Chapter 11 of The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound is here in full — 116 sentences across 24 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 11 of The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound is here in full — 116 sentences across 24 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE CURIOUS DEER "Quick! A rope!" "No, boards are better!" "Fence rails will do!" "Oh, get him out, someone!"
Chapter 11 of The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound is here in full — 116 sentences across 24 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/23 · 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.
(used in the plural) the stage of a theater
From this reading “"No, boards are better!"”
beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
From this reading “THE CURIOUS DEER "Quick!”
distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
From this reading “THE CURIOUS DEER "Quick!”
enclose with a fence
From this reading “"Fence rails will do!"”
accomplished rapidly and without delay
From this reading “THE CURIOUS DEER "Quick!”
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 “"Fence rails will do!"”
a strong line
From this reading “A rope!"”
a person, without saying who
From this reading “"Oh, get him out, someone!"”
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 A rope!"
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading "No, boards are better!"
(comparative of “good”) superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another
From this reading "No, boards are better!"
(used in the plural) the stage of a theater
From this reading "No, boards are better!"
beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
From this reading THE CURIOUS DEER "Quick!
distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
From this reading THE CURIOUS DEER "Quick!
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading "Fence rails will do!"
enclose with a fence
From this reading "Fence rails will do!"
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading "Oh, get him out, someone!"
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading "Oh, get him out, someone!"
not any; not one
From this reading "No, boards are better!"
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading "Oh, get him out, someone!"
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading "Oh, get him out, someone!"
accomplished rapidly and without delay
From this reading THE CURIOUS DEER "Quick!
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 "Fence rails will do!"
a strong line
From this reading A rope!"
a person, without saying who
From this reading "Oh, get him out, someone!"
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE CURIOUS DEER "Quick!
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading "Fence rails will do!"
Chapter 11 of The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound by Laura Lee Hope holds 116 sentences, grouped into 24 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 11 holds 116 sentences of The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound, unabridged, divided into 24 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 11 of The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound by Laura Lee Hope exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 116 sentences, grouped into 24 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 24 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 24 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 11 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.
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About 264 minutes of reading across 636 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
