Introduction
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12:20 |
Read by Betsie Bush |
How To Use This Book
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4:52 |
Read by Maria Morabe |
Plan Of Study
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4:52 |
Read by Maria Morabe |
Useful Phrases: abandoned hope - ample culture
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5:13 |
Read by Betsie Bush |
Useful Phrases: amusing artlessness - azure sky
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4:10 |
Read by roolynninms |
Useful Phrases: babbling gossip - bygone period
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3:57 |
Read by roolynninms |
Useful Phrases: cabalistic phrase - collateral duties
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2:47 |
Read by roolynninms |
Useful Phrases: collective wisdom - contingent reasons
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2:43 |
Read by roolynninms |
Useful Phrases: continuous endeavor - cynical disregard
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4:07 |
Read by pallavy |
Useful Phrases: damaging admission - diligently propagated
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6:27 |
Read by Diana Troldahl |
Useful Phrases: dim comprehension - dynastic insolence
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5:51 |
Read by Diana Troldahl |
Useful Phrases: eager animosity - entrancing sadness
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5:50 |
Read by David Barnes |
Useful Phrases: enveloping presence - exultant condition
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4:54 |
Read by skern922 |
Useful Phrases: facetious mood - flickering conscience
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2:53 |
Read by E. Plein |
Useful Phrases: flighty obstinacy - futile babble
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3:16 |
Read by pallavy |
Useful Phrases: gabbling reminiscences - gymnastic agility
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4:31 |
Read by pallavy |
Useful Phrases: habitual deference - hysterical agitation
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4:53 |
Read by pallavy |
Useful Phrases: iconoclastic attitude - incipient fancy
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7:05 |
Read by Chris Chapman |
Useful Phrases: incisive critic - inquisitional rack
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5:45 |
Read by Chris Chapman |
Useful Phrases: inquisitive observer - isolated splendor
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5:46 |
Read by Kira Rutherford-Boese |
Useful Phrases: jaded sensibility - lying equivocations
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5:30 |
Read by Kira Rutherford-Boese |
Useful Phrases: maddening monotony - meteoric splendors
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4:25 |
Read by Linton |
Useful Phrases: methodical regularity - mythical kingdom
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3:51 |
Read by Linton |
Useful Phrases: naive manner - overworked drudge
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6:19 |
Read by Linton |
Useful Phrases: pacific disposition - political malcontent
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7:26 |
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
Useful Phrases: polluting taints - pyrotechnic outburst
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8:56 |
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
Useful Phrases: quailing culprit - remarkable sagacity
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3:20 |
Read by Lisa Chau |
Useful Phrases: remedial measure - ruthless commercialism
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2:33 |
Read by Jordan Mueller |
Useful Phrases: sacerdotal preeminence - shuddering reluctance
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4:49 |
Read by Lisa Chau |
Useful Phrases: shuffling preliminaries - starched sterility
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5:02 |
Read by Lisa Chau |
Useful Phrases: starlit eminence - systematic interaction
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3:54 |
Read by Jordan Mueller |
Useful Phrases: tacit assumption - tyrannical disposition
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5:07 |
Read by Lisa Chau |
Useful Phrases: ubiquitous activity - undue predilection
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4:04 |
Read by Lisa Chau |
Useful Phrases: undulating hills - unpalatable truth
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4:07 |
Read by Lisa Chau |
Useful Phrases: unparalleled atrocities - utmost scorn
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4:13 |
Read by Lisa Chau |
Useful Phrases: vacant stupidity - vulnerable foe
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3:07 |
Read by Lisa Chau |
Useful Phrases: wabbling enterprise - zoologically considered
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3:11 |
Read by Heather Lambert |
Significant Phrases: abashed and ashamed - awkwardness and crudity
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4:15 |
Read by Claire Goget |
Significant Phrases: babel and confusion - civilized and cultured
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4:52 |
Read by Lisa Chau |
Significant Phrases: clamorous and wild - cynical and contemptuous
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5:06 |
