Chapter 2 of Sixty-Year Extension is here in full — 434 sentences across 87 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter II
Chapter 2 of Sixty-Year Extension is here in full — 434 sentences across 87 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
His eyes drifted to her wrist. It was blank. "Who are you?" "You don't recognize me? With all the slinking around and watching through the corner of your eye, you haven't even seen me before?"
Chapter 2 of Sixty-Year Extension is here in full — 434 sentences across 87 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/86 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
surrounding, or on every side of, something
From this reading “With all the slinking around and watching through the corner of your eye, you haven't even seen me before?"”
(of a surface) not written or printed on
From this reading “It was blank.”
a place off to the side of an area
From this reading “With all the slinking around and watching through the corner of your eye, you haven't even seen me before?"”
past form of “drift” — be in motion due to some air or water current
From this reading “His eyes drifted to her wrist.”
the organ of sight
From this reading “With all the slinking around and watching through the corner of your eye, you haven't even seen me before?"”
accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority
From this reading “"You don't recognize me?”
the act of observing; taking a patient look
From this reading “With all the slinking around and watching through the corner of your eye, you haven't even seen me before?"”
a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones
From this reading “His eyes drifted to her wrist.”
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.
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(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 With all the slinking around and watching through the corner of your eye, you haven't even seen me before?"
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading With all the slinking around and watching through the corner of your eye, you haven't even seen me before?"
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading "Who are you?"
surrounding, or on every side of, something
From this reading With all the slinking around and watching through the corner of your eye, you haven't even seen me before?"
earlier than; in front of
From this reading With all the slinking around and watching through the corner of your eye, you haven't even seen me before?"
(of a surface) not written or printed on
From this reading It was blank.
a place off to the side of an area
From this reading With all the slinking around and watching through the corner of your eye, you haven't even seen me before?"
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "You don't recognize me?
past form of “drift” — be in motion due to some air or water current
From this reading His eyes drifted to her wrist.
divisible by two
From this reading With all the slinking around and watching through the corner of your eye, you haven't even seen me before?"
the organ of sight
From this reading With all the slinking around and watching through the corner of your eye, you haven't even seen me before?"
opinion or judgment
From this reading His eyes drifted to her wrist.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading With all the slinking around and watching through the corner of your eye, you haven't even seen me before?"
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading His eyes drifted to her wrist.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading His eyes drifted to her wrist.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It was blank.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading "You don't recognize me?
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading With all the slinking around and watching through the corner of your eye, you haven't even seen me before?"
accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority
From this reading "You don't recognize me?
inflected form of “see” — perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading With all the slinking around and watching through the corner of your eye, you haven't even seen me before?"
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading With all the slinking around and watching through the corner of your eye, you haven't even seen me before?"
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading With all the slinking around and watching through the corner of your eye, you haven't even seen me before?"
from one end or side of something to the other
From this reading With all the slinking around and watching through the corner of your eye, you haven't even seen me before?"
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading His eyes drifted to her wrist.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading It was blank.
the act of observing; taking a patient look
From this reading With all the slinking around and watching through the corner of your eye, you haven't even seen me before?"
which person or people
From this reading "Who are you?"
in the company of; together with
From this reading With all the slinking around and watching through the corner of your eye, you haven't even seen me before?"
a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones
From this reading His eyes drifted to her wrist.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "Who are you?"
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading With all the slinking around and watching through the corner of your eye, you haven't even seen me before?"
Chapter 2 of Sixty-Year Extension by Alan Edward Nourse holds 434 sentences, grouped into 87 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 2 holds 434 sentences of Sixty-Year Extension, unabridged, divided into 87 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 2 of Sixty-Year Extension by Alan Edward Nourse exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 434 sentences, grouped into 87 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 87 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 87 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 2 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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