Chapter 17 of Hanover is here in full — 14 sentences across 3 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 17 of Hanover is here in full — 14 sentences across 3 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Tempting Negroes to Return. Wilmington Officials Scouring the Woods for Refugees--Want Them to Return and Go to Work. Special to The World. Wilmington, N. C., Nov. 13.--Affairs are settling down to their normal condition here.
Chapter 17 of Hanover is here in full — 14 sentences across 3 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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plural of “negro” — a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today
From this reading “Tempting Negroes to Return.”
conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal
From this reading “13.--Affairs are settling down to their normal condition here.”
the month following October and preceding December
From this reading “Wilmington, N. C., Nov.”
plural of “official” — a worker who holds or is invested with an office
From this reading “Wilmington Officials Scouring the Woods for Refugees--Want Them to Return and Go to Work.”
plural of “refugee” — an exile who flees for safety
From this reading “Wilmington Officials Scouring the Woods for Refugees--Want Them to Return and Go to Work.”
moving over territory to search for something
From this reading “Wilmington Officials Scouring the Woods for Refugees--Want Them to Return and Go to Work.”
highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire
From this reading “Tempting Negroes to Return.”
a town in southeastern North Carolina on the Cape Fear River
From this reading “Wilmington Officials Scouring the Woods for Refugees--Want Them to Return and Go to Work.”
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From this reading 13.--Affairs are settling down to their normal condition here.
matters of personal concern
From this reading 13.--Affairs are settling down to their normal condition here.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Wilmington Officials Scouring the Woods for Refugees--Want Them to Return and Go to Work.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading 13.--Affairs are settling down to their normal condition here.
a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature
From this reading Wilmington, N. C., Nov.
a state at a particular time
From this reading 13.--Affairs are settling down to their normal condition here.
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading 13.--Affairs are settling down to their normal condition here.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading Wilmington Officials Scouring the Woods for Refugees--Want Them to Return and Go to Work.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading Wilmington Officials Scouring the Woods for Refugees--Want Them to Return and Go to Work.
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading 13.--Affairs are settling down to their normal condition here.
a common nonmetallic element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless inert diatomic gas; constitutes 78 percent of the atmosphere by volume; a constituent of all living tissues
From this reading Wilmington, N. C., Nov.
plural of “negro” — a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today
From this reading Tempting Negroes to Return.
conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal
From this reading 13.--Affairs are settling down to their normal condition here.
the month following October and preceding December
From this reading Wilmington, N. C., Nov.
plural of “official” — a worker who holds or is invested with an office
From this reading Wilmington Officials Scouring the Woods for Refugees--Want Them to Return and Go to Work.
plural of “refugee” — an exile who flees for safety
From this reading Wilmington Officials Scouring the Woods for Refugees--Want Them to Return and Go to Work.
go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
From this reading Tempting Negroes to Return.
moving over territory to search for something
From this reading Wilmington Officials Scouring the Woods for Refugees--Want Them to Return and Go to Work.
a gradual sinking to a lower level
From this reading 13.--Affairs are settling down to their normal condition here.
unique or specific to a person or thing or category
From this reading Special to The World.
highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire
From this reading Tempting Negroes to Return.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Wilmington Officials Scouring the Woods for Refugees--Want Them to Return and Go to Work.
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading 13.--Affairs are settling down to their normal condition here.
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Wilmington Officials Scouring the Woods for Refugees--Want Them to Return and Go to Work.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Tempting Negroes to Return.
feel or have a desire for; want strongly
From this reading Wilmington Officials Scouring the Woods for Refugees--Want Them to Return and Go to Work.
a town in southeastern North Carolina on the Cape Fear River
From this reading Wilmington Officials Scouring the Woods for Refugees--Want Them to Return and Go to Work.
the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area
From this reading Wilmington Officials Scouring the Woods for Refugees--Want Them to Return and Go to Work.
exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity
From this reading Wilmington Officials Scouring the Woods for Refugees--Want Them to Return and Go to Work.
everything that exists anywhere
From this reading Special to The World.
Chapter 17 of Hanover by Jack Thorne holds 14 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 17 holds 14 sentences of Hanover, unabridged, divided into 3 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 17 of Hanover by Jack Thorne exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 14 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.
Work through the 3 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 17 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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