Chapter 31 of Puck's Broom The Wonderful Adventures is here in full — 142 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 31 of Puck's Broom The Wonderful Adventures is here in full — 142 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
_Back to the World_ "George, darling!" George rubbed his eyes. Ah, it was the beautiful Queen kissing him again. "George!" Ah, it was the witch this time.
Chapter 31 of Puck's Broom The Wonderful Adventures is here in full — 142 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
From this reading “Ah, it was the beautiful Queen kissing him again.”
a special loved one
From this reading “_Back to the World_ "George, darling!"”
Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303)
From this reading “_Back to the World_ "George, darling!"”
affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs)
From this reading “Ah, it was the beautiful Queen kissing him again.”
the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
From this reading “Ah, it was the beautiful Queen kissing him again.”
inflected form of “rub” — move over something with pressure
From this reading “George rubbed his eyes.”
a female sorcerer or magician
From this reading “Ah, it was the witch this time.”
everything that exists anywhere
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anew
From this reading Ah, it was the beautiful Queen kissing him again.
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From this reading Ah, it was the beautiful Queen kissing him again.
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading _Back to the World_ "George, darling!"
delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
From this reading Ah, it was the beautiful Queen kissing him again.
a special loved one
From this reading _Back to the World_ "George, darling!"
opinion or judgment
From this reading George rubbed his eyes.
Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303)
From this reading _Back to the World_ "George, darling!"
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Ah, it was the beautiful Queen kissing him again.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading George rubbed his eyes.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Ah, it was the beautiful Queen kissing him again.
affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs)
From this reading Ah, it was the beautiful Queen kissing him again.
the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
From this reading Ah, it was the beautiful Queen kissing him again.
inflected form of “rub” — move over something with pressure
From this reading George rubbed his eyes.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading _Back to the World_ "George, darling!"
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading Ah, it was the witch this time.
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading Ah, it was the witch this time.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading _Back to the World_ "George, darling!"
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Ah, it was the beautiful Queen kissing him again.
a female sorcerer or magician
From this reading Ah, it was the witch this time.
everything that exists anywhere
From this reading _Back to the World_ "George, darling!"
Chapter 31 of Puck's Broom The Wonderful Adventures by E. Gordon (Edgar Gordon) Browne holds 142 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 31 holds 142 sentences of Puck's Broom The Wonderful Adventures, unabridged, divided into 29 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 31 of Puck's Broom The Wonderful Adventures by E. Gordon (Edgar Gordon) Browne exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 142 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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