Chapter 11 of Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation is here in full — 399 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 11 of Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation is here in full — 399 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"'Have a _what_?' "'You been wonderful good t' me, Skipper Sammy,' says the lad, 'an' I wants t' buy you a glass o' good rum.' "'Huh!' says Small Sam Small; ''tis expensive.' "'Ay,' says the lad; 'but what's a half-dollar _for_?' "'Well,' says Skipper Sammy, 'a careful lad like you _might_ save it.'
Chapter 11 of Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation is here in full — 399 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/79 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction
From this reading “"'You been wonderful good t' me, Skipper Sammy,' says the lad, 'an' I wants t' buy you a glass o' good rum.'”
exercising caution or showing care or attention
From this reading “"'Well,' says Skipper Sammy, 'a careful lad like you _might_ save it.'”
high in price or charging high prices
From this reading “"'Huh!' says Small Sam Small; ''tis expensive.'”
a boy or man
From this reading “"'You been wonderful good t' me, Skipper Sammy,' says the lad, 'an' I wants t' buy you a glass o' good rum.'”
liquor distilled from fermented molasses
From this reading “"'You been wonderful good t' me, Skipper Sammy,' says the lad, 'an' I wants t' buy you a glass o' good rum.'”
a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target
From this reading “"'Huh!' says Small Sam Small; ''tis expensive.'”
a student who fails to attend classes
From this reading “"'You been wonderful good t' me, Skipper Sammy,' says the lad, 'an' I wants t' buy you a glass o' good rum.'”
plural of “want” — a state of extreme poverty
From this reading “"'You been wonderful good t' me, Skipper Sammy,' says the lad, 'an' I wants t' buy you a glass o' good rum.'”
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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 "'Have a _what_?'
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading "'You been wonderful good t' me, Skipper Sammy,' says the lad, 'an' I wants t' buy you a glass o' good rum.'
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "'Ay,' says the lad; 'but what's a half-dollar _for_?'
the past participle of “be”
From this reading "'You been wonderful good t' me, Skipper Sammy,' says the lad, 'an' I wants t' buy you a glass o' good rum.'
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading "'Ay,' says the lad; 'but what's a half-dollar _for_?'
obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction
From this reading "'You been wonderful good t' me, Skipper Sammy,' says the lad, 'an' I wants t' buy you a glass o' good rum.'
exercising caution or showing care or attention
From this reading "'Well,' says Skipper Sammy, 'a careful lad like you _might_ save it.'
high in price or charging high prices
From this reading "'Huh!' says Small Sam Small; ''tis expensive.'
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading "'Ay,' says the lad; 'but what's a half-dollar _for_?'
a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure
From this reading "'You been wonderful good t' me, Skipper Sammy,' says the lad, 'an' I wants t' buy you a glass o' good rum.'
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading "'You been wonderful good t' me, Skipper Sammy,' says the lad, 'an' I wants t' buy you a glass o' good rum.'
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "'Ay,' says the lad; 'but what's a half-dollar _for_?'
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading "'Have a _what_?'
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "'Huh!' says Small Sam Small; ''tis expensive.'
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "'You been wonderful good t' me, Skipper Sammy,' says the lad, 'an' I wants t' buy you a glass o' good rum.'
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading "'Well,' says Skipper Sammy, 'a careful lad like you _might_ save it.'
a boy or man
From this reading "'You been wonderful good t' me, Skipper Sammy,' says the lad, 'an' I wants t' buy you a glass o' good rum.'
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading "'Well,' says Skipper Sammy, 'a careful lad like you _might_ save it.'
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading "'You been wonderful good t' me, Skipper Sammy,' says the lad, 'an' I wants t' buy you a glass o' good rum.'
used to say something is possible but not certain
From this reading "'Well,' says Skipper Sammy, 'a careful lad like you _might_ save it.'
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 "'You been wonderful good t' me, Skipper Sammy,' says the lad, 'an' I wants t' buy you a glass o' good rum.'
liquor distilled from fermented molasses
From this reading "'You been wonderful good t' me, Skipper Sammy,' says the lad, 'an' I wants t' buy you a glass o' good rum.'
a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target
From this reading "'Huh!' says Small Sam Small; ''tis expensive.'
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "'You been wonderful good t' me, Skipper Sammy,' says the lad, 'an' I wants t' buy you a glass o' good rum.'
except for; apart from
From this reading "'Well,' says Skipper Sammy, 'a careful lad like you _might_ save it.'
plural of “say” — the chance to speak
From this reading "'You been wonderful good t' me, Skipper Sammy,' says the lad, 'an' I wants t' buy you a glass o' good rum.'
a student who fails to attend classes
From this reading "'You been wonderful good t' me, Skipper Sammy,' says the lad, 'an' I wants t' buy you a glass o' good rum.'
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading "'Huh!' says Small Sam Small; ''tis expensive.'
a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine
From this reading "'You been wonderful good t' me, Skipper Sammy,' says the lad, 'an' I wants t' buy you a glass o' good rum.'
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading "'You been wonderful good t' me, Skipper Sammy,' says the lad, 'an' I wants t' buy you a glass o' good rum.'
plural of “ti” — a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite
From this reading "'Huh!' says Small Sam Small; ''tis expensive.'
plural of “want” — a state of extreme poverty
From this reading "'You been wonderful good t' me, Skipper Sammy,' says the lad, 'an' I wants t' buy you a glass o' good rum.'
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading "'Well,' says Skipper Sammy, 'a careful lad like you _might_ save it.'
used to ask for information about something
From this reading "'Have a _what_?'
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "'Ay,' says the lad; 'but what's a half-dollar _for_?'
extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
From this reading "'You been wonderful good t' me, Skipper Sammy,' says the lad, 'an' I wants t' buy you a glass o' good rum.'
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "'You been wonderful good t' me, Skipper Sammy,' says the lad, 'an' I wants t' buy you a glass o' good rum.'
Chapter 11 of Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Norman Duncan holds 399 sentences, grouped into 80 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.
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