Read by Lisa Chau |
Significant Phrases: dangers and pitfalls - digressive and wanton
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3:39 |
Read by Lisa Chau |
Significant Phrases: dilatory and hesitating - dwindle and disappear
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4:44 |
Read by Shirley Donahue |
Significant Phrases: eagerness and ecstasy - exuberant and infectious
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6:16 |
Read by Shirley Donahue |
Significant Phrases: fabulous and fabricated - futile and untrustworthy
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4:47 |
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014) |
Significant Phrases: gaiety and grace - hypocrisy and impudence
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5:17 |
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014) |
Significant Phrases: ideas and achievements - indomitable and dogged
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3:24 |
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014) |
Significant Phrases: indorsed and applauded - isolated and detached
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3:37 |
Read by Julian Jamison |
Significant Phrases: jabber and chatter - luxury and pomp
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4:07 |
Read by dhenderson |
Significant Phrases: madness and folly - mystic and wonderful
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2:55 |
Read by dhenderson |
Significant Phrases: nagging and squabbling - overworked and fagged
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4:10 |
Read by dhenderson |
Significant Phrases: pains and penalties - puzzled and affected
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6:09 |
Read by Kathy |
Significant Phrases: quackery and incompetence - rust and disuse
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4:58 |
Read by Kathy |
Significant Phrases: sad and melancholy - spacious and lofty
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3:48 |
Read by Kathy |
Significant Phrases: sparkling and spontaneous - sympathetic and consoling
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4:06 |
Read by jenneferdawn |
Significant Phrases: taciturn and laconic - tyrant and oppressor
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4:48 |
Read by Scot Colford |
Significant Phrases: unaccountable and grotesque - vulgar and artificial
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5:49 |
Read by Marwa Gamil |
Significant Phrases: wandering and erratic - zigzag and deviating
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2:17 |
Read by twofistededitor |
Felicitous Phrases: ability, humor, and perspicacity - busy, active, and toiling
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4:11 |
Read by Mochan42 |
Felicitous Phrases: curious, fantastic, and charming - calculated, logical, and…
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4:11 |
Read by Marwa Gamil |
Felicitous Phrases: dwarfed, scant, and wretched - danger, difficulty, and har…
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4:32 |
Read by Marwa Gamil |
Felicitous Phrases: eagerness, heartiness, and vehemence - fustian, padding, an…
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4:35 |
Read by Sandra Zera |
Felicitous Phrases: gaunt, desolate, and despoiled - humor, fancy, and suscept…
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3:40 |
Read by Brian Lojeck |
Felicitous Phrases: idle, profuse, and profligate - luxurious, whimsical, and s…
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4:20 |
Read by Brian Lojeck |
Felicitous Phrases: magnificent, sumptuous, and stately - overriding, arrogant,…
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3:51 |
Read by Justin S Barrett |
Felicitous Phrases: pain, toil, and privation - puzzles, tangles, and question…
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3:45 |
Read by William Haseltine |
Felicitous Phrases: quarrels, misunderstandings, and enmities - rush, roar, and…
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2:38 |
Read by Rohanna |
Felicitous Phrases: sacredness, dignity, and loveliness - sympathy, service, an…
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4:05 |
Read by William Haseltine |
Felicitous Phrases: talent, scholarship, and refinement - wrinkled, careworn, a…
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5:08 |
Read by Marwa Gamil |
Impressive Phrases: able, skilful,... - business, profession,...
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4:41 |
Read by Stephen Lamb |
Impressive Phrases: candid, sincere,... - dull, heavy,...
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6:04 |
Read by Stephen Lamb |
Impressive Phrases: earth, air,... - gross, academic,..
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6:18 |
Read by Stephen Lamb |
Impressive Phrases: habit, custom,... - lucidity, impressiveness,...
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5:41 |
Read by Stephen Lamb |
Impressive Phrases: malice, anger,... - purpose, meaning,...
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5:40 |
Read by Stephen Lamb |
Impressive Phrases: quack, imposture,... - symmetry, proportion,..
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4:20 |
Read by Stephen Lamb |
Impressive Phrases: tact, courtesy,... - worry, annoyance,...
