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Pronunciation dialect: [English English].
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vf13-01 Nimrod replied, with a slight manifestation of sensitiveness
vf13-02 And their chief virtue lies in that they will never wear out
vf13-03 Beyond dispute, Corry Hutchinson had married Mabel Holmes
vf13-04 No-sir-ee
vf13-05 Each insult added to the value of the claim
vf13-06 For the rest, he was a mere automaton
vf13-07 The river bared its bosom, and snorting steamboats challenged
the wilderness
vf13-08 Their love burned with increasing brightness
vf13-09 They were artists, not biologists
vf13-10 Both Johnny and his mother shuffled their feet as they walked
vf13-11 And as in denial of guilt, the one-legged boy replied
vf13-12 Burnt out like the crater of a volcano
vf13-13 The boy, O'Brien, was specially maltreated
vf13-14 O'Brien took off his coat and bared his right arm
vf13-15 He bore no grudges and had few enemies
vf13-16 And Tom King patiently endured
vf13-17 King took every advantage he knew
vf13-18 The lines were now very taut
vf13-19 And right there I saw and knew it all
vf13-20 Who the devil gave it to you to be judge and jury
vf13-21 You're joking me, sir, the other managed to articulate
vf13-22 Anything unusual or abnormal was sufficient to send a fellow to
Molokai
vf13-23 His beady black eyes saw bargains where other men saw bankruptcy
vf13-24 He was an athlete and a giant
vf13-25 We fished sharks on Niihau together
vf13-26 The Claudine was leaving next morning for Honolulu
vf13-27 In short, my joyous individualism was dominated by the orthodox
bourgeois ethics
vf13-28 Soon shall it be thrust back from off prostrate humanity
vf13-29 Yet, in accordance with Ernest's test of truth, it worked
vf13-30 Much more Ernest told them of themselves and of his
disillusionment
vf13-31 There is more behind this than a mere university ideal
vf13-32 No, it is a palace, wherein there are many servants
vf13-33 We must give ourselves and not our money alone
vf13-34 We are consumed in our own flesh-pots
vf13-35 But here amongst ourselves let us speak out
vf13-36 Also, there was awe in their faces
vf13-37 Out of abstractions Ernest had conjured a vision and made them
see it
vf13-38 Illuminating oil was becoming all profit
vf13-39 Such an act was in direct violation of the laws of the land
vf13-40 He was fond of quoting a fragment from a certain poem
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--- (Edited on 9/11/2007 9:09 pm [GMT+0100] by robertburrelldonkin) ---
Notice: many prompts in "English Speech Files" were adapted from the prompt files contained in the CMU_ARCTIC speech synthesis database, which were in turn derived from out-of-copyright texts from Project Gutenberg, by the FestVox project at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. |