Chapter 16 of The hermit hunter of the wilds is here in full — 167 sentences across 34 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 16 of The hermit hunter of the wilds is here in full — 167 sentences across 34 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“A VAST GREEN AND FLOWERY VALLEY SURROUNDED BY ROMANTIC HILLS.” “You bettah now, sah?” “O yes, Brandy; I’ll soon be all right. But where are we?” “I don’t know nuffin’ ’t all.
Chapter 16 of The hermit hunter of the wilds is here in full — 167 sentences across 34 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice
From this reading ““O yes, Brandy; I’ll soon be all right.”
of or relating to or suggestive of flowers
From this reading ““A VAST GREEN AND FLOWERY VALLEY SURROUNDED BY ROMANTIC HILLS.””
green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass
From this reading ““A VAST GREEN AND FLOWERY VALLEY SURROUNDED BY ROMANTIC HILLS.””
plural of “hill” — a local and well-defined elevation of the land
From this reading ““A VAST GREEN AND FLOWERY VALLEY SURROUNDED BY ROMANTIC HILLS.””
belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts
From this reading ““A VAST GREEN AND FLOWERY VALLEY SURROUNDED BY ROMANTIC HILLS.””
confined on all sides
From this reading ““A VAST GREEN AND FLOWERY VALLEY SURROUNDED BY ROMANTIC HILLS.””
a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river
From this reading ““A VAST GREEN AND FLOWERY VALLEY SURROUNDED BY ROMANTIC HILLS.””
unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
From this reading ““A VAST GREEN AND FLOWERY VALLEY SURROUNDED BY ROMANTIC HILLS.””
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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 “A VAST GREEN AND FLOWERY VALLEY SURROUNDED BY ROMANTIC HILLS.”
(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 “O yes, Brandy; I’ll soon be all right.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading “A VAST GREEN AND FLOWERY VALLEY SURROUNDED BY ROMANTIC HILLS.”
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading But where are we?”
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading “O yes, Brandy; I’ll soon be all right.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “You bettah now, sah?”
distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice
From this reading “O yes, Brandy; I’ll soon be all right.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But where are we?”
showing who or what does the action
From this reading “A VAST GREEN AND FLOWERY VALLEY SURROUNDED BY ROMANTIC HILLS.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “I don’t know nuffin’ ’t all.
of or relating to or suggestive of flowers
From this reading “A VAST GREEN AND FLOWERY VALLEY SURROUNDED BY ROMANTIC HILLS.”
green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass
From this reading “A VAST GREEN AND FLOWERY VALLEY SURROUNDED BY ROMANTIC HILLS.”
plural of “hill” — a local and well-defined elevation of the land
From this reading “A VAST GREEN AND FLOWERY VALLEY SURROUNDED BY ROMANTIC HILLS.”
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “I don’t know nuffin’ ’t all.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “O yes, Brandy; I’ll soon be all right.
be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
From this reading “I don’t know nuffin’ ’t all.
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading “You bettah now, sah?”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “I don’t know nuffin’ ’t all.
a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
From this reading “O yes, Brandy; I’ll soon be all right.
precisely, exactly
From this reading “O yes, Brandy; I’ll soon be all right.
belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts
From this reading “A VAST GREEN AND FLOWERY VALLEY SURROUNDED BY ROMANTIC HILLS.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “You bettah now, sah?”
in the near future
From this reading “O yes, Brandy; I’ll soon be all right.
confined on all sides
From this reading “A VAST GREEN AND FLOWERY VALLEY SURROUNDED BY ROMANTIC HILLS.”
a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine
From this reading “I don’t know nuffin’ ’t all.
a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river
From this reading “A VAST GREEN AND FLOWERY VALLEY SURROUNDED BY ROMANTIC HILLS.”
unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
From this reading “A VAST GREEN AND FLOWERY VALLEY SURROUNDED BY ROMANTIC HILLS.”
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading But where are we?”
in or at the place that
From this reading But where are we?”
an affirmative
From this reading “O yes, Brandy; I’ll soon be all right.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “You bettah now, sah?”
Chapter 16 of The hermit hunter of the wilds by Gordon Stables holds 167 sentences, grouped into 34 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.
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