Chapter 1 of The Girls of Silver Spur Ranch is here in full — 402 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of The Girls of Silver Spur Ranch is here in full — 402 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
I. A Question of Names II. Roy Rides to Silver Spur III. A Package and a Leather-Brown Phaeton IV. A Jewel of Great Price V. The Silver Spur Bakery VI. A Shiny Black Box VII.
Chapter 1 of The Girls of Silver Spur Ranch is here in full — 402 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.
a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold
From this reading “A Jewel of Great Price V. The Silver Spur Bakery VI.”
a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry
From this reading “A Jewel of Great Price V. The Silver Spur Bakery VI.”
verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument
From this reading “I. A Question of Names II.”
a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
From this reading “A Package and a Leather-Brown Phaeton IV.”
the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)
From this reading “A Jewel of Great Price V. The Silver Spur Bakery VI.”
plural of “ride” — a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
From this reading “Roy Rides to Silver Spur III.”
reflecting light
From this reading “A Shiny Black Box VII.”
a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
From this reading “Roy Rides to Silver Spur III.”
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.
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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 I. A Question of Names II.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading A Package and a Leather-Brown Phaeton IV.
a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold
From this reading A Jewel of Great Price V. The Silver Spur Bakery VI.
being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
From this reading A Shiny Black Box VII.
a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid
From this reading A Shiny Black Box VII.
relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
From this reading A Jewel of Great Price V. The Silver Spur Bakery VI.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I. A Question of Names II.
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
From this reading I. A Question of Names II.
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
From this reading Roy Rides to Silver Spur III.
the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
From this reading A Package and a Leather-Brown Phaeton IV.
a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry
From this reading A Jewel of Great Price V. The Silver Spur Bakery VI.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading A Package and a Leather-Brown Phaeton IV.
verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument
From this reading I. A Question of Names II.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading I. A Question of Names II.
a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
From this reading A Package and a Leather-Brown Phaeton IV.
large open car seating four with folding top
From this reading A Package and a Leather-Brown Phaeton IV.
the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)
From this reading A Jewel of Great Price V. The Silver Spur Bakery VI.
challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of
From this reading I. A Question of Names II.
plural of “ride” — a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
From this reading Roy Rides to Silver Spur III.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Roy Rides to Silver Spur III.
reflecting light
From this reading A Shiny Black Box VII.
a soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photography
From this reading Roy Rides to Silver Spur III.
a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
From this reading Roy Rides to Silver Spur III.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading A Jewel of Great Price V. The Silver Spur Bakery VI.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Roy Rides to Silver Spur III.
a unit of potential equal to the potential difference between two points on a conductor carrying a current of 1 ampere when the power dissipated between the two points is 1 watt
From this reading A Jewel of Great Price V. The Silver Spur Bakery VI.
the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
From this reading A Jewel of Great Price V. The Silver Spur Bakery VI.
the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one
From this reading A Shiny Black Box VII.
Chapter 1 of The Girls of Silver Spur Ranch by Grace MacGowan Cooke holds 402 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 1 holds 402 sentences of The Girls of Silver Spur Ranch, unabridged, divided into 81 reading sections.
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