Chapter 3 of Wolfbane is here in full — 421 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter III
Chapter 3 of Wolfbane is here in full — 421 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Always the thought trailed off. He would exactly _What_? What could he do? Migration was an answer--go to another city. With Gala, he guessed.
Chapter 3 of Wolfbane is here in full — 421 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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at all times; all the time and on every occasion
From this reading “Always the thought trailed off.”
react verbally
From this reading “Migration was an answer--go to another city.”
a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts
From this reading “Migration was an answer--go to another city.”
indicating exactness or preciseness
From this reading “He would exactly _What_?”
a gay festivity
From this reading “With Gala, he guessed.”
past form of “guess” — expect, believe, or suppose
From this reading “With Gala, he guessed.”
the movement of persons from one country or locality to another
From this reading “Migration was an answer--go to another city.”
past form of “trail” — to lag or linger behind
From this reading “Always the thought trailed off.”
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.
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at all times; all the time and on every occasion
From this reading Always the thought trailed off.
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading Migration was an answer--go to another city.
one more of the same kind, or a different one
From this reading Migration was an answer--go to another city.
react verbally
From this reading Migration was an answer--go to another city.
a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts
From this reading Migration was an answer--go to another city.
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading What could he do?
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading What could he do?
indicating exactness or preciseness
From this reading He would exactly _What_?
a gay festivity
From this reading With Gala, he guessed.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading Migration was an answer--go to another city.
past form of “guess” — expect, believe, or suppose
From this reading With Gala, he guessed.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading He would exactly _What_?
the movement of persons from one country or locality to another
From this reading Migration was an answer--go to another city.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading Always the thought trailed off.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Always the thought trailed off.
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading Always the thought trailed off.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Migration was an answer--go to another city.
past form of “trail” — to lag or linger behind
From this reading Always the thought trailed off.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Migration was an answer--go to another city.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading He would exactly _What_?
in the company of; together with
From this reading With Gala, he guessed.
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading He would exactly _What_?
Chapter 3 of Wolfbane by Frederik Pohl holds 421 sentences, grouped into 85 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 3 holds 421 sentences of Wolfbane, unabridged, divided into 85 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 3 of Wolfbane by Frederik Pohl exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 421 sentences, grouped into 85 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 85 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 85 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.
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About 239 minutes of reading across 575 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Wolfbane, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
