Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

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Authors: Grenville Kleiser In Year : 1917

Book Language: English

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Introduction
How To Use This Book
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Useful Phrases: abandoned hope - ample culture
Useful Phrases: amusing artlessness - azure sky
Useful Phrases: babbling gossip - bygone period
Useful Phrases: cabalistic phrase - collateral duties
Useful Phrases: collective wisdom - contingent reasons
Useful Phrases: continuous endeavor - cynical disregard
Useful Phrases: damaging admission - diligently propagated
Useful Phrases: dim comprehension - dynastic insolence
Useful Phrases: eager animosity - entrancing sadness
Useful Phrases: enveloping presence - exultant condition
Useful Phrases: facetious mood - flickering conscience
Useful Phrases: flighty obstinacy - futile babble
Useful Phrases: gabbling reminiscences - gymnastic agility
Useful Phrases: habitual deference - hysterical agitation
Useful Phrases: iconoclastic attitude - incipient fancy
Useful Phrases: incisive critic - inquisitional rack
Useful Phrases: inquisitive observer - isolated splendor
Useful Phrases: jaded sensibility - lying equivocations
Useful Phrases: maddening monotony - meteoric splendors
Useful Phrases: methodical regularity - mythical kingdom
Useful Phrases: naive manner - overworked drudge
Useful Phrases: pacific disposition - political malcontent
Useful Phrases: polluting taints - pyrotechnic outburst
Useful Phrases: quailing culprit - remarkable sagacity
Useful Phrases: remedial measure - ruthless commercialism
Useful Phrases: sacerdotal preeminence - shuddering reluctance
Useful Phrases: shuffling preliminaries - starched sterility
Useful Phrases: starlit eminence - systematic interaction
Useful Phrases: tacit assumption - tyrannical disposition
Useful Phrases: ubiquitous activity - undue predilection
Useful Phrases: undulating hills - unpalatable truth
Useful Phrases: unparalleled atrocities - utmost scorn
Useful Phrases: vacant stupidity - vulnerable foe
Useful Phrases: wabbling enterprise - zoologically considered
Significant Phrases: abashed and ashamed - awkwardness and crudity
Significant Phrases: babel and confusion - civilized and cultured
Significant Phrases: clamorous and wild - cynical and contemptuous
Significant Phrases: dangers and pitfalls - digressive and wanton
Significant Phrases: dilatory and hesitating - dwindle and disappear
Significant Phrases: eagerness and ecstasy - exuberant and infectious
Significant Phrases: fabulous and fabricated - futile and untrustworthy
Significant Phrases: gaiety and grace - hypocrisy and impudence
Significant Phrases: ideas and achievements - indomitable and dogged
Significant Phrases: indorsed and applauded - isolated and detached
Significant Phrases: jabber and chatter - luxury and pomp
Significant Phrases: madness and folly - mystic and wonderful
Significant Phrases: nagging and squabbling - overworked and fagged
Significant Phrases: pains and penalties - puzzled and affected
Significant Phrases: quackery and incompetence - rust and disuse
Significant Phrases: sad and melancholy - spacious and lofty
Significant Phrases: sparkling and spontaneous - sympathetic and consoling
Significant Phrases: taciturn and laconic - tyrant and oppressor
Significant Phrases: unaccountable and grotesque - vulgar and artificial
Significant Phrases: wandering and erratic - zigzag and deviating
Felicitous Phrases: ability, humor, and perspicacity - busy, active, and toiling
Felicitous Phrases: curious, fantastic, and charming - calculated, logical, and dispassionate
Felicitous Phrases: dwarfed, scant, and wretched - danger, difficulty, and hardship
Felicitous Phrases: eagerness, heartiness, and vehemence - fustian, padding, and irrelevancy
Felicitous Phrases: gaunt, desolate, and despoiled - humor, fancy, and susceptibility
Felicitous Phrases: idle, profuse, and profligate - luxurious, whimsical, and selfish
Felicitous Phrases: magnificent, sumptuous, and stately - overriding, arrogant, and quarrelsome
Felicitous Phrases: pain, toil, and privation - puzzles, tangles, and questionings
Felicitous Phrases: quarrels, misunderstandings, and enmities - rush, roar, and shriek
Felicitous Phrases: sacredness, dignity, and loveliness - sympathy, service, and compassion
Felicitous Phrases: talent, scholarship, and refinement - wrinkled, careworn, and pale
Impressive Phrases: able, skilful,... - business, profession,...
