Chapter 12 of Ptomaine Street: The Tale of Warble Petticoat is here in full — 207 sentences across 42 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XII
Chapter 12 of Ptomaine Street: The Tale of Warble Petticoat is here in full — 207 sentences across 42 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Porgie Sproggins. Cave man. Brute. Hulking, enormous, shaggy-haired, prognathous jawed, a veritable Cro-magnard type. Bluely unshaven and scowling.
Chapter 12 of Ptomaine Street: The Tale of Warble Petticoat is here in full — 207 sentences across 42 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a cruelly rapacious person
From this reading “Brute.”
a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea
From this reading “Cave man.”
of great size and bulk
From this reading “Hulking, enormous, shaggy-haired, prognathous jawed, a veritable Cro-magnard type.”
of animals having jaws of a specified type
From this reading “Hulking, enormous, shaggy-haired, prognathous jawed, a veritable Cro-magnard type.”
sullen or unfriendly in appearance
From this reading “Bluely unshaven and scowling.”
a subdivision of a particular kind of thing
From this reading “Hulking, enormous, shaggy-haired, prognathous jawed, a veritable Cro-magnard type.”
not shaved
From this reading “Bluely unshaven and scowling.”
often used as intensifiers
From this reading “Hulking, enormous, shaggy-haired, prognathous jawed, a veritable Cro-magnard type.”
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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 Hulking, enormous, shaggy-haired, prognathous jawed, a veritable Cro-magnard type.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Bluely unshaven and scowling.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Bluely unshaven and scowling.
a cruelly rapacious person
From this reading Brute.
a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea
From this reading Cave man.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Hulking, enormous, shaggy-haired, prognathous jawed, a veritable Cro-magnard type.
extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree
From this reading Hulking, enormous, shaggy-haired, prognathous jawed, a veritable Cro-magnard type.
of great size and bulk
From this reading Hulking, enormous, shaggy-haired, prognathous jawed, a veritable Cro-magnard type.
of animals having jaws of a specified type
From this reading Hulking, enormous, shaggy-haired, prognathous jawed, a veritable Cro-magnard type.
an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
From this reading Cave man.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Porgie Sproggins.
having a projecting lower jaw
From this reading Hulking, enormous, shaggy-haired, prognathous jawed, a veritable Cro-magnard type.
sullen or unfriendly in appearance
From this reading Bluely unshaven and scowling.
used of hair; thick and poorly groomed
From this reading Hulking, enormous, shaggy-haired, prognathous jawed, a veritable Cro-magnard type.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Porgie Sproggins.
a subdivision of a particular kind of thing
From this reading Hulking, enormous, shaggy-haired, prognathous jawed, a veritable Cro-magnard type.
not shaved
From this reading Bluely unshaven and scowling.
often used as intensifiers
From this reading Hulking, enormous, shaggy-haired, prognathous jawed, a veritable Cro-magnard type.
Chapter 12 of Ptomaine Street: The Tale of Warble Petticoat by Carolyn Wells holds 207 sentences, grouped into 42 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 12 holds 207 sentences of Ptomaine Street: The Tale of Warble Petticoat, unabridged, divided into 42 reading sections.
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