Chapter 6 of The Beadle Collection of Dime Novels is here in full — 309 sentences across 62 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 6 of The Beadle Collection of Dime Novels is here in full — 309 sentences across 62 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
HALL, Samuel S. The crooked three; or, The black hearts of the Guadalupe. By “Buckskin Sam”--Major Sam S. Hall.... New York: Beadle & Adams, 1883. 29 p. illus. f^o. (no. 264.)
Chapter 6 of The Beadle Collection of Dime Novels is here in full — 309 sentences across 62 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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American Revolutionary leader and patriot; an organizer of the Boston Tea Party and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1722-1803)
From this reading “New York: Beadle & Adams, 1883.”
a minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function
From this reading “New York: Beadle & Adams, 1883.”
horse of a light yellowish dun color with dark mane and tail
From this reading “By “Buckskin Sam”--Major Sam S. Hall....”
having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned
From this reading “HALL, Samuel S. The crooked three; or, The black hearts of the Guadalupe.”
a form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades
From this reading “HALL, Samuel S. The crooked three; or, The black hearts of the Guadalupe.”
of greater importance or stature or rank
From this reading “By “Buckskin Sam”--Major Sam S. Hall....”
a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target
From this reading “By “Buckskin Sam”--Major Sam S. Hall....”
(Old Testament) Hebrew prophet and judge who anointed Saul as king
From this reading “HALL, Samuel S. The crooked three; or, The black hearts of the Guadalupe.”
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From this reading New York: Beadle & Adams, 1883.
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From this reading 264.)
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From this reading 29 p. illus. f^o. (no.
American Revolutionary leader and patriot; an organizer of the Boston Tea Party and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1722-1803)
From this reading New York: Beadle & Adams, 1883.
a minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function
From this reading New York: Beadle & Adams, 1883.
being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
From this reading HALL, Samuel S. The crooked three; or, The black hearts of the Guadalupe.
horse of a light yellowish dun color with dark mane and tail
From this reading By “Buckskin Sam”--Major Sam S. Hall....
showing who or what does the action
From this reading By “Buckskin Sam”--Major Sam S. Hall....
having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned
From this reading HALL, Samuel S. The crooked three; or, The black hearts of the Guadalupe.
a degree on the Fahrenheit scale of temperature
From this reading 29 p. illus. f^o. (no.
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From this reading HALL, Samuel S. The crooked three; or, The black hearts of the Guadalupe.
an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open
From this reading HALL, Samuel S. The crooked three; or, The black hearts of the Guadalupe.
a form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades
From this reading HALL, Samuel S. The crooked three; or, The black hearts of the Guadalupe.
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From this reading 29 p. illus. f^o. (no.
of greater importance or stature or rank
From this reading By “Buckskin Sam”--Major Sam S. Hall....
not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
From this reading New York: Beadle & Adams, 1883.
not any; not one
From this reading 29 p. illus. f^o. (no.
a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
From this reading 29 p. illus. f^o. (no.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading HALL, Samuel S. The crooked three; or, The black hearts of the Guadalupe.
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading HALL, Samuel S. The crooked three; or, The black hearts of the Guadalupe.
a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms
From this reading 29 p. illus. f^o. (no.
1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
From this reading HALL, Samuel S. The crooked three; or, The black hearts of the Guadalupe.
a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target
From this reading By “Buckskin Sam”--Major Sam S. Hall....
(Old Testament) Hebrew prophet and judge who anointed Saul as king
From this reading HALL, Samuel S. The crooked three; or, The black hearts of the Guadalupe.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading HALL, Samuel S. The crooked three; or, The black hearts of the Guadalupe.
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
From this reading HALL, Samuel S. The crooked three; or, The black hearts of the Guadalupe.
the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose
From this reading New York: Beadle & Adams, 1883.
Chapter 6 of The Beadle Collection of Dime Novels by New York Public Library holds 309 sentences, grouped into 62 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.
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