Chapter 8 of The Boy Scouts Book of Stories is here in full — 409 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 8 of The Boy Scouts Book of Stories is here in full — 409 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"She won't?" Penrod remarked with scorn. "I'll bet _I_ could pull her." Sam promptly opened his eyes and handed the weapon to Penrod. "All right," he said, with surprising and unusual mildness.
Chapter 8 of The Boy Scouts Book of Stories is here in full — 409 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/81 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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maintain with or as if with a bet
From this reading “"I'll bet _I_ could pull her."”
with little or no delay
From this reading “Sam promptly opened his eyes and handed the weapon to Penrod.”
cause to move by pulling
From this reading “"I'll bet _I_ could pull her."”
a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target
From this reading “Sam promptly opened his eyes and handed the weapon to Penrod.”
lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
From this reading “Penrod remarked with scorn.”
causing surprise or wonder or amazement
From this reading “"All right," he said, with surprising and unusual mildness.”
not usual or common or ordinary
From this reading “"All right," he said, with surprising and unusual mildness.”
any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting
From this reading “Sam promptly opened his eyes and handed the weapon to Penrod.”
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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 "All right," he said, with surprising and unusual mildness.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Sam promptly opened his eyes and handed the weapon to Penrod.
maintain with or as if with a bet
From this reading "I'll bet _I_ could pull her."
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading "I'll bet _I_ could pull her."
opinion or judgment
From this reading Sam promptly opened his eyes and handed the weapon to Penrod.
having or involving the use of hands
From this reading Sam promptly opened his eyes and handed the weapon to Penrod.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "All right," he said, with surprising and unusual mildness.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading "I'll bet _I_ could pull her."
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Sam promptly opened his eyes and handed the weapon to Penrod.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "I'll bet _I_ could pull her."
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "I'll bet _I_ could pull her."
good weather with comfortable temperatures
From this reading "All right," he said, with surprising and unusual mildness.
used of mouth or eyes
From this reading Sam promptly opened his eyes and handed the weapon to Penrod.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Penrod remarked with scorn.
with little or no delay
From this reading Sam promptly opened his eyes and handed the weapon to Penrod.
cause to move by pulling
From this reading "I'll bet _I_ could pull her."
past form of “remark” — make mention of
From this reading Penrod remarked with scorn.
precisely, exactly
From this reading "All right," he said, with surprising and unusual mildness.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading "All right," he said, with surprising and unusual mildness.
a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target
From this reading Sam promptly opened his eyes and handed the weapon to Penrod.
lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
From this reading Penrod remarked with scorn.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "She won't?"
causing surprise or wonder or amazement
From this reading "All right," he said, with surprising and unusual mildness.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Sam promptly opened his eyes and handed the weapon to Penrod.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Sam promptly opened his eyes and handed the weapon to Penrod.
not usual or common or ordinary
From this reading "All right," he said, with surprising and unusual mildness.
any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting
From this reading Sam promptly opened his eyes and handed the weapon to Penrod.
in the company of; together with
From this reading Penrod remarked with scorn.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "She won't?"
Chapter 8 of The Boy Scouts Book of Stories by Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews holds 409 sentences, grouped into 82 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 409 sentences of The Boy Scouts Book of Stories, unabridged, divided into 82 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 8 of The Boy Scouts Book of Stories by Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 409 sentences, grouped into 82 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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