Chapter 3 of The Star Guardsman is here in full — 433 sentences across 87 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 3 of The Star Guardsman is here in full — 433 sentences across 87 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Yes, bring me some Thassalian, _Alcoran_," the surgeon assented wearily and half-rose from his couch with a sigh. "The sleep-freeze reaction is far worse than I'd anticipated!" "The antidotes have been given--two antidotes Master!" The super-robot answered instantly. "Two!
Chapter 3 of The Star Guardsman is here in full — 433 sentences across 87 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/86 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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expected hopefully
From this reading “"The sleep-freeze reaction is far worse than I'd anticipated!"”
an upholstered seat for more than one person
From this reading “"Yes, bring me some Thassalian, _Alcoran_," the surgeon assented wearily and half-rose from his couch with a sigh.”
without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening
From this reading “The super-robot answered instantly.”
(chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others
From this reading “"The sleep-freeze reaction is far worse than I'd anticipated!"”
heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily
From this reading “"Yes, bring me some Thassalian, _Alcoran_," the surgeon assented wearily and half-rose from his couch with a sigh.”
a physician who specializes in surgery
From this reading “"Yes, bring me some Thassalian, _Alcoran_," the surgeon assented wearily and half-rose from his couch with a sigh.”
in a weary manner
From this reading “"Yes, bring me some Thassalian, _Alcoran_," the surgeon assented wearily and half-rose from his couch with a sigh.”
(comparative of “bad”) inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability
From this reading “"The sleep-freeze reaction is far worse than I'd anticipated!"”
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In this reading “"The sleep-freeze reaction is far worse than I'd anticipated!"”
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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 "Yes, bring me some Thassalian, _Alcoran_," the surgeon assented wearily and half-rose from his couch with a sigh.
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From this reading "Yes, bring me some Thassalian, _Alcoran_," the surgeon assented wearily and half-rose from his couch with a sigh.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading "Yes, bring me some Thassalian, _Alcoran_," the surgeon assented wearily and half-rose from his couch with a sigh.
past form of “answer” — react verbally
From this reading The super-robot answered instantly.
expected hopefully
From this reading "The sleep-freeze reaction is far worse than I'd anticipated!"
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From this reading "The antidotes have been given--two antidotes Master!"
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From this reading "Yes, bring me some Thassalian, _Alcoran_," the surgeon assented wearily and half-rose from his couch with a sigh.
the past participle of “be”
From this reading "The antidotes have been given--two antidotes Master!"
take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
From this reading "Yes, bring me some Thassalian, _Alcoran_," the surgeon assented wearily and half-rose from his couch with a sigh.
an upholstered seat for more than one person
From this reading "Yes, bring me some Thassalian, _Alcoran_," the surgeon assented wearily and half-rose from his couch with a sigh.
to a considerable degree; very much
From this reading "The sleep-freeze reaction is far worse than I'd anticipated!"
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading "Yes, bring me some Thassalian, _Alcoran_," the surgeon assented wearily and half-rose from his couch with a sigh.
acknowledged as a supposition
From this reading "The antidotes have been given--two antidotes Master!"
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From this reading "Yes, bring me some Thassalian, _Alcoran_," the surgeon assented wearily and half-rose from his couch with a sigh.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading "The antidotes have been given--two antidotes Master!"
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading "Yes, bring me some Thassalian, _Alcoran_," the surgeon assented wearily and half-rose from his couch with a sigh.
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From this reading "The sleep-freeze reaction is far worse than I'd anticipated!"
without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening
From this reading The super-robot answered instantly.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading "The sleep-freeze reaction is far worse than I'd anticipated!"
an artist of consummate skill
From this reading "The antidotes have been given--two antidotes Master!"
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading "Yes, bring me some Thassalian, _Alcoran_," the surgeon assented wearily and half-rose from his couch with a sigh.
(chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others
From this reading "The sleep-freeze reaction is far worse than I'd anticipated!"
heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily
From this reading "Yes, bring me some Thassalian, _Alcoran_," the surgeon assented wearily and half-rose from his couch with a sigh.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "The sleep-freeze reaction is far worse than I'd anticipated!"
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading "Yes, bring me some Thassalian, _Alcoran_," the surgeon assented wearily and half-rose from his couch with a sigh.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The super-robot answered instantly.
a physician who specializes in surgery
From this reading "Yes, bring me some Thassalian, _Alcoran_," the surgeon assented wearily and half-rose from his couch with a sigh.
used to introduce the second part of a comparison
From this reading "The sleep-freeze reaction is far worse than I'd anticipated!"
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Yes, bring me some Thassalian, _Alcoran_," the surgeon assented wearily and half-rose from his couch with a sigh.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading "Yes, bring me some Thassalian, _Alcoran_," the surgeon assented wearily and half-rose from his couch with a sigh.
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
From this reading "The antidotes have been given--two antidotes Master!"
in a weary manner
From this reading "Yes, bring me some Thassalian, _Alcoran_," the surgeon assented wearily and half-rose from his couch with a sigh.
in the company of; together with
From this reading "Yes, bring me some Thassalian, _Alcoran_," the surgeon assented wearily and half-rose from his couch with a sigh.
(comparative of “bad”) inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability
From this reading "The sleep-freeze reaction is far worse than I'd anticipated!"
an affirmative
From this reading "Yes, bring me some Thassalian, _Alcoran_," the surgeon assented wearily and half-rose from his couch with a sigh.
Chapter 3 of The Star Guardsman by Albert, -1957 dePina holds 433 sentences, grouped into 87 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 3 holds 433 sentences of The Star Guardsman, unabridged, divided into 87 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 3 of The Star Guardsman by Albert, -1957 dePina exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 433 sentences, grouped into 87 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 87 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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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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About 107 minutes of reading across 259 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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