Chapter 18 of Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera is here in full — 44 sentences across 9 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 18 of Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera is here in full — 44 sentences across 9 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE NATIVE BATTLE "By Jove, Tom, here they come!" "From over by that drinking pool?" "Yes, just as the spies said they would. Wow, what a crowd of the black beggars there are! And some of 'em have regular guns, too.
Chapter 18 of Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera is here in full — 44 sentences across 9 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
plural of “beggar” — a pauper who lives by begging
From this reading “Wow, what a crowd of the black beggars there are!”
the act of consuming liquids
From this reading “"From over by that drinking pool?"”
plural of “gun” — a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
From this reading “And some of 'em have regular guns, too.”
characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin
From this reading “THE NATIVE BATTLE "By Jove, Tom, here they come!"”
an excavation that is (usually) filled with water
From this reading “"From over by that drinking pool?"”
in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle
From this reading “And some of 'em have regular guns, too.”
plural of “spy” — (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors
From this reading “"Yes, just as the spies said they would.”
a joke that seems extremely funny
From this reading “Wow, what a crowd of the black beggars there are!”
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 Wow, what a crowd of the black beggars there are!
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading And some of 'em have regular guns, too.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Wow, what a crowd of the black beggars there are!
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading "Yes, just as the spies said they would.
a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
From this reading THE NATIVE BATTLE "By Jove, Tom, here they come!"
plural of “beggar” — a pauper who lives by begging
From this reading Wow, what a crowd of the black beggars there are!
being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
From this reading Wow, what a crowd of the black beggars there are!
showing who or what does the action
From this reading THE NATIVE BATTLE "By Jove, Tom, here they come!"
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading THE NATIVE BATTLE "By Jove, Tom, here they come!"
cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
From this reading Wow, what a crowd of the black beggars there are!
the act of consuming liquids
From this reading "From over by that drinking pool?"
a quad with a square body
From this reading And some of 'em have regular guns, too.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading "From over by that drinking pool?"
plural of “gun” — a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
From this reading And some of 'em have regular guns, too.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading And some of 'em have regular guns, too.
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading THE NATIVE BATTLE "By Jove, Tom, here they come!"
(Roman mythology) supreme god of Romans; counterpart of Greek Zeus
From this reading THE NATIVE BATTLE "By Jove, Tom, here they come!"
and nothing more
From this reading "Yes, just as the spies said they would.
characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin
From this reading THE NATIVE BATTLE "By Jove, Tom, here they come!"
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Wow, what a crowd of the black beggars there are!
above and across; more than
From this reading "From over by that drinking pool?"
an excavation that is (usually) filled with water
From this reading "From over by that drinking pool?"
in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle
From this reading And some of 'em have regular guns, too.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading "Yes, just as the spies said they would.
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading And some of 'em have regular guns, too.
plural of “spy” — (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors
From this reading "Yes, just as the spies said they would.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading "From over by that drinking pool?"
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE NATIVE BATTLE "By Jove, Tom, here they come!"
in or at that place or location
From this reading Wow, what a crowd of the black beggars there are!
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading THE NATIVE BATTLE "By Jove, Tom, here they come!"
male cat
From this reading THE NATIVE BATTLE "By Jove, Tom, here they come!"
to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
From this reading And some of 'em have regular guns, too.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading Wow, what a crowd of the black beggars there are!
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading "Yes, just as the spies said they would.
a joke that seems extremely funny
From this reading Wow, what a crowd of the black beggars there are!
an affirmative
From this reading "Yes, just as the spies said they would.
Chapter 18 of Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera by Victor Appleton holds 44 sentences, grouped into 9 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 18 holds 44 sentences of Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera, unabridged, divided into 9 reading sections.
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