Chapter 8 of The American family Robinson is here in full — 440 sentences across 88 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 8 of The American family Robinson is here in full — 440 sentences across 88 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Encampment on its bank. They ride in the water to elude their pursuers. Jones and Cole give them some information relative to their friends, having met Lewis at Fort Laramie. The joyful reception of the news. Desire to return.
Chapter 8 of The American family Robinson is here in full — 440 sentences across 88 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/88 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head
From this reading “Jones and Cole give them some information relative to their friends, having met Lewis at Fort Laramie.”
escape, either physically or mentally
From this reading “They ride in the water to elude their pursuers.”
a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent
From this reading “Encampment on its bank.”
full of or producing joy
From this reading “The joyful reception of the news.”
a university town in southeast Wyoming
From this reading “Jones and Cole give them some information relative to their friends, having met Lewis at Fort Laramie.”
United States rock star singer and pianist (born in 1935)
From this reading “Jones and Cole give them some information relative to their friends, having met Lewis at Fort Laramie.”
plural of “pursuer” — a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture
From this reading “They ride in the water to elude their pursuers.”
a person related by blood or marriage
From this reading “Jones and Cole give them some information relative to their friends, having met Lewis at Fort Laramie.”
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 to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Jones and Cole give them some information relative to their friends, having met Lewis at Fort Laramie.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading Jones and Cole give them some information relative to their friends, having met Lewis at Fort Laramie.
sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water)
From this reading Encampment on its bank.
a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head
From this reading Jones and Cole give them some information relative to their friends, having met Lewis at Fort Laramie.
the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state
From this reading Desire to return.
escape, either physically or mentally
From this reading They ride in the water to elude their pursuers.
a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent
From this reading Encampment on its bank.
a fortified military post where troops are stationed
From this reading Jones and Cole give them some information relative to their friends, having met Lewis at Fort Laramie.
plural of “friend” — a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
From this reading Jones and Cole give them some information relative to their friends, having met Lewis at Fort Laramie.
cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
From this reading Jones and Cole give them some information relative to their friends, having met Lewis at Fort Laramie.
the -ing form of “have”
From this reading Jones and Cole give them some information relative to their friends, having met Lewis at Fort Laramie.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading They ride in the water to elude their pursuers.
a message received and understood
From this reading Jones and Cole give them some information relative to their friends, having met Lewis at Fort Laramie.
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading Encampment on its bank.
United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (1830-1930)
From this reading Jones and Cole give them some information relative to their friends, having met Lewis at Fort Laramie.
full of or producing joy
From this reading The joyful reception of the news.
a university town in southeast Wyoming
From this reading Jones and Cole give them some information relative to their friends, having met Lewis at Fort Laramie.
United States rock star singer and pianist (born in 1935)
From this reading Jones and Cole give them some information relative to their friends, having met Lewis at Fort Laramie.
inflected form of “meet” — come together
From this reading Jones and Cole give them some information relative to their friends, having met Lewis at Fort Laramie.
information about recent and important events
From this reading The joyful reception of the news.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The joyful reception of the news.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Encampment on its bank.
plural of “pursuer” — a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture
From this reading They ride in the water to elude their pursuers.
the manner in which something is greeted
From this reading The joyful reception of the news.
a person related by blood or marriage
From this reading Jones and Cole give them some information relative to their friends, having met Lewis at Fort Laramie.
go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
From this reading Desire to return.
sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions
From this reading They ride in the water to elude their pursuers.
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading Jones and Cole give them some information relative to their friends, having met Lewis at Fort Laramie.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading They ride in the water to elude their pursuers.
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading They ride in the water to elude their pursuers.
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Jones and Cole give them some information relative to their friends, having met Lewis at Fort Laramie.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading They ride in the water to elude their pursuers.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading They ride in the water to elude their pursuers.
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 They ride in the water to elude their pursuers.
Chapter 8 of The American family Robinson by D. W. (David W.) Belisle holds 440 sentences, grouped into 88 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 8 holds 440 sentences of The American family Robinson, unabridged, divided into 88 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 8 of The American family Robinson by D. W. (David W.) Belisle exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 440 sentences, grouped into 88 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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