Chapter 1 of Polaris of the Snows is here in full — 141 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of Polaris of the Snows is here in full — 141 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
This story appeared in The All-Story Cavalier for December 18, 1915 "North! North! To the north, Polaris. Tell the world--ah, tell them--boy--The north! The north!
Chapter 1 of Polaris of the Snows is here in full — 141 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/28 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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past form of “appear” — give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
From this reading “This story appeared in The All-Story Cavalier for December 18, 1915 "North!”
a youthful male person
From this reading “Tell the world--ah, tell them--boy--The north!”
a gallant or courtly gentleman
From this reading “This story appeared in The All-Story Cavalier for December 18, 1915 "North!”
the last (12th) month of the year
From this reading “This story appeared in The All-Story Cavalier for December 18, 1915 "North!”
the region of the United States lying to the north of the Mason-Dixon line
From this reading “This story appeared in The All-Story Cavalier for December 18, 1915 "North!”
the brightest star in Ursa Minor; at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper; the northern axis of the earth points toward it
From this reading “To the north, Polaris.”
a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
From this reading “This story appeared in The All-Story Cavalier for December 18, 1915 "North!”
everything that exists anywhere
From this reading “Tell the world--ah, tell them--boy--The north!”
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In this reading “This story appeared in The All-Story Cavalier for December 18, 1915 "North!”
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From this reading This story appeared in The All-Story Cavalier for December 18, 1915 "North!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading This story appeared in The All-Story Cavalier for December 18, 1915 "North!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Tell the world--ah, tell them--boy--The north!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading This story appeared in The All-Story Cavalier for December 18, 1915 "North!
past form of “appear” — give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
From this reading This story appeared in The All-Story Cavalier for December 18, 1915 "North!
a youthful male person
From this reading Tell the world--ah, tell them--boy--The north!
a gallant or courtly gentleman
From this reading This story appeared in The All-Story Cavalier for December 18, 1915 "North!
the last (12th) month of the year
From this reading This story appeared in The All-Story Cavalier for December 18, 1915 "North!
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading This story appeared in The All-Story Cavalier for December 18, 1915 "North!
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading This story appeared in The All-Story Cavalier for December 18, 1915 "North!
the region of the United States lying to the north of the Mason-Dixon line
From this reading This story appeared in The All-Story Cavalier for December 18, 1915 "North!
the brightest star in Ursa Minor; at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper; the northern axis of the earth points toward it
From this reading To the north, Polaris.
a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
From this reading This story appeared in The All-Story Cavalier for December 18, 1915 "North!
express in words
From this reading Tell the world--ah, tell them--boy--The north!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading This story appeared in The All-Story Cavalier for December 18, 1915 "North!
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Tell the world--ah, tell them--boy--The north!
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading This story appeared in The All-Story Cavalier for December 18, 1915 "North!
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading To the north, Polaris.
everything that exists anywhere
From this reading Tell the world--ah, tell them--boy--The north!
Chapter 1 of Polaris of the Snows by Charles B. (Charles Billings) Stilson holds 141 sentences, grouped into 29 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 1 holds 141 sentences of Polaris of the Snows, unabridged, divided into 29 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of Polaris of the Snows by Charles B. (Charles Billings) Stilson exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 141 sentences, grouped into 29 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.
Work through the 29 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 1 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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About 250 minutes of reading across 603 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Polaris of the Snows section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Polaris of the Snows, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
