Chapter 19 of The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River is here in full — 182 sentences across 37 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 19 of The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River is here in full — 182 sentences across 37 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE CHASE Through the darkness came many and varied sounds. The thunder rolled long and continuously. The angry voices of men rose loud and hoarse. Along the drenched road came the smugglers' car, its exhaust roaring. And over all the rain came down in torrents.
Chapter 19 of The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River is here in full — 182 sentences across 37 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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at every point
From this reading “The thunder rolled long and continuously.”
abundantly covered or supplied with; often used in combination
From this reading “Along the drenched road came the smugglers' car, its exhaust roaring.”
wear out completely
From this reading “Along the drenched road came the smugglers' car, its exhaust roaring.”
deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion
From this reading “The angry voices of men rose loud and hoarse.”
a deep prolonged loud noise
From this reading “Along the drenched road came the smugglers' car, its exhaust roaring.”
plural of “smuggler” — someone who imports or exports without paying duties
From this reading “Along the drenched road came the smugglers' car, its exhaust roaring.”
plural of “torrent” — a heavy rain
From this reading “And over all the rain came down in torrents.”
characterized by variety
From this reading “THE CHASE Through the darkness came many and varied sounds.”
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.
In this reading “The thunder rolled long and continuously.”
In this reading “THE CHASE Through the darkness came many and varied sounds.”
In this reading “The angry voices of men rose loud and hoarse.”
move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
In this reading “And over all the rain came down in torrents.”
In this reading “And over all the rain came down in torrents.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading And over all the rain came down in torrents.
following the length of something from one end toward the other
From this reading Along the drenched road came the smugglers' car, its exhaust roaring.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading THE CHASE Through the darkness came many and varied sounds.
feeling or showing anger
From this reading The angry voices of men rose loud and hoarse.
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading THE CHASE Through the darkness came many and varied sounds.
a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
From this reading Along the drenched road came the smugglers' car, its exhaust roaring.
go after with the intent to catch
From this reading THE CHASE Through the darkness came many and varied sounds.
at every point
From this reading The thunder rolled long and continuously.
absence of light or illumination
From this reading THE CHASE Through the darkness came many and varied sounds.
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading And over all the rain came down in torrents.
abundantly covered or supplied with; often used in combination
From this reading Along the drenched road came the smugglers' car, its exhaust roaring.
wear out completely
From this reading Along the drenched road came the smugglers' car, its exhaust roaring.
deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion
From this reading The angry voices of men rose loud and hoarse.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading And over all the rain came down in torrents.
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading Along the drenched road came the smugglers' car, its exhaust roaring.
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading The thunder rolled long and continuously.
characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity
From this reading The angry voices of men rose loud and hoarse.
a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “as” or “too” or “so” or “that”; amounting to a large but indefinite number
From this reading THE CHASE Through the darkness came many and varied sounds.
the force of workers available
From this reading The angry voices of men rose loud and hoarse.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The angry voices of men rose loud and hoarse.
above and across; more than
From this reading And over all the rain came down in torrents.
water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere
From this reading And over all the rain came down in torrents.
an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
From this reading Along the drenched road came the smugglers' car, its exhaust roaring.
a deep prolonged loud noise
From this reading Along the drenched road came the smugglers' car, its exhaust roaring.
especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward
From this reading The thunder rolled long and continuously.
any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
From this reading The angry voices of men rose loud and hoarse.
plural of “smuggler” — someone who imports or exports without paying duties
From this reading Along the drenched road came the smugglers' car, its exhaust roaring.
plural of “sound” — the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause
From this reading THE CHASE Through the darkness came many and varied sounds.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE CHASE Through the darkness came many and varied sounds.
from one end or side of something to the other
From this reading THE CHASE Through the darkness came many and varied sounds.
move fast, noisily, and heavily
From this reading The thunder rolled long and continuously.
plural of “torrent” — a heavy rain
From this reading And over all the rain came down in torrents.
characterized by variety
From this reading THE CHASE Through the darkness came many and varied sounds.
plural of “voice” — the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
From this reading The angry voices of men rose loud and hoarse.
Chapter 19 of The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River by Willard F. Baker holds 182 sentences, grouped into 37 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 19 holds 182 sentences of The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River, unabridged, divided into 37 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 19 of The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River by Willard F. Baker exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 182 sentences, grouped into 37 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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