Chapter 28 of Mark Twain's Letters — Complete (1853-1910) is here in full — 327 sentences across 66 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 28 of Mark Twain's Letters — Complete (1853-1910) is here in full — 327 sentences across 66 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Get me out of business! And I will be yours forever gratefully, S. L. CLEMENS. My idea is, that I am offering my 2/3 of L. A. L. and the business for thirty or forty thousand dollars. Is that it? P. S. S. The new firm could retain my books and reduce them to a 10 percent royalty.
Chapter 28 of Mark Twain's Letters — Complete (1853-1910) is here in full — 327 sentences across 66 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
From this reading “And I will be yours forever gratefully, S. L. CLEMENS.”
for a limitless time
From this reading “And I will be yours forever gratefully, S. L. CLEMENS.”
with appreciation; in a grateful manner
From this reading “And I will be yours forever gratefully, S. L. CLEMENS.”
something offered (as a proposal or bid)
From this reading “My idea is, that I am offering my 2/3 of L. A. L. and the business for thirty or forty thousand dollars.”
a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)
From this reading “P. S. S. The new firm could retain my books and reduce them to a 10 percent royalty.”
cut down on; make a reduction in
From this reading “P. S. S. The new firm could retain my books and reduce them to a 10 percent royalty.”
hold back within
From this reading “P. S. S. The new firm could retain my books and reduce them to a 10 percent royalty.”
payment to the holder of a patent or copyright or resource for the right to use their property
From this reading “P. S. S. The new firm could retain my books and reduce them to a 10 percent royalty.”
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From this reading P. S. S. The new firm could retain my books and reduce them to a 10 percent royalty.
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From this reading My idea is, that I am offering my 2/3 of L. A. L. and the business for thirty or forty thousand dollars.
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From this reading My idea is, that I am offering my 2/3 of L. A. L. and the business for thirty or forty thousand dollars.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading My idea is, that I am offering my 2/3 of L. A. L. and the business for thirty or forty thousand dollars.
the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading My idea is, that I am offering my 2/3 of L. A. L. and the business for thirty or forty thousand dollars.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading And I will be yours forever gratefully, S. L. CLEMENS.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading And I will be yours forever gratefully, S. L. CLEMENS.
Bound written or printed works.
From this reading P. S. S. The new firm could retain my books and reduce them to a 10 percent royalty.
a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
From this reading Get me out of business!
United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
From this reading And I will be yours forever gratefully, S. L. CLEMENS.
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading P. S. S. The new firm could retain my books and reduce them to a 10 percent royalty.
plural of “dollar” — the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 cents
From this reading My idea is, that I am offering my 2/3 of L. A. L. and the business for thirty or forty thousand dollars.
marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
From this reading P. S. S. The new firm could retain my books and reduce them to a 10 percent royalty.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading My idea is, that I am offering my 2/3 of L. A. L. and the business for thirty or forty thousand dollars.
for a limitless time
From this reading And I will be yours forever gratefully, S. L. CLEMENS.
being ten more than thirty
From this reading My idea is, that I am offering my 2/3 of L. A. L. and the business for thirty or forty thousand dollars.
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading Get me out of business!
with appreciation; in a grateful manner
From this reading And I will be yours forever gratefully, S. L. CLEMENS.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading And I will be yours forever gratefully, S. L. CLEMENS.
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading My idea is, that I am offering my 2/3 of L. A. L. and the business for thirty or forty thousand dollars.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading My idea is, that I am offering my 2/3 of L. A. L. and the business for thirty or forty thousand dollars.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Is that it?
a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)
From this reading And I will be yours forever gratefully, S. L. CLEMENS.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Get me out of business!
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading My idea is, that I am offering my 2/3 of L. A. L. and the business for thirty or forty thousand dollars.
not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
From this reading P. S. S. The new firm could retain my books and reduce them to a 10 percent royalty.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Get me out of business!
something offered (as a proposal or bid)
From this reading My idea is, that I am offering my 2/3 of L. A. L. and the business for thirty or forty thousand dollars.
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading My idea is, that I am offering my 2/3 of L. A. L. and the business for thirty or forty thousand dollars.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading Get me out of business!
a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms
From this reading P. S. S. The new firm could retain my books and reduce them to a 10 percent royalty.
a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)
From this reading P. S. S. The new firm could retain my books and reduce them to a 10 percent royalty.
cut down on; make a reduction in
From this reading P. S. S. The new firm could retain my books and reduce them to a 10 percent royalty.
hold back within
From this reading P. S. S. The new firm could retain my books and reduce them to a 10 percent royalty.
payment to the holder of a patent or copyright or resource for the right to use their property
From this reading P. S. S. The new firm could retain my books and reduce them to a 10 percent royalty.
1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
From this reading And I will be yours forever gratefully, S. L. CLEMENS.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading My idea is, that I am offering my 2/3 of L. A. L. and the business for thirty or forty thousand dollars.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading My idea is, that I am offering my 2/3 of L. A. L. and the business for thirty or forty thousand dollars.
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading P. S. S. The new firm could retain my books and reduce them to a 10 percent royalty.
the cardinal number that is the product of ten and three
From this reading My idea is, that I am offering my 2/3 of L. A. L. and the business for thirty or forty thousand dollars.
the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
From this reading My idea is, that I am offering my 2/3 of L. A. L. and the business for thirty or forty thousand dollars.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading P. S. S. The new firm could retain my books and reduce them to a 10 percent royalty.
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading And I will be yours forever gratefully, S. L. CLEMENS.
the one or ones belonging to the person spoken to
From this reading And I will be yours forever gratefully, S. L. CLEMENS.
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