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4:10 |
Read by Stephen Lamb |
Prepositional Phrases "of": abandon of spontaneity - business of life
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4:35 |
Read by Joseph Etcheto |
Prepositional Phrases "of": cadences of delirium - dust of defeat
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3:52 |
Read by Alex Foster |
Prepositional Phrases "of": earnestness of enthusiasm - futility of pride
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4:12 |
Read by Joseph Etcheto |
Prepositional Phrases "of": gaiety of spirit - irony of life
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4:01 |
Read by Joseph Etcheto |
Prepositional Phrases "of": jangle of sounds - overflow of vitality
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4:10 |
Read by Joseph Etcheto |
Prepositional Phrases "of": page of desolation - ruts of conventionality
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4:52 |
Read by Joseph Etcheto |
Prepositional Phrases "of": sadness of soul - system of aspersion
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3:34 |
Read by Joseph Etcheto |
Prepositional Phrases "of": taint of megalomania - zone of delusion
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4:16 |
Read by Joseph Etcheto |
Prepositional Phrases "by": affected by externals - hushed by denial
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3:05 |
Read by Scot Colford |
Prepositional Phrases "by": impelled by duty - wrenched by emotions
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3:33 |
Read by Precious |
Prepositional Phrases "in": absorbed in meditation - kept in abeyance
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3:16 |
Read by Precious |
Prepositional Phrases "in": landmarks in memory - weak in conception
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3:47 |
Read by Precious |
Prepositional Phrases "into": abashed into silence - goaded into action
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1:59 |
Read by Joe Brenneman |
Prepositional Phrases "into": hushed into silence - withdraw into solitude
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1:51 |
Read by Joe Brenneman |
Prepositional Phrases "to": addicted to flattery - hostile to progress
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1:50 |
Read by Joe Brenneman |
Prepositional Phrases "to": impervious to suggestion - yield to reason
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2:28 |
Read by Joe Brenneman |
Prepositional Phrases "with": abounding with plenty - intoxicated with joy
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2:23 |
Read by Joe Brenneman |
Prepositional Phrases "with": kindle with enthusiasm - work with zeal
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2:29 |
Read by liquidneutrino |
Business Phrases
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24:37 |
Read by Karen Savage |
Literary Expressions: A bitterness crept into her face - A nimble-witted oppone…
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6:53 |
Read by Lee Elliott |
Literary Expressions: A painful thought was flooding his mind - A wordless fare…
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6:27 |
Read by Joe Brenneman |
Literary Expressions: Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting - Awai…
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8:18 |
Read by Ken Crooker |
Literary Expressions: Bandied about from mouth to mouth - Dull black eyes under…
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6:47 |
Read by Ken Crooker |
Literary Expressions: Earth danced under a heat haze - Guilty of girlish sentim…
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4:06 |
Read by Heather Lawrence |
Literary Expressions: Half choked by a rising paroxysm of rage - Humiliating pa…
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9:26 |
Read by David Best |
Literary Expressions: I capitulated by inadvertence - Kiss-provoking lips
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5:06 |
Read by David Best |
Literary Expressions: Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle -…
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10:45 |
Read by Pete Darby |
Literary Expressions: Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill - Swift summer i…
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7:27 |
Read by Heather Lawrence |
Literary Expressions: Taking the larger sweeps in the march of mind - The hungr…
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8:09 |
Read by C.L.Coney |
Literary Expressions: The idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought - The swing of…
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9:37 |
Read by C.L.Coney |
Literary Expressions: The tempered daylight of an olive garden - Twilight creep…
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5:34 |
Read by C.L.Coney |
Literary Expressions: Unapproachable grandeur and simplicity - Your mind enthro…
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3:39 |
Read by C.L.Coney |
Striking Similes: A blind rage like a fire swept over him - And the smile she s…
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10:55 |
Read by SueAnn Dozier |
Striking Similes: As a child in play scatters... - Awkward as a cart-horse
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6:39 |
Read by Joe Brenneman |
Striking Similes: Babbling like a child - Dull as champagne
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6:33 |
Read by Joe Brenneman |
Striking Similes: Each like a corpse within its grave - Great scarlet poppies l…
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4:36 |
Read by Joe Brenneman |
Striking Similes: Hair as harsh as tropical grass and gray as ashes - Hushed li…
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9:19 |
Read by Sandra Zera |
Striking Similes: I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew - Kingdoms melt away…
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3:36 |
Read by Sandra Zera |
Striking Similes: Laboring like a giant - Like a yellow silken scarf the thick …
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7:03 |
Read by Rohanna |
Striking Similes: Like an alien ghost I stole away - Like sweet thoughts in a d…
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6:31 |
Read by Rohanna |
Striking Similes: Like the awful shadow of some unseen power - Lovely the land …
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6:32 |
Read by Rohanna |
Striking Similes: March on my soul nor like the laggard stay - Quivering like a…
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6:49 |
Read by Sarah Jennings |
Striking Similes: Rage, rage ye tears, that never more should creep... - Swifte…
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10:25 |
Read by Sandra Zera |
Striking Similes: Talking and thinking became to him... - The music almost died…
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6:35 |
Read by Marwa Gamil |
Striking Similes: The name that cuts into my soul like a knife - Then the lover…
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8:27 |
Read by Betsie Bush |
