Chapter 22 of Still Jim is here in full — 395 sentences across 79 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 22 of Still Jim is here in full — 395 sentences across 79 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
JIM PLANS A LAST FIGHT "The coyotes are going leaving behind them bleaching bones. The Indians are going leaving a few arrow heads and water vessels. What will the whites leave?" MUSINGS OF THE ELEPHANT. Jim was angry.
Chapter 22 of Still Jim is here in full — 395 sentences across 79 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a mark to indicate a direction or relation
From this reading “The Indians are going leaving a few arrow heads and water vessels.”
-ing form of “bleach” — remove color from
From this reading “JIM PLANS A LAST FIGHT "The coyotes are going leaving behind them bleaching bones.”
(used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance
From this reading “JIM PLANS A LAST FIGHT "The coyotes are going leaving behind them bleaching bones.”
plural of “coyote” — small wolf native to western North America
From this reading “JIM PLANS A LAST FIGHT "The coyotes are going leaving behind them bleaching bones.”
five-toed pachyderm
From this reading “MUSINGS OF THE ELEPHANT.”
plural of “musing” — a calm, lengthy, intent consideration
From this reading “MUSINGS OF THE ELEPHANT.”
plural of “vessel” — a tube in which a body fluid circulates
From this reading “The Indians are going leaving a few arrow heads and water vessels.”
plural of “white” — a Caucasian
From this reading “What will the whites leave?"”
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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 JIM PLANS A LAST FIGHT "The coyotes are going leaving behind them bleaching bones.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The Indians are going leaving a few arrow heads and water vessels.
feeling or showing anger
From this reading Jim was angry.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading JIM PLANS A LAST FIGHT "The coyotes are going leaving behind them bleaching bones.
a mark to indicate a direction or relation
From this reading The Indians are going leaving a few arrow heads and water vessels.
at or toward the back of something
From this reading JIM PLANS A LAST FIGHT "The coyotes are going leaving behind them bleaching bones.
-ing form of “bleach” — remove color from
From this reading JIM PLANS A LAST FIGHT "The coyotes are going leaving behind them bleaching bones.
(used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance
From this reading JIM PLANS A LAST FIGHT "The coyotes are going leaving behind them bleaching bones.
plural of “coyote” — small wolf native to western North America
From this reading JIM PLANS A LAST FIGHT "The coyotes are going leaving behind them bleaching bones.
five-toed pachyderm
From this reading MUSINGS OF THE ELEPHANT.
a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “a”; a small but indefinite number
From this reading The Indians are going leaving a few arrow heads and water vessels.
be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight
From this reading JIM PLANS A LAST FIGHT "The coyotes are going leaving behind them bleaching bones.
the act of departing
From this reading JIM PLANS A LAST FIGHT "The coyotes are going leaving behind them bleaching bones.
plural of “head” — the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
From this reading The Indians are going leaving a few arrow heads and water vessels.
plural of “indian” — a native or inhabitant of India
From this reading The Indians are going leaving a few arrow heads and water vessels.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading JIM PLANS A LAST FIGHT "The coyotes are going leaving behind them bleaching bones.
immediately past
From this reading JIM PLANS A LAST FIGHT "The coyotes are going leaving behind them bleaching bones.
go away from a place
From this reading What will the whites leave?"
the act of departing
From this reading JIM PLANS A LAST FIGHT "The coyotes are going leaving behind them bleaching bones.
plural of “musing” — a calm, lengthy, intent consideration
From this reading MUSINGS OF THE ELEPHANT.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading MUSINGS OF THE ELEPHANT.
plural of “plan” — a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished
From this reading JIM PLANS A LAST FIGHT "The coyotes are going leaving behind them bleaching bones.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading JIM PLANS A LAST FIGHT "The coyotes are going leaving behind them bleaching bones.
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading JIM PLANS A LAST FIGHT "The coyotes are going leaving behind them bleaching bones.
plural of “vessel” — a tube in which a body fluid circulates
From this reading The Indians are going leaving a few arrow heads and water vessels.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Jim was angry.
binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
From this reading The Indians are going leaving a few arrow heads and water vessels.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading What will the whites leave?"
plural of “white” — a Caucasian
From this reading What will the whites leave?"
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading What will the whites leave?"
Chapter 22 of Still Jim by Honoré Morrow holds 395 sentences, grouped into 79 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 22 holds 395 sentences of Still Jim, unabridged, divided into 79 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 22 of Still Jim by Honoré Morrow exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 395 sentences, grouped into 79 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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