Chapter 10 of The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales is here in full — 401 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 10 of The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales is here in full — 401 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Gee! You fellers bit good." The mail-carrier shook his head. "Well! You'd better keep going now; you'll get to Nome before the season opens.
Chapter 10 of The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales is here in full — 401 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a small piece or quantity of something
From this reading “You fellers bit good."”
plural of “feller” — a person who fells trees
From this reading “You fellers bit good."”
a unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it is accelerated
From this reading “"Gee!”
cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., “keep clean”
From this reading “You'd better keep going now; you'll get to Nome before the season opens.”
a town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula; an important center of an Alaskan gold rush at the beginning of the 20th century
From this reading “You'd better keep going now; you'll get to Nome before the season opens.”
plural of “open” — a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water
From this reading “You'd better keep going now; you'll get to Nome before the season opens.”
a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field
From this reading “You'd better keep going now; you'll get to Nome before the season opens.”
a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment
From this reading “The mail-carrier shook his head.”
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.
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earlier than; in front of
From this reading You'd better keep going now; you'll get to Nome before the season opens.
(comparative of “good”) superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another
From this reading You'd better keep going now; you'll get to Nome before the season opens.
a small piece or quantity of something
From this reading You fellers bit good."
plural of “feller” — a person who fells trees
From this reading You fellers bit good."
a unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it is accelerated
From this reading "Gee!
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading You'd better keep going now; you'll get to Nome before the season opens.
the act of departing
From this reading You'd better keep going now; you'll get to Nome before the season opens.
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading You fellers bit good."
the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
From this reading The mail-carrier shook his head.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading The mail-carrier shook his head.
cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., “keep clean”
From this reading You'd better keep going now; you'll get to Nome before the season opens.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The mail-carrier shook his head.
a town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula; an important center of an Alaskan gold rush at the beginning of the 20th century
From this reading You'd better keep going now; you'll get to Nome before the season opens.
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading You'd better keep going now; you'll get to Nome before the season opens.
plural of “open” — a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water
From this reading You'd better keep going now; you'll get to Nome before the season opens.
a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field
From this reading You'd better keep going now; you'll get to Nome before the season opens.
a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment
From this reading The mail-carrier shook his head.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The mail-carrier shook his head.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading You'd better keep going now; you'll get to Nome before the season opens.
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading "Well!
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading You fellers bit good."
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading You'd better keep going now; you'll get to Nome before the season opens.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading You'd better keep going now; you'll get to Nome before the season opens.
Chapter 10 of The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales by Rex Beach holds 401 sentences, grouped into 81 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 10 holds 401 sentences of The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales, unabridged, divided into 81 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 10 of The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales by Rex Beach exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 401 sentences, grouped into 81 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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