Chapter 27 of The Motor Boys Bound for Home is here in full — 99 sentences across 20 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 27 of The Motor Boys Bound for Home is here in full — 99 sentences across 20 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE WIRELESS “Come on! Come on! Everybody up on deck! Take your boat stations!” was the cry that Ned and Dr. Hallet heard as they emerged from the cabin. “Have we got much time?”
Chapter 27 of The Motor Boys Bound for Home is here in full — 99 sentences across 20 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a small vessel for travel on water
From this reading “Take your boat stations!” was the cry that Ned and Dr. Hallet heard as they emerged from the cabin.”
small room on a ship or boat where people sleep
From this reading “Take your boat stations!” was the cry that Ned and Dr. Hallet heard as they emerged from the cabin.”
utter a sudden loud cry
From this reading “Take your boat stations!” was the cry that Ned and Dr. Hallet heard as they emerged from the cabin.”
any of various platforms built into a vessel
From this reading “Everybody up on deck!”
past form of “emerge” — come out into view, as from concealment
From this reading “Take your boat stations!” was the cry that Ned and Dr. Hallet heard as they emerged from the cabin.”
every person
From this reading “Everybody up on deck!”
(Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary
From this reading “Take your boat stations!” was the cry that Ned and Dr. Hallet heard as they emerged from the cabin.”
medium for communication
From this reading “THE WIRELESS “Come on!”
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 “Take your boat stations!” was the cry that Ned and Dr. Hallet heard as they emerged from the cabin.”
In this reading “Everybody up on deck!”
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Take your boat stations!” was the cry that Ned and Dr. Hallet heard as they emerged from the cabin.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Take your boat stations!” was the cry that Ned and Dr. Hallet heard as they emerged from the cabin.
a small vessel for travel on water
From this reading Take your boat stations!” was the cry that Ned and Dr. Hallet heard as they emerged from the cabin.
small room on a ship or boat where people sleep
From this reading Take your boat stations!” was the cry that Ned and Dr. Hallet heard as they emerged from the cabin.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading THE WIRELESS “Come on!
utter a sudden loud cry
From this reading Take your boat stations!” was the cry that Ned and Dr. Hallet heard as they emerged from the cabin.
any of various platforms built into a vessel
From this reading Everybody up on deck!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Take your boat stations!” was the cry that Ned and Dr. Hallet heard as they emerged from the cabin.
past form of “emerge” — come out into view, as from concealment
From this reading Take your boat stations!” was the cry that Ned and Dr. Hallet heard as they emerged from the cabin.
every person
From this reading Everybody up on deck!
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading Take your boat stations!” was the cry that Ned and Dr. Hallet heard as they emerged from the cabin.
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading “Have we got much time?”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Take your boat stations!” was the cry that Ned and Dr. Hallet heard as they emerged from the cabin.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “Have we got much time?”
detected or perceived by the sense of hearing
From this reading Take your boat stations!” was the cry that Ned and Dr. Hallet heard as they emerged from the cabin.
to a great degree or extent
From this reading “Have we got much time?”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Take your boat stations!” was the cry that Ned and Dr. Hallet heard as they emerged from the cabin.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading THE WIRELESS “Come on!
(Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary
From this reading Take your boat stations!” was the cry that Ned and Dr. Hallet heard as they emerged from the cabin.
carry out
From this reading Take your boat stations!” was the cry that Ned and Dr. Hallet heard as they emerged from the cabin.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Take your boat stations!” was the cry that Ned and Dr. Hallet heard as they emerged from the cabin.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE WIRELESS “Come on!
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Take your boat stations!” was the cry that Ned and Dr. Hallet heard as they emerged from the cabin.
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading “Have we got much time?”
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading Everybody up on deck!
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Take your boat stations!” was the cry that Ned and Dr. Hallet heard as they emerged from the cabin.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading “Have we got much time?”
medium for communication
From this reading THE WIRELESS “Come on!
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Take your boat stations!” was the cry that Ned and Dr. Hallet heard as they emerged from the cabin.
Chapter 27 of The Motor Boys Bound for Home by Clarence Young holds 99 sentences, grouped into 20 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.
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