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The Emerald City of Oz
The Emerald City of Oz

Chapter V · Chapter 5

Chapter 5 of The Emerald City of Oz is here in full — 201 sentences across 41 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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The voice of the Grand Gallipoot was partly a roar and partly a growl.
He mumbled his words badly and Guph had to listen carefully in order to understand him.
These Growleywogs were certainly remarkable creatures.
They were of gigantic size, yet were all bone and skin and muscle, there being no meat or fat upon their bodies at all.
Their powerful muscles lay just underneath their skins, like bunches of tough rope, and the weakest Growleywog was so strong that he could pick up an elephant and toss it seven miles away.
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The Emerald City of Oz

Chapter V · Chapter 5

Chapter 5 of The Emerald City of Oz is here in full — 201 sentences across 41 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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

Line 1
The voice of the Grand Gallipoot was partly a roar and partly a growl.
Line 2
He mumbled his words badly and Guph had to listen carefully in order to understand him.
Line 3
These Growleywogs were certainly remarkable creatures.
Line 4
They were of gigantic size, yet were all bone and skin and muscle, there being no meat or fat upon their bodies at all.
Line 5
Their powerful muscles lay just underneath their skins, like bunches of tough rope, and the weakest Growleywog was so strong that he could pick up an elephant and toss it seven miles away.

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a

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From this reading The voice of the Grand Gallipoot was partly a roar and partly a growl.

all

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From this reading They were of gigantic size, yet were all bone and skin and muscle, there being no meat or fat upon their bodies at all.

an

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From this reading Their powerful muscles lay just underneath their skins, like bunches of tough rope, and the weakest Growleywog was so strong that he could pick up an elephant and toss it seven miles away.

and

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From this reading The voice of the Grand Gallipoot was partly a roar and partly a growl.

at

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From this reading They were of gigantic size, yet were all bone and skin and muscle, there being no meat or fat upon their bodies at all.

away

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From this reading Their powerful muscles lay just underneath their skins, like bunches of tough rope, and the weakest Growleywog was so strong that he could pick up an elephant and toss it seven miles away.

badly

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From this reading He mumbled his words badly and Guph had to listen carefully in order to understand him.

being

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From this reading They were of gigantic size, yet were all bone and skin and muscle, there being no meat or fat upon their bodies at all.

bodies

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From this reading They were of gigantic size, yet were all bone and skin and muscle, there being no meat or fat upon their bodies at all.

bone

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From this reading They were of gigantic size, yet were all bone and skin and muscle, there being no meat or fat upon their bodies at all.

bunches

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From this reading Their powerful muscles lay just underneath their skins, like bunches of tough rope, and the weakest Growleywog was so strong that he could pick up an elephant and toss it seven miles away.

carefully

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From this reading He mumbled his words badly and Guph had to listen carefully in order to understand him.

certainly

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From this reading These Growleywogs were certainly remarkable creatures.

could

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From this reading Their powerful muscles lay just underneath their skins, like bunches of tough rope, and the weakest Growleywog was so strong that he could pick up an elephant and toss it seven miles away.

creatures

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From this reading These Growleywogs were certainly remarkable creatures.

elephant

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From this reading Their powerful muscles lay just underneath their skins, like bunches of tough rope, and the weakest Growleywog was so strong that he could pick up an elephant and toss it seven miles away.

fat

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From this reading They were of gigantic size, yet were all bone and skin and muscle, there being no meat or fat upon their bodies at all.

Gallipoot

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From this reading The voice of the Grand Gallipoot was partly a roar and partly a growl.

gigantic

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From this reading They were of gigantic size, yet were all bone and skin and muscle, there being no meat or fat upon their bodies at all.

Grand

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From this reading The voice of the Grand Gallipoot was partly a roar and partly a growl.

growl

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From this reading The voice of the Grand Gallipoot was partly a roar and partly a growl.

Growleywog

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From this reading Their powerful muscles lay just underneath their skins, like bunches of tough rope, and the weakest Growleywog was so strong that he could pick up an elephant and toss it seven miles away.

Growleywogs

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From this reading These Growleywogs were certainly remarkable creatures.

Guph

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From this reading He mumbled his words badly and Guph had to listen carefully in order to understand him.

had

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From this reading He mumbled his words badly and Guph had to listen carefully in order to understand him.

He

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From this reading He mumbled his words badly and Guph had to listen carefully in order to understand him.

him

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From this reading He mumbled his words badly and Guph had to listen carefully in order to understand him.

his

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From this reading He mumbled his words badly and Guph had to listen carefully in order to understand him.

in

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From this reading He mumbled his words badly and Guph had to listen carefully in order to understand him.

it

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From this reading Their powerful muscles lay just underneath their skins, like bunches of tough rope, and the weakest Growleywog was so strong that he could pick up an elephant and toss it seven miles away.

just

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From this reading Their powerful muscles lay just underneath their skins, like bunches of tough rope, and the weakest Growleywog was so strong that he could pick up an elephant and toss it seven miles away.

lay

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From this reading Their powerful muscles lay just underneath their skins, like bunches of tough rope, and the weakest Growleywog was so strong that he could pick up an elephant and toss it seven miles away.

like

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From this reading Their powerful muscles lay just underneath their skins, like bunches of tough rope, and the weakest Growleywog was so strong that he could pick up an elephant and toss it seven miles away.

listen

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From this reading He mumbled his words badly and Guph had to listen carefully in order to understand him.

meat

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From this reading They were of gigantic size, yet were all bone and skin and muscle, there being no meat or fat upon their bodies at all.

miles

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From this reading Their powerful muscles lay just underneath their skins, like bunches of tough rope, and the weakest Growleywog was so strong that he could pick up an elephant and toss it seven miles away.

