Chapter 18 of The Young Engineers in Nevada is here in full — 158 sentences across 32 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 18 of The Young Engineers in Nevada is here in full — 158 sentences across 32 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
HARRY'S SIGNAL OF DISTRESS Through the tunnel a dull boom sounded. Then, as if by a common impulse, all hands rushed back to the heading. "Hard rock!" muttered Reade. "The blast didn't make much of a dent. Hand me a pick, one of you."
Chapter 18 of The Young Engineers in Nevada is here in full — 158 sentences across 32 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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make a strident sound
From this reading “"The blast didn't make much of a dent.”
make a resonant sound, like artillery
From this reading “HARRY'S SIGNAL OF DISTRESS Through the tunnel a dull boom sounded.”
an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening)
From this reading “"The blast didn't make much of a dent.”
psychological suffering
From this reading “HARRY'S SIGNAL OF DISTRESS Through the tunnel a dull boom sounded.”
a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
From this reading “Then, as if by a common impulse, all hands rushed back to the heading.”
select carefully from a group
From this reading “Hand me a pick, one of you."”
any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
From this reading “HARRY'S SIGNAL OF DISTRESS Through the tunnel a dull boom sounded.”
move through by or as by digging
From this reading “HARRY'S SIGNAL OF DISTRESS Through the tunnel a dull boom sounded.”
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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 HARRY'S SIGNAL OF DISTRESS Through the tunnel a dull boom sounded.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading Then, as if by a common impulse, all hands rushed back to the heading.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Then, as if by a common impulse, all hands rushed back to the heading.
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading Then, as if by a common impulse, all hands rushed back to the heading.
make a strident sound
From this reading "The blast didn't make much of a dent.
make a resonant sound, like artillery
From this reading HARRY'S SIGNAL OF DISTRESS Through the tunnel a dull boom sounded.
showing who or what does the action
From this reading Then, as if by a common impulse, all hands rushed back to the heading.
belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public
From this reading Then, as if by a common impulse, all hands rushed back to the heading.
an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening)
From this reading "The blast didn't make much of a dent.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "The blast didn't make much of a dent.
psychological suffering
From this reading HARRY'S SIGNAL OF DISTRESS Through the tunnel a dull boom sounded.
lacking in liveliness or animation
From this reading HARRY'S SIGNAL OF DISTRESS Through the tunnel a dull boom sounded.
the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
From this reading Hand me a pick, one of you."
(with “in”) guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child
From this reading Then, as if by a common impulse, all hands rushed back to the heading.
not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
From this reading "Hard rock!" muttered Reade.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading HARRY'S SIGNAL OF DISTRESS Through the tunnel a dull boom sounded.
a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
From this reading Then, as if by a common impulse, all hands rushed back to the heading.
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading Then, as if by a common impulse, all hands rushed back to the heading.
an instinctive motive
From this reading Then, as if by a common impulse, all hands rushed back to the heading.
engage in
From this reading "The blast didn't make much of a dent.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Hand me a pick, one of you."
to a great degree or extent
From this reading "The blast didn't make much of a dent.
past form of “mutter” — talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice
From this reading "Hard rock!" muttered Reade.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading HARRY'S SIGNAL OF DISTRESS Through the tunnel a dull boom sounded.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading Hand me a pick, one of you."
select carefully from a group
From this reading Hand me a pick, one of you."
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Hard rock!" muttered Reade.
a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
From this reading "Hard rock!" muttered Reade.
done under pressure
From this reading Then, as if by a common impulse, all hands rushed back to the heading.
any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
From this reading HARRY'S SIGNAL OF DISTRESS Through the tunnel a dull boom sounded.
past form of “sound” — appear in a certain way
From this reading HARRY'S SIGNAL OF DISTRESS Through the tunnel a dull boom sounded.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading HARRY'S SIGNAL OF DISTRESS Through the tunnel a dull boom sounded.
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading Then, as if by a common impulse, all hands rushed back to the heading.
from one end or side of something to the other
From this reading HARRY'S SIGNAL OF DISTRESS Through the tunnel a dull boom sounded.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Then, as if by a common impulse, all hands rushed back to the heading.
move through by or as by digging
From this reading HARRY'S SIGNAL OF DISTRESS Through the tunnel a dull boom sounded.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Hand me a pick, one of you."
Chapter 18 of The Young Engineers in Nevada by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock holds 158 sentences, grouped into 32 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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