Chapter 1 of More toasts: Jokes, stories and quotations is here in full — 395 sentences across 79 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of More toasts: Jokes, stories and quotations is here in full — 395 sentences across 79 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
MARION DIX MOSHER Librarian, Genesee Branch, Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library New York The H. W. Wilson Company London: Grafton & Co. TOASTER'S HANDBOOK. Peggy Edmond and Harold Workman Williams. 501p. $1.80 MORE TOASTS.
Chapter 1 of More toasts: Jokes, stories and quotations is here in full — 395 sentences across 79 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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United States social reformer who pioneered in the reform of prisons and in the treatment of the mentally ill; superintended women army nurses during the American Civil War (1802-1887)
From this reading “MARION DIX MOSHER Librarian, Genesee Branch, Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library New York The H. W. Wilson Company London: Grafton & Co.”
a concise reference book providing specific information about a subject or location
From this reading “TOASTER'S HANDBOOK.”
a professional person trained in library science and engaged in library services
From this reading “MARION DIX MOSHER Librarian, Genesee Branch, Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library New York The H. W. Wilson Company London: Grafton & Co.”
a city in western New York; a center of the photographic equipment industry
From this reading “MARION DIX MOSHER Librarian, Genesee Branch, Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library New York The H. W. Wilson Company London: Grafton & Co.”
plural of “toast” — slices of bread that have been toasted
From this reading “$1.80 MORE TOASTS.”
United States country singer and songwriter (1923-1953)
From this reading “Peggy Edmond and Harold Workman Williams.”
author of the first novel by an African American that was published in the United States (1808-1870)
From this reading “MARION DIX MOSHER Librarian, Genesee Branch, Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library New York The H. W. Wilson Company London: Grafton & Co.”
an employee who performs manual or industrial labor
From this reading “Peggy Edmond and Harold Workman Williams.”
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From this reading $1.80 MORE TOASTS.
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From this reading 501p.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Peggy Edmond and Harold Workman Williams.
a division of some larger or more complex organization
From this reading MARION DIX MOSHER Librarian, Genesee Branch, Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library New York The H. W. Wilson Company London: Grafton & Co.
an odorless very poisonous gas that is a product of incomplete combustion of carbon
From this reading MARION DIX MOSHER Librarian, Genesee Branch, Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library New York The H. W. Wilson Company London: Grafton & Co.
an institution created to conduct business
From this reading MARION DIX MOSHER Librarian, Genesee Branch, Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library New York The H. W. Wilson Company London: Grafton & Co.
United States social reformer who pioneered in the reform of prisons and in the treatment of the mentally ill; superintended women army nurses during the American Civil War (1802-1887)
From this reading MARION DIX MOSHER Librarian, Genesee Branch, Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library New York The H. W. Wilson Company London: Grafton & Co.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Peggy Edmond and Harold Workman Williams.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading MARION DIX MOSHER Librarian, Genesee Branch, Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library New York The H. W. Wilson Company London: Grafton & Co.
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From this reading MARION DIX MOSHER Librarian, Genesee Branch, Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library New York The H. W. Wilson Company London: Grafton & Co.
a nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas; the simplest and lightest and most abundant element in the universe
From this reading MARION DIX MOSHER Librarian, Genesee Branch, Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library New York The H. W. Wilson Company London: Grafton & Co.
a concise reference book providing specific information about a subject or location
From this reading TOASTER'S HANDBOOK.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Peggy Edmond and Harold Workman Williams.
a professional person trained in library science and engaged in library services
From this reading MARION DIX MOSHER Librarian, Genesee Branch, Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library New York The H. W. Wilson Company London: Grafton & Co.
a room where books are kept
From this reading MARION DIX MOSHER Librarian, Genesee Branch, Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library New York The H. W. Wilson Company London: Grafton & Co.
the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center
From this reading MARION DIX MOSHER Librarian, Genesee Branch, Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library New York The H. W. Wilson Company London: Grafton & Co.
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From this reading MARION DIX MOSHER Librarian, Genesee Branch, Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library New York The H. W. Wilson Company London: Grafton & Co.
(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree
From this reading $1.80 MORE TOASTS.
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From this reading MARION DIX MOSHER Librarian, Genesee Branch, Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library New York The H. W. Wilson Company London: Grafton & Co.
a common nonmetallic element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless inert diatomic gas; constitutes 78 percent of the atmosphere by volume; a constituent of all living tissues
From this reading MARION DIX MOSHER Librarian, Genesee Branch, Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library New York The H. W. Wilson Company London: Grafton & Co.
not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
From this reading MARION DIX MOSHER Librarian, Genesee Branch, Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library New York The H. W. Wilson Company London: Grafton & Co.
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 501p.
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From this reading Peggy Edmond and Harold Workman Williams.
people in general considered as a whole
From this reading MARION DIX MOSHER Librarian, Genesee Branch, Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library New York The H. W. Wilson Company London: Grafton & Co.
a city in western New York; a center of the photographic equipment industry
From this reading MARION DIX MOSHER Librarian, Genesee Branch, Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library New York The H. W. Wilson Company London: Grafton & Co.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading MARION DIX MOSHER Librarian, Genesee Branch, Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library New York The H. W. Wilson Company London: Grafton & Co.
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From this reading TOASTER'S HANDBOOK.
plural of “toast” — slices of bread that have been toasted
From this reading $1.80 MORE TOASTS.
a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite
From this reading MARION DIX MOSHER Librarian, Genesee Branch, Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library New York The H. W. Wilson Company London: Grafton & Co.
United States country singer and songwriter (1923-1953)
From this reading Peggy Edmond and Harold Workman Williams.
author of the first novel by an African American that was published in the United States (1808-1870)
From this reading MARION DIX MOSHER Librarian, Genesee Branch, Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library New York The H. W. Wilson Company London: Grafton & Co.
an employee who performs manual or industrial labor
From this reading Peggy Edmond and Harold Workman Williams.
a silvery metallic element that is common in rare-earth minerals; used in magnesium and aluminum alloys
From this reading MARION DIX MOSHER Librarian, Genesee Branch, Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library New York The H. W. Wilson Company London: Grafton & Co.
the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose
From this reading MARION DIX MOSHER Librarian, Genesee Branch, Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library New York The H. W. Wilson Company London: Grafton & Co.
Chapter 1 of More toasts: Jokes, stories and quotations by Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher holds 395 sentences, grouped into 79 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 1 holds 395 sentences of More toasts: Jokes, stories and quotations, unabridged, divided into 79 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of More toasts: Jokes, stories and quotations by Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 395 sentences, grouped into 79 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
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