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Chapter 5 of Happy Days for Boys and Girls is here in full — 401 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"When your ship comes in, Sweetie, will it have turkeys and jellies in it?" said Willie, leaning against her. "Yes, indeed," said Sweetie. "There will be turkeys almost as big as Jennie, and a great deal fatter." "But it's so long coming, Sweetie; you tell us every time it _will_ come, and it never _comes_ at all." "O, no, Freddy.
Chapter 5 of Happy Days for Boys and Girls is here in full — 401 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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plural of “come” — the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
From this reading “"When your ship comes in, Sweetie, will it have turkeys and jellies in it?" said Willie, leaning against her.”
act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
From this reading “"There will be turkeys almost as big as Jennie, and a great deal fatter."”
comparative of “fat” — having an (over)abundance of flesh
From this reading “"There will be turkeys almost as big as Jennie, and a great deal fatter."”
plural of “jelly” — an edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods
From this reading “"When your ship comes in, Sweetie, will it have turkeys and jellies in it?" said Willie, leaning against her.”
departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal
From this reading “"When your ship comes in, Sweetie, will it have turkeys and jellies in it?" said Willie, leaning against her.”
transport commercially
From this reading “"When your ship comes in, Sweetie, will it have turkeys and jellies in it?" said Willie, leaning against her.”
a person loved by another person
From this reading “"When your ship comes in, Sweetie, will it have turkeys and jellies in it?" said Willie, leaning against her.”
plural of “turkey” — large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food
From this reading “"When your ship comes in, Sweetie, will it have turkeys and jellies in it?" said Willie, leaning against her.”
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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 "There will be turkeys almost as big as Jennie, and a great deal fatter."
touching and pressing; in opposition to
From this reading "When your ship comes in, Sweetie, will it have turkeys and jellies in it?" said Willie, leaning against her.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading "But it's so long coming, Sweetie; you tell us every time it _will_ come, and it never _comes_ at all."
(of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but
From this reading "There will be turkeys almost as big as Jennie, and a great deal fatter."
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading "When your ship comes in, Sweetie, will it have turkeys and jellies in it?" said Willie, leaning against her.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading "There will be turkeys almost as big as Jennie, and a great deal fatter."
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading "But it's so long coming, Sweetie; you tell us every time it _will_ come, and it never _comes_ at all."
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading "There will be turkeys almost as big as Jennie, and a great deal fatter."
above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading "There will be turkeys almost as big as Jennie, and a great deal fatter."
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading "But it's so long coming, Sweetie; you tell us every time it _will_ come, and it never _comes_ at all."
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading "But it's so long coming, Sweetie; you tell us every time it _will_ come, and it never _comes_ at all."
plural of “come” — the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
From this reading "When your ship comes in, Sweetie, will it have turkeys and jellies in it?" said Willie, leaning against her.
the act of drawing spatially closer to something
From this reading "But it's so long coming, Sweetie; you tell us every time it _will_ come, and it never _comes_ at all."
act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
From this reading "There will be turkeys almost as big as Jennie, and a great deal fatter."
all the members of a group, with none left out
From this reading "But it's so long coming, Sweetie; you tell us every time it _will_ come, and it never _comes_ at all."
comparative of “fat” — having an (over)abundance of flesh
From this reading "There will be turkeys almost as big as Jennie, and a great deal fatter."
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "O, no, Freddy.
relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
From this reading "There will be turkeys almost as big as Jennie, and a great deal fatter."
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading "When your ship comes in, Sweetie, will it have turkeys and jellies in it?" said Willie, leaning against her.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading "When your ship comes in, Sweetie, will it have turkeys and jellies in it?" said Willie, leaning against her.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading "When your ship comes in, Sweetie, will it have turkeys and jellies in it?" said Willie, leaning against her.
in truth (often tends to intensify)
From this reading "Yes, indeed," said Sweetie.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading "When your ship comes in, Sweetie, will it have turkeys and jellies in it?" said Willie, leaning against her.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "But it's so long coming, Sweetie; you tell us every time it _will_ come, and it never _comes_ at all."
plural of “jelly” — an edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods
From this reading "When your ship comes in, Sweetie, will it have turkeys and jellies in it?" said Willie, leaning against her.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "There will be turkeys almost as big as Jennie, and a great deal fatter."
departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal
From this reading "When your ship comes in, Sweetie, will it have turkeys and jellies in it?" said Willie, leaning against her.
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading "But it's so long coming, Sweetie; you tell us every time it _will_ come, and it never _comes_ at all."
not ever; at no time in the past or future
From this reading "But it's so long coming, Sweetie; you tell us every time it _will_ come, and it never _comes_ at all."
not any; not one
From this reading "O, no, Freddy.
a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
From this reading "O, no, Freddy.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading "When your ship comes in, Sweetie, will it have turkeys and jellies in it?" said Willie, leaning against her.
transport commercially
From this reading "When your ship comes in, Sweetie, will it have turkeys and jellies in it?" said Willie, leaning against her.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading "But it's so long coming, Sweetie; you tell us every time it _will_ come, and it never _comes_ at all."
a person loved by another person
From this reading "When your ship comes in, Sweetie, will it have turkeys and jellies in it?" said Willie, leaning against her.
express in words
From this reading "But it's so long coming, Sweetie; you tell us every time it _will_ come, and it never _comes_ at all."
in or at that place or location
From this reading "There will be turkeys almost as big as Jennie, and a great deal fatter."
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading "But it's so long coming, Sweetie; you tell us every time it _will_ come, and it never _comes_ at all."
plural of “turkey” — large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food
From this reading "When your ship comes in, Sweetie, will it have turkeys and jellies in it?" said Willie, leaning against her.
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading "But it's so long coming, Sweetie; you tell us every time it _will_ come, and it never _comes_ at all."
at the time that
From this reading "When your ship comes in, Sweetie, will it have turkeys and jellies in it?" said Willie, leaning against her.
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading "When your ship comes in, Sweetie, will it have turkeys and jellies in it?" said Willie, leaning against her.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "When your ship comes in, Sweetie, will it have turkeys and jellies in it?" said Willie, leaning against her.
an affirmative
From this reading "Yes, indeed," said Sweetie.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "But it's so long coming, Sweetie; you tell us every time it _will_ come, and it never _comes_ at all."
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "When your ship comes in, Sweetie, will it have turkeys and jellies in it?" said Willie, leaning against her.
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