Chapter 5 of The Island Trapper is here in full — 156 sentences across 32 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of The Island Trapper is here in full — 156 sentences across 32 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
RIFLE, FIRE AND LASSO. Several minutes of silence followed the thud of the Pawnee bullets. Then the voice of a white man came from the brink of the stream. “Shackelford!” The trapper glanced knowingly at George Long, and ascended to the uncouth dormitory.
Chapter 5 of The Island Trapper is here in full — 156 sentences across 32 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a region marking a boundary
From this reading “Then the voice of a white man came from the brink of the stream.”
a college or university building containing living quarters for students
From this reading “The trapper glanced knowingly at George Long, and ascended to the uncouth dormitory.”
with full knowledge and deliberation
From this reading “The trapper glanced knowingly at George Long, and ascended to the uncouth dormitory.”
Belgian composer (1532-1594)
From this reading “RIFLE, FIRE AND LASSO.”
a member of the Pawnee nation formerly living in Nebraska and Kansas but now largely in Oklahoma
From this reading “Several minutes of silence followed the thud of the Pawnee bullets.”
make a dull sound
From this reading “Several minutes of silence followed the thud of the Pawnee bullets.”
someone who sets traps for animals (usually to obtain their furs)
From this reading “The trapper glanced knowingly at George Long, and ascended to the uncouth dormitory.”
lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
From this reading “The trapper glanced knowingly at George Long, and ascended to the uncouth dormitory.”
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 “Several minutes of silence followed the thud of the Pawnee bullets.”
a man who is White
In this reading “Then the voice of a white man came from the brink of the stream.”
In this reading “Several minutes of silence followed the thud of the Pawnee bullets.”
In this reading “Then the voice of a white man came from the brink of the stream.”
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 Then the voice of a white man came from the brink of the stream.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading RIFLE, FIRE AND LASSO.
past form of “ascend” — travel up
From this reading The trapper glanced knowingly at George Long, and ascended to the uncouth dormitory.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading The trapper glanced knowingly at George Long, and ascended to the uncouth dormitory.
a region marking a boundary
From this reading Then the voice of a white man came from the brink of the stream.
plural of “bullet” — a projectile that is fired from a gun
From this reading Several minutes of silence followed the thud of the Pawnee bullets.
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Then the voice of a white man came from the brink of the stream.
a college or university building containing living quarters for students
From this reading The trapper glanced knowingly at George Long, and ascended to the uncouth dormitory.
start firing a weapon
From this reading RIFLE, FIRE AND LASSO.
past form of “follow” — to travel behind, go after, come after
From this reading Several minutes of silence followed the thud of the Pawnee bullets.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading Then the voice of a white man came from the brink of the stream.
Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303)
From this reading The trapper glanced knowingly at George Long, and ascended to the uncouth dormitory.
past form of “glance” — throw a glance at; take a brief look at
From this reading The trapper glanced knowingly at George Long, and ascended to the uncouth dormitory.
with full knowledge and deliberation
From this reading The trapper glanced knowingly at George Long, and ascended to the uncouth dormitory.
Belgian composer (1532-1594)
From this reading RIFLE, FIRE AND LASSO.
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 The trapper glanced knowingly at George Long, and ascended to the uncouth dormitory.
an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
From this reading Then the voice of a white man came from the brink of the stream.
a written account of what transpired at a meeting
From this reading Several minutes of silence followed the thud of the Pawnee bullets.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Several minutes of silence followed the thud of the Pawnee bullets.
a member of the Pawnee nation formerly living in Nebraska and Kansas but now largely in Oklahoma
From this reading Several minutes of silence followed the thud of the Pawnee bullets.
steal goods; take as spoils
From this reading RIFLE, FIRE AND LASSO.
(used with count nouns) of an indefinite number more than 2 or 3 but not many
From this reading Several minutes of silence followed the thud of the Pawnee bullets.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Shackelford!”
Complete absence of sound; a state of quietness and stillness.
From this reading Several minutes of silence followed the thud of the Pawnee bullets.
a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth
From this reading Then the voice of a white man came from the brink of the stream.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Several minutes of silence followed the thud of the Pawnee bullets.
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading Then the voice of a white man came from the brink of the stream.
make a dull sound
From this reading Several minutes of silence followed the thud of the Pawnee bullets.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The trapper glanced knowingly at George Long, and ascended to the uncouth dormitory.
someone who sets traps for animals (usually to obtain their furs)
From this reading The trapper glanced knowingly at George Long, and ascended to the uncouth dormitory.
lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
From this reading The trapper glanced knowingly at George Long, and ascended to the uncouth dormitory.
the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
From this reading Then the voice of a white man came from the brink of the stream.
a Caucasian
From this reading Then the voice of a white man came from the brink of the stream.
Chapter 5 of The Island Trapper by T. C. (Thomas Chalmers) Harbaugh holds 156 sentences, grouped into 32 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 5 holds 156 sentences of The Island Trapper, unabridged, divided into 32 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 5 of The Island Trapper by T. C. (Thomas Chalmers) Harbaugh exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 156 sentences, grouped into 32 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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