This audio reading of Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases is read by 5n3m66
Betsie Bush, Maria Morabe, roolynninms, pallavy, ottergal, David Barnes, skern922, E. Plein, Chris Chapman, Kira Rutherford-Boese, Linton, Denny Sayers, Lisa Chau, Jordan Mueller, Heather Lambert, Claire Goget, shurlygurl, Lucy Burgoyne, Julian Jamison, dhenderson, Kathy, jennerdawn, Scot Colford, Marwa Gamil, twofistededitor, Sandra Zera, Brian Lojeck, Justin Barrett, William Haseltine, Rohanna, Stephen Lamb, Joseph Etcheto, Alex Foster, Precious, Joe Brenneman, liquidneutrino, Karen Savage, Lee Elliott, Ken Crooker, old-fashionedbookworm, David Best, Pete Darby, C.L. Coney, SueAnn Dozier,C Pannier, MarkMascolino, Lee Ann Howlett, Elizabeth Palmer, Rose,Jeff Wadden, Ekpyrotic, Maura Walsh, Holly, Don Powers, Jason Isbell, Joan Walton,luigina, nickdavies
Contents 5n492i
000 - Introduction - 00:12:20 Read by: Betsie Bush
001 - How To Use This Book - 00:04:52 Read by: Maria Morabe
002 - Plan of Study - 00:04:52 Read by: Maria Morabe
075 - Prepositional Phrases of: abandon of spontaneity - business of life - 00:04:35 Read by: Joseph Etcheto
076 - Prepositional Phrases of: cadences of delirium - dust of defeat - 00:03:52 Read by: Alex Foster
077 - Prepositional Phrases of: earnestness of enthusiasm - futility of pride - 00:04:12 Read by: Joseph Etcheto
078 - Prepositional Phrases of: gaiety of spirit - irony of life - 00:04:01 Read by: Joseph Etcheto
079 - Prepositional Phrases of: jangle of sounds - overflow of vitality - 00:04:10 Read by: Joseph Etcheto
080 - Prepositional Phrases of: page of desolation - ruts of conventionality - 00:04:52 Read by: Joseph Etcheto
081 - Prepositional Phrases of: sadness of soul - system of aspersion - 00:03:34 Read by: Joseph Etcheto
082 - Prepositional Phrases of: taint of megalomania - zone of delusion - 00:04:16 Read by: Joseph Etcheto
083 - Prepositional Phrases by: affected by externals - hushed by denial - 00:03:05 Read by: Scot Colford
084 - Prepositional Phrases by: impelled by duty - wrenched by emotions - 00:03:33 Read by: Precious
085 - Prepositional Phrases in: absorbed in meditation - kept in abeyance - 00:03:16 Read by: Precious
086 - Prepositional Phrases in: landmarks in memory - weak in conception - 00:03:47 Read by: Precious
087 - Prepositional Phrases into: abashed into silence - goaded into action - 00:01:59 Read by: Joe Brenneman
088 - Prepositional Phrases into: hushed into silence - withdraw into solitude - 00:01:51 Read by: Joe Brenneman
089 - Prepositional Phrases to: addicted to flattery - hostile to progress - 00:01:50 Read by: Joe Brenneman
090 - Prepositional Phrases to: impervious to suggestion - yield to reason - 00:02:28 Read by: Joe Brenneman
091 - Prepositional Phrases with: abounding with plenty - intoxicated with joy - 00:02:23 Read by: Joe Brenneman
092 - Prepositional Phrases with: kindle with enthusiasm - work with zeal - 00:02:29 Read by: liquidneutrino
093 - Business Phrases - 00:24:37 Read by: Karen Savage
094 - Literary Expressions: A bitterness crept into her face - A nimble-witted opponent - 00:06:53 Read by: Lee Elliott
095 - Literary Expressions: A painful thought was flooding his mind - A wordless farewell - 00:06:27 Read by: Joe Brenneman
096 - Literary Expressions: Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting - Awaiting his summons to the eternal silence - 00:08:18 Read by: Ken Crooker
097 - Literary Expressions: Bandied about from mouth to mouth - Dull black eyes under their precipice of brows - 00:06:47 Read by: Ken Crooker
098 - Literary Expressions: Earth danced under a heat haze - Guilty of girlish sentimentality - 00:04:06 Read by: old-fashionedbookworm
099 - Literary Expressions: Half choked by a rising paroxysm of rage - Humiliating paltriness of revenge - 00:09:26 Read by: David Best
100 - Literary Expressions: I capitulated by inadvertence - Kiss-provoking lips - 00:05:06 Read by: David Best
101 - Literary Expressions: Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle - Rudely reminded of life’s serious issues - 00:10:45 Read by: Pete Darby
