Chapter 25 of The Gray Shadow: A Mystery Story For Boys is here in full — 139 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 25 of The Gray Shadow: A Mystery Story For Boys is here in full — 139 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room. But under no circumstances was he to “leave the room or transact important business.” “As if I had important business to transact!” Johnny laughed to himself. For all that, he sat a long time in a brown study.
Chapter 25 of The Gray Shadow: A Mystery Story For Boys is here in full — 139 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon
From this reading “THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room.”
acknowledged as a supposition
From this reading “THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room.”
“Johnny” was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; “greyback” derived from their grey Confederate uniforms
From this reading “THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room.”
plural of “pass” — (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
From this reading “THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room.”
approval to do something
From this reading “THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room.”
A dark area or shape produced by a body coming between rays of light and a surface.
From this reading “THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room.”
a detailed critical inspection
From this reading “For all that, he sat a long time in a brown study.”
conduct business
From this reading “But under no circumstances was he to “leave the room or transact important business.””
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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In this reading “But under no circumstances was he to “leave the room or transact important business.””
a state of deep absorption or thoughtfulness
In this reading “For all that, he sat a long time in a brown study.”
In this reading “THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room.”
a prolonged period of time
In this reading “For all that, he sat a long time in a brown study.”
In this reading “But under no circumstances was he to “leave the room or transact important business.””
In this reading “THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room.”
In this reading “THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room.”
place into the hands or custody of
In this reading “THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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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 For all that, he sat a long time in a brown study.
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room.
(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 For all that, he sat a long time in a brown study.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading “As if I had important business to transact!”
an orange of low brightness and saturation
From this reading For all that, he sat a long time in a brown study.
a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
From this reading But under no circumstances was he to “leave the room or transact important business.”
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But under no circumstances was he to “leave the room or transact important business.”
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
From this reading But under no circumstances was he to “leave the room or transact important business.”
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room.
a licensed medical practitioner
From this reading THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room.
put on clothes
From this reading THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room.
a quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon
From this reading THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading For all that, he sat a long time in a brown study.
acknowledged as a supposition
From this reading THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading “As if I had important business to transact!”
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading But under no circumstances was he to “leave the room or transact important business.”
used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object
From this reading Johnny laughed to himself.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “As if I had important business to transact!”
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading “As if I had important business to transact!”
of great significance or value
From this reading But under no circumstances was he to “leave the room or transact important business.”
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading For all that, he sat a long time in a brown study.
“Johnny” was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; “greyback” derived from their grey Confederate uniforms
From this reading THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room.
past form of “laugh” — produce laughter
From this reading Johnny laughed to himself.
go away from a place
From this reading But under no circumstances was he to “leave the room or transact important business.”
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading For all that, he sat a long time in a brown study.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room.
not any; not one
From this reading But under no circumstances was he to “leave the room or transact important business.”
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room.
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading But under no circumstances was he to “leave the room or transact important business.”
plural of “pass” — (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
From this reading THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room.
approval to do something
From this reading THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room.
an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
From this reading THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room.
the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christians
From this reading For all that, he sat a long time in a brown study.
A dark area or shape produced by a body coming between rays of light and a surface.
From this reading THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room.
a detailed critical inspection
From this reading For all that, he sat a long time in a brown study.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading For all that, he sat a long time in a brown study.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room.
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading For all that, he sat a long time in a brown study.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading THE SHADOW PASSES On the fifth day the doctor granted Johnny permission to dress and move about his room.
conduct business
From this reading But under no circumstances was he to “leave the room or transact important business.”
below or beneath something; less than
From this reading But under no circumstances was he to “leave the room or transact important business.”
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading But under no circumstances was he to “leave the room or transact important business.”
Chapter 25 of The Gray Shadow: A Mystery Story For Boys by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell holds 139 sentences, grouped into 28 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 139 sentences of The Gray Shadow: A Mystery Story For Boys, unabridged, divided into 28 reading sections.
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