Chapter XII of The Ice Pilot, “The Manner of Man,” is here in full — 120 sentences across 24 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XII
Chapter XII of The Ice Pilot, “The Manner of Man,” is here in full — 120 sentences across 24 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
The ship shook with the running of many men. The mate sprang to the shrouds and shaded his eyes. "Where away?" called up Cushner. "Direct to the south’ard! Right over that floe!
Chapter XII of The Ice Pilot, “The Manner of Man,” is here in full — 120 sentences across 24 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/24 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
command with authority
From this reading “"Direct to the south’ard!”
a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea
From this reading “Right over that floe!”
the officer below the master on a commercial ship
From this reading “The mate sprang to the shrouds and shaded his eyes.”
(of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream
From this reading “The ship shook with the running of many men.”
protected from heat and light with shade or shadow
From this reading “The mate sprang to the shrouds and shaded his eyes.”
a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment
From this reading “The ship shook with the running of many men.”
plural of “shroud” — a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute
From this reading “The mate sprang to the shrouds and shaded his eyes.”
inflected form of “spring” — move forward by leaps and bounds
From this reading “The mate sprang to the shrouds and shaded his eyes.”
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 “The ship shook with the running of many men.”
an order to report for military duty
In this reading “"Where away?" called up Cushner.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The mate sprang to the shrouds and shaded his eyes.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading "Where away?" called up Cushner.
past form of “call” — assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading "Where away?" called up Cushner.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Where away?" called up Cushner.
command with authority
From this reading "Direct to the south’ard!
opinion or judgment
From this reading The mate sprang to the shrouds and shaded his eyes.
a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea
From this reading Right over that floe!
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading The mate sprang to the shrouds and shaded his eyes.
a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “as” or “too” or “so” or “that”; amounting to a large but indefinite number
From this reading The ship shook with the running of many men.
the officer below the master on a commercial ship
From this reading The mate sprang to the shrouds and shaded his eyes.
the force of workers available
From this reading The ship shook with the running of many men.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The ship shook with the running of many men.
above and across; more than
From this reading Right over that floe!
precisely, exactly
From this reading Right over that floe!
(of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream
From this reading The ship shook with the running of many men.
protected from heat and light with shade or shadow
From this reading The mate sprang to the shrouds and shaded his eyes.
transport commercially
From this reading The ship shook with the running of many men.
a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment
From this reading The ship shook with the running of many men.
plural of “shroud” — a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute
From this reading The mate sprang to the shrouds and shaded his eyes.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Direct to the south’ard!
inflected form of “spring” — move forward by leaps and bounds
From this reading The mate sprang to the shrouds and shaded his eyes.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Right over that floe!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The ship shook with the running of many men.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The mate sprang to the shrouds and shaded his eyes.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading "Where away?" called up Cushner.
in or at the place that
From this reading "Where away?" called up Cushner.
in the company of; together with
From this reading The ship shook with the running of many men.
Chapter 12 of The Ice Pilot by Henry Leverage holds 120 sentences, grouped into 24 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 12 holds 120 sentences of The Ice Pilot, unabridged, divided into 24 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 12 of The Ice Pilot by Henry Leverage exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 120 sentences, grouped into 24 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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