mumbled

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From this reading He mumbled his words badly and Guph had to listen carefully in order to understand him.

muscle

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From this reading They were of gigantic size, yet were all bone and skin and muscle, there being no meat or fat upon their bodies at all.

muscles

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From this reading Their powerful muscles lay just underneath their skins, like bunches of tough rope, and the weakest Growleywog was so strong that he could pick up an elephant and toss it seven miles away.

no

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From this reading They were of gigantic size, yet were all bone and skin and muscle, there being no meat or fat upon their bodies at all.

of

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From this reading The voice of the Grand Gallipoot was partly a roar and partly a growl.

or

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From this reading They were of gigantic size, yet were all bone and skin and muscle, there being no meat or fat upon their bodies at all.

order

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From this reading He mumbled his words badly and Guph had to listen carefully in order to understand him.

partly

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From this reading The voice of the Grand Gallipoot was partly a roar and partly a growl.

pick

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From this reading Their powerful muscles lay just underneath their skins, like bunches of tough rope, and the weakest Growleywog was so strong that he could pick up an elephant and toss it seven miles away.

powerful

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From this reading Their powerful muscles lay just underneath their skins, like bunches of tough rope, and the weakest Growleywog was so strong that he could pick up an elephant and toss it seven miles away.

remarkable

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From this reading These Growleywogs were certainly remarkable creatures.

roar

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From this reading The voice of the Grand Gallipoot was partly a roar and partly a growl.

rope

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From this reading Their powerful muscles lay just underneath their skins, like bunches of tough rope, and the weakest Growleywog was so strong that he could pick up an elephant and toss it seven miles away.

seven

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From this reading Their powerful muscles lay just underneath their skins, like bunches of tough rope, and the weakest Growleywog was so strong that he could pick up an elephant and toss it seven miles away.

size

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From this reading They were of gigantic size, yet were all bone and skin and muscle, there being no meat or fat upon their bodies at all.

skin

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From this reading They were of gigantic size, yet were all bone and skin and muscle, there being no meat or fat upon their bodies at all.

skins

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From this reading Their powerful muscles lay just underneath their skins, like bunches of tough rope, and the weakest Growleywog was so strong that he could pick up an elephant and toss it seven miles away.

so

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From this reading Their powerful muscles lay just underneath their skins, like bunches of tough rope, and the weakest Growleywog was so strong that he could pick up an elephant and toss it seven miles away.

strong

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From this reading Their powerful muscles lay just underneath their skins, like bunches of tough rope, and the weakest Growleywog was so strong that he could pick up an elephant and toss it seven miles away.

that

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From this reading Their powerful muscles lay just underneath their skins, like bunches of tough rope, and the weakest Growleywog was so strong that he could pick up an elephant and toss it seven miles away.

The

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From this reading The voice of the Grand Gallipoot was partly a roar and partly a growl.

their

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From this reading They were of gigantic size, yet were all bone and skin and muscle, there being no meat or fat upon their bodies at all.

there

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From this reading They were of gigantic size, yet were all bone and skin and muscle, there being no meat or fat upon their bodies at all.

These

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From this reading These Growleywogs were certainly remarkable creatures.

They

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From this reading They were of gigantic size, yet were all bone and skin and muscle, there being no meat or fat upon their bodies at all.

to

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From this reading He mumbled his words badly and Guph had to listen carefully in order to understand him.

toss

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From this reading Their powerful muscles lay just underneath their skins, like bunches of tough rope, and the weakest Growleywog was so strong that he could pick up an elephant and toss it seven miles away.

tough

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From this reading Their powerful muscles lay just underneath their skins, like bunches of tough rope, and the weakest Growleywog was so strong that he could pick up an elephant and toss it seven miles away.

underneath

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From this reading Their powerful muscles lay just underneath their skins, like bunches of tough rope, and the weakest Growleywog was so strong that he could pick up an elephant and toss it seven miles away.

understand

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From this reading He mumbled his words badly and Guph had to listen carefully in order to understand him.

up

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From this reading Their powerful muscles lay just underneath their skins, like bunches of tough rope, and the weakest Growleywog was so strong that he could pick up an elephant and toss it seven miles away.

upon

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From this reading They were of gigantic size, yet were all bone and skin and muscle, there being no meat or fat upon their bodies at all.

voice

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From this reading The voice of the Grand Gallipoot was partly a roar and partly a growl.

was

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From this reading The voice of the Grand Gallipoot was partly a roar and partly a growl.

weakest

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From this reading Their powerful muscles lay just underneath their skins, like bunches of tough rope, and the weakest Growleywog was so strong that he could pick up an elephant and toss it seven miles away.

were

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From this reading These Growleywogs were certainly remarkable creatures.

words

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From this reading He mumbled his words badly and Guph had to listen carefully in order to understand him.

yet

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From this reading They were of gigantic size, yet were all bone and skin and muscle, there being no meat or fat upon their bodies at all.

Chapter 5 of The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum holds 201 sentences, grouped into 41 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 5 of The Emerald City of Oz contain?

Chapter 5 holds 201 sentences of The Emerald City of Oz, unabridged, divided into 41 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 5 of The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 201 sentences, grouped into 41 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 5 of The Emerald City of Oz?

Work through the 41 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 41 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 5 be read aloud to me?

Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 5 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.

Questions about reading The Emerald City of Oz

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Is this the complete text of The Emerald City of Oz?

Yes. All 3268 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #517 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

Which edition of The Emerald City of Oz is used?

Project Gutenberg eBook #517, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does The Emerald City of Oz take to read?

About 272 minutes of reading across 654 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in The Emerald City of Oz

Words and structures a reader meets early in The Emerald City of Oz, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

Author
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Dorothy
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Wizard
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Author's
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