Chapter 22 of Dave Porter's Great Search is here in full — 128 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 22 of Dave Porter's Great Search is here in full — 128 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE FIRST CLUE “Did you see his face at all, Dave?” “No. Did you?” “Not at all. He left the window so quickly I didn’t catch more than a glance of the side of his body.” “He certainly left in a mighty hurry,” mused our hero.
Chapter 22 of Dave Porter's Great Search is here in full — 128 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
From this reading “He left the window so quickly I didn’t catch more than a glance of the side of his body.””
a slight indication
From this reading “THE FIRST CLUE “Did you see his face at all, Dave?””
throw a glance at; take a brief look at
From this reading “He left the window so quickly I didn’t catch more than a glance of the side of his body.””
a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength
From this reading ““He certainly left in a mighty hurry,” mused our hero.”
a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry
From this reading ““He certainly left in a mighty hurry,” mused our hero.”
having or showing great strength or force or intensity
From this reading ““He certainly left in a mighty hurry,” mused our hero.”
past form of “muse” — reflect deeply on a subject
From this reading ““He certainly left in a mighty hurry,” mused our hero.”
with speed
From this reading “He left the window so quickly I didn’t catch more than a glance of the side of his body.””
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 He left the window so quickly I didn’t catch more than a glance of the side of his body.”
(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 FIRST CLUE “Did you see his face at all, Dave?”
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading THE FIRST CLUE “Did you see his face at all, Dave?”
the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)
From this reading He left the window so quickly I didn’t catch more than a glance of the side of his body.”
discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
From this reading He left the window so quickly I didn’t catch more than a glance of the side of his body.”
definitely or positively (“sure” is sometimes used informally for “surely”)
From this reading “He certainly left in a mighty hurry,” mused our hero.
a slight indication
From this reading THE FIRST CLUE “Did you see his face at all, Dave?”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading THE FIRST CLUE “Did you see his face at all, Dave?”
the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives
From this reading THE FIRST CLUE “Did you see his face at all, Dave?”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading He left the window so quickly I didn’t catch more than a glance of the side of his body.”
the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
From this reading THE FIRST CLUE “Did you see his face at all, Dave?”
preceding all others in time or space or degree
From this reading THE FIRST CLUE “Did you see his face at all, Dave?”
throw a glance at; take a brief look at
From this reading He left the window so quickly I didn’t catch more than a glance of the side of his body.”
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading He left the window so quickly I didn’t catch more than a glance of the side of his body.”
a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength
From this reading “He certainly left in a mighty hurry,” mused our hero.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading THE FIRST CLUE “Did you see his face at all, Dave?”
a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry
From this reading “He certainly left in a mighty hurry,” mused our hero.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading He left the window so quickly I didn’t catch more than a glance of the side of his body.”
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading “He certainly left in a mighty hurry,” mused our hero.
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 He left the window so quickly I didn’t catch more than a glance of the side of his body.”
having or showing great strength or force or intensity
From this reading “He certainly left in a mighty hurry,” mused our hero.
(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree
From this reading He left the window so quickly I didn’t catch more than a glance of the side of his body.”
past form of “muse” — reflect deeply on a subject
From this reading “He certainly left in a mighty hurry,” mused our hero.
not any; not one
From this reading “No. Did you?”
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading “Not at all.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading He left the window so quickly I didn’t catch more than a glance of the side of his body.”
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading “He certainly left in a mighty hurry,” mused our hero.
with speed
From this reading He left the window so quickly I didn’t catch more than a glance of the side of his body.”
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading THE FIRST CLUE “Did you see his face at all, Dave?”
a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location
From this reading He left the window so quickly I didn’t catch more than a glance of the side of his body.”
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading He left the window so quickly I didn’t catch more than a glance of the side of his body.”
used to introduce the second part of a comparison
From this reading He left the window so quickly I didn’t catch more than a glance of the side of his body.”
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE FIRST CLUE “Did you see his face at all, Dave?”
a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air
From this reading He left the window so quickly I didn’t catch more than a glance of the side of his body.”
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading THE FIRST CLUE “Did you see his face at all, Dave?”
Chapter 22 of Dave Porter's Great Search by Edward Stratemeyer holds 128 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 22 holds 128 sentences of Dave Porter's Great Search, unabridged, divided into 26 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 22 of Dave Porter's Great Search by Edward Stratemeyer exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 128 sentences, grouped into 26 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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