Chapter 2 of The Metal Monster is here in full — 101 sentences across 21 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter II
Chapter 2 of The Metal Monster is here in full — 101 sentences across 21 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Dawn came. Drake had slept well. But I, who had not his youthful resiliency, lay for long, awake and uneasy. I had hardly sunk into troubled slumber before dawn awakened me. As we breakfasted, I approached directly that matter which my growing liking for him was turning into strong desire.
Chapter 2 of The Metal Monster is here in full — 101 sentences across 21 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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aroused or activated
From this reading “I had hardly sunk into troubled slumber before dawn awakened me.”
English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)
From this reading “Drake had slept well.”
a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment
From this reading “As we breakfasted, I approached directly that matter which my growing liking for him was turning into strong desire.”
an occurrence of rebounding or springing back
From this reading “But I, who had not his youthful resiliency, lay for long, awake and uneasy.”
a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
From this reading “I had hardly sunk into troubled slumber before dawn awakened me.”
doomed to extinction
From this reading “I had hardly sunk into troubled slumber before dawn awakened me.”
lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance
From this reading “But I, who had not his youthful resiliency, lay for long, awake and uneasy.”
suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
From this reading “But I, who had not his youthful resiliency, lay for long, awake and uneasy.”
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading But I, who had not his youthful resiliency, lay for long, awake and uneasy.
past form of “approach” — move towards
From this reading As we breakfasted, I approached directly that matter which my growing liking for him was turning into strong desire.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading As we breakfasted, I approached directly that matter which my growing liking for him was turning into strong desire.
not in a state of sleep; completely conscious
From this reading But I, who had not his youthful resiliency, lay for long, awake and uneasy.
aroused or activated
From this reading I had hardly sunk into troubled slumber before dawn awakened me.
earlier than; in front of
From this reading I had hardly sunk into troubled slumber before dawn awakened me.
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From this reading As we breakfasted, I approached directly that matter which my growing liking for him was turning into strong desire.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But I, who had not his youthful resiliency, lay for long, awake and uneasy.
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Dawn came.
the first light of day
From this reading Dawn came.
the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state
From this reading As we breakfasted, I approached directly that matter which my growing liking for him was turning into strong desire.
without deviation
From this reading As we breakfasted, I approached directly that matter which my growing liking for him was turning into strong desire.
English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)
From this reading Drake had slept well.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading But I, who had not his youthful resiliency, lay for long, awake and uneasy.
(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
From this reading As we breakfasted, I approached directly that matter which my growing liking for him was turning into strong desire.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Drake had slept well.
only a very short time before
From this reading I had hardly sunk into troubled slumber before dawn awakened me.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading As we breakfasted, I approached directly that matter which my growing liking for him was turning into strong desire.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading But I, who had not his youthful resiliency, lay for long, awake and uneasy.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading But I, who had not his youthful resiliency, lay for long, awake and uneasy.
moving to the inside of something
From this reading I had hardly sunk into troubled slumber before dawn awakened me.
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading But I, who had not his youthful resiliency, lay for long, awake and uneasy.
a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment
From this reading As we breakfasted, I approached directly that matter which my growing liking for him was turning into strong desire.
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 But I, who had not his youthful resiliency, lay for long, awake and uneasy.
a vaguely specified concern
From this reading As we breakfasted, I approached directly that matter which my growing liking for him was turning into strong desire.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading I had hardly sunk into troubled slumber before dawn awakened me.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading As we breakfasted, I approached directly that matter which my growing liking for him was turning into strong desire.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading But I, who had not his youthful resiliency, lay for long, awake and uneasy.
an occurrence of rebounding or springing back
From this reading But I, who had not his youthful resiliency, lay for long, awake and uneasy.
inflected form of “sleep” — be asleep
From this reading Drake had slept well.
a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
From this reading I had hardly sunk into troubled slumber before dawn awakened me.
having strength or power greater than average or expected
From this reading As we breakfasted, I approached directly that matter which my growing liking for him was turning into strong desire.
doomed to extinction
From this reading I had hardly sunk into troubled slumber before dawn awakened me.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading As we breakfasted, I approached directly that matter which my growing liking for him was turning into strong desire.
characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need
From this reading I had hardly sunk into troubled slumber before dawn awakened me.
the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course
From this reading As we breakfasted, I approached directly that matter which my growing liking for him was turning into strong desire.
lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance
From this reading But I, who had not his youthful resiliency, lay for long, awake and uneasy.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading As we breakfasted, I approached directly that matter which my growing liking for him was turning into strong desire.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading As we breakfasted, I approached directly that matter which my growing liking for him was turning into strong desire.
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading Drake had slept well.
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading As we breakfasted, I approached directly that matter which my growing liking for him was turning into strong desire.
which person or people
From this reading But I, who had not his youthful resiliency, lay for long, awake and uneasy.
suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
From this reading But I, who had not his youthful resiliency, lay for long, awake and uneasy.
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