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Grenville Kleiser · about 16 minutes
This audio reading of Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases is read by
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
000 - Introduction - 00:12:20Read by: Betsie Bush
001 - How To Use This Book - 00:04:52Read by: Maria Morabe
002 - Plan of Study - 00:04:52Read by: Maria Morabe
003 - Useful Phrases: abandoned hope - ample culture - 00:05:13Read by: Betsie Bush
004 - Useful Phrases: amusing artlessness - azure sky - 00:04:10Read by: roolynninms
005 - Useful Phrases: babbling gossip - bygone period - 00:03:57Read by: roolynninms
006 - Useful Phrases: cabalistic phrase - collateral duties - 00:02:47Read by: roolynninms
007 - Useful Phrases: collective wisdom - contingent reasons - 00:02:43Read by: roolynninms
008 - Useful Phrases: continuous endeavor - cynical disregard - 00:04:07Read by: pallavy
009 - Useful Phrases: damaging admission - diligently propagated - 00:06:27Read by: ottergal
010 - Useful Phrases: dim comprehension - dynastic insolence - 00:05:51Read by: ottergal
011 - Useful Phrases: eager animosity - entrancing sadness - 00:05:50Read by: David Barnes
012 - Useful Phrases: enveloping presence - exultant condition - 00:04:54Read by: skern922
013 - Useful Phrases: facetious mood - flickering conscience - 00:02:53Read by: E. Plein
014 - Useful Phrases: flighty obstinacy - futile babble - 00:03:16Read by: pallavy
015 - Useful Phrases: gabbling reminiscences - gymnastic agility - 00:04:31Read by: pallavy
016 - Useful Phrases: habitual deference - hysterical agitation - 00:04:53Read by: pallavy
017 - Useful Phrases: iconoclastic attitude - incipient fancy - 00:07:05Read by: Chris Chapman
018 - Useful Phrases: incisive critic - inquisitional rack - 00:05:45Read by: Chris Chapman
019 - Useful Phrases: inquisitive observer - isolated splendor - 00:05:46Read by: Kira Rutherford-Boese
020 - Useful Phrases: jaded sensibility - lying equivocations - 00:05:30Read by: Kira Rutherford-Boese
021 - Useful Phrases: maddening monotony - meteoric splendors - 00:04:25Read by: Linton
022 - Useful Phrases: methodical regularity - mythical kingdom - 00:03:51Read by: Linton
023 - Useful Phrases: naive manner - overworked drudge - 00:06:19Read by: Linton
024 - Useful Phrases: pacific disposition - political malcontent - 00:07:26Read by: Denny Sayers
025 - Useful Phrases: polluting taints - pyrotechnic outburst - 00:08:56Read by: Denny Sayers
026 - Useful Phrases: quailing culprit - remarkable sagacity - 00:03:20Read by: Lisa Chau
027 - Useful Phrases: remedial measure - ruthless commercialism - 00:02:33Read by: Jordan Mueller
028 - Useful Phrases: sacerdotal preeminence - shuddering reluctance - 00:04:49Read by: Lisa Chau
029 - Useful Phrases: shuffling preliminaries - starched sterility - 00:05:02Read by: Lisa Chau
030 - Useful Phrases: starlit eminence - systematic interaction - 00:03:54Read by: Jordan Mueller
031 - Useful Phrases: tacit assumption - tyrannical disposition - 00:05:07Read by: Lisa Chau
032 - Useful Phrases: ubiquitous activity - undue predilection - 00:04:04Read by: Lisa Chau
033 - Useful Phrases: undulating hills - unpalatable truth - 00:04:07Read by: Lisa Chau
034 - Useful Phrases: unparalleled atrocities - utmost scorn - 00:04:13Read by: Lisa Chau
035 - Useful Phrases: vacant stupidity - vulnerable foe - 00:03:07Read by: Lisa Chau
036 - Useful Phrases: wabbling enterprise - zoologically considered - 00:03:11Read by: Heather Lambert
037 - Significant Phrases: abashed and ashamed - awkwardness and crudity - 00:04:15Read by: Claire Goget
038 - Significant Phrases: babel and confusion - civilized and cultured - 00:04:52Read by: Lisa Chau
