Chapter 20 of Dick Hamilton's Airship is here in full — 156 sentences across 32 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 20 of Dick Hamilton's Airship is here in full — 156 sentences across 32 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
IN NEW YORK. "Well, this is going some!" "I should say yes!" "All to the merry!" "And no more trouble than as if you got in a taxicab and told the chauffeur to take you around the block."
Chapter 20 of Dick Hamilton's Airship is here in full — 156 sentences across 32 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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surrounding, or on every side of, something
From this reading “"And no more trouble than as if you got in a taxicab and told the chauffeur to take you around the block."”
a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)
From this reading “"And no more trouble than as if you got in a taxicab and told the chauffeur to take you around the block."”
a man paid to drive a privately owned car
From this reading “"And no more trouble than as if you got in a taxicab and told the chauffeur to take you around the block."”
full of or showing high-spirited merriment
From this reading “"All to the merry!"”
not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
From this reading “IN NEW YORK.”
a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
From this reading “"And no more trouble than as if you got in a taxicab and told the chauffeur to take you around the block."”
a source of difficulty
From this reading “"And no more trouble than as if you got in a taxicab and told the chauffeur to take you around the block."”
the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose
From this reading “IN NEW YORK.”
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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 "And no more trouble than as if you got in a taxicab and told the chauffeur to take you around the block."
(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 "All to the merry!"
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading "And no more trouble than as if you got in a taxicab and told the chauffeur to take you around the block."
surrounding, or on every side of, something
From this reading "And no more trouble than as if you got in a taxicab and told the chauffeur to take you around the block."
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading "And no more trouble than as if you got in a taxicab and told the chauffeur to take you around the block."
a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)
From this reading "And no more trouble than as if you got in a taxicab and told the chauffeur to take you around the block."
a man paid to drive a privately owned car
From this reading "And no more trouble than as if you got in a taxicab and told the chauffeur to take you around the block."
the act of departing
From this reading "Well, this is going some!"
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading "And no more trouble than as if you got in a taxicab and told the chauffeur to take you around the block."
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "I should say yes!"
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading "And no more trouble than as if you got in a taxicab and told the chauffeur to take you around the block."
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading IN NEW YORK.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading "Well, this is going some!"
full of or showing high-spirited merriment
From this reading "All to the merry!"
(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree
From this reading "And no more trouble than as if you got in a taxicab and told the chauffeur to take you around the block."
not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
From this reading IN NEW YORK.
not any; not one
From this reading "And no more trouble than as if you got in a taxicab and told the chauffeur to take you around the block."
express in words
From this reading "I should say yes!"
used to say what is right, expected, or advisable
From this reading "I should say yes!"
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading "Well, this is going some!"
carry out
From this reading "And no more trouble than as if you got in a taxicab and told the chauffeur to take you around the block."
a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
From this reading "And no more trouble than as if you got in a taxicab and told the chauffeur to take you around the block."
used to introduce the second part of a comparison
From this reading "And no more trouble than as if you got in a taxicab and told the chauffeur to take you around the block."
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading "All to the merry!"
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading "Well, this is going some!"
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading "All to the merry!"
inflected form of “tell” — express in words
From this reading "And no more trouble than as if you got in a taxicab and told the chauffeur to take you around the block."
a source of difficulty
From this reading "And no more trouble than as if you got in a taxicab and told the chauffeur to take you around the block."
(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, this is going some!"
an affirmative
From this reading "I should say yes!"
the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose
From this reading IN NEW YORK.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "And no more trouble than as if you got in a taxicab and told the chauffeur to take you around the block."
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