Chapter 22 of The Metal Monster is here in full — 163 sentences across 33 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter XXII
Chapter 22 of The Metal Monster is here in full — 163 sentences across 33 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Goodwin!” Drake broke the silence; desperately he was striving to keep his fear out of his voice. “Goodwin--this isn't the way to get out. We're going up--farther away all the time from the--the gates!” “What can we do?”
Chapter 22 of The Metal Monster is here in full — 163 sentences across 33 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/32 · 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.
lacking funds
From this reading “Drake broke the silence; desperately he was striving to keep his fear out of his voice.”
with great urgency
From this reading “Drake broke the silence; desperately he was striving to keep his fear out of his voice.”
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 broke the silence; desperately he was striving to keep his fear out of his voice.”
more distant in especially space or time
From this reading “We're going up--farther away all the time from the--the gates!””
be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event
From this reading “Drake broke the silence; desperately he was striving to keep his fear out of his voice.”
United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)
From this reading “We're going up--farther away all the time from the--the gates!””
Complete absence of sound; a state of quietness and stillness.
From this reading “Drake broke the silence; desperately he was striving to keep his fear out of his voice.”
an effortful attempt to attain a goal
From this reading “Drake broke the silence; desperately he was striving to keep his fear out of his voice.”
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.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading We're going up--farther away all the time from the--the gates!”
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading We're going up--farther away all the time from the--the gates!”
lacking funds
From this reading Drake broke the silence; desperately he was striving to keep his fear out of his voice.
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading “What can we do?”
with great urgency
From this reading Drake broke the silence; desperately he was striving to keep his fear out of his voice.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading “What can we do?”
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 broke the silence; desperately he was striving to keep his fear out of his voice.
more distant in especially space or time
From this reading We're going up--farther away all the time from the--the gates!”
be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event
From this reading Drake broke the silence; desperately he was striving to keep his fear out of his voice.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading We're going up--farther away all the time from the--the gates!”
United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)
From this reading We're going up--farther away all the time from the--the gates!”
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading “Goodwin--this isn't the way to get out.
the act of departing
From this reading We're going up--farther away all the time from the--the gates!”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Goodwin!”
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Drake broke the silence; desperately he was striving to keep his fear out of his voice.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Drake broke the silence; desperately he was striving to keep his fear out of his voice.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Goodwin--this isn't the way to get out.
cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., “keep clean”
From this reading Drake broke the silence; desperately he was striving to keep his fear out of his voice.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Drake broke the silence; desperately he was striving to keep his fear out of his voice.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading Drake broke the silence; desperately he was striving to keep his fear out of his voice.
Complete absence of sound; a state of quietness and stillness.
From this reading Drake broke the silence; desperately he was striving to keep his fear out of his voice.
an effortful attempt to attain a goal
From this reading Drake broke the silence; desperately he was striving to keep his fear out of his voice.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Drake broke the silence; desperately he was striving to keep his fear out of his voice.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading “Goodwin--this isn't the way to get out.
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading We're going up--farther away all the time from the--the gates!”
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Drake broke the silence; desperately he was striving to keep his fear out of his voice.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading We're going up--farther away all the time from the--the gates!”
the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
From this reading Drake broke the silence; desperately he was striving to keep his fear out of his voice.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Drake broke the silence; desperately he was striving to keep his fear out of his voice.
how something is done or how it happens
From this reading “Goodwin--this isn't the way to get out.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading “What can we do?”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading We're going up--farther away all the time from the--the gates!”
used to ask for information about something
From this reading “What can we do?”
Chapter 22 of The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt holds 163 sentences, grouped into 33 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, 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 22 holds 163 sentences of The Metal Monster, unabridged, divided into 33 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 22 of The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 163 sentences, grouped into 33 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 33 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 33 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 22 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.
Common questions about reading The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt on this page, its source edition and its audio.
Yes. All 5735 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #3479 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Project Gutenberg eBook #3479, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
About 477 minutes of reading across 1147 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through The Metal Monster section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
Choose one of the 31 chapters of The Metal Monster to begin.
Each section holds 5 sentences; read it once through.
Play the section aloud, then tap any unfamiliar word for its entry.
Words and structures a reader meets early in The Metal Monster, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
