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Significant Phrases: dilatory and hesitating - dwindle and disappear

In Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

Read by Shirley Donahue


Grenville Kleiser


A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embelli…

04 - The Bear and Skrattel

In The Fairy Ring

Read by Shirley Anderson


Kate D. Wiggin and Nora A. Smith and Kate Douglas Wiggin


The Fairy Ring, originally published in 1910, is a collection of 63 fairy tales from around the globe. It includes such well-known favorites…

02 - An Important Item

In Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor

Read by Shirley Anderson


Richard Doddridge Blackmore


"If anybody cares to read a simple tale told simply" ... thus opens Lorna Doone, one of the best love stories ever written. The no…

03 - A Family Dinner

In The Story of Ab

Read by Shirley Anderson


Stanley Waterloo


This is the story of Ab, a man of the Age of Stone, who lived so long ago that we cannot closely fix the date, and who loved and fought well…

Levitical

In Shirley

Read by Shirley Anderson


Charlotte Brontë


Shirley is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (…

All Alone

In Good Wives

Read by Shirley Ellen


Louisa May Alcott


Louisa May Alcott's overwhelming success dated from the appearance of the first part of Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, (1868) a sem…

The Course of True Love

In The Secret Passage

Read by Shirley Anderson


Fergus Hume


Excellent murder mystery. On September 9, 1905, the NY Times Saturday Review of Books described this book as follows: "That painstaking…

Book 6, Chapter 53: The Harvest Supper

In Adam Bede

Read by Shirley Ellen


George Eliot


Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously,…

1 Kings, Chapters 12-16

In Bible (WEB) Old Testament - complete

Read by Shirley Ellen


World English Bible


The World English Bible is a modern English translation of the Bible, released directly into the public domain. (Summary by Leon Mire)

A Night Encounter

In The Daughter of the Sioux

Read by Shirley Anderson


Charles King


Charles King was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer. He was the son of Civil War general Rufus King and great grandson of Ru…

Chapter 2

In Herodotus' Histories Vol 2

Read by Shirley Anderson


Herodotus


The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histori…

Elizabeth in the Tower

In Queen Elizabeth

Read by Shirley Ellen


Jacob Abbott


There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels…