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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…

OII Internet Awards 2014: Interview with Dame Stephanie Shirley

In Oxford Internet Institute

Read by Stephanie Shirley

Various

University of Oxford Podcasts

Ch 13: 1636-1646, Quebec and its Tenants; 3753 words

In The Jesuits in North America in the 17th Century

Read by Shirley Ellen

Francis Parkman and Francis Parkman, Jr.

Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread t…

Book 6, Chapter 52: Adam and Dinah

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,…

A Grave Discovery

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…

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…

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…

Accession to the Throne

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…

Version 11

In To a Fish

Read by Shirley Ellen

James Leigh Hunt and Leigh Hunt

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of To a Fish by (James) Leigh Hunt. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 1…

I - Scotland

In The Scottish Chiefs

Read by Shirley Ellen

Miss Jane Porter and Jane Porter

An adventure novel about William Wallace, one of the most popular books ever written by Jane Porter. The French version was even banned by N…