there, sir.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The colonel is anxious to get all his men in.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The colonel is anxious to get all his men in.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It was Colonel Forsyth’s bugler who hailed them.
the force of workers available
From this reading The colonel is anxious to get all his men in.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading OFF FOR HOME.
term of address for a man
From this reading “Hurry up there, sir.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The colonel is anxious to get all his men in.
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading It was Colonel Forsyth’s bugler who hailed them.
in or at that place or location
From this reading “Hurry up there, sir.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The colonel is anxious to get all his men in.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading “Hurry up there, sir.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading It was Colonel Forsyth’s bugler who hailed them.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading We are going to have a blizzard.”
which person or people
From this reading It was Colonel Forsyth’s bugler who hailed them.
Chapter 30 of Carl the Trailer by Harry Castlemon holds 129 sentences, grouped into 26 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 30 holds 129 sentences of Carl the Trailer, unabridged, divided into 26 reading sections.
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