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Dear Enemy
Dear Enemy

Chapter VII · Chapter 7

Chapter 7 of Dear Enemy is here in full — 179 sentences across 36 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Chapter 7 of Dear Enemy by Jean Webster holds 179 sentences, grouped into 36 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 7 of Dear Enemy contain?

Chapter 7 holds 179 sentences of Dear Enemy, unabridged, divided into 36 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 7 of Dear Enemy by Jean Webster exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 179 sentences, grouped into 36 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.

How do I study chapter 7 of Dear Enemy?

Work through the 36 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 36 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.

Can chapter 7 be read aloud to me?

Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 7 can be played aloud in United States English.

Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.

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Is this the complete text of Dear Enemy?

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Project Gutenberg eBook #238, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does Dear Enemy take to read?

About 345 minutes of reading across 830 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in Dear Enemy

Words and structures a reader meets early in Dear Enemy, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

December
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Letter
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Twice
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Amazement
A word that appears in the opening chapter of Dear Enemy; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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Yesterday he was brought squirming and howling to my office, charged with having knocked down a little girl and robbed her of her doll.
Miss Snaith plumped him into a chair behind me, and left him to grow quiet, while I went on with my writing.
I was suddenly startled by an awful crash.
He had pushed that big green jardiniere off the window-sill and broken it into five hundred pieces.
I jumped with a suddenness that swept the ink-bottle to the floor, and when Punch saw that second catastrophe, he stopped roaring with rage and threw back his head and roared with laughter.
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Dear Enemy

Chapter VII · Chapter 7

Chapter 7 of Dear Enemy is here in full — 179 sentences across 36 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/36 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
Yesterday he was brought squirming and howling to my office, charged with having knocked down a little girl and robbed her of her doll.
Line 2
Miss Snaith plumped him into a chair behind me, and left him to grow quiet, while I went on with my writing.
Line 3
I was suddenly startled by an awful crash.
Line 4
He had pushed that big green jardiniere off the window-sill and broken it into five hundred pieces.
Line 5
I jumped with a suddenness that swept the ink-bottle to the floor, and when Punch saw that second catastrophe, he stopped roaring with rage and threw back his head and roared with laughter.
All words in this reading · 77

Every word is available to listen to. Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.

a

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From this reading Yesterday he was brought squirming and howling to my office, charged with having knocked down a little girl and robbed her of her doll.

an

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From this reading I was suddenly startled by an awful crash.

and

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From this reading Yesterday he was brought squirming and howling to my office, charged with having knocked down a little girl and robbed her of her doll.

awful

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From this reading I was suddenly startled by an awful crash.

back

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From this reading I jumped with a suddenness that swept the ink-bottle to the floor, and when Punch saw that second catastrophe, he stopped roaring with rage and threw back his head and roared with laughter.

behind

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From this reading Miss Snaith plumped him into a chair behind me, and left him to grow quiet, while I went on with my writing.

big

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From this reading He had pushed that big green jardiniere off the window-sill and broken it into five hundred pieces.

broken

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From this reading He had pushed that big green jardiniere off the window-sill and broken it into five hundred pieces.

brought

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From this reading Yesterday he was brought squirming and howling to my office, charged with having knocked down a little girl and robbed her of her doll.

by

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From this reading I was suddenly startled by an awful crash.

catastrophe

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From this reading I jumped with a suddenness that swept the ink-bottle to the floor, and when Punch saw that second catastrophe, he stopped roaring with rage and threw back his head and roared with laughter.

chair

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From this reading Miss Snaith plumped him into a chair behind me, and left him to grow quiet, while I went on with my writing.

charged

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From this reading Yesterday he was brought squirming and howling to my office, charged with having knocked down a little girl and robbed her of her doll.

crash

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From this reading I was suddenly startled by an awful crash.

doll

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From this reading Yesterday he was brought squirming and howling to my office, charged with having knocked down a little girl and robbed her of her doll.

down

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From this reading Yesterday he was brought squirming and howling to my office, charged with having knocked down a little girl and robbed her of her doll.