039 - Significant Phrases: clamorous and wild - cynical and contemptuous - 00:05:06Read by: Lisa Chau
040 - Significant Phrases: dangers and pitfalls - digressive and wanton - 00:03:39Read by: Lisa Chau
041 - Significant Phrases: dilatory and hesitating - dwindle and disappear - 00:04:44Read by: shurlygurl
042 - Significant Phrases: eagerness and ecstasy - exuberant and infectious - 00:06:16Read by: shurlygurl
043 - Significant Phrases: fabulous and fabricated - futile and untrustworthy - 00:04:47Read by: Lucy Burgoyne
044 - Significant Phrases: gaiety and grace - hypocrisy and impudence - 00:05:17Read by: Lucy Burgoyne
045 - Significant Phrases: ideas and achievements - indomitable and dogged - 00:03:24Read by: Lucy Burgoyne
046 - Significant Phrases: indorsed and applauded - isolated and detached - 00:03:37Read by: Julian Jamison
047 - Significant Phrases: jabber and chatter - luxury and pomp - 00:04:07Read by: dhenderson
048 - Significant Phrases: madness and folly - mystic and wonderful - 00:02:55Read by: dhenderson
049 - Significant Phrases: nagging and squabbling - overworked and fagged - 00:04:10Read by: dhenderson
050 - Significant Phrases: pains and penalties - puzzled and affected - 00:06:09Read by: Kathy
051 - Significant Phrases: quackery and incompetence - rust and disuse - 00:04:58Read by: Kathy
052 - Significant Phrases: sad and melancholy - spacious and lofty - 00:03:48Read by: Kathy
053 - Significant Phrases: sparkling and spontaneous - sympathetic and consoling - 00:04:06Read by: jenneferdawn
054 - Significant Phrases: taciturn and laconic - tyrant and oppressor - 00:04:48Read by: Scot Colford
055 - Significant Phrases: unaccountable and grotesque - vulgar and artificial - 00:05:49Read by: Marwa Gamil
056 - Significant Phrases: wandering and erratic - zigzag and deviating - 00:02:17Read by: twofistededitor
058 - Felicitous Phrases: curious, fantastic, and charming - calculated, logical, and dispassionate - 00:04:11Read by: Marwa Gamil
059 - Felicitous Phrases: dwarfed, scant, and wretched - danger, difficulty, and hardship - 00:04:32Read by: Marwa Gamil
060 - Felicitous Phrases: eagerness, heartiness, and vehemence - fustian, padding, and irrelevancy - 00:04:35Read by: Sandra Zera
061 - Felicitous Phrases: gaunt, desolate, and despoiled - humor, fancy, and susceptibility - 00:03:40Read by: Brian Lojeck
062 - Felicitous Phrases: idle, profuse, and profligate - luxurious, whimsical, and selfish - 00:04:20Read by: Brian Lojeck
063 - Felicitous Phrases: magnificent, sumptuous, and stately - overriding, arrogant, and quarrelsome - 00:03:51Read by: Justin Barrett
064 - Felicitous Phrases: pain, toil, and privation - puzzles, tangles, and questionings - 00:03:45Read by: William Haseltine
065 - Felicitous Phrases: quarrels, misunderstandings, and enmities - rush, roar, and shriek - 00:02:38Read by: Rohanna
066 - Felicitous Phrases: sacredness, dignity, and loveliness - sympathy, service, and compassion - 00:04:05Read by: William Haseltine
067 - Felicitous Phrases: talent, scholarship, and refinement - wrinkled, careworn, and pale - 00:05:08Read by: Marwa Gamil
068 - Impressive Phrases: able, skilful,… - business, profession,… - 00:04:41Read by: Stephen Lamb
069 - Impressive Phrases: candid, sincere,… - dull, heavy,… - 00:06:04Read by: Stephen Lamb
070 - Impressive Phrases: earth, air,… - gross, academic,.. - 00:06:18Read by: Stephen Lamb
071 - Impressive Phrases: habit, custom,… - lucidity, impressiveness,… - 00:05:41Read by: Stephen Lamb
072 - Impressive Phrases: malice, anger,… - purpose, meaning,… - 00:05:40Read by: Stephen Lamb
