Chapter 5 of Stover at Yale is here in full — 299 sentences across 60 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of Stover at Yale is here in full — 299 sentences across 60 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Hello, there, Stover!" "Stover, over here!" "Oh, Dink Stover, this way!" Over the bared heads of the bobbing, shifting crowd he saw Hunter and McCarthy waving to him. He made his way through the strange assorted mass of freshmen to his friends, where already, instinctively, a certain picked element had coalesced.
Chapter 5 of Stover at Yale is here in full — 299 sentences across 60 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds
From this reading “He made his way through the strange assorted mass of freshmen to his friends, where already, instinctively, a certain picked element had coalesced.”
having the head uncovered
From this reading “Over the bared heads of the bobbing, shifting crowd he saw Hunter and McCarthy waving to him.”
inflected form of “bob” — move up and down repeatedly
From this reading “Over the bared heads of the bobbing, shifting crowd he saw Hunter and McCarthy waving to him.”
joined together into a whole
From this reading “He made his way through the strange assorted mass of freshmen to his friends, where already, instinctively, a certain picked element had coalesced.”
a couple who both have careers and no children (an acronym for dual income no kids)
From this reading “"Oh, Dink Stover, this way!"”
plural of “freshman” — a first-year undergraduate
From this reading “He made his way through the strange assorted mass of freshmen to his friends, where already, instinctively, a certain picked element had coalesced.”
United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
From this reading “Over the bared heads of the bobbing, shifting crowd he saw Hunter and McCarthy waving to him.”
the dried stalks and leaves of a field crop (especially corn) used as animal fodder after the grain has been harvested
From this reading “"Hello, there, Stover!"”
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 “Over the bared heads of the bobbing, shifting crowd he saw Hunter and McCarthy waving to him.”
in a specified area or place
In this reading “"Stover, over here!"”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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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 He made his way through the strange assorted mass of freshmen to his friends, where already, instinctively, a certain picked element had coalesced.
prior to a specified or implied time
From this reading He made his way through the strange assorted mass of freshmen to his friends, where already, instinctively, a certain picked element had coalesced.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Over the bared heads of the bobbing, shifting crowd he saw Hunter and McCarthy waving to him.
consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds
From this reading He made his way through the strange assorted mass of freshmen to his friends, where already, instinctively, a certain picked element had coalesced.
having the head uncovered
From this reading Over the bared heads of the bobbing, shifting crowd he saw Hunter and McCarthy waving to him.
inflected form of “bob” — move up and down repeatedly
From this reading Over the bared heads of the bobbing, shifting crowd he saw Hunter and McCarthy waving to him.
definite but not specified or identified
From this reading He made his way through the strange assorted mass of freshmen to his friends, where already, instinctively, a certain picked element had coalesced.
joined together into a whole
From this reading He made his way through the strange assorted mass of freshmen to his friends, where already, instinctively, a certain picked element had coalesced.
cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
From this reading Over the bared heads of the bobbing, shifting crowd he saw Hunter and McCarthy waving to him.
a couple who both have careers and no children (an acronym for dual income no kids)
From this reading "Oh, Dink Stover, this way!"
an abstract part of something
From this reading He made his way through the strange assorted mass of freshmen to his friends, where already, instinctively, a certain picked element had coalesced.
plural of “freshman” — a first-year undergraduate
From this reading He made his way through the strange assorted mass of freshmen to his friends, where already, instinctively, a certain picked element had coalesced.
plural of “friend” — a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
From this reading He made his way through the strange assorted mass of freshmen to his friends, where already, instinctively, a certain picked element had coalesced.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading He made his way through the strange assorted mass of freshmen to his friends, where already, instinctively, a certain picked element had coalesced.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Over the bared heads of the bobbing, shifting crowd he saw Hunter and McCarthy waving to him.
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 Over the bared heads of the bobbing, shifting crowd he saw Hunter and McCarthy waving to him.
an expression of greeting
From this reading "Hello, there, Stover!"
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading "Stover, over here!"
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Over the bared heads of the bobbing, shifting crowd he saw Hunter and McCarthy waving to him.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading He made his way through the strange assorted mass of freshmen to his friends, where already, instinctively, a certain picked element had coalesced.
someone who hunts game
From this reading Over the bared heads of the bobbing, shifting crowd he saw Hunter and McCarthy waving to him.
as a matter of instinct
From this reading He made his way through the strange assorted mass of freshmen to his friends, where already, instinctively, a certain picked element had coalesced.
produced by a manufacturing process
From this reading He made his way through the strange assorted mass of freshmen to his friends, where already, instinctively, a certain picked element had coalesced.
the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
From this reading He made his way through the strange assorted mass of freshmen to his friends, where already, instinctively, a certain picked element had coalesced.
United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
From this reading Over the bared heads of the bobbing, shifting crowd he saw Hunter and McCarthy waving to him.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Over the bared heads of the bobbing, shifting crowd he saw Hunter and McCarthy waving to him.
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading "Oh, Dink Stover, this way!"
above and across; more than
From this reading "Stover, over here!"
past form of “pick” — select carefully from a group
From this reading He made his way through the strange assorted mass of freshmen to his friends, where already, instinctively, a certain picked element had coalesced.
cut with a saw
From this reading Over the bared heads of the bobbing, shifting crowd he saw Hunter and McCarthy waving to him.
continuously varying
From this reading Over the bared heads of the bobbing, shifting crowd he saw Hunter and McCarthy waving to him.
the dried stalks and leaves of a field crop (especially corn) used as animal fodder after the grain has been harvested
From this reading "Hello, there, Stover!"
being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird
From this reading He made his way through the strange assorted mass of freshmen to his friends, where already, instinctively, a certain picked element had coalesced.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Over the bared heads of the bobbing, shifting crowd he saw Hunter and McCarthy waving to him.
in or at that place or location
From this reading "Hello, there, Stover!"
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading "Oh, Dink Stover, this way!"
from one end or side of something to the other
From this reading He made his way through the strange assorted mass of freshmen to his friends, where already, instinctively, a certain picked element had coalesced.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Over the bared heads of the bobbing, shifting crowd he saw Hunter and McCarthy waving to him.
the act of signaling by a movement of the hand
From this reading Over the bared heads of the bobbing, shifting crowd he saw Hunter and McCarthy waving to him.
how something is done or how it happens
From this reading "Oh, Dink Stover, this way!"
in or at the place that
From this reading He made his way through the strange assorted mass of freshmen to his friends, where already, instinctively, a certain picked element had coalesced.
Chapter 5 of Stover at Yale by Owen Johnson holds 299 sentences, grouped into 60 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 5 holds 299 sentences of Stover at Yale, unabridged, divided into 60 reading sections.
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