Chapter 6 of Whispering Wires is here in full — 403 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 6 of Whispering Wires is here in full — 403 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"No! We were going to _send_ him there! It's like a crook, though, to play with fire. What else did Frick say?" "Nothing more, Chief.
Chapter 6 of Whispering Wires is here in full — 403 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/80 · 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 person who is in charge
From this reading “"Nothing more, Chief.”
someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
From this reading “It's like a crook, though, to play with fire.”
start firing a weapon
From this reading “It's like a crook, though, to play with fire.”
United States industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry (1849-1919)
From this reading “What else did Frick say?"”
the act of departing
From this reading “We were going to _send_ him there!”
not one thing; not anything
From this reading “"Nothing more, Chief.”
participate in games or sport
From this reading “It's like a crook, though, to play with fire.”
cause to go somewhere
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 “It's like a crook, though, to play with fire.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading It's like a crook, though, to play with fire.
a person who is in charge
From this reading "Nothing more, Chief.
someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
From this reading It's like a crook, though, to play with fire.
the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives
From this reading What else did Frick say?"
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading What else did Frick say?"
start firing a weapon
From this reading It's like a crook, though, to play with fire.
United States industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry (1849-1919)
From this reading What else did Frick say?"
the act of departing
From this reading We were going to _send_ him there!
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading We were going to _send_ him there!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It's like a crook, though, to play with fire.
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading It's like a crook, though, to play with fire.
(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree
From this reading "Nothing more, Chief.
not any; not one
From this reading "No!
not one thing; not anything
From this reading "Nothing more, Chief.
participate in games or sport
From this reading It's like a crook, though, to play with fire.
express in words
From this reading What else did Frick say?"
cause to go somewhere
From this reading We were going to _send_ him there!
in or at that place or location
From this reading We were going to _send_ him there!
in spite of the fact that
From this reading It's like a crook, though, to play with fire.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading We were going to _send_ him there!
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading We were going to _send_ him there!
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading We were going to _send_ him there!
used to ask for information about something
From this reading What else did Frick say?"
in the company of; together with
From this reading It's like a crook, though, to play with fire.
Chapter 6 of Whispering Wires by Henry Leverage holds 403 sentences, grouped into 81 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 403 sentences of Whispering Wires, unabridged, divided into 81 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 6 of Whispering Wires by Henry Leverage exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 403 sentences, grouped into 81 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 81 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 81 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.
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About 507 minutes of reading across 1218 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Whispering Wires, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
