Chapter 12 of The Junior Classics, Volume 7 is here in full — 408 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XII
Chapter 12 of The Junior Classics, Volume 7 is here in full — 408 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Squeak! squeak!! squeak!!! The men in the town heard it and were amazed beyond measure. Had the soldiers arrived from Boston? What did it mean? Who were coming?
Chapter 12 of The Junior Classics, Volume 7 is here in full — 408 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/81 · 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.
filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock
From this reading “The men in the town heard it and were amazed beyond measure.”
past form of “arrive” — reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
From this reading “Had the soldiers arrived from Boston?”
on the far side of; further than
From this reading “The men in the town heard it and were amazed beyond measure.”
state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services
From this reading “Had the soldiers arrived from Boston?”
any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
From this reading “The men in the town heard it and were amazed beyond measure.”
plural of “soldier” — an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army
From this reading “Had the soldiers arrived from Boston?”
a short high-pitched noise
From this reading “Squeak! squeak!! squeak!!!”
an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city
From this reading “The men in the town heard it and were amazed beyond measure.”
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.
filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock
From this reading The men in the town heard it and were amazed beyond measure.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The men in the town heard it and were amazed beyond measure.
past form of “arrive” — reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
From this reading Had the soldiers arrived from Boston?
on the far side of; further than
From this reading The men in the town heard it and were amazed beyond measure.
state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services
From this reading Had the soldiers arrived from Boston?
the act of drawing spatially closer to something
From this reading Who were coming?
the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives
From this reading What did it mean?
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading Had the soldiers arrived from Boston?
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Had the soldiers arrived from Boston?
detected or perceived by the sense of hearing
From this reading The men in the town heard it and were amazed beyond measure.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The men in the town heard it and were amazed beyond measure.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading The men in the town heard it and were amazed beyond measure.
mean or intend to express or convey
From this reading What did it mean?
any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
From this reading The men in the town heard it and were amazed beyond measure.
the force of workers available
From this reading The men in the town heard it and were amazed beyond measure.
plural of “soldier” — an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army
From this reading Had the soldiers arrived from Boston?
a short high-pitched noise
From this reading Squeak! squeak!! squeak!!!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The men in the town heard it and were amazed beyond measure.
an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city
From this reading The men in the town heard it and were amazed beyond measure.
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading The men in the town heard it and were amazed beyond measure.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading What did it mean?
which person or people
From this reading Who were coming?
Chapter 12 of The Junior Classics, Volume 7 by William [Editor] Patten holds 408 sentences, grouped into 82 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 408 sentences of The Junior Classics, Volume 7, unabridged, divided into 82 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 12 of The Junior Classics, Volume 7 by William [Editor] Patten exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 408 sentences, grouped into 82 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 82 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 82 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 12 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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How to work through The Junior Classics, Volume 7 section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in The Junior Classics, Volume 7, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
