Chapter 9 of The Fair Rewards is here in full — 416 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 9 of The Fair Rewards is here in full — 416 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Todgers Intrudes.” “That’s a name for you! Gurdy don’t like it. I say it’s hogwash. Maggie, she set on a table smokin’ her cheroot and just made the big calf buy it....
Chapter 9 of The Fair Rewards is here in full — 416 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading “Maggie, she set on a table smokin’ her cheroot and just made the big calf buy it....”
obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction
From this reading “Maggie, she set on a table smokin’ her cheroot and just made the big calf buy it....”
young of domestic cattle
From this reading “Maggie, she set on a table smokin’ her cheroot and just made the big calf buy it....”
unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
From this reading “I say it’s hogwash.”
third-person singular of “intrude” — enter uninvited
From this reading ““Todgers Intrudes.””
assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading ““That’s a name for you!”
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading “Maggie, she set on a table smokin’ her cheroot and just made the big calf buy it....”
a set of data arranged in rows and columns
From this reading “Maggie, she set on a table smokin’ her cheroot and just made the big calf buy it....”
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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able to be negotiated or arranged by compromise
In this reading “Maggie, she set on a table smokin’ her cheroot and just made the big calf buy it....”
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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 “That’s a name for you!
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Maggie, she set on a table smokin’ her cheroot and just made the big calf buy it....
above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading Maggie, she set on a table smokin’ her cheroot and just made the big calf buy it....
obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction
From this reading Maggie, she set on a table smokin’ her cheroot and just made the big calf buy it....
young of domestic cattle
From this reading Maggie, she set on a table smokin’ her cheroot and just made the big calf buy it....
a cigar with both ends cut flat
From this reading Maggie, she set on a table smokin’ her cheroot and just made the big calf buy it....
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Gurdy don’t like it.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading “That’s a name for you!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Gurdy don’t like it.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Maggie, she set on a table smokin’ her cheroot and just made the big calf buy it....
unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
From this reading I say it’s hogwash.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I say it’s hogwash.
third-person singular of “intrude” — enter uninvited
From this reading “Todgers Intrudes.”
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Gurdy don’t like it.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I say it’s hogwash.
and nothing more
From this reading Maggie, she set on a table smokin’ her cheroot and just made the big calf buy it....
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading Gurdy don’t like it.
produced by a manufacturing process
From this reading Maggie, she set on a table smokin’ her cheroot and just made the big calf buy it....
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Maggie, she set on a table smokin’ her cheroot and just made the big calf buy it....
assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading “That’s a name for you!
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Maggie, she set on a table smokin’ her cheroot and just made the big calf buy it....
express in words
From this reading I say it’s hogwash.
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading Maggie, she set on a table smokin’ her cheroot and just made the big calf buy it....
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Maggie, she set on a table smokin’ her cheroot and just made the big calf buy it....
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Maggie, she set on a table smokin’ her cheroot and just made the big calf buy it....
a set of data arranged in rows and columns
From this reading Maggie, she set on a table smokin’ her cheroot and just made the big calf buy it....
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “That’s a name for you!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Maggie, she set on a table smokin’ her cheroot and just made the big calf buy it....
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Todgers Intrudes.”
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “That’s a name for you!
Chapter 9 of The Fair Rewards by Thomas Beer holds 416 sentences, grouped into 84 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 9 holds 416 sentences of The Fair Rewards, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 9 of The Fair Rewards by Thomas Beer exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 416 sentences, grouped into 84 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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