Chapter 25 of The Dreadnought Boys' World Cruise is here in full — 83 sentences across 17 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 25 of The Dreadnought Boys' World Cruise is here in full — 83 sentences across 17 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Whoa, there! Whoa!” “Hey, mate, this critter won’t steer right.” “Mine’s got a list to starboard.” “Mine’s lost his rudder and is all adrift!”
Chapter 25 of The Dreadnought Boys' World Cruise is here in full — 83 sentences across 17 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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aimlessly drifting
From this reading ““Mine’s lost his rudder and is all adrift!””
a regional term for “creature” (especially for domestic animals)
From this reading ““Hey, mate, this critter won’t steer right.””
give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of
From this reading ““Mine’s got a list to starboard.””
the officer below the master on a commercial ship
From this reading ““Hey, mate, this critter won’t steer right.””
possessive form of “mine” — excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted
a hinged vertical airfoil mounted at the tail of an aircraft and used to make horizontal course changes
From this reading ““Mine’s lost his rudder and is all adrift!””
the right side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose
From this reading ““Mine’s got a list to starboard.””
direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
From this reading ““Hey, mate, this critter won’t steer right.””
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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 “Mine’s got a list to starboard.”
aimlessly drifting
From this reading “Mine’s lost his rudder and is all adrift!”
(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 “Mine’s lost his rudder and is all adrift!”
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading “Mine’s lost his rudder and is all adrift!”
a regional term for “creature” (especially for domestic animals)
From this reading “Hey, mate, this critter won’t steer right.”
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading “Mine’s got a list to starboard.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Hey, mate, this critter won’t steer right.”
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading “Mine’s lost his rudder and is all adrift!”
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading “Mine’s lost his rudder and is all adrift!”
give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of
From this reading “Mine’s got a list to starboard.”
no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered
From this reading “Mine’s lost his rudder and is all adrift!”
the officer below the master on a commercial ship
From this reading “Hey, mate, this critter won’t steer right.”
possessive form of “mine” — excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted
From this reading “Mine’s got a list to starboard.”
precisely, exactly
From this reading “Hey, mate, this critter won’t steer right.”
a hinged vertical airfoil mounted at the tail of an aircraft and used to make horizontal course changes
From this reading “Mine’s lost his rudder and is all adrift!”
the right side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose
From this reading “Mine’s got a list to starboard.”
direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
From this reading “Hey, mate, this critter won’t steer right.”
in or at that place or location
From this reading “Whoa, there!
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading “Hey, mate, this critter won’t steer right.”
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading “Mine’s got a list to starboard.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Whoa, there!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Hey, mate, this critter won’t steer right.”
Chapter 25 of The Dreadnought Boys' World Cruise by John Henry Goldfrap holds 83 sentences, grouped into 17 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 25 holds 83 sentences of The Dreadnought Boys' World Cruise, unabridged, divided into 17 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 25 of The Dreadnought Boys' World Cruise by John Henry Goldfrap exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 83 sentences, grouped into 17 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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