Chapter 6 of The Mountain School-Teacher is here in full — 210 sentences across 42 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 6 of The Mountain School-Teacher is here in full — 210 sentences across 42 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
|THE School-teacher came out of the door of Nicholas Parks' house. It was early in the morning. Frost glistened on the rails of the worm fence. The air was crisp and sweet. There was a smell of faint wood smoke.
Chapter 6 of The Mountain School-Teacher is here in full — 210 sentences across 42 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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(of something seen or heard) clearly defined
From this reading “The air was crisp and sweet.”
enclose with a fence
From this reading “Frost glistened on the rails of the worm fence.”
ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
From this reading “Frost glistened on the rails of the worm fence.”
past form of “glisten” — be shiny, as if wet
From this reading “Frost glistened on the rails of the worm fence.”
a bishop in Asia Minor who is associated with Santa Claus (4th century)
From this reading “|THE School-teacher came out of the door of Nicholas Parks' house.”
United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (born in 1913)
From this reading “|THE School-teacher came out of the door of Nicholas Parks' house.”
a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
From this reading “Frost glistened on the rails of the worm fence.”
any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae
From this reading “Frost glistened on the rails of the worm fence.”
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 “There was a smell of faint wood smoke.”
appear or become visible; make a showing
In this reading “|THE School-teacher came out of the door of Nicholas Parks' house.”
In this reading “It was early in the morning.”
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 There was a smell of faint wood smoke.
a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of
From this reading The air was crisp and sweet.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The air was crisp and sweet.
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading |THE School-teacher came out of the door of Nicholas Parks' house.
(of something seen or heard) clearly defined
From this reading The air was crisp and sweet.
a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
From this reading |THE School-teacher came out of the door of Nicholas Parks' house.
at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time
From this reading It was early in the morning.
deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc
From this reading There was a smell of faint wood smoke.
enclose with a fence
From this reading Frost glistened on the rails of the worm fence.
ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
From this reading Frost glistened on the rails of the worm fence.
past form of “glisten” — be shiny, as if wet
From this reading Frost glistened on the rails of the worm fence.
a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
From this reading |THE School-teacher came out of the door of Nicholas Parks' house.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading It was early in the morning.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It was early in the morning.
the time period between dawn and noon
From this reading It was early in the morning.
a bishop in Asia Minor who is associated with Santa Claus (4th century)
From this reading |THE School-teacher came out of the door of Nicholas Parks' house.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading |THE School-teacher came out of the door of Nicholas Parks' house.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Frost glistened on the rails of the worm fence.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading |THE School-teacher came out of the door of Nicholas Parks' house.
United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (born in 1913)
From this reading |THE School-teacher came out of the door of Nicholas Parks' house.
a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
From this reading Frost glistened on the rails of the worm fence.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading |THE School-teacher came out of the door of Nicholas Parks' house.
the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form
From this reading There was a smell of faint wood smoke.
a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
From this reading There was a smell of faint wood smoke.
having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
From this reading The air was crisp and sweet.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading |THE School-teacher came out of the door of Nicholas Parks' house.
in or at that place or location
From this reading There was a smell of faint wood smoke.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading It was early in the morning.
the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
From this reading There was a smell of faint wood smoke.
any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae
From this reading Frost glistened on the rails of the worm fence.
Chapter 6 of The Mountain School-Teacher by Melville Davisson Post holds 210 sentences, grouped into 42 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 6 holds 210 sentences of The Mountain School-Teacher, unabridged, divided into 42 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 6 of The Mountain School-Teacher by Melville Davisson Post exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 210 sentences, grouped into 42 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 42 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 42 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.
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