Chapter 1 of Summer Days is here in full — 528 sentences across 106 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of Summer Days is here in full — 528 sentences across 106 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
SUMMER DAYS. _ILLUSTRATED._ SUMMER DAYS. It was the fifteenth day of June, and the last day of school. Alice Grey had just said her last good-byes to the other girls, and was starting on her homeward way when she heard a voice behind her. “Alice, Alice, wait a minute.”
Chapter 1 of Summer Days is here in full — 528 sentences across 106 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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coming next after the fourteenth and just before the sixteenth in position
From this reading “It was the fifteenth day of June, and the last day of school.”
of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
From this reading “Alice Grey had just said her last good-byes to the other girls, and was starting on her homeward way when she heard a voice behind her.”
toward home
From this reading “Alice Grey had just said her last good-byes to the other girls, and was starting on her homeward way when she heard a voice behind her.”
past form of “illustrate” — clarify by giving an example of
the month following May and preceding July
From this reading “It was the fifteenth day of June, and the last day of school.”
a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
From this reading ““Alice, Alice, wait a minute.””
(especially of eyes) bulging or protruding as with fear
From this reading “Alice Grey had just said her last good-byes to the other girls, and was starting on her homeward way when she heard a voice behind her.”
the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox
From this reading “SUMMER DAYS.”
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In this reading “It was the fifteenth day of June, and the last day of school.”
In this reading “SUMMER DAYS.”
In this reading “Alice Grey had just said her last good-byes to the other girls, and was starting on her homeward way when she heard a voice behind her.”
(New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
In this reading “It was the fifteenth day of June, and the last day of school.”
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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 Alice Grey had just said her last good-byes to the other girls, and was starting on her homeward way when she heard a voice behind her.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Alice Grey had just said her last good-byes to the other girls, and was starting on her homeward way when she heard a voice behind her.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading It was the fifteenth day of June, and the last day of school.
at or toward the back of something
From this reading Alice Grey had just said her last good-byes to the other girls, and was starting on her homeward way when she heard a voice behind her.
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading It was the fifteenth day of June, and the last day of school.
the time during which someone's life continues
From this reading SUMMER DAYS.
coming next after the fourteenth and just before the sixteenth in position
From this reading It was the fifteenth day of June, and the last day of school.
plural of “girl” — a young female
From this reading Alice Grey had just said her last good-byes to the other girls, and was starting on her homeward way when she heard a voice behind her.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Alice Grey had just said her last good-byes to the other girls, and was starting on her homeward way when she heard a voice behind her.
of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
From this reading Alice Grey had just said her last good-byes to the other girls, and was starting on her homeward way when she heard a voice behind her.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Alice Grey had just said her last good-byes to the other girls, and was starting on her homeward way when she heard a voice behind her.
detected or perceived by the sense of hearing
From this reading Alice Grey had just said her last good-byes to the other girls, and was starting on her homeward way when she heard a voice behind her.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Alice Grey had just said her last good-byes to the other girls, and was starting on her homeward way when she heard a voice behind her.
toward home
From this reading Alice Grey had just said her last good-byes to the other girls, and was starting on her homeward way when she heard a voice behind her.
past form of “illustrate” — clarify by giving an example of
From this reading _ILLUSTRATED._ SUMMER DAYS.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It was the fifteenth day of June, and the last day of school.
the month following May and preceding July
From this reading It was the fifteenth day of June, and the last day of school.
and nothing more
From this reading Alice Grey had just said her last good-byes to the other girls, and was starting on her homeward way when she heard a voice behind her.
immediately past
From this reading It was the fifteenth day of June, and the last day of school.
a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
From this reading “Alice, Alice, wait a minute.”
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading It was the fifteenth day of June, and the last day of school.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Alice Grey had just said her last good-byes to the other girls, and was starting on her homeward way when she heard a voice behind her.
not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied
From this reading Alice Grey had just said her last good-byes to the other girls, and was starting on her homeward way when she heard a voice behind her.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading Alice Grey had just said her last good-byes to the other girls, and was starting on her homeward way when she heard a voice behind her.
an educational institution
From this reading It was the fifteenth day of June, and the last day of school.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Alice Grey had just said her last good-byes to the other girls, and was starting on her homeward way when she heard a voice behind her.
(especially of eyes) bulging or protruding as with fear
From this reading Alice Grey had just said her last good-byes to the other girls, and was starting on her homeward way when she heard a voice behind her.
the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox
From this reading SUMMER DAYS.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading It was the fifteenth day of June, and the last day of school.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Alice Grey had just said her last good-byes to the other girls, and was starting on her homeward way when she heard a voice behind her.
the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
From this reading Alice Grey had just said her last good-byes to the other girls, and was starting on her homeward way when she heard a voice behind her.
stay in one place and anticipate or expect something
From this reading “Alice, Alice, wait a minute.”
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading It was the fifteenth day of June, and the last day of school.
how something is done or how it happens
From this reading Alice Grey had just said her last good-byes to the other girls, and was starting on her homeward way when she heard a voice behind her.
at the time that
From this reading Alice Grey had just said her last good-byes to the other girls, and was starting on her homeward way when she heard a voice behind her.
Chapter 1 of Summer Days by George M. (George Melville) Baker holds 528 sentences, grouped into 106 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 528 sentences of Summer Days, unabridged, divided into 106 reading sections.
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