Chapter 16 of The River Motor Boat Boys on the Yukon is here in full — 187 sentences across 38 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 16 of The River Motor Boat Boys on the Yukon is here in full — 187 sentences across 38 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
ABE “Come on, Ike,” said Alex. “Let’s go back to the boat. There won’t be anything worth seeing and I’m getting sick of this smelly place. Better fun to go down and fish with Clay. “All right,” agreed Ike, willingly.
Chapter 16 of The River Motor Boat Boys on the Yukon is here in full — 187 sentences across 38 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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united by being of the same opinion
From this reading ““All right,” agreed Ike, willingly.”
a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired
From this reading “Better fun to go down and fish with Clay.”
any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
From this reading “Better fun to go down and fish with Clay.”
activities that are enjoyable or amusing
From this reading “Better fun to go down and fish with Clay.”
United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany; 34th President of the United States (1890-1961)
From this reading “ABE “Come on, Ike,” said Alex.”
affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
From this reading “There won’t be anything worth seeing and I’m getting sick of this smelly place.”
offensively malodorous
From this reading “There won’t be anything worth seeing and I’m getting sick of this smelly place.”
in a willing manner
From this reading ““All right,” agreed Ike, willingly.”
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 won’t be anything worth seeing and I’m getting sick of this smelly place.”
belong to an earlier time
In this reading ““Let’s go back to the boat.”
move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
In this reading “Better fun to go down and fish with Clay.”
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From this reading ABE “Come on, Ike,” said Alex.
united by being of the same opinion
From this reading “All right,” agreed Ike, willingly.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ABE “Come on, Ike,” said Alex.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading “All right,” agreed Ike, willingly.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading There won’t be anything worth seeing and I’m getting sick of this smelly place.
any thing at all
From this reading There won’t be anything worth seeing and I’m getting sick of this smelly place.
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading “Let’s go back to the boat.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading There won’t be anything worth seeing and I’m getting sick of this smelly place.
(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 Better fun to go down and fish with Clay.
a small vessel for travel on water
From this reading “Let’s go back to the boat.
a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired
From this reading Better fun to go down and fish with Clay.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading ABE “Come on, Ike,” said Alex.
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading Better fun to go down and fish with Clay.
any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
From this reading Better fun to go down and fish with Clay.
activities that are enjoyable or amusing
From this reading Better fun to go down and fish with Clay.
the act of acquiring something
From this reading There won’t be anything worth seeing and I’m getting sick of this smelly place.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading “Let’s go back to the boat.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There won’t be anything worth seeing and I’m getting sick of this smelly place.
United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany; 34th President of the United States (1890-1961)
From this reading ABE “Come on, Ike,” said Alex.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Let’s go back to the boat.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading There won’t be anything worth seeing and I’m getting sick of this smelly place.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading ABE “Come on, Ike,” said Alex.
a point located with respect to surface features of some region
From this reading There won’t be anything worth seeing and I’m getting sick of this smelly place.
precisely, exactly
From this reading “All right,” agreed Ike, willingly.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading ABE “Come on, Ike,” said Alex.
perception by means of the eyes
From this reading There won’t be anything worth seeing and I’m getting sick of this smelly place.
affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
From this reading There won’t be anything worth seeing and I’m getting sick of this smelly place.
offensively malodorous
From this reading There won’t be anything worth seeing and I’m getting sick of this smelly place.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading “Let’s go back to the boat.
in or at that place or location
From this reading There won’t be anything worth seeing and I’m getting sick of this smelly place.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading There won’t be anything worth seeing and I’m getting sick of this smelly place.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading “Let’s go back to the boat.
in a willing manner
From this reading “All right,” agreed Ike, willingly.
in the company of; together with
From this reading Better fun to go down and fish with Clay.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There won’t be anything worth seeing and I’m getting sick of this smelly place.
an indefinite quantity of something having a specified value
From this reading There won’t be anything worth seeing and I’m getting sick of this smelly place.
Chapter 16 of The River Motor Boat Boys on the Yukon by Harry Gordon holds 187 sentences, grouped into 38 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 16 holds 187 sentences of The River Motor Boat Boys on the Yukon, unabridged, divided into 38 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 16 of The River Motor Boat Boys on the Yukon by Harry Gordon exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 187 sentences, grouped into 38 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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