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Anne's House of Dreams

Chapter XVII · Chapter 17

Chapter 17 of Anne's House of Dreams is here in full — 121 sentences across 25 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

By L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery • Curated US English Learning Edition

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A FOUR WINDS WINTER Winter set in vigorously after New Year’s.

Big, white drifts heaped themselves about the little house, and palms of frost covered its windows.

The harbor ice grew harder and thicker, until the Four Winds people began their usual winter travelling over it.

The safe ways were “bushed” by a benevolent Government, and night and day the gay tinkle of the sleigh-bells sounded on it.

On moonlit nights Anne heard them in her house of dreams like fairy chimes.

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Anne's House of Dreams

Chapter XVII · Chapter 17

Chapter 17 of Anne's House of Dreams is here in full — 121 sentences across 25 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/24 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1

A FOUR WINDS WINTER Winter set in vigorously after New Year’s.

Line 2

Big, white drifts heaped themselves about the little house, and palms of frost covered its windows.

Line 3

The harbor ice grew harder and thicker, until the Four Winds people began their usual winter travelling over it.

Line 4

The safe ways were “bushed” by a benevolent Government, and night and day the gay tinkle of the sleigh-bells sounded on it.

Line 5

On moonlit nights Anne heard them in her house of dreams like fairy chimes.

Learner Dictionary

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Nights noun US /naɪts/

Periods of darkness between sunset and sunrise.

From this reading “On moonlit nights Anne heard them in her house of dreams like fairy chimes.”

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A

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about

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after

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From this reading A FOUR WINDS WINTER Winter set in vigorously after New Year’s.

and

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From this reading Big, white drifts heaped themselves about the little house, and palms of frost covered its windows.

Anne

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From this reading On moonlit nights Anne heard them in her house of dreams like fairy chimes.

began

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benevolent

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Big

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From this reading Big, white drifts heaped themselves about the little house, and palms of frost covered its windows.

bushed

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From this reading The safe ways were “bushed” by a benevolent Government, and night and day the gay tinkle of the sleigh-bells sounded on it.

by

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chimes

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covered

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From this reading Big, white drifts heaped themselves about the little house, and palms of frost covered its windows.

day

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From this reading The safe ways were “bushed” by a benevolent Government, and night and day the gay tinkle of the sleigh-bells sounded on it.

dreams

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From this reading On moonlit nights Anne heard them in her house of dreams like fairy chimes.

drifts

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From this reading Big, white drifts heaped themselves about the little house, and palms of frost covered its windows.

fairy

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From this reading On moonlit nights Anne heard them in her house of dreams like fairy chimes.

FOUR

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From this reading A FOUR WINDS WINTER Winter set in vigorously after New Year’s.

frost

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From this reading Big, white drifts heaped themselves about the little house, and palms of frost covered its windows.

gay

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From this reading The safe ways were “bushed” by a benevolent Government, and night and day the gay tinkle of the sleigh-bells sounded on it.

Government

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From this reading The safe ways were “bushed” by a benevolent Government, and night and day the gay tinkle of the sleigh-bells sounded on it.

grew

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From this reading The harbor ice grew harder and thicker, until the Four Winds people began their usual winter travelling over it.

harbor

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harder

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heaped

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heard

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From this reading On moonlit nights Anne heard them in her house of dreams like fairy chimes.

her

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From this reading On moonlit nights Anne heard them in her house of dreams like fairy chimes.

house

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From this reading Big, white drifts heaped themselves about the little house, and palms of frost covered its windows.

ice

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From this reading The harbor ice grew harder and thicker, until the Four Winds people began their usual winter travelling over it.

in

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From this reading A FOUR WINDS WINTER Winter set in vigorously after New Year’s.

it

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From this reading The harbor ice grew harder and thicker, until the Four Winds people began their usual winter travelling over it.

its

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From this reading Big, white drifts heaped themselves about the little house, and palms of frost covered its windows.

like

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From this reading On moonlit nights Anne heard them in her house of dreams like fairy chimes.

little

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From this reading Big, white drifts heaped themselves about the little house, and palms of frost covered its windows.

moonlit

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From this reading On moonlit nights Anne heard them in her house of dreams like fairy chimes.

New

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From this reading A FOUR WINDS WINTER Winter set in vigorously after New Year’s.

night

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From this reading The safe ways were “bushed” by a benevolent Government, and night and day the gay tinkle of the sleigh-bells sounded on it.

nightsnounUS /naɪts/

Periods of darkness between sunset and sunrise.

From this reading On moonlit nights Anne heard them in her house of dreams like fairy chimes.

of

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From this reading Big, white drifts heaped themselves about the little house, and palms of frost covered its windows.

on

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From this reading The safe ways were “bushed” by a benevolent Government, and night and day the gay tinkle of the sleigh-bells sounded on it.

over

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From this reading The harbor ice grew harder and thicker, until the Four Winds people began their usual winter travelling over it.

palms

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From this reading Big, white drifts heaped themselves about the little house, and palms of frost covered its windows.

people

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From this reading The harbor ice grew harder and thicker, until the Four Winds people began their usual winter travelling over it.

safe

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From this reading The safe ways were “bushed” by a benevolent Government, and night and day the gay tinkle of the sleigh-bells sounded on it.

set

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From this reading A FOUR WINDS WINTER Winter set in vigorously after New Year’s.

sleigh-bells

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From this reading The safe ways were “bushed” by a benevolent Government, and night and day the gay tinkle of the sleigh-bells sounded on it.

sounded

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From this reading The safe ways were “bushed” by a benevolent Government, and night and day the gay tinkle of the sleigh-bells sounded on it.

the

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From this reading Big, white drifts heaped themselves about the little house, and palms of frost covered its windows.

their

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From this reading The harbor ice grew harder and thicker, until the Four Winds people began their usual winter travelling over it.

them

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From this reading On moonlit nights Anne heard them in her house of dreams like fairy chimes.

themselves

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From this reading Big, white drifts heaped themselves about the little house, and palms of frost covered its windows.

thicker

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From this reading The harbor ice grew harder and thicker, until the Four Winds people began their usual winter travelling over it.

tinkle

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From this reading The safe ways were “bushed” by a benevolent Government, and night and day the gay tinkle of the sleigh-bells sounded on it.

travelling

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until

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usual

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From this reading The harbor ice grew harder and thicker, until the Four Winds people began their usual winter travelling over it.

vigorously

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From this reading A FOUR WINDS WINTER Winter set in vigorously after New Year’s.

ways

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From this reading The safe ways were “bushed” by a benevolent Government, and night and day the gay tinkle of the sleigh-bells sounded on it.

were

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From this reading The safe ways were “bushed” by a benevolent Government, and night and day the gay tinkle of the sleigh-bells sounded on it.

white

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From this reading Big, white drifts heaped themselves about the little house, and palms of frost covered its windows.

windows

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From this reading Big, white drifts heaped themselves about the little house, and palms of frost covered its windows.

WINDS

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From this reading A FOUR WINDS WINTER Winter set in vigorously after New Year’s.

WINTER

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From this reading A FOUR WINDS WINTER Winter set in vigorously after New Year’s.

Year's

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From this reading A FOUR WINDS WINTER Winter set in vigorously after New Year’s.

Chapter 17 of Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery holds 121 sentences, grouped into 25 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, 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.

What does chapter 17 of Anne's House of Dreams contain?

Chapter 17 holds 121 sentences of Anne's House of Dreams, unabridged, divided into 25 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 17 of Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 121 sentences, grouped into 25 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.

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Work through the 25 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 25 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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