Chapter 11 of The High School Pitcher is here in full — 208 sentences across 42 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 11 of The High School Pitcher is here in full — 208 sentences across 42 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
TRYING OUT THE PITCHERS "Oh, you Rip!" "Good boy, Rip!" "You're the winning piece of leather, Rip!" "Get after him, Dick!" "Wait till you see Prescott!"
Chapter 11 of The High School Pitcher is here in full — 208 sentences across 42 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/41 · 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.
someone who is a detective
From this reading “"Get after him, Dick!"”
an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning
From this reading “"You're the winning piece of leather, Rip!"”
a separate part of a whole
From this reading “"You're the winning piece of leather, Rip!"”
plural of “pitcher” — (baseball) the person who does the pitching
From this reading “TRYING OUT THE PITCHERS "Oh, you Rip!"”
a town in central Arizona
From this reading “"Wait till you see Prescott!"”
tear or be torn violently
From this reading “TRYING OUT THE PITCHERS "Oh, you Rip!"”
hard to endure
From this reading “TRYING OUT THE PITCHERS "Oh, you Rip!"”
having won
From this reading “"You're the winning piece of leather, Rip!"”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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later than; following
From this reading "Get after him, Dick!"
a youthful male person
From this reading "Good boy, Rip!"
someone who is a detective
From this reading "Get after him, Dick!"
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading "Get after him, Dick!"
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading "Good boy, Rip!"
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading "Get after him, Dick!"
an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning
From this reading "You're the winning piece of leather, Rip!"
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading "You're the winning piece of leather, Rip!"
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading TRYING OUT THE PITCHERS "Oh, you Rip!"
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading TRYING OUT THE PITCHERS "Oh, you Rip!"
a separate part of a whole
From this reading "You're the winning piece of leather, Rip!"
plural of “pitcher” — (baseball) the person who does the pitching
From this reading TRYING OUT THE PITCHERS "Oh, you Rip!"
a town in central Arizona
From this reading "Wait till you see Prescott!"
tear or be torn violently
From this reading TRYING OUT THE PITCHERS "Oh, you Rip!"
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading "Wait till you see Prescott!"
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading TRYING OUT THE PITCHERS "Oh, you Rip!"
up to a particular time
From this reading "Wait till you see Prescott!"
hard to endure
From this reading TRYING OUT THE PITCHERS "Oh, you Rip!"
stay in one place and anticipate or expect something
From this reading "Wait till you see Prescott!"
having won
From this reading "You're the winning piece of leather, Rip!"
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading TRYING OUT THE PITCHERS "Oh, you Rip!"
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "You're the winning piece of leather, Rip!"
Chapter 11 of The High School Pitcher by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock holds 208 sentences, grouped into 42 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 11 holds 208 sentences of The High School Pitcher, unabridged, divided into 42 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 11 of The High School Pitcher by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 208 sentences, grouped into 42 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 42 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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