Chapter 23 of The green girl is here in full — 70 sentences across 14 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 23 of The green girl is here in full — 70 sentences across 14 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
The Green Slaves Sam snapped off the arc as the silver ship fell, and the drumming of the generators stopped. For a little time the world was very still. Xenora stood tense and silent beside me. As I turned toward her, I caught the slight perfume of her dark hair. Indeed, the Green Girl was a beautiful being!
Chapter 23 of The green girl is here in full — 70 sentences across 14 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/14 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
From this reading “The Green Slaves Sam snapped off the arc as the silver ship fell, and the drumming of the generators stopped.”
the act of playing drums
From this reading “The Green Slaves Sam snapped off the arc as the silver ship fell, and the drumming of the generators stopped.”
plural of “generator” — an apparatus that produces a vapor or gas
From this reading “The Green Slaves Sam snapped off the arc as the silver ship fell, and the drumming of the generators stopped.”
a distinctive odor that is pleasant
From this reading “As I turned toward her, I caught the slight perfume of her dark hair.”
a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target
From this reading “The Green Slaves Sam snapped off the arc as the silver ship fell, and the drumming of the generators stopped.”
plural of “slave” — a person who is owned by someone
From this reading “The Green Slaves Sam snapped off the arc as the silver ship fell, and the drumming of the generators stopped.”
inflected form of “snap” — utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
From this reading “The Green Slaves Sam snapped off the arc as the silver ship fell, and the drumming of the generators stopped.”
a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
From this reading “Xenora stood tense and silent beside me.”
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.
In this reading “As I turned toward her, I caught the slight perfume of her dark hair.”
break a piece from a whole
In this reading “The Green Slaves Sam snapped off the arc as the silver ship fell, and the drumming of the generators stopped.”
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 a little time the world was very still.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The Green Slaves Sam snapped off the arc as the silver ship fell, and the drumming of the generators stopped.
electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
From this reading The Green Slaves Sam snapped off the arc as the silver ship fell, and the drumming of the generators stopped.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading The Green Slaves Sam snapped off the arc as the silver ship fell, and the drumming of the generators stopped.
delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
From this reading Indeed, the Green Girl was a beautiful being!
the -ing form of “be”
From this reading Indeed, the Green Girl was a beautiful being!
next to; at the side of
From this reading Xenora stood tense and silent beside me.
inflected form of “catch” — discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
From this reading As I turned toward her, I caught the slight perfume of her dark hair.
absence of light or illumination
From this reading As I turned toward her, I caught the slight perfume of her dark hair.
the act of playing drums
From this reading The Green Slaves Sam snapped off the arc as the silver ship fell, and the drumming of the generators stopped.
cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
From this reading The Green Slaves Sam snapped off the arc as the silver ship fell, and the drumming of the generators stopped.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading For a little time the world was very still.
plural of “generator” — an apparatus that produces a vapor or gas
From this reading The Green Slaves Sam snapped off the arc as the silver ship fell, and the drumming of the generators stopped.
a young female
From this reading Indeed, the Green Girl was a beautiful being!
green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass
From this reading The Green Slaves Sam snapped off the arc as the silver ship fell, and the drumming of the generators stopped.
a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss
From this reading As I turned toward her, I caught the slight perfume of her dark hair.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading As I turned toward her, I caught the slight perfume of her dark hair.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading As I turned toward her, I caught the slight perfume of her dark hair.
in truth (often tends to intensify)
From this reading Indeed, the Green Girl was a beautiful being!
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading For a little time the world was very still.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Xenora stood tense and silent beside me.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The Green Slaves Sam snapped off the arc as the silver ship fell, and the drumming of the generators stopped.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading The Green Slaves Sam snapped off the arc as the silver ship fell, and the drumming of the generators stopped.
a distinctive odor that is pleasant
From this reading As I turned toward her, I caught the slight perfume of her dark hair.
a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target
From this reading The Green Slaves Sam snapped off the arc as the silver ship fell, and the drumming of the generators stopped.
transport commercially
From this reading The Green Slaves Sam snapped off the arc as the silver ship fell, and the drumming of the generators stopped.
marked by absence of sound
From this reading Xenora stood tense and silent beside me.
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 The Green Slaves Sam snapped off the arc as the silver ship fell, and the drumming of the generators stopped.
plural of “slave” — a person who is owned by someone
From this reading The Green Slaves Sam snapped off the arc as the silver ship fell, and the drumming of the generators stopped.
a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
From this reading As I turned toward her, I caught the slight perfume of her dark hair.
inflected form of “snap” — utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
From this reading The Green Slaves Sam snapped off the arc as the silver ship fell, and the drumming of the generators stopped.
not in physical motion
From this reading For a little time the world was very still.
Maintained an upright posture.
From this reading Xenora stood tense and silent beside me.
(of a nose) blocked
From this reading The Green Slaves Sam snapped off the arc as the silver ship fell, and the drumming of the generators stopped.
a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
From this reading Xenora stood tense and silent beside me.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The Green Slaves Sam snapped off the arc as the silver ship fell, and the drumming of the generators stopped.
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading For a little time the world was very still.
in the direction of
From this reading As I turned toward her, I caught the slight perfume of her dark hair.
moved around an axis or center
From this reading As I turned toward her, I caught the slight perfume of her dark hair.
precisely as stated
From this reading For a little time the world was very still.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading For a little time the world was very still.
everything that exists anywhere
From this reading For a little time the world was very still.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Xenora stood tense and silent beside me.
Chapter 23 of The green girl by Jack Williamson holds 70 sentences, grouped into 14 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 23 holds 70 sentences of The green girl, unabridged, divided into 14 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 23 of The green girl by Jack Williamson exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 70 sentences, grouped into 14 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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