073 - Edit: Impressive Phrases: quack, imposture,… - symmetry, proportion,.. - 00:04:20Read by: Stephen Lamb
074 - Edit: Impressive Phrases: tact, courtesy,… - worry, annoyance,… - 00:04:10Read by: Stephen Lamb
075 - Prepositional Phrases of: abandon of spontaneity - business of life - 00:04:35Read by: Joseph Etcheto
076 - Prepositional Phrases of: cadences of delirium - dust of defeat - 00:03:52Read by: Alex Foster
077 - Prepositional Phrases of: earnestness of enthusiasm - futility of pride - 00:04:12Read by: Joseph Etcheto
078 - Prepositional Phrases of: gaiety of spirit - irony of life - 00:04:01Read by: Joseph Etcheto
079 - Prepositional Phrases of: jangle of sounds - overflow of vitality - 00:04:10Read by: Joseph Etcheto
080 - Prepositional Phrases of: page of desolation - ruts of conventionality - 00:04:52Read by: Joseph Etcheto
081 - Prepositional Phrases of: sadness of soul - system of aspersion - 00:03:34Read by: Joseph Etcheto
082 - Prepositional Phrases of: taint of megalomania - zone of delusion - 00:04:16Read by: Joseph Etcheto
083 - Prepositional Phrases by: affected by externals - hushed by denial - 00:03:05Read by: Scot Colford
084 - Prepositional Phrases by: impelled by duty - wrenched by emotions - 00:03:33Read by: Precious
085 - Prepositional Phrases in: absorbed in meditation - kept in abeyance - 00:03:16Read by: Precious
086 - Prepositional Phrases in: landmarks in memory - weak in conception - 00:03:47Read by: Precious
087 - Prepositional Phrases into: abashed into silence - goaded into action - 00:01:59Read by: Joe Brenneman
088 - Prepositional Phrases into: hushed into silence - withdraw into solitude - 00:01:51Read by: Joe Brenneman
089 - Prepositional Phrases to: addicted to flattery - hostile to progress - 00:01:50Read by: Joe Brenneman
090 - Prepositional Phrases to: impervious to suggestion - yield to reason - 00:02:28Read by: Joe Brenneman
091 - Prepositional Phrases with: abounding with plenty - intoxicated with joy - 00:02:23Read by: Joe Brenneman
092 - Prepositional Phrases with: kindle with enthusiasm - work with zeal - 00:02:29Read by: liquidneutrino
093 - Business Phrases - 00:24:37Read by: Karen Savage
094 - Literary Expressions: A bitterness crept into her face - A nimble-witted opponent - 00:06:53Read by: Lee Elliott
095 - Literary Expressions: A painful thought was flooding his mind - A wordless farewell - 00:06:27Read by: Joe Brenneman
096 - Literary Expressions: Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting - Awaiting his summons to the eternal silence - 00:08:18Read by: Ken Crooker
097 - Literary Expressions: Bandied about from mouth to mouth - Dull black eyes under their precipice of brows - 00:06:47Read by: Ken Crooker
098 - Literary Expressions: Earth danced under a heat haze - Guilty of girlish sentimentality - 00:04:06Read by: old-fashionedbookworm
099 - Literary Expressions: Half choked by a rising paroxysm of rage - Humiliating paltriness of revenge - 00:09:26Read by: David Best
100 - Literary Expressions: I capitulated by inadvertence - Kiss-provoking lips - 00:05:06Read by: David Best
101 - Literary Expressions: Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle - Rudely reminded of life’s serious issues - 00:10:45Read by: Pete Darby
102 - Literary Expressions: Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill - Swift summer into the autumn flowed - 00:07:27Read by: old-fashionedbookworm
103 - Literary Expressions: Taking the larger sweeps in the march of mind - The hungry curiosity of the mind - 00:08:09Read by: C.L.Coney
104 - Literary Expressions: The idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought - The swing of the pendulum through an arch of centuries - 00:09:37Read by: C.L.Coney
