Chapter 4 of Dear Enemy is here in full — 190 sentences across 38 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 4 of Dear Enemy is here in full — 190 sentences across 38 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE JOHN GRIER HOME, Friday. My dearest Judy: You should see what your hundred dollars and Betsy Kindred did to that dining room! It's a dazzling dream of yellow paint. Being a north room, she thought to brighten it; and she has. The walls are kalsomined buff, with a frieze of little molly cottontails skurrying around the top.
Chapter 4 of Dear Enemy is here in full — 190 sentences across 38 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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A series of thoughts, images, or emotions during sleep.
From this reading “It's a dazzling dream of yellow paint.”
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From this reading It's a dazzling dream of yellow paint.
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From this reading My dearest Judy: You should see what your hundred dollars and Betsy Kindred did to that dining room!
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From this reading The walls are kalsomined buff, with a frieze of little molly cottontails skurrying around the top.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The walls are kalsomined buff, with a frieze of little molly cottontails skurrying around the top.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Being a north room, she thought to brighten it; and she has.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading My dearest Judy: You should see what your hundred dollars and Betsy Kindred did to that dining room!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Being a north room, she thought to brighten it; and she has.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The walls are kalsomined buff, with a frieze of little molly cottontails skurrying around the top.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The walls are kalsomined buff, with a frieze of little molly cottontails skurrying around the top.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It's a dazzling dream of yellow paint.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading My dearest Judy: You should see what your hundred dollars and Betsy Kindred did to that dining room!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading My dearest Judy: You should see what your hundred dollars and Betsy Kindred did to that dining room!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading My dearest Judy: You should see what your hundred dollars and Betsy Kindred did to that dining room!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading My dearest Judy: You should see what your hundred dollars and Betsy Kindred did to that dining room!
A series of thoughts, images, or emotions during sleep.
From this reading It's a dazzling dream of yellow paint.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading THE JOHN GRIER HOME, Friday.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The walls are kalsomined buff, with a frieze of little molly cottontails skurrying around the top.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading THE JOHN GRIER HOME, Friday.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Being a north room, she thought to brighten it; and she has.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading THE JOHN GRIER HOME, Friday.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading My dearest Judy: You should see what your hundred dollars and Betsy Kindred did to that dining room!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Being a north room, she thought to brighten it; and she has.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It's a dazzling dream of yellow paint.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading THE JOHN GRIER HOME, Friday.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading My dearest Judy: You should see what your hundred dollars and Betsy Kindred did to that dining room!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The walls are kalsomined buff, with a frieze of little molly cottontails skurrying around the top.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading My dearest Judy: You should see what your hundred dollars and Betsy Kindred did to that dining room!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The walls are kalsomined buff, with a frieze of little molly cottontails skurrying around the top.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The walls are kalsomined buff, with a frieze of little molly cottontails skurrying around the top.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading My dearest Judy: You should see what your hundred dollars and Betsy Kindred did to that dining room!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Being a north room, she thought to brighten it; and she has.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It's a dazzling dream of yellow paint.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It's a dazzling dream of yellow paint.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading My dearest Judy: You should see what your hundred dollars and Betsy Kindred did to that dining room!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading My dearest Judy: You should see what your hundred dollars and Betsy Kindred did to that dining room!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Being a north room, she thought to brighten it; and she has.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading My dearest Judy: You should see what your hundred dollars and Betsy Kindred did to that dining room!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The walls are kalsomined buff, with a frieze of little molly cottontails skurrying around the top.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading My dearest Judy: You should see what your hundred dollars and Betsy Kindred did to that dining room!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading THE JOHN GRIER HOME, Friday.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Being a north room, she thought to brighten it; and she has.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading My dearest Judy: You should see what your hundred dollars and Betsy Kindred did to that dining room!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The walls are kalsomined buff, with a frieze of little molly cottontails skurrying around the top.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The walls are kalsomined buff, with a frieze of little molly cottontails skurrying around the top.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading My dearest Judy: You should see what your hundred dollars and Betsy Kindred did to that dining room!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The walls are kalsomined buff, with a frieze of little molly cottontails skurrying around the top.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It's a dazzling dream of yellow paint.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading My dearest Judy: You should see what your hundred dollars and Betsy Kindred did to that dining room!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading My dearest Judy: You should see what your hundred dollars and Betsy Kindred did to that dining room!
Chapter 4 of Dear Enemy by Jean Webster holds 190 sentences, grouped into 38 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.
Chapter 4 holds 190 sentences of Dear Enemy, unabridged, divided into 38 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 4 of Dear Enemy by Jean Webster exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 190 sentences, grouped into 38 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 38 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 38 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.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 4 can be played aloud in United States English.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Dear Enemy, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
