Chapter 8 of Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike is here in full — 76 sentences across 16 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 8 of Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike is here in full — 76 sentences across 16 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
REEL ADVENTURE "All right. Good." I heard the voice say. We all looked around and standing there on the lawn was Mr. Copley smiling and right beside him a fellow about twenty-five years old, I guess. He had an awful nice smile, with a regular good-natured, open face.
Chapter 8 of Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike is here in full — 76 sentences across 16 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
From this reading “REEL ADVENTURE "All right.”
exceptionally bad or displeasing
From this reading “He had an awful nice smile, with a regular good-natured, open face.”
American painter who did portraits of Paul Revere and John Hancock before fleeing to England to avoid the American Revolution (1738-1815)
From this reading “We all looked around and standing there on the lawn was Mr. Copley smiling and right beside him a fellow about twenty-five years old, I guess.”
a field of cultivated and mowed grass
From this reading “We all looked around and standing there on the lawn was Mr. Copley smiling and right beside him a fellow about twenty-five years old, I guess.”
pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance
From this reading “He had an awful nice smile, with a regular good-natured, open face.”
walk as if unable to control one's movements
From this reading “REEL ADVENTURE "All right.”
in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle
From this reading “He had an awful nice smile, with a regular good-natured, open face.”
being five more than twenty
From this reading “We all looked around and standing there on the lawn was Mr. Copley smiling and right beside him a fellow about twenty-five years old, I guess.”
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 We all looked around and standing there on the lawn was Mr. Copley smiling and right beside him a fellow about twenty-five years old, I guess.
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading We all looked around and standing there on the lawn was Mr. Copley smiling and right beside him a fellow about twenty-five years old, I guess.
take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
From this reading REEL ADVENTURE "All right.
(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 REEL ADVENTURE "All right.
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading He had an awful nice smile, with a regular good-natured, open face.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading We all looked around and standing there on the lawn was Mr. Copley smiling and right beside him a fellow about twenty-five years old, I guess.
surrounding, or on every side of, something
From this reading We all looked around and standing there on the lawn was Mr. Copley smiling and right beside him a fellow about twenty-five years old, I guess.
exceptionally bad or displeasing
From this reading He had an awful nice smile, with a regular good-natured, open face.
next to; at the side of
From this reading We all looked around and standing there on the lawn was Mr. Copley smiling and right beside him a fellow about twenty-five years old, I guess.
American painter who did portraits of Paul Revere and John Hancock before fleeing to England to avoid the American Revolution (1738-1815)
From this reading We all looked around and standing there on the lawn was Mr. Copley smiling and right beside him a fellow about twenty-five years old, I guess.
the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
From this reading He had an awful nice smile, with a regular good-natured, open face.
a boy or man
From this reading We all looked around and standing there on the lawn was Mr. Copley smiling and right beside him a fellow about twenty-five years old, I guess.
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading Good."
having an easygoing and cheerful disposition
From this reading He had an awful nice smile, with a regular good-natured, open face.
expect, believe, or suppose
From this reading We all looked around and standing there on the lawn was Mr. Copley smiling and right beside him a fellow about twenty-five years old, I guess.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading He had an awful nice smile, with a regular good-natured, open face.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading He had an awful nice smile, with a regular good-natured, open face.
detected or perceived by the sense of hearing
From this reading I heard the voice say.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading We all looked around and standing there on the lawn was Mr. Copley smiling and right beside him a fellow about twenty-five years old, I guess.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I heard the voice say.
a field of cultivated and mowed grass
From this reading We all looked around and standing there on the lawn was Mr. Copley smiling and right beside him a fellow about twenty-five years old, I guess.
past form of “look” — perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards
From this reading We all looked around and standing there on the lawn was Mr. Copley smiling and right beside him a fellow about twenty-five years old, I guess.
a form of address for a man
From this reading We all looked around and standing there on the lawn was Mr. Copley smiling and right beside him a fellow about twenty-five years old, I guess.
pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance
From this reading He had an awful nice smile, with a regular good-natured, open face.
(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age
From this reading We all looked around and standing there on the lawn was Mr. Copley smiling and right beside him a fellow about twenty-five years old, I guess.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading We all looked around and standing there on the lawn was Mr. Copley smiling and right beside him a fellow about twenty-five years old, I guess.
To move from a closed position.
From this reading He had an awful nice smile, with a regular good-natured, open face.
walk as if unable to control one's movements
From this reading REEL ADVENTURE "All right.
in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle
From this reading He had an awful nice smile, with a regular good-natured, open face.
precisely, exactly
From this reading REEL ADVENTURE "All right.
express in words
From this reading I heard the voice say.
change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure
From this reading He had an awful nice smile, with a regular good-natured, open face.
a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement
From this reading We all looked around and standing there on the lawn was Mr. Copley smiling and right beside him a fellow about twenty-five years old, I guess.
having a supporting base
From this reading We all looked around and standing there on the lawn was Mr. Copley smiling and right beside him a fellow about twenty-five years old, I guess.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading I heard the voice say.
in or at that place or location
From this reading We all looked around and standing there on the lawn was Mr. Copley smiling and right beside him a fellow about twenty-five years old, I guess.
being five more than twenty
From this reading We all looked around and standing there on the lawn was Mr. Copley smiling and right beside him a fellow about twenty-five years old, I guess.
the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
From this reading I heard the voice say.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading We all looked around and standing there on the lawn was Mr. Copley smiling and right beside him a fellow about twenty-five years old, I guess.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading We all looked around and standing there on the lawn was Mr. Copley smiling and right beside him a fellow about twenty-five years old, I guess.
in the company of; together with
From this reading He had an awful nice smile, with a regular good-natured, open face.
a late time of life
From this reading We all looked around and standing there on the lawn was Mr. Copley smiling and right beside him a fellow about twenty-five years old, I guess.
Chapter 8 of Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike by Percy Keese Fitzhugh holds 76 sentences, grouped into 16 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.
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