105 - Literary Expressions: The tempered daylight of an olive garden - Twilight creeps upon the darkening mind - 00:05:34Read by: C.L.Coney
106 - Literary Expressions: Unapproachable grandeur and simplicity - Your mind enthroned in the seventh circle of content - 00:03:39Read 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 - 00:10:55Read by: SueAnn Dozier
108 - Striking Similes: As a child in play scatters… - Awkward as a cart-horse - 00:06:39Read by: Joe Brenneman
109 - Striking Similes: Babbling like a child - Dull as champagne - 00:06:33Read by: Joe Brenneman
110 - Striking Similes: Each like a corpse within its grave - Great scarlet poppies lay in drifts … - 00:04:36Read by: Joe Brenneman
111 - Striking Similes: Hair as harsh as tropical grass and gray as ashes - Hushed like a breathless lyre - 00:09:19Read by: Sandra Zera
112 - Striking Similes: I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew - Kingdoms melt away like snow - 00:03:36Read by: Sandra Zera
113 - Striking Similes: Laboring like a giant - Like a yellow silken scarf the thick fog hangs - 00:07:03Read by: Rohanna
114 - Striking Similes: Like an alien ghost I stole away - Like sweet thoughts in a dream - 00:06:31Read by: Rohanna
115 - Striking Similes: Like the awful shadow of some unseen power - Lovely the land unknown… - 00:06:32Read by: Rohanna
116 - Striking Similes: March on my soul nor like the laggard stay - Quivering like an eager race-horse to start - 00:06:49Read by: Sarah Jennings
117 - Striking Similes: Rage, rage ye tears, that never more should creep… - Swifter than the twinkling of an eye - 00:10:25Read by: Sandra Zera
118 - Striking Similes: Talking and thinking became to him… - The music almost died away… - 00:06:35Read by: Marwa Gamil
119 - Striking Similes: The name that cuts into my soul like a knife - Then the lover sighing like furnace - 00:08:27Read by: Betsie Bush
120 - Striking Similes: Theories sprouted in his mind like mushrooms - Turning easily and securely as on a perfect axle - 00:06:21Read by: Betsie Bush
121 - Striking Similes: Unbends like a loosened bow - Youth like a summer morn - 00:08:18Read by: Scot Colford
122 - Conversational Phrases: A most extraordinary idea! - Human nature interests me very much indeed - 00:06:38Read by: C Pannier
123 - Conversational Phrases: I admire your foresight - I could never forgive myself for that - 00:07:28Read by: MarkMascolino
124 - Edit: Conversational Phrases: I dare say your intuition is quite right - I seem to have heard that sentiment before - 00:09:02Read by: Precious
125 - Conversational Phrases: I shall at once proceed to forget it - It has never occurred to me - 00:06:45Read by: Lee Ann Howlett
126 - Conversational Phrases: It is a curious fact - It would take too long to formulate my thought - 00:06:17Read by: old-fashionedbookworm
127 - Conversational Phrases: Join us, please, when you have time - Surely you would not countenance that - 00:07:00Read by: Ken Crooker
128 - Conversational Phrases: Tell me in what way you want me to help you - True, I forgot! - 00:06:38Read by: Ken Crooker
129 - Conversational Phrases: Undeniably true - Would you mind telling me your opinion? - 00:03:47Read by: Elizabeth Palmer
130 - Conversational Phrases: Yes and no - Your statement is somewhat startling - 00:04:49Read by: Elizabeth Palmer
131 - Public Speaking Phrases: A fact of vast moment - And next I would ask - 00:07:29Read by: Rose
132 - Public Speaking Phrases: And now allow me to call attention - Away then with the notion - 00:08:01Read by: Scot Colford
133 - Public Speaking Phrases: Be assured, then - But it has been suggested to me - 00:04:55Read by: Sandra Zera
