Chapter 5 of We is here in full — 415 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of We is here in full — 415 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
O-90 was lying down. I kissed her gently. I kissed that childish, fluffy fold at her wrist. Her blue eyes were closed. The pink crescent of her lips was slowly blooming, more and more like a flower.
Chapter 5 of We is here in full — 415 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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the organic process of bearing flowers
From this reading “The pink crescent of her lips was slowly blooming, more and more like a flower.”
indicating a lack of maturity
From this reading “I kissed that childish, fluffy fold at her wrist.”
any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters
From this reading “The pink crescent of her lips was slowly blooming, more and more like a flower.”
a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
From this reading “The pink crescent of her lips was slowly blooming, more and more like a flower.”
like down or as soft as down
From this reading “I kissed that childish, fluffy fold at her wrist.”
an angular or rounded shape made by folding
From this reading “I kissed that childish, fluffy fold at her wrist.”
a light shade of red
From this reading “The pink crescent of her lips was slowly blooming, more and more like a flower.”
a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones
From this reading “I kissed that childish, fluffy fold at her wrist.”
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In this reading “Her blue eyes were closed.”
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From this reading O-90 was lying down.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading The pink crescent of her lips was slowly blooming, more and more like a flower.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The pink crescent of her lips was slowly blooming, more and more like a flower.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading I kissed that childish, fluffy fold at her wrist.
the organic process of bearing flowers
From this reading The pink crescent of her lips was slowly blooming, more and more like a flower.
of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
From this reading Her blue eyes were closed.
indicating a lack of maturity
From this reading I kissed that childish, fluffy fold at her wrist.
not open or affording passage or access
From this reading Her blue eyes were closed.
any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters
From this reading The pink crescent of her lips was slowly blooming, more and more like a flower.
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading O-90 was lying down.
opinion or judgment
From this reading Her blue eyes were closed.
a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
From this reading The pink crescent of her lips was slowly blooming, more and more like a flower.
like down or as soft as down
From this reading I kissed that childish, fluffy fold at her wrist.
an angular or rounded shape made by folding
From this reading I kissed that childish, fluffy fold at her wrist.
in a gradual manner
From this reading I kissed her gently.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading I kissed her gently.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I kissed her gently.
past form of “kiss” — touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.
From this reading I kissed her gently.
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading The pink crescent of her lips was slowly blooming, more and more like a flower.
plural of “lip” — either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking
From this reading The pink crescent of her lips was slowly blooming, more and more like a flower.
the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
From this reading O-90 was lying down.
(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree
From this reading The pink crescent of her lips was slowly blooming, more and more like a flower.
a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
From this reading O-90 was lying down.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The pink crescent of her lips was slowly blooming, more and more like a flower.
a light shade of red
From this reading The pink crescent of her lips was slowly blooming, more and more like a flower.
without speed (“slow” is sometimes used informally for “slowly”)
From this reading The pink crescent of her lips was slowly blooming, more and more like a flower.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading I kissed that childish, fluffy fold at her wrist.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The pink crescent of her lips was slowly blooming, more and more like a flower.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading O-90 was lying down.
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Her blue eyes were closed.
a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones
From this reading I kissed that childish, fluffy fold at her wrist.
Chapter 5 of We by Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin holds 415 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 5 holds 415 sentences of We, unabridged, divided into 83 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 5 of We by Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 415 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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