Chapter 17 of The Rod and Gun Club is here in full — 125 sentences across 25 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 17 of The Rod and Gun Club is here in full — 125 sentences across 25 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
CASTING THE FLY. “Now, Curtis, bring on your moose.” “Don’t be in a hurry. You don’t want to crowd all your sport into the first day, do you?” “By no means.
Chapter 17 of The Rod and Gun Club is here in full — 125 sentences across 25 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/25 · 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.
object formed by a mold
From this reading “CASTING THE FLY.”
cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
From this reading “You don’t want to crowd all your sport into the first day, do you?””
English botanical writer and publisher (1746-1799)
From this reading ““Now, Curtis, bring on your moose.””
travel through the air; be airborne
From this reading “CASTING THE FLY.”
a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry
From this reading ““Don’t be in a hurry.”
thing or person that acts to produce a particular effect or achieve an end
From this reading ““By no means.”
large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called “elk” in Europe and “moose” in North America
From this reading ““Now, Curtis, bring on your moose.””
an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition
From this reading “You don’t want to crowd all your sport into the first day, do you?””
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 ““Don’t be in a hurry.”
In this reading “You don’t want to crowd all your sport into the first day, do you?””
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 “Don’t be in a hurry.
(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 You don’t want to crowd all your sport into the first day, do you?”
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading “Don’t be in a hurry.
take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
From this reading “Now, Curtis, bring on your moose.”
showing who or what does the action
From this reading “By no means.
object formed by a mold
From this reading CASTING THE FLY.
cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
From this reading You don’t want to crowd all your sport into the first day, do you?”
English botanical writer and publisher (1746-1799)
From this reading “Now, Curtis, bring on your moose.”
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading You don’t want to crowd all your sport into the first day, do you?”
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading You don’t want to crowd all your sport into the first day, do you?”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Don’t be in a hurry.
preceding all others in time or space or degree
From this reading You don’t want to crowd all your sport into the first day, do you?”
travel through the air; be airborne
From this reading CASTING THE FLY.
a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry
From this reading “Don’t be in a hurry.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading “Don’t be in a hurry.
moving to the inside of something
From this reading You don’t want to crowd all your sport into the first day, do you?”
thing or person that acts to produce a particular effect or achieve an end
From this reading “By no means.
large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called “elk” in Europe and “moose” in North America
From this reading “Now, Curtis, bring on your moose.”
not any; not one
From this reading “By no means.
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading “Now, Curtis, bring on your moose.”
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading “Now, Curtis, bring on your moose.”
an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition
From this reading You don’t want to crowd all your sport into the first day, do you?”
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading CASTING THE FLY.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading You don’t want to crowd all your sport into the first day, do you?”
feel or have a desire for; want strongly
From this reading You don’t want to crowd all your sport into the first day, do you?”
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading You don’t want to crowd all your sport into the first day, do you?”
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “Now, Curtis, bring on your moose.”
Chapter 17 of The Rod and Gun Club by Harry Castlemon holds 125 sentences, grouped into 25 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 17 holds 125 sentences of The Rod and Gun Club, unabridged, divided into 25 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 17 of The Rod and Gun Club by Harry Castlemon exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 125 sentences, grouped into 25 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 25 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 25 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 17 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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