Chapter 2 of The Rover Boys on Sunset Trail is here in full — 145 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter II
Chapter 2 of The Rover Boys on Sunset Trail is here in full — 145 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
SOMETHING ABOUT THE ROVERS “Sheer off! Sheer off!” “You’ll send us to the bottom!” “Why don’t you look where you’re running?” “It wasn’t our fault!
Chapter 2 of The Rover Boys on Sunset Trail is here in full — 145 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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the lower side of anything
From this reading ““You’ll send us to the bottom!””
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
From this reading ““It wasn’t our fault!”
perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards
From this reading ““Why don’t you look where you’re running?””
plural of “rover” — someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
From this reading “SOMETHING ABOUT THE ROVERS “Sheer off!”
(of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream
From this reading ““Why don’t you look where you’re running?””
cause to go somewhere
From this reading ““You’ll send us to the bottom!””
complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
From this reading “SOMETHING ABOUT THE ROVERS “Sheer off!”
a thing, without saying which
From this reading “SOMETHING ABOUT THE ROVERS “Sheer off!”
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on the subject of; concerning
From this reading SOMETHING ABOUT THE ROVERS “Sheer off!
the lower side of anything
From this reading “You’ll send us to the bottom!”
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From this reading “Why don’t you look where you’re running?”
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
From this reading “It wasn’t our fault!
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading “It wasn’t our fault!
perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards
From this reading “Why don’t you look where you’re running?”
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading SOMETHING ABOUT THE ROVERS “Sheer off!
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading “It wasn’t our fault!
plural of “rover” — someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
From this reading SOMETHING ABOUT THE ROVERS “Sheer off!
(of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream
From this reading “Why don’t you look where you’re running?”
cause to go somewhere
From this reading “You’ll send us to the bottom!”
complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
From this reading SOMETHING ABOUT THE ROVERS “Sheer off!
a thing, without saying which
From this reading SOMETHING ABOUT THE ROVERS “Sheer off!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading SOMETHING ABOUT THE ROVERS “Sheer off!
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
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the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
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in or at the place that
From this reading “Why don’t you look where you’re running?”
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
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the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “Why don’t you look where you’re running?”
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From this reading “Why don’t you look where you’re running?”
Chapter 2 of The Rover Boys on Sunset Trail by Edward Stratemeyer holds 145 sentences, grouped into 29 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 2 holds 145 sentences of The Rover Boys on Sunset Trail, unabridged, divided into 29 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 2 of The Rover Boys on Sunset Trail by Edward Stratemeyer exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 145 sentences, grouped into 29 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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