Impressive Phrases: candid, sincere,... - dull, heavy,...
Impressive Phrases: earth, air,... - gross, academic,..
Impressive Phrases: habit, custom,... - lucidity, impressiveness,...
Impressive Phrases: malice, anger,... - purpose, meaning,...
Impressive Phrases: quack, imposture,... - symmetry, proportion,..
Impressive Phrases: tact, courtesy,... - worry, annoyance,...
Prepositional Phrases "of": abandon of spontaneity - business of life
Prepositional Phrases "of": cadences of delirium - dust of defeat
Prepositional Phrases "of": earnestness of enthusiasm - futility of pride
Prepositional Phrases "of": gaiety of spirit - irony of life
Prepositional Phrases "of": jangle of sounds - overflow of vitality
Prepositional Phrases "of": page of desolation - ruts of conventionality
Prepositional Phrases "of": sadness of soul - system of aspersion
Prepositional Phrases "of": taint of megalomania - zone of delusion
Prepositional Phrases "by": affected by externals - hushed by denial
Prepositional Phrases "by": impelled by duty - wrenched by emotions
Prepositional Phrases "in": absorbed in meditation - kept in abeyance
Prepositional Phrases "in": landmarks in memory - weak in conception
Prepositional Phrases "into": abashed into silence - goaded into action
Prepositional Phrases "into": hushed into silence - withdraw into solitude
Prepositional Phrases "to": addicted to flattery - hostile to progress
Prepositional Phrases "to": impervious to suggestion - yield to reason
Prepositional Phrases "with": abounding with plenty - intoxicated with joy
Prepositional Phrases "with": kindle with enthusiasm - work with zeal
Business Phrases
Literary Expressions: A bitterness crept into her face - A nimble-witted opponent
Literary Expressions: A painful thought was flooding his mind - A wordless farewell
Literary Expressions: Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting - Awaiting his summons to the eternal silence
Literary Expressions: Bandied about from mouth to mouth - Dull black eyes under their precipice of brows
Literary Expressions: Earth danced under a heat haze - Guilty of girlish sentimentality
Literary Expressions: Half choked by a rising paroxysm of rage - Humiliating paltriness of revenge
Literary Expressions: I capitulated by inadvertence - Kiss-provoking lips
Literary Expressions: Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle - Rudely reminded of life's serious issues
Literary Expressions: Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill - Swift summer into the autumn flowed
Literary Expressions: Taking the larger sweeps in the march of mind - The hungry curiosity of the mind
Literary Expressions: The idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought - The swing of the pendulum through an arch of centuries
Literary Expressions: The tempered daylight of an olive garden - Twilight creeps upon the darkening mind
Literary Expressions: Unapproachable grandeur and simplicity - Your mind enthroned in the seventh circle of content
Striking Similes: A blind rage like a fire swept over him - And the smile she softly uses fills the silence like a speech
Striking Similes: As a child in play scatters... - Awkward as a cart-horse
Striking Similes: Babbling like a child - Dull as champagne
Striking Similes: Each like a corpse within its grave - Great scarlet poppies lay in drifts ...
Striking Similes: Hair as harsh as tropical grass and gray as ashes - Hushed like a breathless lyre
Striking Similes: I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew - Kingdoms melt away like snow
Striking Similes: Laboring like a giant - Like a yellow silken scarf the thick fog hangs
Striking Similes: Like an alien ghost I stole away - Like sweet thoughts in a dream
Striking Similes: Like the awful shadow of some unseen power - Lovely the land unknown...
