Chapter 1 of Five Thousand Dollars Reward is here in full — 164 sentences across 33 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of Five Thousand Dollars Reward is here in full — 164 sentences across 33 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE TRAMP. "Will you give me a glass of water, please?" A ragged, bearded tramp stood before the door of a cottage near the outskirts of a country village, and propounded this question to a pretty girl who stood in the door. "In a moment." The girl disappeared, soon returning with a pitcher.
Chapter 1 of Five Thousand Dollars Reward is here in full — 164 sentences across 33 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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having hair on the cheeks and chin
From this reading “A ragged, bearded tramp stood before the door of a cottage near the outskirts of a country village, and propounded this question to a pretty girl who stood in the door.”
a small house with a single story
From this reading “A ragged, bearded tramp stood before the door of a cottage near the outskirts of a country village, and propounded this question to a pretty girl who stood in the door.”
outlying areas (as of a city or town)
From this reading “A ragged, bearded tramp stood before the door of a cottage near the outskirts of a country village, and propounded this question to a pretty girl who stood in the door.”
(baseball) the person who does the pitching
From this reading “The girl disappeared, soon returning with a pitcher.”
past form of “propound” — put forward, as of an idea
From this reading “A ragged, bearded tramp stood before the door of a cottage near the outskirts of a country village, and propounded this question to a pretty girl who stood in the door.”
being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn
From this reading “A ragged, bearded tramp stood before the door of a cottage near the outskirts of a country village, and propounded this question to a pretty girl who stood in the door.”
tending to return to an earlier state
From this reading “The girl disappeared, soon returning with a pitcher.”
a vagrant
From this reading “THE TRAMP.”
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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 "Will you give me a glass of water, please?"
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading A ragged, bearded tramp stood before the door of a cottage near the outskirts of a country village, and propounded this question to a pretty girl who stood in the door.
having hair on the cheeks and chin
From this reading A ragged, bearded tramp stood before the door of a cottage near the outskirts of a country village, and propounded this question to a pretty girl who stood in the door.
earlier than; in front of
From this reading A ragged, bearded tramp stood before the door of a cottage near the outskirts of a country village, and propounded this question to a pretty girl who stood in the door.
a small house with a single story
From this reading A ragged, bearded tramp stood before the door of a cottage near the outskirts of a country village, and propounded this question to a pretty girl who stood in the door.
a politically organized body of people under a single government
From this reading A ragged, bearded tramp stood before the door of a cottage near the outskirts of a country village, and propounded this question to a pretty girl who stood in the door.
past form of “disappear” — get lost, as without warning or explanation
From this reading The girl disappeared, soon returning with a pitcher.
a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
From this reading A ragged, bearded tramp stood before the door of a cottage near the outskirts of a country village, and propounded this question to a pretty girl who stood in the door.
a young female
From this reading A ragged, bearded tramp stood before the door of a cottage near the outskirts of a country village, and propounded this question to a pretty girl who stood in the door.
cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
From this reading "Will you give me a glass of water, please?"
a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure
From this reading "Will you give me a glass of water, please?"
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading A ragged, bearded tramp stood before the door of a cottage near the outskirts of a country village, and propounded this question to a pretty girl who stood in the door.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading "Will you give me a glass of water, please?"
a particular point in time
From this reading "In a moment."
near in time or place or relationship
From this reading A ragged, bearded tramp stood before the door of a cottage near the outskirts of a country village, and propounded this question to a pretty girl who stood in the door.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading "Will you give me a glass of water, please?"
outlying areas (as of a city or town)
From this reading A ragged, bearded tramp stood before the door of a cottage near the outskirts of a country village, and propounded this question to a pretty girl who stood in the door.
(baseball) the person who does the pitching
From this reading The girl disappeared, soon returning with a pitcher.
give pleasure to or be pleasing to
From this reading "Will you give me a glass of water, please?"
pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing
From this reading A ragged, bearded tramp stood before the door of a cottage near the outskirts of a country village, and propounded this question to a pretty girl who stood in the door.
past form of “propound” — put forward, as of an idea
From this reading A ragged, bearded tramp stood before the door of a cottage near the outskirts of a country village, and propounded this question to a pretty girl who stood in the door.
challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of
From this reading A ragged, bearded tramp stood before the door of a cottage near the outskirts of a country village, and propounded this question to a pretty girl who stood in the door.
being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn
From this reading A ragged, bearded tramp stood before the door of a cottage near the outskirts of a country village, and propounded this question to a pretty girl who stood in the door.
tending to return to an earlier state
From this reading The girl disappeared, soon returning with a pitcher.
in the near future
From this reading The girl disappeared, soon returning with a pitcher.
Maintained an upright posture.
From this reading A ragged, bearded tramp stood before the door of a cottage near the outskirts of a country village, and propounded this question to a pretty girl who stood in the door.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE TRAMP.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading A ragged, bearded tramp stood before the door of a cottage near the outskirts of a country village, and propounded this question to a pretty girl who stood in the door.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading A ragged, bearded tramp stood before the door of a cottage near the outskirts of a country village, and propounded this question to a pretty girl who stood in the door.
a vagrant
From this reading THE TRAMP.
a community of people smaller than a town
From this reading A ragged, bearded tramp stood before the door of a cottage near the outskirts of a country village, and propounded this question to a pretty girl who stood in the door.
binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
From this reading "Will you give me a glass of water, please?"
which person or people
From this reading A ragged, bearded tramp stood before the door of a cottage near the outskirts of a country village, and propounded this question to a pretty girl who stood in the door.
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading "Will you give me a glass of water, please?"
in the company of; together with
From this reading The girl disappeared, soon returning with a pitcher.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "Will you give me a glass of water, please?"
Chapter 1 of Five Thousand Dollars Reward by A. Frank Pinkerton holds 164 sentences, grouped into 33 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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