Chapter 6 of We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter VI
Chapter 6 of We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Let's eat," Mr. Simpson suggested. "Good idea," Pete seconded. "Wonderful!" Cindy said. They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.
Chapter 6 of We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/83 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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.
a garment of cloth or leather or plastic that is tied about the waist and worn to protect your clothing
From this reading “They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.”
a long seat for more than one person
From this reading “They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.”
possessive form of “brown” — an orange of low brightness and saturation
From this reading “They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.”
a building where people go to eat
From this reading “They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.”
past form of “second” — give support or one's approval to
From this reading “"Good idea," Pete seconded.”
United States divorcee whose marriage to Edward VIII created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication
From this reading “"Let's eat," Mr. Simpson suggested.”
a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant)
From this reading “They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.”
made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood
From this reading “They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.”
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 “They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.”
In this reading “They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.”
In this reading “They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.”
In this reading “They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.”
In this reading “"Good idea," Pete seconded.”
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 They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.
a garment of cloth or leather or plastic that is tied about the waist and worn to protect your clothing
From this reading They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.
a long seat for more than one person
From this reading They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.
possessive form of “brown” — an orange of low brightness and saturation
From this reading They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Cindy said.
free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits
From this reading They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.
take in solid food
From this reading "Let's eat," Mr. Simpson suggested.
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading "Good idea," Pete seconded.
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading "Good idea," Pete seconded.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Let's eat," Mr. Simpson suggested.
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.
a form of address for a man
From this reading "Let's eat," Mr. Simpson suggested.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Good idea," Pete seconded.
a building where people go to eat
From this reading They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.
having or caused by an irregular surface
From this reading They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading Cindy said.
(of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks
From this reading They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.
past form of “second” — give support or one's approval to
From this reading "Good idea," Pete seconded.
United States divorcee whose marriage to Edward VIII created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication
From this reading "Let's eat," Mr. Simpson suggested.
past form of “suggest” — make a proposal, declare a plan for something
From this reading "Let's eat," Mr. Simpson suggested.
a set of data arranged in rows and columns
From this reading They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.
used when the people doing the action are also its object
From this reading They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.
a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant)
From this reading They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.
past form of “walk” — use one's feet to advance; advance by steps
From this reading They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.
a Caucasian
From this reading They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.
extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
From this reading "Wonderful!"
made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood
From this reading They walked back to Brown's Restaurant, seated themselves on a rough, wooden bench at a long, wooden table, and a waiter in a clean white apron came.
Chapter 6 of We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run by Jim Kjelgaard holds 417 sentences, grouped into 84 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 6 holds 417 sentences of We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 6 of We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run by Jim Kjelgaard exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 417 sentences, grouped into 84 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.
Work through the 84 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 84 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 6 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
Common questions about reading We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run by Jim Kjelgaard on this page, its source edition and its audio.
Yes. All 2496 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #34720 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Project Gutenberg eBook #34720, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
About 208 minutes of reading across 500 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
Choose one of the 6 chapters of We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run to begin.
Each section holds 5 sentences; read it once through.
Play the section aloud, then tap any unfamiliar word for its entry.
Words and structures a reader meets early in We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
