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Chapter 7 of The Dealings of Captain Sharkey, and Other Tales of Pirates is here in full — 440 sentences across 88 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Why did it not carry him off?" I asked. "The thunder and lightning must have scared the brute away. There's your steward, Meldrum. The sooner we have breakfast and get back to the island the better, or some of those niggers might think that we had been frightened."
Chapter 7 of The Dealings of Captain Sharkey, and Other Tales of Pirates is here in full — 440 sentences across 88 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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eat an early morning meal
From this reading “The sooner we have breakfast and get back to the island the better, or some of those niggers might think that we had been frightened."”
a cruelly rapacious person
From this reading “"The thunder and lightning must have scared the brute away.”
made afraid
From this reading “The sooner we have breakfast and get back to the island the better, or some of those niggers might think that we had been frightened."”
abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
From this reading “"The thunder and lightning must have scared the brute away.”
made afraid
From this reading “"The thunder and lightning must have scared the brute away.”
comparatives of “soon” or “early”
From this reading “The sooner we have breakfast and get back to the island the better, or some of those niggers might think that we had been frightened."”
someone who manages property or other affairs for someone else
From this reading “There's your steward, Meldrum.”
move fast, noisily, and heavily
From this reading “"The thunder and lightning must have scared the brute away.”
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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recover something or somebody that appeared to be lost
In this reading “The sooner we have breakfast and get back to the island the better, or some of those niggers might think that we had been frightened."”
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading "The thunder and lightning must have scared the brute away.
past form of “ask” — make a request or demand for something to somebody
From this reading I asked.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading "The thunder and lightning must have scared the brute away.
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading The sooner we have breakfast and get back to the island the better, or some of those niggers might think that we had been frightened."
the past participle of “be”
From this reading The sooner we have breakfast and get back to the island the better, or some of those niggers might think that we had been frightened."
(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 The sooner we have breakfast and get back to the island the better, or some of those niggers might think that we had been frightened."
eat an early morning meal
From this reading The sooner we have breakfast and get back to the island the better, or some of those niggers might think that we had been frightened."
a cruelly rapacious person
From this reading "The thunder and lightning must have scared the brute away.
move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body
From this reading "Why did it not carry him off?"
the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives
From this reading "Why did it not carry him off?"
made afraid
From this reading The sooner we have breakfast and get back to the island the better, or some of those niggers might think that we had been frightened."
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading The sooner we have breakfast and get back to the island the better, or some of those niggers might think that we had been frightened."
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading The sooner we have breakfast and get back to the island the better, or some of those niggers might think that we had been frightened."
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading "The thunder and lightning must have scared the brute away.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading "Why did it not carry him off?"
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I asked.
a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
From this reading The sooner we have breakfast and get back to the island the better, or some of those niggers might think that we had been frightened."
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading "Why did it not carry him off?"
abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
From this reading "The thunder and lightning must have scared the brute away.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There's your steward, Meldrum.
used to say something is possible but not certain
From this reading The sooner we have breakfast and get back to the island the better, or some of those niggers might think that we had been frightened."
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading "The thunder and lightning must have scared the brute away.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The sooner we have breakfast and get back to the island the better, or some of those niggers might think that we had been frightened."
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading "Why did it not carry him off?"
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The sooner we have breakfast and get back to the island the better, or some of those niggers might think that we had been frightened."
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading "Why did it not carry him off?"
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading The sooner we have breakfast and get back to the island the better, or some of those niggers might think that we had been frightened."
made afraid
From this reading "The thunder and lightning must have scared the brute away.
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading The sooner we have breakfast and get back to the island the better, or some of those niggers might think that we had been frightened."
comparatives of “soon” or “early”
From this reading The sooner we have breakfast and get back to the island the better, or some of those niggers might think that we had been frightened."
someone who manages property or other affairs for someone else
From this reading There's your steward, Meldrum.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading The sooner we have breakfast and get back to the island the better, or some of those niggers might think that we had been frightened."
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading "The thunder and lightning must have scared the brute away.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There's your steward, Meldrum.
judge or regard; look upon; judge
From this reading The sooner we have breakfast and get back to the island the better, or some of those niggers might think that we had been frightened."
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading The sooner we have breakfast and get back to the island the better, or some of those niggers might think that we had been frightened."
move fast, noisily, and heavily
From this reading "The thunder and lightning must have scared the brute away.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The sooner we have breakfast and get back to the island the better, or some of those niggers might think that we had been frightened."
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading The sooner we have breakfast and get back to the island the better, or some of those niggers might think that we had been frightened."
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading "Why did it not carry him off?"
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading There's your steward, Meldrum.
Chapter 7 of The Dealings of Captain Sharkey, and Other Tales of Pirates by Arthur Conan Doyle holds 440 sentences, grouped into 88 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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