Chapter 2 of Dick Kent with the Mounted Police is here in full — 207 sentences across 42 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter II
Chapter 2 of Dick Kent with the Mounted Police is here in full — 207 sentences across 42 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
AT LITTLE MOOSE PORTAGE Dick Kent thought swiftly. There was no time to lose. The canoe was filling fast. Already it was growing perceptibly heavier. Ahead he could see the canoe they had set adrift.
Chapter 2 of Dick Kent with the Mounted Police is here in full — 207 sentences across 42 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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aimlessly drifting
From this reading “Ahead he could see the canoe they had set adrift.”
small and light boat; pointed at both ends; propelled with a paddle
From this reading “The canoe was filling fast.”
any material that fills a space or container
From this reading “The canoe was filling fast.”
comparative of “heavy” — of comparatively great physical weight or density
From this reading “Already it was growing perceptibly heavier.”
a county in southeastern England on the English Channel; formerly an Anglo-Saxon kingdom, it was the first to be colonized by the Romans
From this reading “AT LITTLE MOOSE PORTAGE Dick Kent thought swiftly.”
large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called “elk” in Europe and “moose” in North America
From this reading “AT LITTLE MOOSE PORTAGE Dick Kent thought swiftly.”
the cost of carrying or transporting
From this reading “AT LITTLE MOOSE PORTAGE Dick Kent thought swiftly.”
in a swift manner
From this reading “AT LITTLE MOOSE PORTAGE Dick Kent thought swiftly.”
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 “Ahead he could see the canoe they had set adrift.”
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aimlessly drifting
From this reading Ahead he could see the canoe they had set adrift.
at or in the front
From this reading Ahead he could see the canoe they had set adrift.
prior to a specified or implied time
From this reading Already it was growing perceptibly heavier.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading AT LITTLE MOOSE PORTAGE Dick Kent thought swiftly.
small and light boat; pointed at both ends; propelled with a paddle
From this reading The canoe was filling fast.
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading Ahead he could see the canoe they had set adrift.
someone who is a detective
From this reading AT LITTLE MOOSE PORTAGE Dick Kent thought swiftly.
quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form)
From this reading The canoe was filling fast.
any material that fills a space or container
From this reading The canoe was filling fast.
(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
From this reading Already it was growing perceptibly heavier.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Ahead he could see the canoe they had set adrift.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Ahead he could see the canoe they had set adrift.
comparative of “heavy” — of comparatively great physical weight or density
From this reading Already it was growing perceptibly heavier.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Already it was growing perceptibly heavier.
a county in southeastern England on the English Channel; formerly an Anglo-Saxon kingdom, it was the first to be colonized by the Romans
From this reading AT LITTLE MOOSE PORTAGE Dick Kent thought swiftly.
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading AT LITTLE MOOSE PORTAGE Dick Kent thought swiftly.
fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense
From this reading There was no time to lose.
large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called “elk” in Europe and “moose” in North America
From this reading AT LITTLE MOOSE PORTAGE Dick Kent thought swiftly.
not any; not one
From this reading There was no time to lose.
in a noticeable manner
From this reading Already it was growing perceptibly heavier.
the cost of carrying or transporting
From this reading AT LITTLE MOOSE PORTAGE Dick Kent thought swiftly.
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading Ahead he could see the canoe they had set adrift.
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading Ahead he could see the canoe they had set adrift.
in a swift manner
From this reading AT LITTLE MOOSE PORTAGE Dick Kent thought swiftly.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The canoe was filling fast.
in or at that place or location
From this reading There was no time to lose.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Ahead he could see the canoe they had set adrift.
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading AT LITTLE MOOSE PORTAGE Dick Kent thought swiftly.
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading There was no time to lose.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading There was no time to lose.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading There was no time to lose.
Chapter 2 of Dick Kent with the Mounted Police by M. M. (Milo Milton) Oblinger holds 207 sentences, grouped into 42 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.
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