Chapter 5 of More Jonathan Papers is here in full — 421 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of More Jonathan Papers is here in full — 421 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
We’ll take a day and go for it—and trout, too.” It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout season, for to take a day off just to pick a flower might seem a little absurd. But, coupled with trout—all is well. Trout is food. One must eat.
Chapter 5 of More Jonathan Papers is here in full — 421 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense
From this reading “It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout season, for to take a day off just to pick a flower might seem a little absurd.”
joined together especially in a pair or pairs
From this reading “But, coupled with trout—all is well.”
take in solid food
From this reading “One must eat.”
a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
From this reading “It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout season, for to take a day off just to pick a flower might seem a little absurd.”
any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue
From this reading “Trout is food.”
select carefully from a group
From this reading “It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout season, for to take a day off just to pick a flower might seem a little absurd.”
a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field
From this reading “It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout season, for to take a day off just to pick a flower might seem a little absurd.”
flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes
From this reading “We’ll take a day and go for it—and trout, too.””
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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 We’ll take a day and go for it—and trout, too.”
inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense
From this reading It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout season, for to take a day off just to pick a flower might seem a little absurd.
(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, coupled with trout—all is well.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading We’ll take a day and go for it—and trout, too.”
any of several evergreen shrubs of the genus Arbutus of temperate Europe and America
From this reading It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout season, for to take a day off just to pick a flower might seem a little absurd.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout season, for to take a day off just to pick a flower might seem a little absurd.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But, coupled with trout—all is well.
plural of “come” — the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
From this reading It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout season, for to take a day off just to pick a flower might seem a little absurd.
joined together especially in a pair or pairs
From this reading But, coupled with trout—all is well.
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading We’ll take a day and go for it—and trout, too.”
take in solid food
From this reading One must eat.
a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
From this reading It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout season, for to take a day off just to pick a flower might seem a little absurd.
any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue
From this reading Trout is food.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading We’ll take a day and go for it—and trout, too.”
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading We’ll take a day and go for it—and trout, too.”
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout season, for to take a day off just to pick a flower might seem a little absurd.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout season, for to take a day off just to pick a flower might seem a little absurd.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading We’ll take a day and go for it—and trout, too.”
and nothing more
From this reading It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout season, for to take a day off just to pick a flower might seem a little absurd.
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout season, for to take a day off just to pick a flower might seem a little absurd.
used to say something is possible but not certain
From this reading It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout season, for to take a day off just to pick a flower might seem a little absurd.
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading One must eat.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout season, for to take a day off just to pick a flower might seem a little absurd.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading One must eat.
select carefully from a group
From this reading It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout season, for to take a day off just to pick a flower might seem a little absurd.
a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field
From this reading It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout season, for to take a day off just to pick a flower might seem a little absurd.
give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
From this reading It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout season, for to take a day off just to pick a flower might seem a little absurd.
carry out
From this reading We’ll take a day and go for it—and trout, too.”
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout season, for to take a day off just to pick a flower might seem a little absurd.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout season, for to take a day off just to pick a flower might seem a little absurd.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout season, for to take a day off just to pick a flower might seem a little absurd.
to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
From this reading We’ll take a day and go for it—and trout, too.”
flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes
From this reading We’ll take a day and go for it—and trout, too.”
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From this reading We’ll take a day and go for it—and trout, too.”
(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 It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout season, for to take a day off just to pick a flower might seem a little absurd.
in the company of; together with
From this reading But, coupled with trout—all is well.
Chapter 5 of More Jonathan Papers by Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris holds 421 sentences, grouped into 85 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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