Chapter 1 of Soldier Stories is here in full — 385 sentences across 77 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of Soldier Stories is here in full — 385 sentences across 77 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
| | | | This e-book has dialect and unusual spelling. | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ AUTHOR OF "PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS," "UNDER THE DEODARS," "THE PHANTOM RICKSHAW," "WEE WILLIE WINKIE," ETC., ETC. Norwood Press J.S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
Chapter 1 of Soldier Stories is here in full — 385 sentences across 77 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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United States neurologist noted for his study of the brain and pituitary gland and who identified Cushing's syndrome (1869-1939)
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the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
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A ghost or apparition; a figment of the imagination or a hidden dweller.
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exert pressure or force to or upon
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forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage
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plural of “tale” — a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
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not usual or common or ordinary
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(used informally) very small
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
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writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
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From this reading Norwood Press J.S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Norwood Mass.
an odorless very poisonous gas that is a product of incomplete combustion of carbon
From this reading Norwood Press J.S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Norwood Mass.
United States neurologist noted for his study of the brain and pituitary gland and who identified Cushing's syndrome (1869-1939)
From this reading Norwood Press J.S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Norwood Mass.
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the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
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showing where something starts, or who sent it
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the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
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plural of “hill” — a local and well-defined elevation of the land
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a unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second
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the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
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belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
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A ghost or apparition; a figment of the imagination or a hidden dweller.
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clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
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exert pressure or force to or upon
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a small two-wheeled cart for one passenger; pulled by one person
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1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
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Rhodesian statesman who declared independence of Zimbabwe from Great Britain (born in 1919)
From this reading Norwood Press J.S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Norwood Mass.
forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage
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plural of “tale” — a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
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used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
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used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
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a base containing nitrogen that is found in RNA (but not in DNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine
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below or beneath something; less than
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not usual or common or ordinary
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(used informally) very small
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Chapter 1 of Soldier Stories by Rudyard Kipling holds 385 sentences, grouped into 77 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 1 holds 385 sentences of Soldier Stories, unabridged, divided into 77 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of Soldier Stories by Rudyard Kipling exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 385 sentences, grouped into 77 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.
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