Chapter 26 of Frank Merriwell's Athletes is here in full — 152 sentences across 31 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 26 of Frank Merriwell's Athletes is here in full — 152 sentences across 31 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Boo-oo-oo-ng! “Horn ob Gabrul! what am dat?” Toots gasped the words, as he sat up and stared about him in the semi-darkness. Boo-oo-oo-ng! boo-oo-oo-ng! “Wek up, chilluns!” gurgled the colored boy.
Chapter 26 of Frank Merriwell's Athletes is here in full — 152 sentences across 31 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a youthful male person
From this reading ““Wek up, chilluns!” gurgled the colored boy.”
having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination
From this reading ““Wek up, chilluns!” gurgled the colored boy.”
a digital tape recording of sound
From this reading ““Horn ob Gabrul! what am dat?””
past form of “gasp” — breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
From this reading “Toots gasped the words, as he sat up and stared about him in the semi-darkness.”
a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it
From this reading ““Horn ob Gabrul! what am dat?””
the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christians
From this reading “Toots gasped the words, as he sat up and stared about him in the semi-darkness.”
past form of “stare” — look at with fixed eyes
From this reading “Toots gasped the words, as he sat up and stared about him in the semi-darkness.”
plural of “toot” — a blast of a horn
From this reading “Toots gasped the words, as he sat up and stared about him in the semi-darkness.”
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 ““Wek up, chilluns!” gurgled the colored boy.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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on the subject of; concerning
From this reading Toots gasped the words, as he sat up and stared about him in the semi-darkness.
the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading “Horn ob Gabrul! what am dat?”
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Toots gasped the words, as he sat up and stared about him in the semi-darkness.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Toots gasped the words, as he sat up and stared about him in the semi-darkness.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Boo-oo-oo-ng!
a youthful male person
From this reading “Wek up, chilluns!” gurgled the colored boy.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Wek up, chilluns!” gurgled the colored boy.
having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination
From this reading “Wek up, chilluns!” gurgled the colored boy.
a digital tape recording of sound
From this reading “Horn ob Gabrul! what am dat?”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Horn ob Gabrul! what am dat?”
past form of “gasp” — breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
From this reading Toots gasped the words, as he sat up and stared about him in the semi-darkness.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Wek up, chilluns!” gurgled the colored boy.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Toots gasped the words, as he sat up and stared about him in the semi-darkness.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Toots gasped the words, as he sat up and stared about him in the semi-darkness.
a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it
From this reading “Horn ob Gabrul! what am dat?”
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Toots gasped the words, as he sat up and stared about him in the semi-darkness.
a major river of western Siberia; flows generally northward and westward to the Gulf of Ob and the Kara Sea
From this reading “Horn ob Gabrul! what am dat?”
the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christians
From this reading Toots gasped the words, as he sat up and stared about him in the semi-darkness.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Toots gasped the words, as he sat up and stared about him in the semi-darkness.
past form of “stare” — look at with fixed eyes
From this reading Toots gasped the words, as he sat up and stared about him in the semi-darkness.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Toots gasped the words, as he sat up and stared about him in the semi-darkness.
plural of “toot” — a blast of a horn
From this reading Toots gasped the words, as he sat up and stared about him in the semi-darkness.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading Toots gasped the words, as he sat up and stared about him in the semi-darkness.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Wek up, chilluns!” gurgled the colored boy.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading “Horn ob Gabrul! what am dat?”
the words that are spoken
From this reading Toots gasped the words, as he sat up and stared about him in the semi-darkness.
Chapter 26 of Frank Merriwell's Athletes by Burt L. Standish holds 152 sentences, grouped into 31 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 26 holds 152 sentences of Frank Merriwell's Athletes, unabridged, divided into 31 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 26 of Frank Merriwell's Athletes by Burt L. Standish exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 152 sentences, grouped into 31 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.
Work through the 31 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 31 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 26 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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