102 - Literary Expressions: Sacrificed to a futile sort of treill - Swift summer into the autumn flowed - 00:07:27 Read by: old-fashionedbookworm
103 - Literary Expressions: Taking the larger sweeps in the march of mind - The hungry curiosity of the mind - 00:08:09 Read by: C.L.Coney
104 - Literary Expressions: The idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought - The swing of the pendulum through an arch of centuries - 00:09:37 Read by: C.L.Coney
105 - Literary Expressions: The tempered daylight of an olive garden - Twilight creeps upon the darkening mind - 00:05:34 Read by: C.L.Coney
106 - Literary Expressions: Unapproachable grandeur and simplicity - Your mind enthroned in the seventh circle of content - 00:03:39 Read by: C.L.Coney
107 - Striking Similes: A blind rage like a fire swept over him - And the smile she softly uses fills the silence like a speech - 00:10:55 Read by: SueAnn Dozier
108 - Striking Similes: As a child in play scatters… - Awkward as a cart-horse - 00:06:39 Read by: Joe Brenneman
109 - Striking Similes: Babbling like a child - Dull as champagne - 00:06:33 Read by: Joe Brenneman
110 - Striking Similes: Each like a corpse within its grave - Great scarlet poppies lay in drifts … - 00:04:36 Read by: Joe Brenneman
111 - Striking Similes: Hair as harsh as tropical grass and gray as ashes - Hushed like a breathless lyre - 00:09:19 Read by: Sandra Zera
112 - Striking Similes: I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew - Kingdoms melt away like snow - 00:03:36 Read by: Sandra Zera
113 - Striking Similes: Laboring like a giant - Like a yellow silken scarf the thick fog hangs - 00:07:03 Read by: Rohanna
114 - Striking Similes: Like an alien ghost I stole away - Like sweet thoughts in a dream - 00:06:31 Read by: Rohanna
115 - Striking Similes: Like the awful shadow of some unseen power - Lovely the land unknown… - 00:06:32 Read by: Rohanna
116 - Striking Similes: March on my soul nor like the laggard stay - Quivering like an eager race-horse to start - 00:06:49 Read by: Sarah Jennings
117 - Striking Similes: Rage, rage ye tears, that never more should creep… - Swifter than the twinkling of an eye - 00:10:25 Read by: Sandra Zera
118 - Striking Similes: Talking and thinking became to him… - The music almost died away… - 00:06:35 Read by: Marwa Gamil
119 - Striking Similes: The name that cuts into my soul like a knife - Then the lover sighing like furnace - 00:08:27 Read by: Betsie Bush
120 - Striking Similes: Theories sprouted in his mind like mushrooms - Turning easily and securely as on a perfect axle - 00:06:21 Read by: Betsie Bush
121 - Striking Similes: Unbends like a loosened bow - Youth like a summer morn - 00:08:18 Read by: Scot Colford
122 - Conversational Phrases: A most extraordinary idea! - Human nature interests me very much indeed - 00:06:38 Read by: C Pannier
123 - Conversational Phrases: I ire your foresight - I could never forgive myself for that - 00:07:28 Read by: MarkMascolino
124 - Edit: Conversational Phrases: I dare say your intuition is quite right - I seem to have heard that sentiment before - 00:09:02 Read by: Precious
125 - Conversational Phrases: I shall at once proceed to forget it - It has never occurred to me - 00:06:45 Read by: Lee Ann Howlett
126 - Conversational Phrases: It is a curious fact - It would take too long to formulate my thought - 00:06:17 Read by: old-fashionedbookworm
127 - Conversational Phrases: us, please, when you have time - Surely you would not countenance that - 00:07:00 Read by: Ken Crooker
128 - Conversational Phrases: Tell me in what way you want me to help you - True, I forgot! - 00:06:38 Read by: Ken Crooker
129 - Conversational Phrases: Undeniably true - Would you mind telling me your opinion? - 00:03:47 Read by: Elizabeth Palmer
130 - Conversational Phrases: Yes and no - Your statement is somewhat startling - 00:04:49 Read by: Elizabeth Palmer
131 - Public Speaking Phrases: A fact of vast moment - And next I would ask - 00:07:29 Read by: Rose
