Chapter 15 of Motor Matt's Daring — No. 2, March 6, 1909 is here in full — 111 sentences across 23 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 15 of Motor Matt's Daring — No. 2, March 6, 1909 is here in full — 111 sentences across 23 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A QUEER TANGLE. "Waal, I'm stumped!" snorted Welcome. "Matt stops his race ter save Dirk Hawley's gal, an' Dirk Hawley wins a bonanzer mine bekase o' it. Looks to me like a put-up job. Mebby the gal was bein' run away with a-purpose."
Chapter 15 of Motor Matt's Daring — No. 2, March 6, 1909 is here in full — 111 sentences across 23 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
a relatively long dagger with a straight blade
From this reading “"Matt stops his race ter save Dirk Hawley's gal, an' Dirk Hawley wins a bonanzer mine bekase o' it.”
United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters
From this reading “"Matt stops his race ter save Dirk Hawley's gal, an' Dirk Hawley wins a bonanzer mine bekase o' it.”
the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss
From this reading “"Matt stops his race ter save Dirk Hawley's gal, an' Dirk Hawley wins a bonanzer mine bekase o' it.”
past form of “snort” — indicate contempt by breathing noisily and forcefully through the nose
From this reading “"Waal, I'm stumped!" snorted Welcome.”
a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck)
From this reading “"Matt stops his race ter save Dirk Hawley's gal, an' Dirk Hawley wins a bonanzer mine bekase o' it.”
past form of “stump” — cause to be perplexed or confounded
From this reading “"Waal, I'm stumped!" snorted Welcome.”
a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven
From this reading “A QUEER TANGLE.”
plural of “win” — a victory (as in a race or other competition)
From this reading “"Matt stops his race ter save Dirk Hawley's gal, an' Dirk Hawley wins a bonanzer mine bekase o' it.”
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.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
In this reading “Mebby the gal was bein' run away with a-purpose."”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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 A QUEER TANGLE.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Mebby the gal was bein' run away with a-purpose."
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading "Matt stops his race ter save Dirk Hawley's gal, an' Dirk Hawley wins a bonanzer mine bekase o' it.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading Mebby the gal was bein' run away with a-purpose."
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Mebby the gal was bein' run away with a-purpose."
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Matt stops his race ter save Dirk Hawley's gal, an' Dirk Hawley wins a bonanzer mine bekase o' it.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Matt stops his race ter save Dirk Hawley's gal, an' Dirk Hawley wins a bonanzer mine bekase o' it.
a relatively long dagger with a straight blade
From this reading "Matt stops his race ter save Dirk Hawley's gal, an' Dirk Hawley wins a bonanzer mine bekase o' it.
United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters
From this reading "Matt stops his race ter save Dirk Hawley's gal, an' Dirk Hawley wins a bonanzer mine bekase o' it.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Matt stops his race ter save Dirk Hawley's gal, an' Dirk Hawley wins a bonanzer mine bekase o' it.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Matt stops his race ter save Dirk Hawley's gal, an' Dirk Hawley wins a bonanzer mine bekase o' it.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading "Matt stops his race ter save Dirk Hawley's gal, an' Dirk Hawley wins a bonanzer mine bekase o' it.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Waal, I'm stumped!" snorted Welcome.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading "Matt stops his race ter save Dirk Hawley's gal, an' Dirk Hawley wins a bonanzer mine bekase o' it.
the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
From this reading Looks to me like a put-up job.
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading Looks to me like a put-up job.
plural of “look” — the feelings expressed on a person's face
From this reading Looks to me like a put-up job.
the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss
From this reading "Matt stops his race ter save Dirk Hawley's gal, an' Dirk Hawley wins a bonanzer mine bekase o' it.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Looks to me like a put-up job.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Mebby the gal was bein' run away with a-purpose."
the one or ones belonging to the person speaking
From this reading "Matt stops his race ter save Dirk Hawley's gal, an' Dirk Hawley wins a bonanzer mine bekase o' 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 "Matt stops his race ter save Dirk Hawley's gal, an' Dirk Hawley wins a bonanzer mine bekase o' it.
planned secretly
From this reading Looks to me like a put-up job.
beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
From this reading A QUEER TANGLE.
any competition
From this reading "Matt stops his race ter save Dirk Hawley's gal, an' Dirk Hawley wins a bonanzer mine bekase o' it.
move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
From this reading Mebby the gal was bein' run away with a-purpose."
except for; apart from
From this reading "Matt stops his race ter save Dirk Hawley's gal, an' Dirk Hawley wins a bonanzer mine bekase o' it.
past form of “snort” — indicate contempt by breathing noisily and forcefully through the nose
From this reading "Waal, I'm stumped!" snorted Welcome.
a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck)
From this reading "Matt stops his race ter save Dirk Hawley's gal, an' Dirk Hawley wins a bonanzer mine bekase o' it.
past form of “stump” — cause to be perplexed or confounded
From this reading "Waal, I'm stumped!" snorted Welcome.
a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven
From this reading A QUEER TANGLE.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Matt stops his race ter save Dirk Hawley's gal, an' Dirk Hawley wins a bonanzer mine bekase o' it.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Mebby the gal was bein' run away with a-purpose."
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Looks to me like a put-up job.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Waal, I'm stumped!" snorted Welcome.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Mebby the gal was bein' run away with a-purpose."
accept gladly
From this reading "Waal, I'm stumped!" snorted Welcome.
plural of “win” — a victory (as in a race or other competition)
From this reading "Matt stops his race ter save Dirk Hawley's gal, an' Dirk Hawley wins a bonanzer mine bekase o' it.
in the company of; together with
From this reading Mebby the gal was bein' run away with a-purpose."
Chapter 15 of Motor Matt's Daring — No. 2, March 6, 1909 by Stanley R. Matthews holds 111 sentences, grouped into 23 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 15 holds 111 sentences of Motor Matt's Daring — No. 2, March 6, 1909, unabridged, divided into 23 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 15 of Motor Matt's Daring — No. 2, March 6, 1909 by Stanley R. Matthews exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 111 sentences, grouped into 23 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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