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Winesburg, Ohio

Chapter VI · Chapter 6

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There was indeed good cause to smile.
By the standards of his day Jesse did not look like a man at all.
He was small and very slender and womanish of body and, true to the traditions of young ministers, wore a long black coat and a narrow black string tie.
The neighbors were amused when they saw him, after the years away, and they were even more amused when they saw the woman he had married in the city.
As a matter of fact, Jesse’s wife did soon go under.
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Winesburg, Ohio

Chapter VI · Chapter 6

Chapter 6 of Winesburg, Ohio is here in full — 192 sentences across 39 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/38 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
There was indeed good cause to smile.
Line 2
By the standards of his day Jesse did not look like a man at all.
Line 3
He was small and very slender and womanish of body and, true to the traditions of young ministers, wore a long black coat and a narrow black string tie.
Line 4
The neighbors were amused when they saw him, after the years away, and they were even more amused when they saw the woman he had married in the city.
Line 5
As a matter of fact, Jesse’s wife did soon go under.

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a

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after

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From this reading The neighbors were amused when they saw him, after the years away, and they were even more amused when they saw the woman he had married in the city.

all

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From this reading By the standards of his day Jesse did not look like a man at all.

amused

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From this reading The neighbors were amused when they saw him, after the years away, and they were even more amused when they saw the woman he had married in the city.

and

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From this reading He was small and very slender and womanish of body and, true to the traditions of young ministers, wore a long black coat and a narrow black string tie.

As

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From this reading As a matter of fact, Jesse’s wife did soon go under.

at

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From this reading By the standards of his day Jesse did not look like a man at all.

away

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From this reading The neighbors were amused when they saw him, after the years away, and they were even more amused when they saw the woman he had married in the city.

black

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From this reading He was small and very slender and womanish of body and, true to the traditions of young ministers, wore a long black coat and a narrow black string tie.

body

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From this reading He was small and very slender and womanish of body and, true to the traditions of young ministers, wore a long black coat and a narrow black string tie.

By

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From this reading By the standards of his day Jesse did not look like a man at all.

cause

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From this reading There was indeed good cause to smile.

city

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From this reading The neighbors were amused when they saw him, after the years away, and they were even more amused when they saw the woman he had married in the city.

coat

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From this reading He was small and very slender and womanish of body and, true to the traditions of young ministers, wore a long black coat and a narrow black string tie.

day

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From this reading By the standards of his day Jesse did not look like a man at all.

did

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From this reading By the standards of his day Jesse did not look like a man at all.

even

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From this reading The neighbors were amused when they saw him, after the years away, and they were even more amused when they saw the woman he had married in the city.

fact

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go

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good

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From this reading There was indeed good cause to smile.

had

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He

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him

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his

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in

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indeed

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From this reading There was indeed good cause to smile.

Jesse

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Jesse's

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like

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long

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look

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man

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married

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matter

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ministers

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more

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narrow

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neighbors

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not

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of

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From this reading By the standards of his day Jesse did not look like a man at all.

saw

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From this reading The neighbors were amused when they saw him, after the years away, and they were even more amused when they saw the woman he had married in the city.

slender

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From this reading He was small and very slender and womanish of body and, true to the traditions of young ministers, wore a long black coat and a narrow black string tie.

small

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From this reading He was small and very slender and womanish of body and, true to the traditions of young ministers, wore a long black coat and a narrow black string tie.

smile

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From this reading There was indeed good cause to smile.

soon

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From this reading As a matter of fact, Jesse’s wife did soon go under.

standards

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string

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From this reading He was small and very slender and womanish of body and, true to the traditions of young ministers, wore a long black coat and a narrow black string tie.

the

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From this reading By the standards of his day Jesse did not look like a man at all.

There

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From this reading There was indeed good cause to smile.

they

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From this reading The neighbors were amused when they saw him, after the years away, and they were even more amused when they saw the woman he had married in the city.

tie

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From this reading He was small and very slender and womanish of body and, true to the traditions of young ministers, wore a long black coat and a narrow black string tie.

to

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From this reading There was indeed good cause to smile.

traditions

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From this reading He was small and very slender and womanish of body and, true to the traditions of young ministers, wore a long black coat and a narrow black string tie.

true

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From this reading He was small and very slender and womanish of body and, true to the traditions of young ministers, wore a long black coat and a narrow black string tie.

under

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From this reading As a matter of fact, Jesse’s wife did soon go under.

very

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From this reading He was small and very slender and womanish of body and, true to the traditions of young ministers, wore a long black coat and a narrow black string tie.

was

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From this reading There was indeed good cause to smile.

were

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From this reading The neighbors were amused when they saw him, after the years away, and they were even more amused when they saw the woman he had married in the city.

when

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From this reading The neighbors were amused when they saw him, after the years away, and they were even more amused when they saw the woman he had married in the city.

wife

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From this reading As a matter of fact, Jesse’s wife did soon go under.

woman

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From this reading The neighbors were amused when they saw him, after the years away, and they were even more amused when they saw the woman he had married in the city.

womanish

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From this reading He was small and very slender and womanish of body and, true to the traditions of young ministers, wore a long black coat and a narrow black string tie.

wore

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From this reading He was small and very slender and womanish of body and, true to the traditions of young ministers, wore a long black coat and a narrow black string tie.

years

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From this reading The neighbors were amused when they saw him, after the years away, and they were even more amused when they saw the woman he had married in the city.

young

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From this reading He was small and very slender and womanish of body and, true to the traditions of young ministers, wore a long black coat and a narrow black string tie.

Chapter 6 of Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson holds 192 sentences, grouped into 39 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 6 of Winesburg, Ohio contain?

Chapter 6 holds 192 sentences of Winesburg, Ohio, unabridged, divided into 39 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 6 of Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 192 sentences, grouped into 39 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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Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 6 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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Vocabulary met early in Winesburg, Ohio

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Tales
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Persons
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Grotesque
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Hands
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