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The Crossing

Chapter XVIII · Chapter 18

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By Winston Churchill • Curated US English Learning Edition

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Two years went by, two uneventful years for me, two mighty years for Kentucky.

Westward rolled the tide of emigrants to change her character, but to swell her power.

Towns and settlements sprang up in a season and flourished, and a man could scarce keep pace with the growth of them.

Doctors came, and ministers, and lawyers; generals and majors, and captains and subalterns of the Revolution, to till their grants and to found families.

There were gentry, too, from the tide-waters, come to retrieve the fortunes which they had lost by their patriotism.

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Chapter XVIII

Chapter 18

Chapter 18 of The Crossing is here in full — 264 sentences across 53 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Two years went by, two uneventful years for me, two mighty years for Kentucky. Westward rolled the tide of emigrants to change her character, but to swell her power. Towns and settlements sprang up in a season and flourished, and a man could scarce keep pace with the growth of them. Doctors came, and ministers, and lawyers; generals and majors, and captains and subalterns of the Revolution, to till their grants and to found families. There were gentry, too, from the tide-waters, come to retrieve the fortunes which they had lost by their patriotism.

The Crossing

Chapter XVIII · Chapter 18

Chapter 18 of The Crossing is here in full — 264 sentences across 53 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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Two years went by, two uneventful years for me, two mighty years for Kentucky.

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Westward rolled the tide of emigrants to change her character, but to swell her power.

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Towns and settlements sprang up in a season and flourished, and a man could scarce keep pace with the growth of them.

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Doctors came, and ministers, and lawyers; generals and majors, and captains and subalterns of the Revolution, to till their grants and to found families.

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There were gentry, too, from the tide-waters, come to retrieve the fortunes which they had lost by their patriotism.

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and

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but

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by

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From this reading Two years went by, two uneventful years for me, two mighty years for Kentucky.

came

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captains

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change

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character

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come

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could

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Doctors

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emigrants

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families

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flourished

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for

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fortunes

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found

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from

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generals

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gentry

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grants

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growth

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had

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her

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in

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keep

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Kentucky

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lawyers

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lost

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majors

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man

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me

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mighty

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ministers

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of

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pace

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patriotism

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power

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retrieve

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Revolution

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rolled

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scarce

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season

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settlements

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sprang

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subalterns

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swell

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the

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their

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them

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There

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they

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tide

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tide-waters

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till

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to

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too

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Towns

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Two

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uneventful

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up

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went

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were

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Westward

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which

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with

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From this reading Towns and settlements sprang up in a season and flourished, and a man could scarce keep pace with the growth of them.

years

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From this reading Two years went by, two uneventful years for me, two mighty years for Kentucky.

Chapter 18 of The Crossing by Winston Churchill holds 264 sentences, grouped into 53 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, 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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Chapter 18 holds 264 sentences of The Crossing, unabridged, divided into 53 reading sections.

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