Chapter 9 of The Lost Princess of Oz is here in full — 184 sentences across 37 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 9 of The Lost Princess of Oz is here in full — 184 sentences across 37 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE HIGH COCO-LORUM OF THI And now the Patchwork Girl came dancing out of the wall again. “Come on!” she called. “It isn’t there. There isn’t any wall at all.” “What?
Chapter 9 of The Lost Princess of Oz is here in full — 184 sentences across 37 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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anew
From this reading “THE HIGH COCO-LORUM OF THI And now the Patchwork Girl came dancing out of the wall again.”
past form of “call” — assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading ““Come on!” she called.”
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading “THE HIGH COCO-LORUM OF THI And now the Patchwork Girl came dancing out of the wall again.”
taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music
From this reading “THE HIGH COCO-LORUM OF THI And now the Patchwork Girl came dancing out of the wall again.”
a young female
From this reading “THE HIGH COCO-LORUM OF THI And now the Patchwork Girl came dancing out of the wall again.”
greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount
From this reading “THE HIGH COCO-LORUM OF THI And now the Patchwork Girl came dancing out of the wall again.”
a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas
From this reading “THE HIGH COCO-LORUM OF THI And now the Patchwork Girl came dancing out of the wall again.”
an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure
From this reading “THE HIGH COCO-LORUM OF THI And now the Patchwork Girl came dancing out of the wall again.”
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anew
From this reading THE HIGH COCO-LORUM OF THI And now the Patchwork Girl came dancing out of the wall again.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading There isn’t any wall at all.”
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading THE HIGH COCO-LORUM OF THI And now the Patchwork Girl came dancing out of the wall again.
one or some or every or all without specification
From this reading There isn’t any wall at all.”
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading There isn’t any wall at all.”
past form of “call” — assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading “Come on!” she called.
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading THE HIGH COCO-LORUM OF THI And now the Patchwork Girl came dancing out of the wall again.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading THE HIGH COCO-LORUM OF THI And now the Patchwork Girl came dancing out of the wall again.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading “Come on!” she called.
taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music
From this reading THE HIGH COCO-LORUM OF THI And now the Patchwork Girl came dancing out of the wall again.
a young female
From this reading THE HIGH COCO-LORUM OF THI And now the Patchwork Girl came dancing out of the wall again.
greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount
From this reading THE HIGH COCO-LORUM OF THI And now the Patchwork Girl came dancing out of the wall again.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “It isn’t there.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading “It isn’t there.
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading THE HIGH COCO-LORUM OF THI And now the Patchwork Girl came dancing out of the wall again.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading THE HIGH COCO-LORUM OF THI And now the Patchwork Girl came dancing out of the wall again.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading “Come on!” she called.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading THE HIGH COCO-LORUM OF THI And now the Patchwork Girl came dancing out of the wall again.
a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas
From this reading THE HIGH COCO-LORUM OF THI And now the Patchwork Girl came dancing out of the wall again.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading “Come on!” she called.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE HIGH COCO-LORUM OF THI And now the Patchwork Girl came dancing out of the wall again.
in or at that place or location
From this reading “It isn’t there.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading THE HIGH COCO-LORUM OF THI And now the Patchwork Girl came dancing out of the wall again.
an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure
From this reading THE HIGH COCO-LORUM OF THI And now the Patchwork Girl came dancing out of the wall again.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading “What?
Chapter 9 of The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum holds 184 sentences, grouped into 37 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 9 holds 184 sentences of The Lost Princess of Oz, unabridged, divided into 37 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 9 of The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 184 sentences, grouped into 37 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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