Chapter 9 of Our Little Eskimo Cousin is here in full — 71 sentences across 15 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 9 of Our Little Eskimo Cousin is here in full — 71 sentences across 15 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
AN ESKIMO CHRISTMAS. NOT long after this Etu's people celebrated a festival. It was about Christmas time, but the boy had never heard of our own great holiday. Yet his own Christmas always means very much to him. All the people of the village met together on a certain evening in Etu's home.
Chapter 9 of Our Little Eskimo Cousin is here in full — 71 sentences across 15 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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widely known and esteemed
From this reading “NOT long after this Etu's people celebrated a festival.”
period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6
From this reading “AN ESKIMO CHRISTMAS.”
a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (“eaters of raw flesh”) but they call themselves the Inuit (“the people”)
From this reading “AN ESKIMO CHRISTMAS.”
a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration
From this reading “NOT long after this Etu's people celebrated a festival.”
leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure
From this reading “It was about Christmas time, but the boy had never heard of our own great holiday.”
thing or person that acts to produce a particular effect or achieve an end
From this reading “Yet his own Christmas always means very much to him.”
inflected form of “meet” — come together
From this reading “All the people of the village met together on a certain evening in Etu's home.”
a community of people smaller than a town
From this reading “All the people of the village met together on a certain evening in Etu's home.”
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.
In this reading “It was about Christmas time, but the boy had never heard of our own great holiday.”
In this reading “All the people of the village met together on a certain evening in Etu's home.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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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 NOT long after this Etu's people celebrated a festival.
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading It was about Christmas time, but the boy had never heard of our own great holiday.
later than; following
From this reading NOT long after this Etu's people celebrated a festival.
(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 All the people of the village met together on a certain evening in Etu's home.
at all times; all the time and on every occasion
From this reading Yet his own Christmas always means very much to him.
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading AN ESKIMO CHRISTMAS.
a youthful male person
From this reading It was about Christmas time, but the boy had never heard of our own great holiday.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading It was about Christmas time, but the boy had never heard of our own great holiday.
widely known and esteemed
From this reading NOT long after this Etu's people celebrated a festival.
definite but not specified or identified
From this reading All the people of the village met together on a certain evening in Etu's home.
period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6
From this reading AN ESKIMO CHRISTMAS.
a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (“eaters of raw flesh”) but they call themselves the Inuit (“the people”)
From this reading AN ESKIMO CHRISTMAS.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading NOT long after this Etu's people celebrated a festival.
the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)
From this reading All the people of the village met together on a certain evening in Etu's home.
a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration
From this reading NOT long after this Etu's people celebrated a festival.
relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
From this reading It was about Christmas time, but the boy had never heard of our own great holiday.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading It was about Christmas time, but the boy had never heard of our own great holiday.
detected or perceived by the sense of hearing
From this reading It was about Christmas time, but the boy had never heard of our own great holiday.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Yet his own Christmas always means very much to him.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Yet his own Christmas always means very much to him.
leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure
From this reading It was about Christmas time, but the boy had never heard of our own great holiday.
where you live at a particular time
From this reading All the people of the village met together on a certain evening in Etu's home.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading All the people of the village met together on a certain evening in Etu's home.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It was about Christmas time, but the boy had never heard of our own great holiday.
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 NOT long after this Etu's people celebrated a festival.
thing or person that acts to produce a particular effect or achieve an end
From this reading Yet his own Christmas always means very much to him.
inflected form of “meet” — come together
From this reading All the people of the village met together on a certain evening in Etu's home.
to a great degree or extent
From this reading Yet his own Christmas always means very much to him.
not ever; at no time in the past or future
From this reading It was about Christmas time, but the boy had never heard of our own great holiday.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading NOT long after this Etu's people celebrated a festival.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading It was about Christmas time, but the boy had never heard of our own great holiday.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading All the people of the village met together on a certain evening in Etu's home.
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading It was about Christmas time, but the boy had never heard of our own great holiday.
have ownership or possession of
From this reading It was about Christmas time, but the boy had never heard of our own great holiday.
(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
From this reading NOT long after this Etu's people celebrated a festival.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading It was about Christmas time, but the boy had never heard of our own great holiday.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading NOT long after this Etu's people celebrated a festival.
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading It was about Christmas time, but the boy had never heard of our own great holiday.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Yet his own Christmas always means very much to him.
in contact with each other or in proximity
From this reading All the people of the village met together on a certain evening in Etu's home.
precisely as stated
From this reading Yet his own Christmas always means very much to him.
a community of people smaller than a town
From this reading All the people of the village met together on a certain evening in Etu's home.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading It was about Christmas time, but the boy had never heard of our own great holiday.
but in spite of that
From this reading Yet his own Christmas always means very much to him.
Chapter 9 of Our Little Eskimo Cousin by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade holds 71 sentences, grouped into 15 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 9 holds 71 sentences of Our Little Eskimo Cousin, unabridged, divided into 15 reading sections.
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