Chapter 4 of Those Dale Girls is here in full — 146 sentences across 30 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 4 of Those Dale Girls is here in full — 146 sentences across 30 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“George Washington! G-e-o-r-g-e W-a-s-h-i-n-g-t-o-n!” “Ma’am?” “Why don’t you answer the first time I call you? Come here and go hunt the Colonel and tell him I want him directly.
Chapter 4 of Those Dale Girls is here in full — 146 sentences across 30 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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react verbally
From this reading ““Why don’t you answer the first time I call you?”
assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading ““Why don’t you answer the first time I call you?”
a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general
From this reading “Come here and go hunt the Colonel and tell him I want him directly.”
without deviation
From this reading “Come here and go hunt the Colonel and tell him I want him directly.”
Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303)
From this reading ““George Washington!”
pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
From this reading “Come here and go hunt the Colonel and tell him I want him directly.”
a woman of refinement
the capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca; George Washington commissioned Charles L'Enfant to lay out the city in 1791
From this reading ““George Washington!”
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In this reading ““Why don’t you answer the first time I call you?”
In this reading “Come here and go hunt the Colonel and tell him I want him directly.”
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Come here and go hunt the Colonel and tell him I want him directly.
react verbally
From this reading “Why don’t you answer the first time I call you?
assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading “Why don’t you answer the first time I call you?
a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general
From this reading Come here and go hunt the Colonel and tell him I want him directly.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Come here and go hunt the Colonel and tell him I want him directly.
without deviation
From this reading Come here and go hunt the Colonel and tell him I want him directly.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Why don’t you answer the first time I call you?
preceding all others in time or space or degree
From this reading “Why don’t you answer the first time I call you?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading G-e-o-r-g-e W-a-s-h-i-n-g-t-o-n!”
Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303)
From this reading “George Washington!
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading Come here and go hunt the Colonel and tell him I want him directly.
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading Come here and go hunt the Colonel and tell him I want him directly.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Come here and go hunt the Colonel and tell him I want him directly.
pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
From this reading Come here and go hunt the Colonel and tell him I want him directly.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “Why don’t you answer the first time I call you?
a woman of refinement
From this reading “Ma’am?”
express in words
From this reading Come here and go hunt the Colonel and tell him I want him directly.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading “Why don’t you answer the first time I call you?
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading “Why don’t you answer the first time I call you?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading G-e-o-r-g-e W-a-s-h-i-n-g-t-o-n!”
feel or have a desire for; want strongly
From this reading Come here and go hunt the Colonel and tell him I want him directly.
the capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca; George Washington commissioned Charles L'Enfant to lay out the city in 1791
From this reading “George Washington!
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading “Why don’t you answer the first time I call you?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “Why don’t you answer the first time I call you?
Chapter 4 of Those Dale Girls by Frances Carruth Prindle holds 146 sentences, grouped into 30 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 4 holds 146 sentences of Those Dale Girls, unabridged, divided into 30 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 4 of Those Dale Girls by Frances Carruth Prindle exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 146 sentences, grouped into 30 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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