Chapter 15 of Under the Country Sky is here in full — 150 sentences across 30 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 15 of Under the Country Sky is here in full — 150 sentences across 30 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"GREAT LUCK!" "Father Davy, are you sure, _sure_?" begged his daughter. "Sure that I want you to go, daughter? Very sure. What sort of father should I be if I were willing to deny you this great pleasure merely to insure my own comfort?
Chapter 15 of Under the Country Sky is here in full — 150 sentences across 30 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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inflected form of “beg” — call upon in supplication; entreat
From this reading “"Father Davy, are you sure, _sure_?" begged his daughter.”
a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain
From this reading “What sort of father should I be if I were willing to deny you this great pleasure merely to insure my own comfort?”
English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829)
From this reading “"Father Davy, are you sure, _sure_?" begged his daughter.”
declare untrue; contradict
From this reading “What sort of father should I be if I were willing to deny you this great pleasure merely to insure my own comfort?”
be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
From this reading “What sort of father should I be if I were willing to deny you this great pleasure merely to insure my own comfort?”
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
From this reading “"GREAT LUCK!"”
and nothing more
From this reading “What sort of father should I be if I were willing to deny you this great pleasure merely to insure my own comfort?”
disposed or inclined toward
From this reading “What sort of father should I be if I were willing to deny you this great pleasure merely to insure my own comfort?”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading "Father Davy, are you sure, _sure_?" begged his daughter.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading What sort of father should I be if I were willing to deny you this great pleasure merely to insure my own comfort?
inflected form of “beg” — call upon in supplication; entreat
From this reading "Father Davy, are you sure, _sure_?" begged his daughter.
a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain
From this reading What sort of father should I be if I were willing to deny you this great pleasure merely to insure my own comfort?
a female human offspring
From this reading "Father Davy, are you sure, _sure_?" begged his daughter.
English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829)
From this reading "Father Davy, are you sure, _sure_?" begged his daughter.
declare untrue; contradict
From this reading What sort of father should I be if I were willing to deny you this great pleasure merely to insure my own comfort?
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading "Father Davy, are you sure, _sure_?" begged his daughter.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading "Sure that I want you to go, daughter?
relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
From this reading "GREAT LUCK!"
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading "Father Davy, are you sure, _sure_?" begged his daughter.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "Sure that I want you to go, daughter?
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading What sort of father should I be if I were willing to deny you this great pleasure merely to insure my own comfort?
be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
From this reading What sort of father should I be if I were willing to deny you this great pleasure merely to insure my own comfort?
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
From this reading "GREAT LUCK!"
and nothing more
From this reading What sort of father should I be if I were willing to deny you this great pleasure merely to insure my own comfort?
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading What sort of father should I be if I were willing to deny you this great pleasure merely to insure my own comfort?
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading What sort of father should I be if I were willing to deny you this great pleasure merely to insure my own comfort?
have ownership or possession of
From this reading What sort of father should I be if I were willing to deny you this great pleasure merely to insure my own comfort?
a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience
From this reading What sort of father should I be if I were willing to deny you this great pleasure merely to insure my own comfort?
used to say what is right, expected, or advisable
From this reading What sort of father should I be if I were willing to deny you this great pleasure merely to insure my own comfort?
a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
From this reading What sort of father should I be if I were willing to deny you this great pleasure merely to insure my own comfort?
having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured
From this reading "Father Davy, are you sure, _sure_?" begged his daughter.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading "Sure that I want you to go, daughter?
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading What sort of father should I be if I were willing to deny you this great pleasure merely to insure my own comfort?
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading "Sure that I want you to go, daughter?
precisely as stated
From this reading Very sure.
feel or have a desire for; want strongly
From this reading "Sure that I want you to go, daughter?
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading What sort of father should I be if I were willing to deny you this great pleasure merely to insure my own comfort?
used to ask for information about something
From this reading What sort of father should I be if I were willing to deny you this great pleasure merely to insure my own comfort?
disposed or inclined toward
From this reading What sort of father should I be if I were willing to deny you this great pleasure merely to insure my own comfort?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "Father Davy, are you sure, _sure_?" begged his daughter.
Chapter 15 of Under the Country Sky by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond holds 150 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 15 holds 150 sentences of Under the Country Sky, unabridged, divided into 30 reading sections.
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