Chapter 5 of The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods is here in full — 301 sentences across 61 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods is here in full — 301 sentences across 61 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
IN WHICH A FILM TELLS A TALE. It was the end of the swimming period and Nyoda was thoroughly exhausted. She had been giving Gladys her first swimming lesson. It had taken a week to coax the girl into the water at all and nearly another one to get her in over her knees. She showed a perfectly unreasoning terror of the water.
Chapter 5 of The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods is here in full — 301 sentences across 61 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
From this reading “It had taken a week to coax the girl into the water at all and nearly another one to get her in over her knees.”
drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted
From this reading “It was the end of the swimming period and Nyoda was thoroughly exhausted.”
a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
From this reading “IN WHICH A FILM TELLS A TALE.”
a unit of instruction
From this reading “She had been giving Gladys her first swimming lesson.”
the act of swimming
From this reading “It was the end of the swimming period and Nyoda was thoroughly exhausted.”
plural of “tell” — a Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer
From this reading “IN WHICH A FILM TELLS A TALE.”
in an exhaustive manner
From this reading “It was the end of the swimming period and Nyoda was thoroughly exhausted.”
not based on reason or evidence
From this reading “She showed a perfectly unreasoning terror of the water.”
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading IN WHICH A FILM TELLS A TALE.
(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 It had taken a week to coax the girl into the water at all and nearly another one to get her in over her knees.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading It was the end of the swimming period and Nyoda was thoroughly exhausted.
one more of the same kind, or a different one
From this reading It had taken a week to coax the girl into the water at all and nearly another one to get her in over her knees.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading It had taken a week to coax the girl into the water at all and nearly another one to get her in over her knees.
the past participle of “be”
From this reading She had been giving Gladys her first swimming lesson.
influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
From this reading It had taken a week to coax the girl into the water at all and nearly another one to get her in over her knees.
either extremity of something that has length
From this reading It was the end of the swimming period and Nyoda was thoroughly exhausted.
drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted
From this reading It was the end of the swimming period and Nyoda was thoroughly exhausted.
a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
From this reading IN WHICH A FILM TELLS A TALE.
preceding all others in time or space or degree
From this reading She had been giving Gladys her first swimming lesson.
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading It had taken a week to coax the girl into the water at all and nearly another one to get her in over her knees.
a young female
From this reading It had taken a week to coax the girl into the water at all and nearly another one to get her in over her knees.
the act of giving
From this reading She had been giving Gladys her first swimming lesson.
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From this reading She had been giving Gladys her first swimming lesson.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading She had been giving Gladys her first swimming lesson.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading She had been giving Gladys her first swimming lesson.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading IN WHICH A FILM TELLS A TALE.
moving to the inside of something
From this reading It had taken a week to coax the girl into the water at all and nearly another one to get her in over her knees.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It was the end of the swimming period and Nyoda was thoroughly exhausted.
plural of “knee” — hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella
From this reading It had taken a week to coax the girl into the water at all and nearly another one to get her in over her knees.
a unit of instruction
From this reading She had been giving Gladys her first swimming lesson.
(of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but
From this reading It had taken a week to coax the girl into the water at all and nearly another one to get her in over her knees.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It was the end of the swimming period and Nyoda was thoroughly exhausted.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading It was the end of the swimming period and Nyoda was thoroughly exhausted.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading It had taken a week to coax the girl into the water at all and nearly another one to get her in over her knees.
above and across; more than
From this reading It had taken a week to coax the girl into the water at all and nearly another one to get her in over her knees.
completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
From this reading She showed a perfectly unreasoning terror of the water.
an amount of time
From this reading It was the end of the swimming period and Nyoda was thoroughly exhausted.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She had been giving Gladys her first swimming lesson.
past form of “show” — give an exhibition of to an interested audience
From this reading She showed a perfectly unreasoning terror of the water.
the act of swimming
From this reading It was the end of the swimming period and Nyoda was thoroughly exhausted.
understood in a certain way; made sense of
From this reading It had taken a week to coax the girl into the water at all and nearly another one to get her in over her knees.
a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
From this reading IN WHICH A FILM TELLS A TALE.
plural of “tell” — a Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer
From this reading IN WHICH A FILM TELLS A TALE.
an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
From this reading She showed a perfectly unreasoning terror of the water.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading It was the end of the swimming period and Nyoda was thoroughly exhausted.
in an exhaustive manner
From this reading It was the end of the swimming period and Nyoda was thoroughly exhausted.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading It had taken a week to coax the girl into the water at all and nearly another one to get her in over her knees.
not based on reason or evidence
From this reading She showed a perfectly unreasoning terror of the water.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading It was the end of the swimming period and Nyoda was thoroughly exhausted.
binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
From this reading It had taken a week to coax the girl into the water at all and nearly another one to get her in over her knees.
any period of seven consecutive days
From this reading It had taken a week to coax the girl into the water at all and nearly another one to get her in over her knees.
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading IN WHICH A FILM TELLS A TALE.
Chapter 5 of The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods by Hildegard G. Frey holds 301 sentences, grouped into 61 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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