five

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From this reading He had pushed that big green jardiniere off the window-sill and broken it into five hundred pieces.

floor

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From this reading I jumped with a suddenness that swept the ink-bottle to the floor, and when Punch saw that second catastrophe, he stopped roaring with rage and threw back his head and roared with laughter.

girl

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From this reading Yesterday he was brought squirming and howling to my office, charged with having knocked down a little girl and robbed her of her doll.

green

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From this reading He had pushed that big green jardiniere off the window-sill and broken it into five hundred pieces.

grow

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From this reading Miss Snaith plumped him into a chair behind me, and left him to grow quiet, while I went on with my writing.

had

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From this reading He had pushed that big green jardiniere off the window-sill and broken it into five hundred pieces.

having

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From this reading Yesterday he was brought squirming and howling to my office, charged with having knocked down a little girl and robbed her of her doll.

he

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From this reading Yesterday he was brought squirming and howling to my office, charged with having knocked down a little girl and robbed her of her doll.

head

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From this reading I jumped with a suddenness that swept the ink-bottle to the floor, and when Punch saw that second catastrophe, he stopped roaring with rage and threw back his head and roared with laughter.

her

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From this reading Yesterday he was brought squirming and howling to my office, charged with having knocked down a little girl and robbed her of her doll.

him

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From this reading Miss Snaith plumped him into a chair behind me, and left him to grow quiet, while I went on with my writing.

his

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From this reading I jumped with a suddenness that swept the ink-bottle to the floor, and when Punch saw that second catastrophe, he stopped roaring with rage and threw back his head and roared with laughter.

howling

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From this reading Yesterday he was brought squirming and howling to my office, charged with having knocked down a little girl and robbed her of her doll.

hundred

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From this reading He had pushed that big green jardiniere off the window-sill and broken it into five hundred pieces.

I

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From this reading Miss Snaith plumped him into a chair behind me, and left him to grow quiet, while I went on with my writing.

ink-bottle

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From this reading I jumped with a suddenness that swept the ink-bottle to the floor, and when Punch saw that second catastrophe, he stopped roaring with rage and threw back his head and roared with laughter.

into

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From this reading Miss Snaith plumped him into a chair behind me, and left him to grow quiet, while I went on with my writing.

it

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From this reading He had pushed that big green jardiniere off the window-sill and broken it into five hundred pieces.

jardiniere

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From this reading He had pushed that big green jardiniere off the window-sill and broken it into five hundred pieces.

jumped

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From this reading I jumped with a suddenness that swept the ink-bottle to the floor, and when Punch saw that second catastrophe, he stopped roaring with rage and threw back his head and roared with laughter.

knocked

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From this reading Yesterday he was brought squirming and howling to my office, charged with having knocked down a little girl and robbed her of her doll.

laughter

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From this reading I jumped with a suddenness that swept the ink-bottle to the floor, and when Punch saw that second catastrophe, he stopped roaring with rage and threw back his head and roared with laughter.

left

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From this reading Miss Snaith plumped him into a chair behind me, and left him to grow quiet, while I went on with my writing.

little

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From this reading Yesterday he was brought squirming and howling to my office, charged with having knocked down a little girl and robbed her of her doll.

me

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From this reading Miss Snaith plumped him into a chair behind me, and left him to grow quiet, while I went on with my writing.

Miss

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From this reading Miss Snaith plumped him into a chair behind me, and left him to grow quiet, while I went on with my writing.

my

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From this reading Yesterday he was brought squirming and howling to my office, charged with having knocked down a little girl and robbed her of her doll.

of

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From this reading Yesterday he was brought squirming and howling to my office, charged with having knocked down a little girl and robbed her of her doll.

off

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From this reading He had pushed that big green jardiniere off the window-sill and broken it into five hundred pieces.

office

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From this reading Yesterday he was brought squirming and howling to my office, charged with having knocked down a little girl and robbed her of her doll.

on

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From this reading Miss Snaith plumped him into a chair behind me, and left him to grow quiet, while I went on with my writing.

pieces

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From this reading He had pushed that big green jardiniere off the window-sill and broken it into five hundred pieces.

plumped

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From this reading Miss Snaith plumped him into a chair behind me, and left him to grow quiet, while I went on with my writing.