134 - Public Speaking Phrases: But it is a fact - By this time it will be suspected - 00:04:20Read by: Joe Brenneman
135 - Public Speaking Phrases: Can it be supposed - Granting all this - 00:04:12Read 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 - 00:03:16Read by: Joe Brenneman
137 - Public Speaking Phrases: I abide by my statement - I am willing to know - 00:06:16Read by: Jeff Wadden
138 - Public Speaking Phrases: I anticipate with pleasing expectation - I distrust all general theories of - 00:07:39Read by: Joe Brenneman
139 - Public Speaking Phrases: I do again and again urge upon you - I hasten to concede - 00:08:10Read by: Ken Crooker
140 - Public Speaking Phrases: I have a dark suspicion - I hope you will not accuse me - 00:11:49Read by: Ken Crooker
141 - Public Speaking Phrases: I imagine that no one will be disposed - I rejoice to think I remark here - 00:09:23Read by: Stephen Lamb
142 - Public Speaking Phrases: I remember a reference made - I thank you very sincerely for the honor - 00:09:41Read by: David Best
143 - Public Speaking Phrases: I think I am correct in saying - I yielded to the earnest solicitations - 00:10:38Read by: David Best
144 - Public Speaking Phrases: If any man be so persuaded - In widening our view - 00:10:38Read by: Ekpyrotic
145 - Public Speaking Phrases: Indeed, can anyone tell me - It is my present purpose - 00:09:25Read by: Sandra Zera
146 - Public Speaking Phrases: It is natural to ask the question - It may still more probably be said - 00:05:38Read by: Maura Walsh
147 - Public Speaking Phrases: It must be a cause of delight - Just the reverse is true - 00:05:21Read by: Maura Walsh
149 - Public Speaking Phrases: Nay, I boldly say - Now, you will understand from this - 00:05:43Read by: Joe Brenneman
150 - Public Speaking Phrases: Observe again - Surely it is not too much for me to say - 00:07:43Read by: Joe Brenneman
151 - Public Speaking Phrases: Take another instance - The whole story of civilization - 00:06:48Read by: Holly
152 - Public Speaking Phrases: Then again, in corroboration - Think of the cool disregard - 00:05:49Read by: Betsie Bush
153 - Public Speaking Phrases: This absurdity arises - Very strange is this indeed - 00:05:15Read by: Don Powers
154 - Public Speaking Phrases: We all agree as to - What strikes the mind so forcibly - 00:09:02Read by: Jason Isbell
155 - Public Speaking Phrases: What, then, are we to believe - Your presence seems to say - 00:06:57Read by: Jason Isbell
156 - Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts - A pleasant flow of appropriate language - 00:07:01Read by: Joan Walton
157 - Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts - A pleasant flow of appropriate language - 00:07:21Read by: Joan Walton
158 - Miscellaneous Phrases: An abandoned and exaggerated grief - Awaited with feverish anxiety - 00:06:03Read by: old-fashionedbookworm
159 - Miscellaneous Phrases: Bandied to and fro - Dwindled to alarmingly small dimensions - 00:06:58Read by: old-fashionedbookworm
160 - Miscellaneous Phrases: Easy-going to the point of lethargy - Hopelessly belated in its appearance - 00:09:30Read by: Luigina
161 - Miscellaneous Phrases: I adjured him - Its dominating and inspiring influence - 00:11:13Read by: Luigina
162 - Miscellaneous Phrases: Jealous and formidable foes - Quixotically generous about money - 00:10:34Read by: Luigina
163 - Miscellaneous Phrases: Radiantly and transparently happy - Swift and vehement outbursts of feeling - 00:08:02Read by: Jason Isbell
164 - Miscellaneous Phrases: Take root in the heart - The sycophants of the rich - 00:12:00Read by: nickdavies
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