Chapter 11 of The Young Forester is here in full — 241 sentences across 49 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XI
Chapter 11 of The Young Forester is here in full — 241 sentences across 49 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“This one you shot must be the old mother bear. Where's the cub? Did it get away?” “Not yet. Lookup in the tree.”
Chapter 11 of The Young Forester is here in full — 241 sentences across 49 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
have
From this reading ““This one you shot must be the old mother bear.”
an awkward and inexperienced youth
From this reading “Where's the cub?”
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading “Did it get away?””
an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property
From this reading “Lookup in the tree.””
a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
From this reading ““This one you shot must be the old mother bear.”
the act of firing a projectile
From this reading ““This one you shot must be the old mother bear.”
a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
From this reading “Lookup in the tree.””
but in spite of that
From this reading ““Not yet.”
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.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading Did it get away?”
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading “This one you shot must be the old mother bear.
have
From this reading “This one you shot must be the old mother bear.
an awkward and inexperienced youth
From this reading Where's the cub?
the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives
From this reading Did it get away?”
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading Did it get away?”
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Lookup in the tree.”
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Did it get away?”
an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property
From this reading Lookup in the tree.”
a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
From this reading “This one you shot must be the old mother bear.
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading “This one you shot must be the old mother bear.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading “Not yet.
(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age
From this reading “This one you shot must be the old mother bear.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading “This one you shot must be the old mother bear.
the act of firing a projectile
From this reading “This one you shot must be the old mother bear.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading “This one you shot must be the old mother bear.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading “This one you shot must be the old mother bear.
a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
From this reading Lookup in the tree.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Where's the cub?
but in spite of that
From this reading “Not yet.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “This one you shot must be the old mother bear.
Chapter 11 of The Young Forester by Zane Grey holds 241 sentences, grouped into 49 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, 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 11 holds 241 sentences of The Young Forester, unabridged, divided into 49 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 11 of The Young Forester by Zane Grey exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 241 sentences, grouped into 49 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.
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