Chapter 32 of Vagabond Life in Mexico is here in full — 307 sentences across 62 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 32 of Vagabond Life in Mexico is here in full — 307 sentences across 62 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
The Duel.--Awful Death of the Murderer. We leaped ashore. The pilot tied the "dingy" to the bank, and led the advance. We soon reached the village. All was quiet there.
Chapter 32 of Vagabond Life in Mexico is here in full — 307 sentences across 62 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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move forward, also in the metaphorical sense
From this reading “The pilot tied the "dingy" to the bank, and led the advance.”
towards the shore from the water
From this reading “We leaped ashore.”
thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
From this reading “The pilot tied the "dingy" to the bank, and led the advance.”
a prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor
From this reading “The Duel.--Awful Death of the Murderer.”
past form of “leap” — move forward by leaps and bounds
From this reading “We leaped ashore.”
a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
From this reading “The Duel.--Awful Death of the Murderer.”
operate an airplane
From this reading “The pilot tied the "dingy" to the bank, and led the advance.”
bound or secured closely
From this reading “The pilot tied the "dingy" to the bank, and led the advance.”
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.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
In this reading “We soon reached the village.”
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move forward, also in the metaphorical sense
From this reading The pilot tied the "dingy" to the bank, and led the advance.
(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 was quiet there.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The pilot tied the "dingy" to the bank, and led the advance.
towards the shore from the water
From this reading We leaped ashore.
exceptionally bad or displeasing
From this reading The Duel.--Awful Death of the Murderer.
sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water)
From this reading The pilot tied the "dingy" to the bank, and led the advance.
the event of dying or departure from life
From this reading The Duel.--Awful Death of the Murderer.
thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
From this reading The pilot tied the "dingy" to the bank, and led the advance.
a prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor
From this reading The Duel.--Awful Death of the Murderer.
past form of “leap” — move forward by leaps and bounds
From this reading We leaped ashore.
diode such that light emitted at a p-n junction is proportional to the bias current; color depends on the material used
From this reading The pilot tied the "dingy" to the bank, and led the advance.
a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
From this reading The Duel.--Awful Death of the Murderer.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The Duel.--Awful Death of the Murderer.
operate an airplane
From this reading The pilot tied the "dingy" to the bank, and led the advance.
characterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity
From this reading All was quiet there.
past form of “reach” — reach a destination, either real or abstract
From this reading We soon reached the village.
in the near future
From this reading We soon reached the village.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The Duel.--Awful Death of the Murderer.
in or at that place or location
From this reading All was quiet there.
bound or secured closely
From this reading The pilot tied the "dingy" to the bank, and led the advance.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The pilot tied the "dingy" to the bank, and led the advance.
a community of people smaller than a town
From this reading We soon reached the village.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading All was quiet there.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading We leaped ashore.
Chapter 32 of Vagabond Life in Mexico by Gabriel Ferry holds 307 sentences, grouped into 62 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 32 holds 307 sentences of Vagabond Life in Mexico, unabridged, divided into 62 reading sections.
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