Chapter 22 of The Sun Maid: A Story of Fort Dearborn is here in full — 164 sentences across 33 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
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Chapter 22 of The Sun Maid: A Story of Fort Dearborn is here in full — 164 sentences across 33 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
GROWING UP. "Well, I'm beat! I don't know what to do with myself. Out there to the clearing I was just crazy wild to get back to town; and now I'm here I'm nigh dead with plumb lonesomeness. My, my, my!
Chapter 22 of The Sun Maid: A Story of Fort Dearborn is here in full — 164 sentences across 33 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
From this reading “"Well, I'm beat!”
a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area
From this reading “Out there to the clearing I was just crazy wild to get back to town; and now I'm here I'm nigh dead with plumb lonesomeness.”
affected with madness or insanity
From this reading “Out there to the clearing I was just crazy wild to get back to town; and now I'm here I'm nigh dead with plumb lonesomeness.”
(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
From this reading “GROWING UP.”
not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
From this reading “Out there to the clearing I was just crazy wild to get back to town; and now I'm here I'm nigh dead with plumb lonesomeness.”
measure the depth of something
From this reading “Out there to the clearing I was just crazy wild to get back to town; and now I'm here I'm nigh dead with plumb lonesomeness.”
an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city
From this reading “Out there to the clearing I was just crazy wild to get back to town; and now I'm here I'm nigh dead with plumb lonesomeness.”
marked by extreme lack of restraint or control
From this reading “Out there to the clearing I was just crazy wild to get back to town; and now I'm here I'm nigh dead with plumb lonesomeness.”
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.
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recover something or somebody that appeared to be lost
In this reading “Out there to the clearing I was just crazy wild to get back to town; and now I'm here I'm nigh dead with plumb lonesomeness.”
In this reading “Out there to the clearing I was just crazy wild to get back to town; and now I'm here I'm nigh dead with plumb lonesomeness.”
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Out there to the clearing I was just crazy wild to get back to town; and now I'm here I'm nigh dead with plumb lonesomeness.
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading Out there to the clearing I was just crazy wild to get back to town; and now I'm here I'm nigh dead with plumb lonesomeness.
come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
From this reading "Well, I'm beat!
a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area
From this reading Out there to the clearing I was just crazy wild to get back to town; and now I'm here I'm nigh dead with plumb lonesomeness.
affected with madness or insanity
From this reading Out there to the clearing I was just crazy wild to get back to town; and now I'm here I'm nigh dead with plumb lonesomeness.
no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
From this reading Out there to the clearing I was just crazy wild to get back to town; and now I'm here I'm nigh dead with plumb lonesomeness.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading I don't know what to do with myself.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I don't know what to do with myself.
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading Out there to the clearing I was just crazy wild to get back to town; and now I'm here I'm nigh dead with plumb lonesomeness.
(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
From this reading GROWING UP.
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading Out there to the clearing I was just crazy wild to get back to town; and now I'm here I'm nigh dead with plumb lonesomeness.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I don't know what to do with myself.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Well, I'm beat!
and nothing more
From this reading Out there to the clearing I was just crazy wild to get back to town; and now I'm here I'm nigh dead with plumb lonesomeness.
be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
From this reading I don't know what to do with myself.
a disposition toward being alone
From this reading Out there to the clearing I was just crazy wild to get back to town; and now I'm here I'm nigh dead with plumb lonesomeness.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading My, my, my!
used when the speaker is also the object of the action
From this reading I don't know what to do with myself.
not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
From this reading Out there to the clearing I was just crazy wild to get back to town; and now I'm here I'm nigh dead with plumb lonesomeness.
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading Out there to the clearing I was just crazy wild to get back to town; and now I'm here I'm nigh dead with plumb lonesomeness.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading Out there to the clearing I was just crazy wild to get back to town; and now I'm here I'm nigh dead with plumb lonesomeness.
measure the depth of something
From this reading Out there to the clearing I was just crazy wild to get back to town; and now I'm here I'm nigh dead with plumb lonesomeness.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Out there to the clearing I was just crazy wild to get back to town; and now I'm here I'm nigh dead with plumb lonesomeness.
in or at that place or location
From this reading Out there to the clearing I was just crazy wild to get back to town; and now I'm here I'm nigh dead with plumb lonesomeness.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading I don't know what to do with myself.
an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city
From this reading Out there to the clearing I was just crazy wild to get back to town; and now I'm here I'm nigh dead with plumb lonesomeness.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading GROWING UP.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Out there to the clearing I was just crazy wild to get back to town; and now I'm here I'm nigh dead with plumb lonesomeness.
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading "Well, I'm beat!
used to ask for information about something
From this reading I don't know what to do with myself.
marked by extreme lack of restraint or control
From this reading Out there to the clearing I was just crazy wild to get back to town; and now I'm here I'm nigh dead with plumb lonesomeness.
in the company of; together with
From this reading I don't know what to do with myself.
Chapter 22 of The Sun Maid: A Story of Fort Dearborn by Evelyn Raymond holds 164 sentences, grouped into 33 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.
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