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Herland

Chapter VII · Chapter 7

Chapter 7 of Herland is here in full — 251 sentences across 51 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

By Charlotte Perkins Gilman • Curated US English Learning Edition

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Our Growing Modesty Being at last considered sufficiently tamed and trained to be trusted with scissors, we barbered ourselves as best we could.

A close-trimmed beard is certainly more comfortable than a full one.

Razors, naturally, they could not supply.

“With so many old women you’d think there’d be some razors,” sneered Terry.

Whereat Jeff pointed out that he never before had seen such complete absence of facial hair on women.

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Archivist

/ˈɑːrkɪvɪst/

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A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.

Chapter VII Reading 1/50

Herland

Chapter VII · Chapter 7

Chapter 7 of Herland is here in full — 251 sentences across 51 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/50 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1

Our Growing Modesty Being at last considered sufficiently tamed and trained to be trusted with scissors, we barbered ourselves as best we could.

Line 2

A close-trimmed beard is certainly more comfortable than a full one.

Line 3

Razors, naturally, they could not supply.

Line 4

“With so many old women you’d think there’d be some razors,” sneered Terry.

Line 5

Whereat Jeff pointed out that he never before had seen such complete absence of facial hair on women.

All words in this reading · 64

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A

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absence

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and

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From this reading Our Growing Modesty Being at last considered sufficiently tamed and trained to be trusted with scissors, we barbered ourselves as best we could.

as

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From this reading Our Growing Modesty Being at last considered sufficiently tamed and trained to be trusted with scissors, we barbered ourselves as best we could.

at

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From this reading Our Growing Modesty Being at last considered sufficiently tamed and trained to be trusted with scissors, we barbered ourselves as best we could.

barbered

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From this reading Our Growing Modesty Being at last considered sufficiently tamed and trained to be trusted with scissors, we barbered ourselves as best we could.

be

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From this reading Our Growing Modesty Being at last considered sufficiently tamed and trained to be trusted with scissors, we barbered ourselves as best we could.

beard

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From this reading A close-trimmed beard is certainly more comfortable than a full one.

before

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From this reading Whereat Jeff pointed out that he never before had seen such complete absence of facial hair on women.

Being

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From this reading Our Growing Modesty Being at last considered sufficiently tamed and trained to be trusted with scissors, we barbered ourselves as best we could.

best

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From this reading Our Growing Modesty Being at last considered sufficiently tamed and trained to be trusted with scissors, we barbered ourselves as best we could.

certainly

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close-trimmed

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comfortable

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From this reading A close-trimmed beard is certainly more comfortable than a full one.

complete

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considered

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From this reading Our Growing Modesty Being at last considered sufficiently tamed and trained to be trusted with scissors, we barbered ourselves as best we could.

could

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From this reading Our Growing Modesty Being at last considered sufficiently tamed and trained to be trusted with scissors, we barbered ourselves as best we could.

facial

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full

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Growing

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had

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hair

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he

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is

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Jeff

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last

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From this reading Our Growing Modesty Being at last considered sufficiently tamed and trained to be trusted with scissors, we barbered ourselves as best we could.

many

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From this reading “With so many old women you’d think there’d be some razors,” sneered Terry.

Modesty

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more

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naturally

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From this reading Razors, naturally, they could not supply.

never

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not

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From this reading Razors, naturally, they could not supply.

of

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From this reading Whereat Jeff pointed out that he never before had seen such complete absence of facial hair on women.

old

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From this reading “With so many old women you’d think there’d be some razors,” sneered Terry.

on

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From this reading Whereat Jeff pointed out that he never before had seen such complete absence of facial hair on women.

one

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From this reading A close-trimmed beard is certainly more comfortable than a full one.

Our

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From this reading Our Growing Modesty Being at last considered sufficiently tamed and trained to be trusted with scissors, we barbered ourselves as best we could.

ourselves

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From this reading Our Growing Modesty Being at last considered sufficiently tamed and trained to be trusted with scissors, we barbered ourselves as best we could.

out

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pointed

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Razors

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From this reading Razors, naturally, they could not supply.

scissors

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From this reading Our Growing Modesty Being at last considered sufficiently tamed and trained to be trusted with scissors, we barbered ourselves as best we could.

seen

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From this reading Whereat Jeff pointed out that he never before had seen such complete absence of facial hair on women.

sneered

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From this reading “With so many old women you’d think there’d be some razors,” sneered Terry.

so

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From this reading “With so many old women you’d think there’d be some razors,” sneered Terry.

some

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From this reading “With so many old women you’d think there’d be some razors,” sneered Terry.

such

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From this reading Whereat Jeff pointed out that he never before had seen such complete absence of facial hair on women.

sufficiently

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From this reading Our Growing Modesty Being at last considered sufficiently tamed and trained to be trusted with scissors, we barbered ourselves as best we could.

supply

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From this reading Razors, naturally, they could not supply.

tamed

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From this reading Our Growing Modesty Being at last considered sufficiently tamed and trained to be trusted with scissors, we barbered ourselves as best we could.

Terry

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From this reading “With so many old women you’d think there’d be some razors,” sneered Terry.

than

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From this reading A close-trimmed beard is certainly more comfortable than a full one.

that

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From this reading Whereat Jeff pointed out that he never before had seen such complete absence of facial hair on women.

there'd

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From this reading “With so many old women you’d think there’d be some razors,” sneered Terry.

they

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From this reading Razors, naturally, they could not supply.

think

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From this reading “With so many old women you’d think there’d be some razors,” sneered Terry.

to

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From this reading Our Growing Modesty Being at last considered sufficiently tamed and trained to be trusted with scissors, we barbered ourselves as best we could.

trained

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From this reading Our Growing Modesty Being at last considered sufficiently tamed and trained to be trusted with scissors, we barbered ourselves as best we could.

trusted

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From this reading Our Growing Modesty Being at last considered sufficiently tamed and trained to be trusted with scissors, we barbered ourselves as best we could.

we

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From this reading Our Growing Modesty Being at last considered sufficiently tamed and trained to be trusted with scissors, we barbered ourselves as best we could.

Whereat

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From this reading Whereat Jeff pointed out that he never before had seen such complete absence of facial hair on women.

with

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From this reading Our Growing Modesty Being at last considered sufficiently tamed and trained to be trusted with scissors, we barbered ourselves as best we could.

women

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From this reading “With so many old women you’d think there’d be some razors,” sneered Terry.

you'd

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From this reading “With so many old women you’d think there’d be some razors,” sneered Terry.

Chapter 7 of Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman holds 251 sentences, grouped into 51 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 Herland contain?

Chapter 7 holds 251 sentences of Herland, unabridged, divided into 51 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 7 of Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 251 sentences, grouped into 51 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 Herland?

Work through the 51 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 51 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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Project Gutenberg eBook #32, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does Herland take to read?

About 269 minutes of reading across 647 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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