Chapter 8 of The Middle Five: Indian Boys at School is here in full — 187 sentences across 38 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 8 of The Middle Five: Indian Boys at School is here in full — 187 sentences across 38 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
The Splinter, the Thorn, and the Rib "Oh! oh! oh! Aunt, that hurts. Oh!" "Keep still, now, keep still! You have a big stick in your toe, and I must take it out.
Chapter 8 of The Middle Five: Indian Boys at School is here in full — 187 sentences across 38 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/37 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle
From this reading “Aunt, that hurts.”
above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading “You have a big stick in your toe, and I must take it out.”
plural of “hurt” — any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
From this reading “Aunt, that hurts.”
support resembling the rib of an animal
From this reading “The Splinter, the Thorn, and the Rib "Oh! oh! oh!”
withdraw from an organization or communion
From this reading “The Splinter, the Thorn, and the Rib "Oh! oh! oh!”
put, fix, force, or implant
From this reading “You have a big stick in your toe, and I must take it out.”
something that causes irritation and annoyance
From this reading “The Splinter, the Thorn, and the Rib "Oh! oh! oh!”
one of the digits of the foot
From this reading “You have a big stick in your toe, and I must take it out.”
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 “"Keep still, now, keep still!”
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 before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading You have a big stick in your toe, and I must take it out.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The Splinter, the Thorn, and the Rib "Oh! oh! oh!
the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle
From this reading Aunt, that hurts.
above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading You have a big stick in your toe, and I must take it out.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading You have a big stick in your toe, and I must take it out.
plural of “hurt” — any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
From this reading Aunt, that hurts.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading You have a big stick in your toe, and I must take it out.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading You have a big stick in your toe, and I must take it out.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading You have a big stick in your toe, and I must take it out.
cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., “keep clean”
From this reading "Keep still, now, keep still!
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading You have a big stick in your toe, and I must take it out.
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading "Keep still, now, keep still!
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading The Splinter, the Thorn, and the Rib "Oh! oh! oh!
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading You have a big stick in your toe, and I must take it out.
support resembling the rib of an animal
From this reading The Splinter, the Thorn, and the Rib "Oh! oh! oh!
withdraw from an organization or communion
From this reading The Splinter, the Thorn, and the Rib "Oh! oh! oh!
put, fix, force, or implant
From this reading You have a big stick in your toe, and I must take it out.
not in physical motion
From this reading "Keep still, now, keep still!
carry out
From this reading You have a big stick in your toe, and I must take it out.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Aunt, that hurts.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The Splinter, the Thorn, and the Rib "Oh! oh! oh!
something that causes irritation and annoyance
From this reading The Splinter, the Thorn, and the Rib "Oh! oh! oh!
one of the digits of the foot
From this reading You have a big stick in your toe, and I must take it out.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading You have a big stick in your toe, and I must take it out.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading You have a big stick in your toe, and I must take it out.
Chapter 8 of The Middle Five: Indian Boys at School by Francis La Flesche holds 187 sentences, grouped into 38 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 8 holds 187 sentences of The Middle Five: Indian Boys at School, unabridged, divided into 38 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 8 of The Middle Five: Indian Boys at School by Francis La Flesche exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 187 sentences, grouped into 38 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 38 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 38 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 8 can be played aloud in United States English.
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About 180 minutes of reading across 434 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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