Chapter 6 of Kitty Carter, Canteen Girl is here in full — 427 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 6 of Kitty Carter, Canteen Girl is here in full — 427 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Oh!” The very idea seemed to take Kitty’s breath away. A moment later Brad was scaling the tree by the route Billy had taken. “He can climb ’most as good as me,” boasted Billy. “I’m going up, too.”
Chapter 6 of Kitty Carter, Canteen Girl is here in full — 427 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a short stout club used primarily by policemen
From this reading “A moment later Brad was scaling the tree by the route Billy had taken.”
past form of “boast” — show off
From this reading ““He can climb ’most as good as me,” boasted Billy.”
a small nail
From this reading “A moment later Brad was scaling the tree by the route Billy had taken.”
the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing
From this reading “The very idea seemed to take Kitty’s breath away.”
go upward with gradual or continuous progress
From this reading ““He can climb ’most as good as me,” boasted Billy.”
an established line of travel or access
From this reading “A moment later Brad was scaling the tree by the route Billy had taken.”
the act of arranging in a graduated series
From this reading “A moment later Brad was scaling the tree by the route Billy had taken.”
a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
From this reading “A moment later Brad was scaling the tree by the route Billy had taken.”
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.
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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 moment later Brad was scaling the tree by the route Billy had taken.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading “He can climb ’most as good as me,” boasted Billy.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading The very idea seemed to take Kitty’s breath away.
a short stout club used primarily by policemen
From this reading A moment later Brad was scaling the tree by the route Billy had taken.
past form of “boast” — show off
From this reading “He can climb ’most as good as me,” boasted Billy.
a small nail
From this reading A moment later Brad was scaling the tree by the route Billy had taken.
the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing
From this reading The very idea seemed to take Kitty’s breath away.
showing who or what does the action
From this reading A moment later Brad was scaling the tree by the route Billy had taken.
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading “He can climb ’most as good as me,” boasted Billy.
go upward with gradual or continuous progress
From this reading “He can climb ’most as good as me,” boasted Billy.
the act of departing
From this reading “I’m going up, too.”
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading “He can climb ’most as good as me,” boasted Billy.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading A moment later Brad was scaling the tree by the route Billy had taken.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading “He can climb ’most as good as me,” boasted Billy.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “I’m going up, too.”
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading The very idea seemed to take Kitty’s breath away.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The very idea seemed to take Kitty’s breath away.
happening at a time subsequent to a reference time
From this reading A moment later Brad was scaling the tree by the route Billy had taken.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading “He can climb ’most as good as me,” boasted Billy.
a particular point in time
From this reading A moment later Brad was scaling the tree by the route Billy had taken.
used to form the superlative
From this reading “He can climb ’most as good as me,” boasted Billy.
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading “Oh!”
an established line of travel or access
From this reading A moment later Brad was scaling the tree by the route Billy had taken.
the act of arranging in a graduated series
From this reading A moment later Brad was scaling the tree by the route Billy had taken.
past form of “seem” — give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
From this reading The very idea seemed to take Kitty’s breath away.
carry out
From this reading The very idea seemed to take Kitty’s breath away.
understood in a certain way; made sense of
From this reading A moment later Brad was scaling the tree by the route Billy had taken.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The very idea seemed to take Kitty’s breath away.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The very idea seemed to take Kitty’s breath away.
to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
From this reading “I’m going up, too.”
a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
From this reading A moment later Brad was scaling the tree by the route Billy had taken.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading “I’m going up, too.”
precisely as stated
From this reading The very idea seemed to take Kitty’s breath away.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading A moment later Brad was scaling the tree by the route Billy had taken.
Chapter 6 of Kitty Carter, Canteen Girl by Ruby Lorraine Radford holds 427 sentences, grouped into 86 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 6 holds 427 sentences of Kitty Carter, Canteen Girl, unabridged, divided into 86 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 6 of Kitty Carter, Canteen Girl by Ruby Lorraine Radford exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 427 sentences, grouped into 86 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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