Dorothy now took Toto up ____ in her arms, and having said one last good-bye, she clapped the heels of her shoes together three times, saying "Take me home to Aunt Em!" The waiting was tiresome and wearing, and at last they grew ____ that Oz should treat them in so poor a fashion, after sending them to undergo hardships and slavery. The four travelers passed a sleepless night, each thinking of the gift Oz had promised to ____ on him. ____ at nine o'clock the next morning, the green-whiskered soldier came to them, and four minutes later they all went into the Throne Room of the Great Oz. "For my part, I am content in knowing I am as brave as any beast that ever lived, if not braver," said the lion ____. As she left them the milkmaid cast many ____ glances over her shoulder at the clumsy strangers, holding her nicked elbow close to her side. Dorothy went to work ____, with her mind made up to work as hard as she could; for she was glad the Wicked Witch had decided not to kill her. But the wicked creature was very ____, and she finally thought of a trick that would give her what she wanted. And when the tinsmiths came, bringing with them all their tools in baskets, she inquired, "Can you straighten out those dents in the Tin Woodman, and bend him back into shape again, and ____ him together where he is broken?" Others polished the blade until all the rust was removed and it glistened like ____ silver. When he grew to manhood, Quelala, as he was called, was said to be the best and wisest man in all the land, while his manly beauty was so great that Gayelette loved him dearly, and ____ to make everything ready for the wedding. His first thought was that Oz had by accident caught on fire and was burning up; but when he tried to go nearer, the heat was so intense that it ____ his whiskers, and he crept back trembingly to a spot nearer the door. The Wicked Witch was so angry when she saw her black bees in little heaps like fine coal that she stamped her foot and tore her hair and ____ her teeth. There was a rushing of many wings, a great chattering and laughing, and the sun came out of the dark sky to show the Wicked Witch surrounded by a crowd of monkeys, each with a pair of ____ and powerful wings on his shoulders. Here they dropped the poor Woodman, who fell a great distance to the rocks, where he lay so ____ and dented that he could neither move nor groan. Then she said to Dorothy, harshly and ____: "Come with me; and see that you mind everything I tell you, for if you do not I will make an end of you, as I did of the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow."

Vocabulary Wizard of Oz

by
Embed

Leaderboard

Visual style

Options

Switch template

Continue editing: ?