Chapter 26 of Green Eyes is here in full — 155 sentences across 31 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
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Chapter 26 of Green Eyes is here in full — 155 sentences across 31 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“A BOAT! A BOAT!” The sun was high when Florence and Tillie woke on the island where for a time they were Crusoes. Their first thought was of food. To Tillie, Goose Island was no unknown land.
Chapter 26 of Green Eyes is here in full — 155 sentences across 31 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a small vessel for travel on water
From this reading ““A BOAT!”
a city in central Italy on the Arno; provincial capital of Tuscany; center of the Italian Renaissance from 14th to 16th centuries
From this reading “The sun was high when Florence and Tillie woke on the island where for a time they were Crusoes.”
any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue
From this reading “Their first thought was of food.”
web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks
From this reading “To Tillie, Goose Island was no unknown land.”
a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
From this reading “The sun was high when Florence and Tillie woke on the island where for a time they were Crusoes.”
the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system
From this reading “The sun was high when Florence and Tillie woke on the island where for a time they were Crusoes.”
not known
From this reading “To Tillie, Goose Island was no unknown land.”
inflected form of “wake” — be awake, be alert, be there
From this reading “The sun was high when Florence and Tillie woke on the island where for a time they were Crusoes.”
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 “To Tillie, Goose Island was no unknown land.”
In this reading “The sun was high when Florence and Tillie woke on the island where for a time they were Crusoes.”
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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 “A BOAT!
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The sun was high when Florence and Tillie woke on the island where for a time they were Crusoes.
a small vessel for travel on water
From this reading “A BOAT!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The sun was high when Florence and Tillie woke on the island where for a time they were Crusoes.
preceding all others in time or space or degree
From this reading Their first thought was of food.
a city in central Italy on the Arno; provincial capital of Tuscany; center of the Italian Renaissance from 14th to 16th centuries
From this reading The sun was high when Florence and Tillie woke on the island where for a time they were Crusoes.
any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue
From this reading Their first thought was of food.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading The sun was high when Florence and Tillie woke on the island where for a time they were Crusoes.
web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks
From this reading To Tillie, Goose Island was no unknown land.
greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount
From this reading The sun was high when Florence and Tillie woke on the island where for a time they were Crusoes.
a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
From this reading The sun was high when Florence and Tillie woke on the island where for a time they were Crusoes.
the land on which real estate is located
From this reading To Tillie, Goose Island was no unknown land.
not any; not one
From this reading To Tillie, Goose Island was no unknown land.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Their first thought was of food.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading The sun was high when Florence and Tillie woke on the island where for a time they were Crusoes.
the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system
From this reading The sun was high when Florence and Tillie woke on the island where for a time they were Crusoes.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The sun was high when Florence and Tillie woke on the island where for a time they were Crusoes.
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading Their first thought was of food.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading The sun was high when Florence and Tillie woke on the island where for a time they were Crusoes.
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading Their first thought was of food.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The sun was high when Florence and Tillie woke on the island where for a time they were Crusoes.
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading The sun was high when Florence and Tillie woke on the island where for a time they were Crusoes.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading To Tillie, Goose Island was no unknown land.
not known
From this reading To Tillie, Goose Island was no unknown land.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The sun was high when Florence and Tillie woke on the island where for a time they were Crusoes.
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading The sun was high when Florence and Tillie woke on the island where for a time they were Crusoes.
at the time that
From this reading The sun was high when Florence and Tillie woke on the island where for a time they were Crusoes.
in or at the place that
From this reading The sun was high when Florence and Tillie woke on the island where for a time they were Crusoes.
inflected form of “wake” — be awake, be alert, be there
From this reading The sun was high when Florence and Tillie woke on the island where for a time they were Crusoes.
Chapter 26 of Green Eyes by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell holds 155 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 155 sentences of Green Eyes, unabridged, divided into 31 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 26 of Green Eyes by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 155 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.
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