Striking Similes: Theories sprouted in his mind like mushrooms - Turning easily…
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6:21 |
Read by Betsie Bush |
Striking Similes: Unbends like a loosened bow - Youth like a summer morn
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8:18 |
Read by Scot Colford |
Conversational Phrases: A most extraordinary idea! - Human nature interests me …
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6:38 |
Read by C Pannier |
Conversational Phrases: I admire your foresight - I could never forgive myself …
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7:28 |
Read by Mark Mascolino |
Conversational Phrases: I dare say your intuition is quite right - I seem to ha…
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9:02 |
Read by Precious |
Conversational Phrases: I shall at once proceed to forget it - It has never occ…
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6:45 |
Read by Lee Ann Howlett |
Conversational Phrases: It is a curious fact - It would take too long to formul…
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6:17 |
Read by Heather Lawrence |
Conversational Phrases: Join us, please, when you have time - Surely you would …
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7:00 |
Read by Ken Crooker |
Conversational Phrases: Tell me in what way you want me to help you - True, I f…
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6:38 |
Read by Ken Crooker |
Conversational Phrases: Undeniably true - Would you mind telling me your opinio…
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3:47 |
Read by Elizabeth Palmer |
Conversational Phrases: Yes and no - Your statement is somewhat startling
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4:49 |
Read by Elizabeth Palmer |
Public Speaking Phrases: A fact of vast moment - And next I would ask
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7:29 |
Read by Rose |
Public Speaking Phrases: And now allow me to call attention - Away then with th…
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8:01 |
Read by Scot Colford |
Public Speaking Phrases: Be assured, then - But it has been suggested to me
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4:55 |
Read by Sandra Zera |
Public Speaking Phrases: But it is a fact - By this time it will be suspected
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4:20 |
Read by Joe Brenneman |
Public Speaking Phrases: Can it be supposed - Granting all this
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4:12 |
Read by Joe Brenneman |
Public Speaking Phrases: Had I time for all that might be said - However, it is…
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3:16 |
Read by Joe Brenneman |
Public Speaking Phrases: I abide by my statement - I am willing to know
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6:16 |
Read by Jeff Wadden |
Public Speaking Phrases: I anticipate with pleasing expectation - I distrust al…
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7:39 |
Read by Joe Brenneman |
Public Speaking Phrases: I do again and again urge upon you - I hasten to conce…
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8:10 |
Read by Ken Crooker |
Public Speaking Phrases: I have a dark suspicion - I hope you will not accuse me
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11:49 |
Read by Ken Crooker |
Public Speaking Phrases: I imagine that no one will be disposed - I rejoice to …
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9:23 |
Read by Stephen Lamb |
Public Speaking Phrases: I remember a reference made - I thank you very sincere…
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9:41 |
Read by David Best |
Public Speaking Phrases: I think I am correct in saying - I yielded to the earn…
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10:38 |
Read by David Best |
Public Speaking Phrases: If any man be so persuaded - In widening our view
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10:38 |
Read by Ekpyrotic |
Public Speaking Phrases: Indeed, can anyone tell me - It is my present purpose
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9:25 |
Read by Sandra Zera |
Public Speaking Phrases: It is natural to ask the question - It may still more …
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5:38 |
Read by Maura Walsh |
Public Speaking Phrases: It must be a cause of delight - Just the reverse is tr…
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5:21 |
Read by Maura Walsh |
Public Speaking Phrases: Language is inadequate to voice my appreciation - My r…
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8:23 |
Read by guava |
Public Speaking Phrases: Nay, I boldly say - Now, you will understand from this
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5:43 |
Read by Joe Brenneman |
Public Speaking Phrases: Observe again - Surely it is not too much for me to say
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7:43 |
Read by Joe Brenneman |
Public Speaking Phrases: Take another instance - The whole story of civilization
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6:48 |
Read by Holly |
Public Speaking Phrases: Then again, in corroboration - Think of the cool disre…
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5:49 |
Read by Betsie Bush |
Public Speaking Phrases: This absurdity arises - Very strange is this indeed
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5:15 |
Read by Don Powers |
Public Speaking Phrases: We all agree as to - What strikes the mind so forcibly
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9:02 |
Read by Jason Isbell |
Public Speaking Phrases: What, then, are we to believe - Your presence seems to…
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6:57 |
Read by Jason Isbell |
Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts - A pleasant flow of ap…
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7:01 |
Read by Joan Walton |
Miscellaneous Phrases: A pompous failure - Ample scope for the exercise of his …
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7:21 |
Read by Joan Walton |
Miscellaneous Phrases: An abandoned and exaggerated grief - Awaited with feveri…
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6:03 |
Read by Heather Lawrence |
Miscellaneous Phrases: Bandied to and fro - Dwindled to alarmingly small dimens…
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6:58 |
Read by Heather Lawrence |
Miscellaneous Phrases: Easy-going to the point of lethargy - Hopelessly belated…
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9:30 |
Read by Luigina |
Miscellaneous Phrases: I adjured him - Its dominating and inspiring influence
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11:13 |
Read by Luigina |
Miscellaneous Phrases: Jealous and formidable foes - Quixotically generous abou…
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10:34 |
Read by Luigina |
Miscellaneous Phrases: Radiantly and transparently happy - Swift and vehement o…
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8:02 |
Read by Jason Isbell |
Miscellaneous Phrases: Take root in the heart - The sycophants of the rich
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12:00 |
Read by Nick Davies |