Punch

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I jumped with a suddenness that swept the ink-bottle to the floor, and when Punch saw that second catastrophe, he stopped roaring with rage and threw back his head and roared with laughter.

pushed

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From this reading He had pushed that big green jardiniere off the window-sill and broken it into five hundred pieces.

quiet

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From this reading Miss Snaith plumped him into a chair behind me, and left him to grow quiet, while I went on with my writing.

rage

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From this reading I jumped with a suddenness that swept the ink-bottle to the floor, and when Punch saw that second catastrophe, he stopped roaring with rage and threw back his head and roared with laughter.

roared

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From this reading I jumped with a suddenness that swept the ink-bottle to the floor, and when Punch saw that second catastrophe, he stopped roaring with rage and threw back his head and roared with laughter.

roaring

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From this reading I jumped with a suddenness that swept the ink-bottle to the floor, and when Punch saw that second catastrophe, he stopped roaring with rage and threw back his head and roared with laughter.

robbed

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From this reading Yesterday he was brought squirming and howling to my office, charged with having knocked down a little girl and robbed her of her doll.

saw

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From this reading I jumped with a suddenness that swept the ink-bottle to the floor, and when Punch saw that second catastrophe, he stopped roaring with rage and threw back his head and roared with laughter.

second

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From this reading I jumped with a suddenness that swept the ink-bottle to the floor, and when Punch saw that second catastrophe, he stopped roaring with rage and threw back his head and roared with laughter.

Snaith

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From this reading Miss Snaith plumped him into a chair behind me, and left him to grow quiet, while I went on with my writing.

squirming

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From this reading Yesterday he was brought squirming and howling to my office, charged with having knocked down a little girl and robbed her of her doll.

startled

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From this reading I was suddenly startled by an awful crash.

stopped

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From this reading I jumped with a suddenness that swept the ink-bottle to the floor, and when Punch saw that second catastrophe, he stopped roaring with rage and threw back his head and roared with laughter.

suddenly

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From this reading I was suddenly startled by an awful crash.

suddenness

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From this reading I jumped with a suddenness that swept the ink-bottle to the floor, and when Punch saw that second catastrophe, he stopped roaring with rage and threw back his head and roared with laughter.

swept

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From this reading I jumped with a suddenness that swept the ink-bottle to the floor, and when Punch saw that second catastrophe, he stopped roaring with rage and threw back his head and roared with laughter.

that

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From this reading He had pushed that big green jardiniere off the window-sill and broken it into five hundred pieces.

the

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From this reading He had pushed that big green jardiniere off the window-sill and broken it into five hundred pieces.

threw

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From this reading I jumped with a suddenness that swept the ink-bottle to the floor, and when Punch saw that second catastrophe, he stopped roaring with rage and threw back his head and roared with laughter.

to

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From this reading Yesterday he was brought squirming and howling to my office, charged with having knocked down a little girl and robbed her of her doll.

was

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From this reading Yesterday he was brought squirming and howling to my office, charged with having knocked down a little girl and robbed her of her doll.

went

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From this reading Miss Snaith plumped him into a chair behind me, and left him to grow quiet, while I went on with my writing.

when

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From this reading I jumped with a suddenness that swept the ink-bottle to the floor, and when Punch saw that second catastrophe, he stopped roaring with rage and threw back his head and roared with laughter.

while

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From this reading Miss Snaith plumped him into a chair behind me, and left him to grow quiet, while I went on with my writing.

window-sill

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From this reading He had pushed that big green jardiniere off the window-sill and broken it into five hundred pieces.

with

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From this reading Yesterday he was brought squirming and howling to my office, charged with having knocked down a little girl and robbed her of her doll.

writing

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From this reading Miss Snaith plumped him into a chair behind me, and left him to grow quiet, while I went on with my writing.

Yesterday

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From this reading Yesterday he was brought squirming and howling to my office, charged with having knocked down a little girl and robbed her of her doll.