Chapter 7 of The old mine's secret is here in full — 298 sentences across 60 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter VII
Chapter 7 of The old mine's secret is here in full — 298 sentences across 60 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
At last and at last, school was out! Patsy, free and merry as a bird, wrote a long letter to Anne Lewis. She begged Anne to hurry and come to The Village. There were so many things to do! Camp Feed Friend was getting on famously; Anne would see it was better than the boys’ Camp Fight Foe.
Chapter 7 of The old mine's secret is here in full — 298 sentences across 60 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; daughter if James II and the last of the Stuart monarchs; in 1707 she was the last English ruler to exercise the royal veto over parliament (1665-1714)
From this reading “Patsy, free and merry as a bird, wrote a long letter to Anne Lewis.”
inflected form of “beg” — call upon in supplication; entreat
From this reading “She begged Anne to hurry and come to The Village.”
in a manner or to an extent that is well known
From this reading “Camp Feed Friend was getting on famously; Anne would see it was better than the boys’ Camp Fight Foe.”
provide as food
From this reading “Camp Feed Friend was getting on famously; Anne would see it was better than the boys’ Camp Fight Foe.”
an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)
From this reading “Camp Feed Friend was getting on famously; Anne would see it was better than the boys’ Camp Fight Foe.”
United States rock star singer and pianist (born in 1935)
From this reading “Patsy, free and merry as a bird, wrote a long letter to Anne Lewis.”
full of or showing high-spirited merriment
From this reading “Patsy, free and merry as a bird, wrote a long letter to Anne Lewis.”
a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
From this reading “Patsy, free and merry as a bird, wrote a long letter to Anne Lewis.”
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 were so many things to do!”
In this reading “Patsy, free and merry as a bird, wrote a long letter to Anne Lewis.”
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 Patsy, free and merry as a bird, wrote a long letter to Anne Lewis.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading At last and at last, school was out!
Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; daughter if James II and the last of the Stuart monarchs; in 1707 she was the last English ruler to exercise the royal veto over parliament (1665-1714)
From this reading Patsy, free and merry as a bird, wrote a long letter to Anne Lewis.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Patsy, free and merry as a bird, wrote a long letter to Anne Lewis.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading At last and at last, school was out!
inflected form of “beg” — call upon in supplication; entreat
From this reading She begged Anne to hurry and come to The Village.
(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 Camp Feed Friend was getting on famously; Anne would see it was better than the boys’ Camp Fight Foe.
warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
From this reading Patsy, free and merry as a bird, wrote a long letter to Anne Lewis.
plural of “boy” — a youthful male person
From this reading Camp Feed Friend was getting on famously; Anne would see it was better than the boys’ Camp Fight Foe.
temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
From this reading Camp Feed Friend was getting on famously; Anne would see it was better than the boys’ Camp Fight Foe.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading She begged Anne to hurry and come to The Village.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading There were so many things to do!
in a manner or to an extent that is well known
From this reading Camp Feed Friend was getting on famously; Anne would see it was better than the boys’ Camp Fight Foe.
provide as food
From this reading Camp Feed Friend was getting on famously; Anne would see it was better than the boys’ Camp Fight Foe.
be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight
From this reading Camp Feed Friend was getting on famously; Anne would see it was better than the boys’ Camp Fight Foe.
an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)
From this reading Camp Feed Friend was getting on famously; Anne would see it was better than the boys’ Camp Fight Foe.
grant freedom to; free from confinement
From this reading Patsy, free and merry as a bird, wrote a long letter to Anne Lewis.
a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
From this reading Camp Feed Friend was getting on famously; Anne would see it was better than the boys’ Camp Fight Foe.
the act of acquiring something
From this reading Camp Feed Friend was getting on famously; Anne would see it was better than the boys’ Camp Fight Foe.
a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry
From this reading She begged Anne to hurry and come to The Village.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Camp Feed Friend was getting on famously; Anne would see it was better than the boys’ Camp Fight Foe.
immediately past
From this reading At last and at last, school was out!
a written message addressed to a person or organization
From this reading Patsy, free and merry as a bird, wrote a long letter to Anne Lewis.
United States rock star singer and pianist (born in 1935)
From this reading Patsy, free and merry as a bird, wrote a long letter to Anne Lewis.
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading Patsy, free and merry as a bird, wrote a long letter to Anne Lewis.
a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “as” or “too” or “so” or “that”; amounting to a large but indefinite number
From this reading There were so many things to do!
full of or showing high-spirited merriment
From this reading Patsy, free and merry as a bird, wrote a long letter to Anne Lewis.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Camp Feed Friend was getting on famously; Anne would see it was better than the boys’ Camp Fight Foe.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading At last and at last, school was out!
a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
From this reading Patsy, free and merry as a bird, wrote a long letter to Anne Lewis.
an educational institution
From this reading At last and at last, school was out!
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading Camp Feed Friend was getting on famously; Anne would see it was better than the boys’ Camp Fight Foe.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She begged Anne to hurry and come to The Village.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading There were so many things to do!
used to introduce the second part of a comparison
From this reading Camp Feed Friend was getting on famously; Anne would see it was better than the boys’ Camp Fight Foe.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading She begged Anne to hurry and come to The Village.
in or at that place or location
From this reading There were so many things to do!
any movable possession (especially articles of clothing)
From this reading There were so many things to do!
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Patsy, free and merry as a bird, wrote a long letter to Anne Lewis.
a community of people smaller than a town
From this reading She begged Anne to hurry and come to The Village.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading At last and at last, school was out!
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading There were so many things to do!
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading Camp Feed Friend was getting on famously; Anne would see it was better than the boys’ Camp Fight Foe.
inflected form of “write” — produce a literary work
From this reading Patsy, free and merry as a bird, wrote a long letter to Anne Lewis.
Chapter 7 of The old mine's secret by Edna Henry Lee Turpin holds 298 sentences, grouped into 60 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 7 holds 298 sentences of The old mine's secret, unabridged, divided into 60 reading sections.
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