Chapter 11 of The Dead-Line is here in full — 404 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 11 of The Dead-Line is here in full — 404 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Aw, that’s too slow. I ain’t never bit too short on one yet.” “And yuh never will—except just once. Yo’re only allowed one mistake, cowboy.” “And that’s the truth,” nodded Chet.
Chapter 11 of The Dead-Line is here in full — 404 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/80 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
past form of “allow” — make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen
From this reading “Yo’re only allowed one mistake, cowboy.””
a small piece or quantity of something
From this reading “I ain’t never bit too short on one yet.””
a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback
From this reading “Yo’re only allowed one mistake, cowboy.””
apart from; not including
From this reading ““And yuh never will—except just once.”
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
From this reading “Yo’re only allowed one mistake, cowboy.””
inflected form of “nod” — express or signify by nodding
From this reading ““And that’s the truth,” nodded Chet.”
not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time
From this reading ““Aw, that’s too slow.”
a fact that has been verified
From this reading ““And that’s the truth,” nodded Chet.”
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 ““Aw, that’s too slow.”
In this reading “I ain’t never bit too short on one yet.””
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From this reading I ain’t never bit too short on one yet.”
past form of “allow” — make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen
From this reading Yo’re only allowed one mistake, cowboy.”
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading “And yuh never will—except just once.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Aw, that’s too slow.
a small piece or quantity of something
From this reading I ain’t never bit too short on one yet.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “And that’s the truth,” nodded Chet.
a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback
From this reading Yo’re only allowed one mistake, cowboy.”
apart from; not including
From this reading “And yuh never will—except just once.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I ain’t never bit too short on one yet.”
and nothing more
From this reading “And yuh never will—except just once.
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
From this reading Yo’re only allowed one mistake, cowboy.”
not ever; at no time in the past or future
From this reading I ain’t never bit too short on one yet.”
inflected form of “nod” — express or signify by nodding
From this reading “And that’s the truth,” nodded Chet.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading I ain’t never bit too short on one yet.”
on one occasion
From this reading “And yuh never will—except just once.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading I ain’t never bit too short on one yet.”
and nothing more
From this reading Yo’re only allowed one mistake, cowboy.”
primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
From this reading I ain’t never bit too short on one yet.”
not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time
From this reading “Aw, that’s too slow.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Aw, that’s too slow.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading “And that’s the truth,” nodded Chet.
to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
From this reading “Aw, that’s too slow.
a fact that has been verified
From this reading “And that’s the truth,” nodded Chet.
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading “And yuh never will—except just once.
but in spite of that
From this reading I ain’t never bit too short on one yet.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Yo’re only allowed one mistake, cowboy.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “And yuh never will—except just once.
Chapter 11 of The Dead-Line by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle holds 404 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 11 holds 404 sentences of The Dead-Line, unabridged, divided into 81 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 11 of The Dead-Line by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 404 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.
Work through the 81 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 11 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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About 404 minutes of reading across 971 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through The Dead-Line section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in The Dead-Line, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
