Chapter 7 of The Silver Ring Mystery is here in full — 348 sentences across 70 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter VII
Chapter 7 of The Silver Ring Mystery is here in full — 348 sentences across 70 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
_Which Lucy?_ “Vicki, there’s a Miss L. Rowe aboard!” Jean said excitedly. “I just discovered it when I had to check tickets and passengers’ names!” Vicki stopped her preparations for lunch and stepped outside the buffet into the aisle. “Where, Jean?
Chapter 7 of The Silver Ring Mystery is here in full — 348 sentences across 70 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods)
From this reading “Vicki stopped her preparations for lunch and stepped outside the buffet into the aisle.”
a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers
From this reading “Vicki stopped her preparations for lunch and stepped outside the buffet into the aisle.”
examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition
From this reading ““I just discovered it when I had to check tickets and passengers’ names!””
with excitement; in an excited manner
From this reading “Jean said excitedly.”
take the midday meal
From this reading “Vicki stopped her preparations for lunch and stepped outside the buffet into the aisle.”
plural of “passenger” — a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it
From this reading ““I just discovered it when I had to check tickets and passengers’ names!””
plural of “preparation” — the activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose
From this reading “Vicki stopped her preparations for lunch and stepped outside the buffet into the aisle.”
plural of “ticket” — a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment)
From this reading ““I just discovered it when I had to check tickets and passengers’ names!””
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 “Vicki stopped her preparations for lunch and stepped outside the buffet into the aisle.”
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 _Which Lucy?_ “Vicki, there’s a Miss L. Rowe aboard!”
on a ship, train, plane or other vehicle
From this reading _Which Lucy?_ “Vicki, there’s a Miss L. Rowe aboard!”
a long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods)
From this reading Vicki stopped her preparations for lunch and stepped outside the buffet into the aisle.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading “I just discovered it when I had to check tickets and passengers’ names!”
a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers
From this reading Vicki stopped her preparations for lunch and stepped outside the buffet into the aisle.
examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition
From this reading “I just discovered it when I had to check tickets and passengers’ names!”
discovered or determined by scientific observation
From this reading “I just discovered it when I had to check tickets and passengers’ names!”
with excitement; in an excited manner
From this reading Jean said excitedly.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading Vicki stopped her preparations for lunch and stepped outside the buffet into the aisle.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading “I just discovered it when I had to check tickets and passengers’ names!”
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Vicki stopped her preparations for lunch and stepped outside the buffet into the aisle.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “I just discovered it when I had to check tickets and passengers’ names!”
moving to the inside of something
From this reading Vicki stopped her preparations for lunch and stepped outside the buffet into the aisle.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading “I just discovered it when I had to check tickets and passengers’ names!”
a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric
From this reading Jean said excitedly.
and nothing more
From this reading “I just discovered it when I had to check tickets and passengers’ names!”
a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)
From this reading _Which Lucy?_ “Vicki, there’s a Miss L. Rowe aboard!”
incomplete skeleton of female found in eastern Ethiopia in 1974
From this reading _Which Lucy?_ “Vicki, there’s a Miss L. Rowe aboard!”
take the midday meal
From this reading Vicki stopped her preparations for lunch and stepped outside the buffet into the aisle.
fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
From this reading _Which Lucy?_ “Vicki, there’s a Miss L. Rowe aboard!”
verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument
From this reading “I just discovered it when I had to check tickets and passengers’ names!”
relating to or being on or near the outer side or limit
From this reading Vicki stopped her preparations for lunch and stepped outside the buffet into the aisle.
plural of “passenger” — a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it
From this reading “I just discovered it when I had to check tickets and passengers’ names!”
plural of “preparation” — the activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose
From this reading Vicki stopped her preparations for lunch and stepped outside the buffet into the aisle.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading _Which Lucy?_ “Vicki, there’s a Miss L. Rowe aboard!”
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading Jean said excitedly.
inflected form of “step” — shift or move by taking a step
From this reading Vicki stopped her preparations for lunch and stepped outside the buffet into the aisle.
(of a nose) blocked
From this reading Vicki stopped her preparations for lunch and stepped outside the buffet into the aisle.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Vicki stopped her preparations for lunch and stepped outside the buffet into the aisle.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading _Which Lucy?_ “Vicki, there’s a Miss L. Rowe aboard!”
plural of “ticket” — a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment)
From this reading “I just discovered it when I had to check tickets and passengers’ names!”
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading “I just discovered it when I had to check tickets and passengers’ names!”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading _Which Lucy?_ “Vicki, there’s a Miss L. Rowe aboard!”
at the time that
From this reading “I just discovered it when I had to check tickets and passengers’ names!”
in or at the place that
From this reading “Where, Jean?
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading _Which Lucy?_ “Vicki, there’s a Miss L. Rowe aboard!”
Chapter 7 of The Silver Ring Mystery by Helen Wells holds 348 sentences, grouped into 70 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 348 sentences of The Silver Ring Mystery, unabridged, divided into 70 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 7 of The Silver Ring Mystery by Helen Wells exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 348 sentences, grouped into 70 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 70 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 7 can be played aloud in United States English.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in The Silver Ring Mystery, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
