Chapter XII of Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders at Circle O Ranch, “Clews That Were Loaded,” is here in full — 12 sentences across 3 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XII
Chapter XII of Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders at Circle O Ranch, “Clews That Were Loaded,” is here in full — 12 sentences across 3 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
The old guide finds the trail and a bullet finds him. Stacy and Jim are among the missing. Two-gun Pete makes a strange discovery. The mystery of the carrier pigeons. Birds for a pie.
Chapter XII of Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders at Circle O Ranch, “Clews That Were Loaded,” is here in full — 12 sentences across 3 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
a projectile that is fired from a gun
From this reading “The old guide finds the trail and a bullet finds him.”
someone whose employment involves carrying something
From this reading “The mystery of the carrier pigeons.”
the act of discovering something
From this reading “Two-gun Pete makes a strange discovery.”
plural of “find” — a productive insight
From this reading “The old guide finds the trail and a bullet finds him.”
someone employed to conduct others
From this reading “The old guide finds the trail and a bullet finds him.”
not able to be found
From this reading “Stacy and Jim are among the missing.”
dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top
From this reading “Birds for a pie.”
plural of “pigeon” — wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs
From this reading “The mystery of the carrier pigeons.”
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.
a homing pigeon used to carry messages
In this reading “The mystery of the carrier pigeons.”
In this reading “Two-gun Pete makes a strange discovery.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading The old guide finds the trail and a bullet finds him.
surrounded by; in the middle of a group
From this reading Stacy and Jim are among the missing.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The old guide finds the trail and a bullet finds him.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Stacy and Jim are among the missing.
plural of “bird” — warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
From this reading Birds for a pie.
a projectile that is fired from a gun
From this reading The old guide finds the trail and a bullet finds him.
someone whose employment involves carrying something
From this reading The mystery of the carrier pigeons.
the act of discovering something
From this reading Two-gun Pete makes a strange discovery.
plural of “find” — a productive insight
From this reading The old guide finds the trail and a bullet finds him.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading Birds for a pie.
someone employed to conduct others
From this reading The old guide finds the trail and a bullet finds him.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading The old guide finds the trail and a bullet finds him.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Stacy and Jim are among the missing.
plural of “make” — a recognizable kind
From this reading Two-gun Pete makes a strange discovery.
not able to be found
From this reading Stacy and Jim are among the missing.
something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
From this reading The mystery of the carrier pigeons.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The mystery of the carrier pigeons.
(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age
From this reading The old guide finds the trail and a bullet finds him.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Two-gun Pete makes a strange discovery.
dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top
From this reading Birds for a pie.
plural of “pigeon” — wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs
From this reading The mystery of the carrier pigeons.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Stacy and Jim are among the missing.
being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird
From this reading Two-gun Pete makes a strange discovery.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The old guide finds the trail and a bullet finds him.
a track or mark left by something that has passed
From this reading The old guide finds the trail and a bullet finds him.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Two-gun Pete makes a strange discovery.
Chapter 12 of Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders at Circle O Ranch by Josephine, -1931 Chase holds 12 sentences, grouped into 3 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 12 holds 12 sentences of Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders at Circle O Ranch, unabridged, divided into 3 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 12 of Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders at Circle O Ranch by Josephine, -1931 Chase exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 12 sentences, grouped into 3 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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