Chapter 3 of Shotgun gold is here in full — 422 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter III
Chapter 3 of Shotgun gold is here in full — 422 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“I thought so. He shore was sore as a boil. Met me at the door of the restaurant and jumped all over me about you.” “The devil he did! What did you say, Roarin’?”
Chapter 3 of Shotgun gold is here in full — 422 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/84 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor
From this reading “He shore was sore as a boil.”
(Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell
From this reading ““The devil he did!”
a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
From this reading “Met me at the door of the restaurant and jumped all over me about you.””
past form of “jump” — move forward by leaps and bounds
From this reading “Met me at the door of the restaurant and jumped all over me about you.””
inflected form of “meet” — come together
From this reading “Met me at the door of the restaurant and jumped all over me about you.””
a building where people go to eat
From this reading “Met me at the door of the restaurant and jumped all over me about you.””
the land along the edge of a body of water
From this reading “He shore was sore as a boil.”
hurting
From this reading “He shore was sore as a boil.”
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 “Met me at the door of the restaurant and jumped all over me about you.””
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.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading He shore was sore as a boil.
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading Met me at the door of the restaurant and jumped all over me about you.”
(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 Met me at the door of the restaurant and jumped all over me about you.”
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Met me at the door of the restaurant and jumped all over me about you.”
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading He shore was sore as a boil.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading Met me at the door of the restaurant and jumped all over me about you.”
come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor
From this reading He shore was sore as a boil.
(Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell
From this reading “The devil he did!
the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives
From this reading “The devil he did!
a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
From this reading Met me at the door of the restaurant and jumped all over me about you.”
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading He shore was sore as a boil.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “I thought so.
past form of “jump” — move forward by leaps and bounds
From this reading Met me at the door of the restaurant and jumped all over me about you.”
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Met me at the door of the restaurant and jumped all over me about you.”
inflected form of “meet” — come together
From this reading Met me at the door of the restaurant and jumped all over me about you.”
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Met me at the door of the restaurant and jumped all over me about you.”
above and across; more than
From this reading Met me at the door of the restaurant and jumped all over me about you.”
a building where people go to eat
From this reading Met me at the door of the restaurant and jumped all over me about you.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading What did you say, Roarin’?”
express in words
From this reading What did you say, Roarin’?”
the land along the edge of a body of water
From this reading He shore was sore as a boil.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading “I thought so.
hurting
From this reading He shore was sore as a boil.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Met me at the door of the restaurant and jumped all over me about you.”
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading “I thought so.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading He shore was sore as a boil.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading What did you say, Roarin’?”
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Met me at the door of the restaurant and jumped all over me about you.”
Chapter 3 of Shotgun gold by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle holds 422 sentences, grouped into 85 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 3 holds 422 sentences of Shotgun gold, unabridged, divided into 85 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 3 of Shotgun gold by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 422 sentences, grouped into 85 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 85 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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