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Chapter XXV · Chapter 25

Chapter 25 of Active Service is here in full — 200 sentences across 40 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

By Stephen Crane • Curated US English Learning Edition

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" I FEEL in this radiant atmosphere that there could be no such thing as war-men striving together in black and passionate hatred."

The professor's words were for the benefit of his wife and daughter.

,He was viewing the sky-blue waters of the Gulf of Corinth with its background of mountains that in the sunshine were touched here and there with a copperish glare.

The train was slowly sweeping along the southern shore.

" It is strange to think of those men fighting up there in the north.

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Chapter XXV Reading 1/40

Active Service

Chapter XXV · Chapter 25

Chapter 25 of Active Service is here in full — 200 sentences across 40 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/40 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1

" I FEEL in this radiant atmosphere that there could be no such thing as war-men striving together in black and passionate hatred."

Line 2

The professor's words were for the benefit of his wife and daughter.

Line 3

,He was viewing the sky-blue waters of the Gulf of Corinth with its background of mountains that in the sunshine were touched here and there with a copperish glare.

Line 4

The train was slowly sweeping along the southern shore.

Line 5

" It is strange to think of those men fighting up there in the north.

All words in this reading · 64

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a

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along

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and

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as

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atmosphere

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background

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be

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benefit

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black

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copperish

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Corinth

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could

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daughter

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FEEL

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fighting

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for

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glare

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Gulf

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hatred

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He

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here

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his

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I

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in

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is

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It

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its

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men

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mountains

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no

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north

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of

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passionate

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professor's

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radiant

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shore

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sky-blue

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slowly

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southern

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strange

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striving

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such

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sunshine

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sweeping

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From this reading The train was slowly sweeping along the southern shore.

that

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The

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there

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thing

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think

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this

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those

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to

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together

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touched

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train

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From this reading The train was slowly sweeping along the southern shore.

up

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viewing

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From this reading ,He was viewing the sky-blue waters of the Gulf of Corinth with its background of mountains that in the sunshine were touched here and there with a copperish glare.

war-men

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From this reading " I FEEL in this radiant atmosphere that there could be no such thing as war-men striving together in black and passionate hatred."

was

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From this reading ,He was viewing the sky-blue waters of the Gulf of Corinth with its background of mountains that in the sunshine were touched here and there with a copperish glare.

waters

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From this reading ,He was viewing the sky-blue waters of the Gulf of Corinth with its background of mountains that in the sunshine were touched here and there with a copperish glare.

were

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From this reading The professor's words were for the benefit of his wife and daughter.

wife

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From this reading The professor's words were for the benefit of his wife and daughter.

with

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From this reading ,He was viewing the sky-blue waters of the Gulf of Corinth with its background of mountains that in the sunshine were touched here and there with a copperish glare.

words

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From this reading The professor's words were for the benefit of his wife and daughter.

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