132 - Public Speaking Phrases: And now allow me to call attention - Away then with the notion - 00:08:01 Read by: Scot Colford
133 - Public Speaking Phrases: Be assured, then - But it has been suggested to me - 00:04:55 Read by: Sandra Zera
134 - Public Speaking Phrases: But it is a fact - By this time it will be suspected - 00:04:20 Read by: Joe Brenneman
135 - Public Speaking Phrases: Can it be supposed - Granting all this - 00:04:12 Read by: Joe Brenneman
136 - Public Speaking Phrases: Had I time for all that might be said - However, it is to me a very refreshing thing - 00:03:16 Read by: Joe Brenneman
137 - Public Speaking Phrases: I abide by my statement - I am willing to know - 00:06:16 Read by: Jeff Wadden
138 - Public Speaking Phrases: I anticipate with pleasing expectation - I distrust all general theories of - 00:07:39 Read by: Joe Brenneman
139 - Public Speaking Phrases: I do again and again urge upon you - I hasten to concede - 00:08:10 Read by: Ken Crooker
140 - Public Speaking Phrases: I have a dark suspicion - I hope you will not accuse me - 00:11:49 Read by: Ken Crooker
141 - Public Speaking Phrases: I imagine that no one will be disposed - I rejoice to think I remark here - 00:09:23 Read by: Stephen Lamb
142 - Public Speaking Phrases: I a reference made - I thank you very sincerely for the honor - 00:09:41 Read by: David Best
143 - Public Speaking Phrases: I think I am correct in saying - I yielded to the earnest solicitations - 00:10:38 Read by: David Best
144 - Public Speaking Phrases: If any man be so persuaded - In widening our view - 00:10:38 Read by: Ekpyrotic
145 - Public Speaking Phrases: Indeed, can anyone tell me - It is my present purpose - 00:09:25 Read by: Sandra Zera
146 - Public Speaking Phrases: It is natural to ask the question - It may still more probably be said - 00:05:38 Read by: Maura Walsh
147 - Public Speaking Phrases: It must be a cause of delight - Just the reverse is true - 00:05:21 Read by: Maura Walsh
149 - Public Speaking Phrases: Nay, I boldly say - Now, you will understand from this - 00:05:43 Read by: Joe Brenneman
150 - Public Speaking Phrases: Observe again - Surely it is not too much for me to say - 00:07:43 Read by: Joe Brenneman
151 - Public Speaking Phrases: Take another instance - The whole story of civilization - 00:06:48 Read by: Holly
152 - Public Speaking Phrases: Then again, in corroboration - Think of the cool disregard - 00:05:49 Read by: Betsie Bush
153 - Public Speaking Phrases: This absurdity arises - Very strange is this indeed - 00:05:15 Read by: Don Powers
154 - Public Speaking Phrases: We all agree as to - What strikes the mind so forcibly - 00:09:02 Read by: Jason Isbell
155 - Public Speaking Phrases: What, then, are we to believe - Your presence seems to say - 00:06:57 Read by: Jason Isbell
156 - Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts - A pleasant flow of appropriate language - 00:07:01 Read by: Joan Walton
157 - Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts - A pleasant flow of appropriate language - 00:07:21 Read by: Joan Walton
158 - Miscellaneous Phrases: An abandoned and exaggerated grief - Awaited with feverish anxiety - 00:06:03 Read by: old-fashionedbookworm
159 - Miscellaneous Phrases: Bandied to and fro - Dwindled to alarmingly small dimensions - 00:06:58 Read by: old-fashionedbookworm
160 - Miscellaneous Phrases: Easy-going to the point of lethargy - Hopelessly belated in its appearance - 00:09:30 Read by: Luigina
161 - Miscellaneous Phrases: I adjured him - Its dominating and inspiring influence - 00:11:13 Read by: Luigina
162 - Miscellaneous Phrases: Jealous and formidable foes - Quixotically generous about money - 00:10:34 Read by: Luigina
163 - Miscellaneous Phrases: Radiantly and transparently happy - Swift and vehement outbursts of feeling - 00:08:02 Read by: Jason Isbell
164 - Miscellaneous Phrases: Take root in the heart - The sycophants of the rich - 00:12:00 Read by: nickdavies
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