Striking Similes: March on my soul nor like the laggard stay - Quivering like an eager race-horse to start
Striking Similes: Rage, rage ye tears, that never more should creep... - Swifter than the twinkling of an eye
Striking Similes: Talking and thinking became to him... - The music almost died away...
Striking Similes: The name that cuts into my soul like a knife - Then the lover sighing like furnace
Striking Similes: Theories sprouted in his mind like mushrooms - Turning easily and securely as on a perfect axle
Striking Similes: Unbends like a loosened bow - Youth like a summer morn
Conversational Phrases: A most extraordinary idea! - Human nature interests me very much indeed
Conversational Phrases: I admire your foresight - I could never forgive myself for that
Conversational Phrases: I dare say your intuition is quite right - I seem to have heard that sentiment before
Conversational Phrases: I shall at once proceed to forget it - It has never occurred to me
Conversational Phrases: It is a curious fact - It would take too long to formulate my thought
Conversational Phrases: Join us, please, when you have time - Surely you would not countenance that
Conversational Phrases: Tell me in what way you want me to help you - True, I forgot!
Conversational Phrases: Undeniably true - Would you mind telling me your opinion?
Conversational Phrases: Yes and no - Your statement is somewhat startling
Public Speaking Phrases: A fact of vast moment - And next I would ask
Public Speaking Phrases: And now allow me to call attention - Away then with the notion
Public Speaking Phrases: Be assured, then - But it has been suggested to me
Public Speaking Phrases: But it is a fact - By this time it will be suspected
Public Speaking Phrases: Can it be supposed - Granting all this
Public Speaking Phrases: Had I time for all that might be said - However, it is to me a very refreshing thing
Public Speaking Phrases: I abide by my statement - I am willing to know
Public Speaking Phrases: I anticipate with pleasing expectation - I distrust all general theories of
Public Speaking Phrases: I do again and again urge upon you - I hasten to concede
Public Speaking Phrases: I have a dark suspicion - I hope you will not accuse me
Public Speaking Phrases: I imagine that no one will be disposed - I rejoice to think I remark here
Public Speaking Phrases: I remember a reference made - I thank you very sincerely for the honor
Public Speaking Phrases: I think I am correct in saying - I yielded to the earnest solicitations
Public Speaking Phrases: If any man be so persuaded - In widening our view
Public Speaking Phrases: Indeed, can anyone tell me - It is my present purpose
Public Speaking Phrases: It is natural to ask the question - It may still more probably be said
Public Speaking Phrases: It must be a cause of delight - Just the reverse is true
Public Speaking Phrases: Language is inadequate to voice my appreciation - My regret is intensified by the thought
Public Speaking Phrases: Nay, I boldly say - Now, you will understand from this
Public Speaking Phrases: Observe again - Surely it is not too much for me to say
Public Speaking Phrases: Take another instance - The whole story of civilization
Public Speaking Phrases: Then again, in corroboration - Think of the cool disregard
Public Speaking Phrases: This absurdity arises - Very strange is this indeed
Public Speaking Phrases: We all agree as to - What strikes the mind so forcibly
Public Speaking Phrases: What, then, are we to believe - Your presence seems to say
Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts - A pleasant flow of appropriate language
Miscellaneous Phrases: A pompous failure - Ample scope for the exercise of his astonishing gifts
Miscellaneous Phrases: An abandoned and exaggerated grief - Awaited with feverish anxiety
Miscellaneous Phrases: Bandied to and fro - Dwindled to alarmingly small dimensions
Miscellaneous Phrases: Easy-going to the point of lethargy - Hopelessly belated in its appearance
Miscellaneous Phrases: I adjured him - Its dominating and inspiring influence
Miscellaneous Phrases: Jealous and formidable foes - Quixotically generous about money
Miscellaneous Phrases: Radiantly and transparently happy - Swift and vehement outbursts of feeling
Miscellaneous Phrases: Take root in the heart - The sycophants of the rich

A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embellishment of Speech and Literature, and The Improvement of the Vocabulary of Those Persons Who Read, Write, and Speak English
Alt-BC: Lucy Burgoyne