Chapter 4 of The Vegetable is here in full — 412 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 4 of The Vegetable is here in full — 412 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
JERRY [_startled_]. You mean Buzzards? SNOOKS. One hunerd per cent Buzzardites, crazy about their island, butter, milk, live stock, wives, and industries. JERRY [_fascinated_].
Chapter 4 of The Vegetable is here in full — 412 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use
From this reading “One hunerd per cent Buzzardites, crazy about their island, butter, milk, live stock, wives, and industries.”
plural of “buzzard” — a New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States
From this reading “You mean Buzzards?”
a fractional monetary unit of several countries
From this reading “One hunerd per cent Buzzardites, crazy about their island, butter, milk, live stock, wives, and industries.”
affected with madness or insanity
From this reading “One hunerd per cent Buzzardites, crazy about their island, butter, milk, live stock, wives, and industries.”
having your attention fixated as though by a spell
plural of “industry” — the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise
From this reading “One hunerd per cent Buzzardites, crazy about their island, butter, milk, live stock, wives, and industries.”
plural of “snook” — large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike
From this reading “SNOOKS.”
plural of “wife” — a married woman; a man's partner in marriage
From this reading “One hunerd per cent Buzzardites, crazy about their island, butter, milk, live stock, wives, and industries.”
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In this reading “One hunerd per cent Buzzardites, crazy about their island, butter, milk, live stock, wives, and industries.”
In this reading “One hunerd per cent Buzzardites, crazy about their island, butter, milk, live stock, wives, and industries.”
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on the subject of; concerning
From this reading One hunerd per cent Buzzardites, crazy about their island, butter, milk, live stock, wives, and industries.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading One hunerd per cent Buzzardites, crazy about their island, butter, milk, live stock, wives, and industries.
an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use
From this reading One hunerd per cent Buzzardites, crazy about their island, butter, milk, live stock, wives, and industries.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading One hunerd per cent Buzzardites, crazy about their island, butter, milk, live stock, wives, and industries.
plural of “buzzard” — a New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States
From this reading You mean Buzzards?
a fractional monetary unit of several countries
From this reading One hunerd per cent Buzzardites, crazy about their island, butter, milk, live stock, wives, and industries.
affected with madness or insanity
From this reading One hunerd per cent Buzzardites, crazy about their island, butter, milk, live stock, wives, and industries.
having your attention fixated as though by a spell
From this reading JERRY [_fascinated_].
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading One hunerd per cent Buzzardites, crazy about their island, butter, milk, live stock, wives, and industries.
plural of “industry” — the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise
From this reading One hunerd per cent Buzzardites, crazy about their island, butter, milk, live stock, wives, and industries.
a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
From this reading One hunerd per cent Buzzardites, crazy about their island, butter, milk, live stock, wives, and industries.
offensive term for a person of German descent
From this reading JERRY [_startled_].
be an inhabitant of or reside in
From this reading One hunerd per cent Buzzardites, crazy about their island, butter, milk, live stock, wives, and industries.
mean or intend to express or convey
From this reading You mean Buzzards?
a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings
From this reading One hunerd per cent Buzzardites, crazy about their island, butter, milk, live stock, wives, and industries.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading One hunerd per cent Buzzardites, crazy about their island, butter, milk, live stock, wives, and industries.
for each
From this reading One hunerd per cent Buzzardites, crazy about their island, butter, milk, live stock, wives, and industries.
plural of “snook” — large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike
From this reading SNOOKS.
excited by sudden surprise or alarm and making a quick involuntary movement
From this reading JERRY [_startled_].
the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest
From this reading One hunerd per cent Buzzardites, crazy about their island, butter, milk, live stock, wives, and industries.
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading One hunerd per cent Buzzardites, crazy about their island, butter, milk, live stock, wives, and industries.
plural of “wife” — a married woman; a man's partner in marriage
From this reading One hunerd per cent Buzzardites, crazy about their island, butter, milk, live stock, wives, and industries.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading You mean Buzzards?
Chapter 4 of The Vegetable by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald holds 412 sentences, grouped into 83 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, 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 412 sentences of The Vegetable, unabridged, divided into 83 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 4 of The Vegetable by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 412 sentences, grouped into 83 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 83 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 4 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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About 170 minutes of reading across 411 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in The Vegetable, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
