Chapter 1 of The Boss of Wind River is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 1 of The Boss of Wind River is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
The girl caught Joe's arm. "It's going out, Joe! It's going out! Oh, see it pull!" Miss Crooks came down the walk to meet him ...
Chapter 1 of The Boss of Wind River is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/83 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb
From this reading “The girl caught Joe's arm.”
inflected form of “catch” — discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
From this reading “The girl caught Joe's arm.”
plural of “crook” — someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
From this reading “Miss Crooks came down the walk to meet him ...”
a young female
From this reading “The girl caught Joe's arm.”
come together
From this reading “Miss Crooks came down the walk to meet him ...”
fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
From this reading “Miss Crooks came down the walk to meet him ...”
cause to move by pulling
From this reading “Oh, see it pull!"”
the act of traveling by foot
From this reading “Miss Crooks came down the walk to meet him ...”
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.
move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
In this reading “Miss Crooks came down the walk to meet him ...”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb
From this reading The girl caught Joe's arm.
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Miss Crooks came down the walk to meet him ...
inflected form of “catch” — discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
From this reading The girl caught Joe's arm.
plural of “crook” — someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
From this reading Miss Crooks came down the walk to meet him ...
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading Miss Crooks came down the walk to meet him ...
a young female
From this reading The girl caught Joe's arm.
the act of departing
From this reading "It's going out, Joe!
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Miss Crooks came down the walk to meet him ...
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Oh, see it pull!"
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "It's going out, Joe!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "It's going out, Joe!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The girl caught Joe's arm.
come together
From this reading Miss Crooks came down the walk to meet him ...
fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
From this reading Miss Crooks came down the walk to meet him ...
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading Oh, see it pull!"
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading "It's going out, Joe!
cause to move by pulling
From this reading Oh, see it pull!"
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading Oh, see it pull!"
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The girl caught Joe's arm.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Miss Crooks came down the walk to meet him ...
the act of traveling by foot
From this reading Miss Crooks came down the walk to meet him ...
Chapter 1 of The Boss of Wind River by A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm holds 417 sentences, grouped into 84 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 417 sentences of The Boss of Wind River, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of The Boss of Wind River by A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 417 sentences, grouped into 84 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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