Chapter 1 of The Gentleman Cadet is here in full — 418 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 1 of The Gentleman Cadet is here in full — 418 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
The Gentleman Cadet His Career and Adventures at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich By Lt. Col. A.W. Drayson Illustrations by C.J. Staniland Published by Griffith and Farran, London. The Gentleman Cadet, by Lt. Col. A.W. Drayson. ________________________________________________________________________ THE GENTLEMAN CADET, BY LT. COL. A.W. DRAYSON.
Chapter 1 of The Gentleman Cadet is here in full — 418 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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A place of study or training in a special field of knowledge and arts.
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plural of “adventure” — a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)
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a military trainee (as at a military academy)
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the particular occupation for which you are trained
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United States film maker who was the first to use flashbacks and fade-outs (1875-1948)
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plural of “illustration” — artwork that helps make something clear or attractive
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of or relating to the study of the principles of warfare
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prepared and printed for distribution and sale
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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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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
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A place of study or training in a special field of knowledge and arts.
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plural of “adventure” — a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
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in or near a particular place or position
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showing who or what does the action
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a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature
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a military trainee (as at a military academy)
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the particular occupation for which you are trained
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a pass between mountain peaks
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a man of refinement
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United States film maker who was the first to use flashbacks and fade-outs (1875-1948)
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belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
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plural of “illustration” — artwork that helps make something clear or attractive
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a unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second
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the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center
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of or relating to the study of the principles of warfare
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prepared and printed for distribution and sale
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of or relating to or indicative of or issued or performed by a king or queen or other monarch
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used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
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a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite
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Chapter 1 of The Gentleman Cadet by Alfred W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson holds 418 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 1 holds 418 sentences of The Gentleman Cadet, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of The Gentleman Cadet by Alfred W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 418 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.
Work through the 84 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 84 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
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