Second Reader
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Second Reader
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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The Second Reader contained more complicated animal stories, also some frightening ones — big bears, fierce tigers — and the im mortal legend of George Washing ton and his father's cherry tree.
From Time Magazine Archive
A round-faced, Irish nine-year-old chortled on first looking into McGuffey's Second Reader.
From Time Magazine Archive
And Emmy Lou peeped surreptitiously at the blue ribbon in her Second Reader.
From Emmy Lou Her Book and Heart by Charles Louis Hinton
The feat of reading upside down might seem to suggest that they were reading Hillard's Second Reader for the second time chiefly by the aid of memory!
From Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) by Elizabeth Ware Pearson
Hardly had the Second Reader begun, when one Friday the music man came.
From Emmy Lou Her Book and Heart by Charles Louis Hinton
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