Chapter 15 of The Boy Allies at Liège is here in full — 145 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 15 of The Boy Allies at Liège is here in full — 145 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE FIGHT IN THE FARMHOUSE. The boys ascended the stairs and followed the girl back into the dining-room. "Well," said Chester, after the three had talked for some minutes. "I guess we had better be moving. We have wasted too much time already."
Chapter 15 of The Boy Allies at Liège is here in full — 145 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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past form of “ascend” — travel up
From this reading “The boys ascended the stairs and followed the girl back into the dining-room.”
a city of southeastern Pennsylvania on the Delaware river (an industrial suburb of Philadelphia)
From this reading “"Well," said Chester, after the three had talked for some minutes.”
house for a farmer and family
From this reading “THE FIGHT IN THE FARMHOUSE.”
expect, believe, or suppose
From this reading “"I guess we had better be moving.”
in motion
From this reading “"I guess we had better be moving.”
a flight of stairs or a flight of steps
From this reading “The boys ascended the stairs and followed the girl back into the dining-room.”
past form of “talk” — exchange thoughts; talk with
From this reading “"Well," said Chester, after the three had talked for some minutes.”
serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
From this reading “We have wasted too much time already."”
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.
later than; following
From this reading "Well," said Chester, after the three had talked for some minutes.
prior to a specified or implied time
From this reading We have wasted too much time already."
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The boys ascended the stairs and followed the girl back into the dining-room.
past form of “ascend” — travel up
From this reading The boys ascended the stairs and followed the girl back into the dining-room.
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading The boys ascended the stairs and followed the girl back into the dining-room.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading "I guess we had better be moving.
(comparative of “good”) superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another
From this reading "I guess we had better be moving.
plural of “boy” — a youthful male person
From this reading The boys ascended the stairs and followed the girl back into the dining-room.
a city of southeastern Pennsylvania on the Delaware river (an industrial suburb of Philadelphia)
From this reading "Well," said Chester, after the three had talked for some minutes.
a room used for dining
From this reading The boys ascended the stairs and followed the girl back into the dining-room.
house for a farmer and family
From this reading THE FIGHT IN THE FARMHOUSE.
be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight
From this reading THE FIGHT IN THE FARMHOUSE.
past form of “follow” — to travel behind, go after, come after
From this reading The boys ascended the stairs and followed the girl back into the dining-room.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading "Well," said Chester, after the three had talked for some minutes.
a young female
From this reading The boys ascended the stairs and followed the girl back into the dining-room.
expect, believe, or suppose
From this reading "I guess we had better be moving.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading "Well," said Chester, after the three had talked for some minutes.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading We have wasted too much time already."
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "I guess we had better be moving.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading THE FIGHT IN THE FARMHOUSE.
moving to the inside of something
From this reading The boys ascended the stairs and followed the girl back into the dining-room.
a written account of what transpired at a meeting
From this reading "Well," said Chester, after the three had talked for some minutes.
in motion
From this reading "I guess we had better be moving.
to a great degree or extent
From this reading We have wasted too much time already."
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading "Well," said Chester, after the three had talked for some minutes.
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading "Well," said Chester, after the three had talked for some minutes.
a flight of stairs or a flight of steps
From this reading The boys ascended the stairs and followed the girl back into the dining-room.
past form of “talk” — exchange thoughts; talk with
From this reading "Well," said Chester, after the three had talked for some minutes.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE FIGHT IN THE FARMHOUSE.
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
From this reading "Well," said Chester, after the three had talked for some minutes.
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading We have wasted too much time already."
to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
From this reading We have wasted too much time already."
serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
From this reading We have wasted too much time already."
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading "I guess we had better be moving.
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading "Well," said Chester, after the three had talked for some minutes.
Chapter 15 of The Boy Allies at Liège by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes holds 145 sentences, grouped into 29 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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