Chapter 17 of Cudjo's Cave is here in full — 405 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 17 of Cudjo's Cave is here in full — 405 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Toby has just left his charge to see what discovery Salina has made outside. She went out previously and thought she saw soldiers." At that moment Toby came running in. "Dar's some men way down by the ravine! O, sar!
Chapter 17 of Cudjo's Cave is here in full — 405 sentences across 81 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.
to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
From this reading “"Toby has just left his charge to see what discovery Salina has made outside.”
the act of discovering something
From this reading “"Toby has just left his charge to see what discovery Salina has made outside.”
at an earlier time or formerly
From this reading “She went out previously and thought she saw soldiers."”
a deep narrow steep-sided valley (especially one formed by running water)
From this reading “"Dar's some men way down by the ravine!”
(of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream
From this reading “At that moment Toby came running in.”
a town in central Kansas
From this reading “"Toby has just left his charge to see what discovery Salina has made outside.”
plural of “soldier” — an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army
From this reading “She went out previously and thought she saw soldiers."”
a drinking mug in the shape of a stout man wearing a three-cornered hat
From this reading “"Toby has just left his charge to see what discovery Salina has made outside.”
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 “At that moment Toby came running in.”
move out of or depart from
In this reading “She went out previously and thought she saw soldiers."”
In this reading “"Dar's some men way down by the ravine!”
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 to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading She went out previously and thought she saw soldiers."
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading At that moment Toby came running in.
showing who or what does the action
From this reading "Dar's some men way down by the ravine!
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading At that moment Toby came running in.
to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
From this reading "Toby has just left his charge to see what discovery Salina has made outside.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Dar's some men way down by the ravine!
the act of discovering something
From this reading "Toby has just left his charge to see what discovery Salina has made outside.
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading "Dar's some men way down by the ravine!
the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading "Toby has just left his charge to see what discovery Salina has made outside.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading "Toby has just left his charge to see what discovery Salina has made outside.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading At that moment Toby came running in.
and nothing more
From this reading "Toby has just left his charge to see what discovery Salina has made outside.
location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east
From this reading "Toby has just left his charge to see what discovery Salina has made outside.
produced by a manufacturing process
From this reading "Toby has just left his charge to see what discovery Salina has made outside.
the force of workers available
From this reading "Dar's some men way down by the ravine!
a particular point in time
From this reading At that moment Toby came running in.
a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
From this reading O, sar!
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading She went out previously and thought she saw soldiers."
relating to or being on or near the outer side or limit
From this reading "Toby has just left his charge to see what discovery Salina has made outside.
at an earlier time or formerly
From this reading She went out previously and thought she saw soldiers."
a deep narrow steep-sided valley (especially one formed by running water)
From this reading "Dar's some men way down by the ravine!
(of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream
From this reading At that moment Toby came running in.
a town in central Kansas
From this reading "Toby has just left his charge to see what discovery Salina has made outside.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading O, sar!
cut with a saw
From this reading She went out previously and thought she saw soldiers."
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading "Toby has just left his charge to see what discovery Salina has made outside.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She went out previously and thought she saw soldiers."
plural of “soldier” — an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army
From this reading She went out previously and thought she saw soldiers."
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading "Dar's some men way down by the ravine!
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading At that moment Toby came running in.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading "Dar's some men way down by the ravine!
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading She went out previously and thought she saw soldiers."
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading "Toby has just left his charge to see what discovery Salina has made outside.
a drinking mug in the shape of a stout man wearing a three-cornered hat
From this reading "Toby has just left his charge to see what discovery Salina has made outside.
how something is done or how it happens
From this reading "Dar's some men way down by the ravine!
inflected form of “go” — change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading She went out previously and thought she saw soldiers."
used to ask for information about something
From this reading "Toby has just left his charge to see what discovery Salina has made outside.
Chapter 17 of Cudjo's Cave by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge holds 405 sentences, grouped into 81 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 17 holds 405 sentences of Cudjo's Cave, unabridged, divided into 81 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 17 of Cudjo's Cave by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 405 sentences, grouped into 81 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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