Chapter XXIII of Roy Blakeley's Silver Fox Patrol, “We Begin Our Search,” is here in full — 56 sentences across 12 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XXIII
Chapter XXIII of Roy Blakeley's Silver Fox Patrol, “We Begin Our Search,” is here in full — 56 sentences across 12 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Harry and Grove and Skinny came plodding through the mud; they had come down the same way I had come down. And oh, boy, you should have seen the way they stared when they saw Pee-wee. “You alive?” Harry said. “I can prove it,” Pee-wee shouted.
Chapter XXIII of Roy Blakeley's Silver Fox Patrol, “We Begin Our Search,” is here in full — 56 sentences across 12 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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possessing life
From this reading ““You alive?””
a small growth of trees without underbrush
From this reading “Harry and Grove and Skinny came plodding through the mud; they had come down the same way I had come down.”
water soaked soil; soft wet earth
From this reading “Harry and Grove and Skinny came plodding through the mud; they had come down the same way I had come down.”
hard monotonous routine work
From this reading “Harry and Grove and Skinny came plodding through the mud; they had come down the same way I had come down.”
be shown or be found to be
From this reading ““I can prove it,” Pee-wee shouted.”
in a vehement outcry
From this reading ““I can prove it,” Pee-wee shouted.”
being very thin
From this reading “Harry and Grove and Skinny came plodding through the mud; they had come down the same way I had come down.”
past form of “stare” — look at with fixed eyes
From this reading “And oh, boy, you should have seen the way they stared when they saw Pee-wee.”
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 “Harry and Grove and Skinny came plodding through the mud; they had come down the same way I had come down.”
In this reading “Harry and Grove and Skinny came plodding through the mud; they had come down the same way I had come down.”
move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
In this reading “Harry and Grove and Skinny came plodding through the mud; they had come down the same way I had come down.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
possessing life
From this reading “You alive?”
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Harry and Grove and Skinny came plodding through the mud; they had come down the same way I had come down.
a youthful male person
From this reading And oh, boy, you should have seen the way they stared when they saw Pee-wee.
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Harry and Grove and Skinny came plodding through the mud; they had come down the same way I had come down.
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading “I can prove it,” Pee-wee shouted.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Harry and Grove and Skinny came plodding through the mud; they had come down the same way I had come down.
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading Harry and Grove and Skinny came plodding through the mud; they had come down the same way I had come down.
a small growth of trees without underbrush
From this reading Harry and Grove and Skinny came plodding through the mud; they had come down the same way I had come down.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Harry and Grove and Skinny came plodding through the mud; they had come down the same way I had come down.
annoy continually or chronically
From this reading Harry and Grove and Skinny came plodding through the mud; they had come down the same way I had come down.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading And oh, boy, you should have seen the way they stared when they saw Pee-wee.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading Harry and Grove and Skinny came plodding through the mud; they had come down the same way I had come down.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading “I can prove it,” Pee-wee shouted.
water soaked soil; soft wet earth
From this reading Harry and Grove and Skinny came plodding through the mud; they had come down the same way I had come down.
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading And oh, boy, you should have seen the way they stared when they saw Pee-wee.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading And oh, boy, you should have seen the way they stared when they saw Pee-wee.
hard monotonous routine work
From this reading Harry and Grove and Skinny came plodding through the mud; they had come down the same way I had come down.
be shown or be found to be
From this reading “I can prove it,” Pee-wee shouted.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading Harry said.
Identical; not different.
From this reading Harry and Grove and Skinny came plodding through the mud; they had come down the same way I had come down.
cut with a saw
From this reading And oh, boy, you should have seen the way they stared when they saw Pee-wee.
inflected form of “see” — perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading And oh, boy, you should have seen the way they stared when they saw Pee-wee.
used to say what is right, expected, or advisable
From this reading And oh, boy, you should have seen the way they stared when they saw Pee-wee.
in a vehement outcry
From this reading “I can prove it,” Pee-wee shouted.
being very thin
From this reading Harry and Grove and Skinny came plodding through the mud; they had come down the same way I had come down.
past form of “stare” — look at with fixed eyes
From this reading And oh, boy, you should have seen the way they stared when they saw Pee-wee.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Harry and Grove and Skinny came plodding through the mud; they had come down the same way I had come down.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Harry and Grove and Skinny came plodding through the mud; they had come down the same way I had come down.
from one end or side of something to the other
From this reading Harry and Grove and Skinny came plodding through the mud; they had come down the same way I had come down.
how something is done or how it happens
From this reading Harry and Grove and Skinny came plodding through the mud; they had come down the same way I had come down.
at the time that
From this reading And oh, boy, you should have seen the way they stared when they saw Pee-wee.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading And oh, boy, you should have seen the way they stared when they saw Pee-wee.
Chapter 23 of Roy Blakeley's Silver Fox Patrol by Percy Keese Fitzhugh holds 56 sentences, grouped into 12 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 23 holds 56 sentences of Roy Blakeley's Silver Fox Patrol, unabridged, divided into 12 reading sections.
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