Chapter 10 of The Silent Battle is here in full — 406 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 10 of The Silent Battle is here in full — 406 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“This afternoon?” “I’ve a luncheon.” “And then----” “Tea at the----Oh, Phil, I’ll have to cut that. There’s a dance to-night, too, the Ledyards’.” “This is getting serious.”
Chapter 10 of The Silent Battle is here in full — 406 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/81 · 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.
the part of the day between noon and evening
From this reading ““This afternoon?””
separate with or as if with an instrument
From this reading ““And then----” “Tea at the----Oh, Phil, I’ll have to cut that.”
an artistic form of nonverbal communication
From this reading “There’s a dance to-night, too, the Ledyards’.””
the act of acquiring something
From this reading ““This is getting serious.””
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading ““And then----” “Tea at the----Oh, Phil, I’ll have to cut that.”
a midday meal
From this reading ““I’ve a luncheon.””
concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities
From this reading ““This is getting serious.””
a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water
From this reading ““And then----” “Tea at the----Oh, Phil, I’ll have to cut that.”
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.
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading “I’ve a luncheon.”
the part of the day between noon and evening
From this reading “This afternoon?”
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading “And then----” “Tea at the----Oh, Phil, I’ll have to cut that.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading “And then----” “Tea at the----Oh, Phil, I’ll have to cut that.
separate with or as if with an instrument
From this reading “And then----” “Tea at the----Oh, Phil, I’ll have to cut that.
an artistic form of nonverbal communication
From this reading There’s a dance to-night, too, the Ledyards’.”
the act of acquiring something
From this reading “This is getting serious.”
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “And then----” “Tea at the----Oh, Phil, I’ll have to cut that.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “And then----” “Tea at the----Oh, Phil, I’ll have to cut that.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “I’ve a luncheon.”
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading “This is getting serious.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There’s a dance to-night, too, the Ledyards’.”
a midday meal
From this reading “I’ve a luncheon.”
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading “And then----” “Tea at the----Oh, Phil, I’ll have to cut that.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “And then----” “Tea at the----Oh, Phil, I’ll have to cut that.
concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities
From this reading “This is getting serious.”
a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water
From this reading “And then----” “Tea at the----Oh, Phil, I’ll have to cut that.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading “And then----” “Tea at the----Oh, Phil, I’ll have to cut that.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading “And then----” “Tea at the----Oh, Phil, I’ll have to cut that.
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading “And then----” “Tea at the----Oh, Phil, I’ll have to cut that.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There’s a dance to-night, too, the Ledyards’.”
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading “This afternoon?”
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading “And then----” “Tea at the----Oh, Phil, I’ll have to cut that.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There’s a dance to-night, too, the Ledyards’.”
to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
From this reading There’s a dance to-night, too, the Ledyards’.”
Chapter 10 of The Silent Battle by George Gibbs holds 406 sentences, grouped into 82 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 10 holds 406 sentences of The Silent Battle, unabridged, divided into 82 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 10 of The Silent Battle by George Gibbs exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 406 sentences, grouped into 82 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 82 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 82 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 10 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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Words and structures a reader meets early in The Silent Battle, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
