Chapter 17 of The Camp Fire Girls is here in full — 94 sentences across 19 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 17 of The Camp Fire Girls is here in full — 94 sentences across 19 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A SHARP ATTACK “Natalie Fuller! Don’t you dare say such things!” “The idea of any one being at our camp!” “I sha’n’t sleep a wink to-night!” “I don’t believe you left the olives and other things out at all—you’ve made a mistake.”
Chapter 17 of The Camp Fire Girls is here in full — 94 sentences across 19 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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(military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)
From this reading “A SHARP ATTACK “Natalie Fuller!”
temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
From this reading ““The idea of any one being at our camp!””
take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission
From this reading “Don’t you dare say such things!””
United States jurist and chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1833-1910)
From this reading “A SHARP ATTACK “Natalie Fuller!”
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
From this reading ““I don’t believe you left the olives and other things out at all—you’ve made a mistake.””
plural of “olive” — small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil
From this reading ““I don’t believe you left the olives and other things out at all—you’ve made a mistake.””
(of something seen or heard) clearly defined
From this reading “A SHARP ATTACK “Natalie Fuller!”
signal by winking
From this reading ““I sha’n’t sleep a wink to-night!””
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 don’t believe you left the olives and other things out at all—you’ve made a mistake.””
In this reading “A SHARP ATTACK “Natalie Fuller!”
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.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading A SHARP ATTACK “Natalie Fuller!
(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 “I don’t believe you left the olives and other things out at all—you’ve made a mistake.”
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading “I don’t believe you left the olives and other things out at all—you’ve made a mistake.”
one or some or every or all without specification
From this reading “The idea of any one being at our camp!”
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading “The idea of any one being at our camp!”
(military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)
From this reading A SHARP ATTACK “Natalie Fuller!
the -ing form of “be”
From this reading “The idea of any one being at our camp!”
accept as true; take to be true
From this reading “I don’t believe you left the olives and other things out at all—you’ve made a mistake.”
temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
From this reading “The idea of any one being at our camp!”
take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission
From this reading Don’t you dare say such things!”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Don’t you dare say such things!”
United States jurist and chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1833-1910)
From this reading A SHARP ATTACK “Natalie Fuller!
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “I sha’n’t sleep a wink to-night!”
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading “The idea of any one being at our camp!”
location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east
From this reading “I don’t believe you left the olives and other things out at all—you’ve made a mistake.”
produced by a manufacturing process
From this reading “I don’t believe you left the olives and other things out at all—you’ve made a mistake.”
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
From this reading “I don’t believe you left the olives and other things out at all—you’ve made a mistake.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading A SHARP ATTACK “Natalie Fuller!
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading “The idea of any one being at our camp!”
plural of “olive” — small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil
From this reading “I don’t believe you left the olives and other things out at all—you’ve made a mistake.”
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading “The idea of any one being at our camp!”
not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied
From this reading “I don’t believe you left the olives and other things out at all—you’ve made a mistake.”
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading “The idea of any one being at our camp!”
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading “I don’t believe you left the olives and other things out at all—you’ve made a mistake.”
express in words
From this reading Don’t you dare say such things!”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “I sha’n’t sleep a wink to-night!”
(of something seen or heard) clearly defined
From this reading A SHARP ATTACK “Natalie Fuller!
a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
From this reading “I sha’n’t sleep a wink to-night!”
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading Don’t you dare say such things!”
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading “The idea of any one being at our camp!”
any movable possession (especially articles of clothing)
From this reading Don’t you dare say such things!”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “I sha’n’t sleep a wink to-night!”
signal by winking
From this reading “I sha’n’t sleep a wink to-night!”
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Don’t you dare say such things!”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “I don’t believe you left the olives and other things out at all—you’ve made a mistake.”
Chapter 17 of The Camp Fire Girls by Howard Roger Garis holds 94 sentences, grouped into 19 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 17 holds 94 sentences of The Camp Fire Girls, unabridged, divided into 19 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 17 of The Camp Fire Girls by Howard Roger Garis exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 94 sentences, grouped into 19 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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