Chapter 14 of The Night-Born is here in full — 224 sentences across 45 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 14 of The Night-Born is here in full — 224 sentences across 45 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“It's sure funny whisky. Tastes like it got burned and smoked in the making.” “Oh! How silly of me! I gave you Scotch.
Chapter 14 of The Night-Born is here in full — 224 sentences across 45 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point
From this reading “Tastes like it got burned and smoked in the making.””
arousing or provoking laughter
From this reading ““It's sure funny whisky.”
the act that results in something coming to be
From this reading “Tastes like it got burned and smoked in the making.””
a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
From this reading “I gave you Scotch.”
ludicrous, foolish
From this reading “How silly of me!”
(used especially of meats and fish) dried and cured by hanging in wood smoke
From this reading “Tastes like it got burned and smoked in the making.””
plural of “taste” — the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus
From this reading “Tastes like it got burned and smoked in the making.””
a liquor made from fermented mash of grain
From this reading ““It's sure funny whisky.”
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Tastes like it got burned and smoked in the making.”
treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point
From this reading Tastes like it got burned and smoked in the making.”
arousing or provoking laughter
From this reading “It's sure funny whisky.
inflected form of “give” — cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
From this reading I gave you Scotch.
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading Tastes like it got burned and smoked in the making.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading How silly of me!
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I gave you Scotch.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Tastes like it got burned and smoked in the making.”
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Tastes like it got burned and smoked in the making.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “It's sure funny whisky.
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading Tastes like it got burned and smoked in the making.”
the act that results in something coming to be
From this reading Tastes like it got burned and smoked in the making.”
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading How silly of me!
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading How silly of me!
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading “Oh!
a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
From this reading I gave you Scotch.
ludicrous, foolish
From this reading How silly of me!
(used especially of meats and fish) dried and cured by hanging in wood smoke
From this reading Tastes like it got burned and smoked in the making.”
having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured
From this reading “It's sure funny whisky.
plural of “taste” — the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus
From this reading Tastes like it got burned and smoked in the making.”
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Tastes like it got burned and smoked in the making.”
a liquor made from fermented mash of grain
From this reading “It's sure funny whisky.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading I gave you Scotch.
Chapter 14 of The Night-Born by Jack London holds 224 sentences, grouped into 45 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 14 holds 224 sentences of The Night-Born, unabridged, divided into 45 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 14 of The Night-Born by Jack London exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 224 sentences, grouped into 45 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.
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