Chapter XXII of The Boys of the Wireless, “The Rescue,” is here in full — 94 sentences across 19 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XXII
Chapter XXII of The Boys of the Wireless, “The Rescue,” is here in full — 94 sentences across 19 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Tom hailed the unmistakable signal of distress from the steamer _Olivia_ with energy and hope. “I think I understand why we saw no lights,” he remarked. “The steamer must have driven into the breakers beyond what they call the North Sentinel.” “That must be it,” assented Bill. “Now Tom, get to your lever.”
Chapter XXII of The Boys of the Wireless, “The Rescue,” is here in full — 94 sentences across 19 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/18 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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waves breaking on the shore
From this reading ““The steamer must have driven into the breakers beyond what they call the North Sentinel.””
psychological suffering
From this reading “Tom hailed the unmistakable signal of distress from the steamer _Olivia_ with energy and hope.”
(physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs
From this reading “Tom hailed the unmistakable signal of distress from the steamer _Olivia_ with energy and hope.”
past form of “hail” — praise vociferously
From this reading “Tom hailed the unmistakable signal of distress from the steamer _Olivia_ with energy and hope.”
a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum
From this reading ““Now Tom, get to your lever.””
a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
From this reading ““The steamer must have driven into the breakers beyond what they call the North Sentinel.””
a clam that is usually steamed in the shell
From this reading “Tom hailed the unmistakable signal of distress from the steamer _Olivia_ with energy and hope.”
clearly evident to the mind
From this reading “Tom hailed the unmistakable signal of distress from the steamer _Olivia_ with energy and hope.”
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 ““I think I understand why we saw no lights,” he remarked.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Tom hailed the unmistakable signal of distress from the steamer _Olivia_ with energy and hope.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “That must be it,” assented Bill.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading “That must be it,” assented Bill.
on the far side of; further than
From this reading “The steamer must have driven into the breakers beyond what they call the North Sentinel.”
a statute in draft before it becomes law
From this reading “That must be it,” assented Bill.
waves breaking on the shore
From this reading “The steamer must have driven into the breakers beyond what they call the North Sentinel.”
assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading “The steamer must have driven into the breakers beyond what they call the North Sentinel.”
psychological suffering
From this reading Tom hailed the unmistakable signal of distress from the steamer _Olivia_ with energy and hope.
compelled forcibly by an outside agency
From this reading “The steamer must have driven into the breakers beyond what they call the North Sentinel.”
(physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs
From this reading Tom hailed the unmistakable signal of distress from the steamer _Olivia_ with energy and hope.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading Tom hailed the unmistakable signal of distress from the steamer _Olivia_ with energy and hope.
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading “Now Tom, get to your lever.”
past form of “hail” — praise vociferously
From this reading Tom hailed the unmistakable signal of distress from the steamer _Olivia_ with energy and hope.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “The steamer must have driven into the breakers beyond what they call the North Sentinel.”
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading “I think I understand why we saw no lights,” he remarked.
a specific instance of feeling hopeful
From this reading Tom hailed the unmistakable signal of distress from the steamer _Olivia_ with energy and hope.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “I think I understand why we saw no lights,” he remarked.
moving to the inside of something
From this reading “The steamer must have driven into the breakers beyond what they call the North Sentinel.”
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading “That must be it,” assented Bill.
a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum
From this reading “Now Tom, get to your lever.”
plural of “light” — (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
From this reading “I think I understand why we saw no lights,” he remarked.
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading “The steamer must have driven into the breakers beyond what they call the North Sentinel.”
not any; not one
From this reading “I think I understand why we saw no lights,” he remarked.
the region of the United States lying to the north of the Mason-Dixon line
From this reading “The steamer must have driven into the breakers beyond what they call the North Sentinel.”
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading “Now Tom, get to your lever.”
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Tom hailed the unmistakable signal of distress from the steamer _Olivia_ with energy and hope.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Tom hailed the unmistakable signal of distress from the steamer _Olivia_ with energy and hope.
past form of “remark” — make mention of
From this reading “I think I understand why we saw no lights,” he remarked.
cut with a saw
From this reading “I think I understand why we saw no lights,” he remarked.
a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
From this reading “The steamer must have driven into the breakers beyond what they call the North Sentinel.”
any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
From this reading Tom hailed the unmistakable signal of distress from the steamer _Olivia_ with energy and hope.
a clam that is usually steamed in the shell
From this reading Tom hailed the unmistakable signal of distress from the steamer _Olivia_ with energy and hope.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading “That must be it,” assented Bill.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Tom hailed the unmistakable signal of distress from the steamer _Olivia_ with energy and hope.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading “The steamer must have driven into the breakers beyond what they call the North Sentinel.”
judge or regard; look upon; judge
From this reading “I think I understand why we saw no lights,” he remarked.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading “Now Tom, get to your lever.”
male cat
From this reading Tom hailed the unmistakable signal of distress from the steamer _Olivia_ with energy and hope.
know and comprehend the nature or meaning of
From this reading “I think I understand why we saw no lights,” he remarked.
clearly evident to the mind
From this reading Tom hailed the unmistakable signal of distress from the steamer _Olivia_ with energy and hope.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading “I think I understand why we saw no lights,” he remarked.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading “The steamer must have driven into the breakers beyond what they call the North Sentinel.”
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading “I think I understand why we saw no lights,” he remarked.
in the company of; together with
From this reading Tom hailed the unmistakable signal of distress from the steamer _Olivia_ with energy and hope.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “Now Tom, get to your lever.”
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