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
He rubbed his hands and bowed to the Second Reader Class, sitting very straight and awed.
From Emmy Lou Her Book and Heart by Hinton, Charles Louis
"If I live till next October," said the boy, in a declamatory tone of voice suitable for a Second Reader.
From Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Nye, Bill
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 Pearson, Elizabeth Ware
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