Chapter XXIII of Third Warning: A Mystery Story for Girls, “Don’t Stay Too Long,” is here in full — 199 sentences across 40 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XXIII
Chapter XXIII of Third Warning: A Mystery Story for Girls, “Don’t Stay Too Long,” is here in full — 199 sentences across 40 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
All that night it rained, a slow, steady downpour. The wind that for weeks had been driving the fire forward shifted. It was now driving the fire back against itself. Everyone agreed that the battle was won. There was great rejoicing on the island.
Chapter XXIII of Third Warning: A Mystery Story for Girls, “Don’t Stay Too Long,” is here in full — 199 sentences across 40 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.
a heavy rain
From this reading “All that night it rained, a slow, steady downpour.”
having the power of driving or impelling
From this reading “The wind that for weeks had been driving the fire forward shifted.”
every person
From this reading “Everyone agreed that the battle was won.”
past form of “rain” — precipitate as rain
From this reading “All that night it rained, a slow, steady downpour.”
a feeling of great happiness
From this reading “There was great rejoicing on the island.”
past form of “shift” — make a shift in or exchange of
From this reading “The wind that for weeks had been driving the fire forward shifted.”
make steady
From this reading “All that night it rained, a slow, steady downpour.”
the basic unit of money in South Korea
From this reading “Everyone agreed that the battle was won.”
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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In this reading “There was great rejoicing on the island.”
In this reading “There was great rejoicing on the island.”
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 All that night it rained, a slow, steady downpour.
touching and pressing; in opposition to
From this reading It was now driving the fire back against itself.
united by being of the same opinion
From this reading Everyone agreed that the battle was won.
(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 All that night it rained, a slow, steady downpour.
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading It was now driving the fire back against itself.
a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
From this reading Everyone agreed that the battle was won.
the past participle of “be”
From this reading The wind that for weeks had been driving the fire forward shifted.
a heavy rain
From this reading All that night it rained, a slow, steady downpour.
having the power of driving or impelling
From this reading The wind that for weeks had been driving the fire forward shifted.
every person
From this reading Everyone agreed that the battle was won.
start firing a weapon
From this reading The wind that for weeks had been driving the fire forward shifted.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading The wind that for weeks had been driving the fire forward shifted.
at or to or toward the front
From this reading The wind that for weeks had been driving the fire forward shifted.
relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
From this reading There was great rejoicing on the island.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading The wind that for weeks had been driving the fire forward shifted.
a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
From this reading There was great rejoicing on the island.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading All that night it rained, a slow, steady downpour.
used when the thing doing the action is also its object
From this reading It was now driving the fire back against itself.
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
From this reading All that night it rained, a slow, steady downpour.
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading It was now driving the fire back against itself.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading There was great rejoicing on the island.
past form of “rain” — precipitate as rain
From this reading All that night it rained, a slow, steady downpour.
a feeling of great happiness
From this reading There was great rejoicing on the island.
past form of “shift” — make a shift in or exchange of
From this reading The wind that for weeks had been driving the fire forward shifted.
not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time
From this reading All that night it rained, a slow, steady downpour.
make steady
From this reading All that night it rained, a slow, steady downpour.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading All that night it rained, a slow, steady downpour.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The wind that for weeks had been driving the fire forward shifted.
in or at that place or location
From this reading There was great rejoicing on the island.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading It was now driving the fire back against itself.
plural of “week” — any period of seven consecutive days
From this reading The wind that for weeks had been driving the fire forward shifted.
air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
From this reading The wind that for weeks had been driving the fire forward shifted.
the basic unit of money in South Korea
From this reading Everyone agreed that the battle was won.
Chapter 23 of Third Warning: A Mystery Story for Girls by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell holds 199 sentences, grouped into 40 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 23 holds 199 sentences of Third Warning: A Mystery Story for Girls, unabridged, divided into 40 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 23 of Third Warning: A Mystery Story for Girls by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 199 sentences, grouped into 40 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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