Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases - Grenville KLEISER

Title: Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases
Author: Grenville KLEISER
Category: Reference / Language learning
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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

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IntroductionHow To Use This BookPlan Of StudyUseful Phrases: abandoned hope - ample cultureUseful Phrases: amusing artlessness - azure skyUseful Phrases: babbling gossip - bygone periodUseful Phrases: cabalistic phrase - collateral dutiesUseful Phrases: collective wisdom - contingent reasonsUseful Phrases: continuous endeavor - cynical disregardUseful Phrases: damaging admission - diligently propagatedUseful Phrases: dim comprehension - dynastic insolenceUseful Phrases: eager animosity - entrancing sadnessUseful Phrases: enveloping presence - exultant conditionUseful Phrases: facetious mood - flickering conscienceUseful Phrases: flighty obstinacy - futile babbleUseful Phrases: gabbling reminiscences - gymnastic agilityUseful Phrases: habitual deference - hysterical agitationUseful Phrases: iconoclastic attitude - incipient fancyUseful Phrases: incisive critic - inquisitional rackUseful Phrases: inquisitive observer - isolated splendorUseful Phrases: jaded sensibility - lying equivocationsUseful Phrases: maddening monotony - meteoric splendorsUseful Phrases: methodical regularity - mythical kingdomUseful Phrases: naive manner - overworked drudgeUseful Phrases: pacific disposition - political malcontentUseful Phrases: polluting taints - pyrotechnic outburstUseful Phrases: quailing culprit - remarkable sagacityUseful Phrases: remedial measure - ruthless commercialismUseful Phrases: sacerdotal preeminence - shuddering reluctanceUseful Phrases: shuffling preliminaries - starched sterilityUseful Phrases: starlit eminence - systematic interactionUseful Phrases: tacit assumption - tyrannical dispositionUseful Phrases: ubiquitous activity - undue predilectionUseful Phrases: undulating hills - unpalatable truthUseful Phrases: unparalleled atrocities - utmost scornUseful Phrases: vacant stupidity - vulnerable foeUseful Phrases: wabbling enterprise - zoologically consideredSignificant Phrases: abashed and ashamed - awkwardness and cruditySignificant Phrases: babel and confusion - civilized and culturedSignificant Phrases: clamorous and wild - cynical and contemptuousSignificant Phrases: dangers and pitfalls - digressive and wantonSignificant Phrases: dilatory and hesitating - dwindle and disappearSignificant Phrases: eagerness and ecstasy - exuberant and infectiousSignificant Phrases: fabulous and fabricated - futile and untrustworthySignificant Phrases: gaiety and grace - hypocrisy and impudenceSignificant Phrases: ideas and achievements - indomitable and doggedSignificant Phrases: indorsed and applauded - isolated and detachedSignificant Phrases: jabber and chatter - luxury and pompSignificant Phrases: madness and folly - mystic and wonderfulSignificant Phrases: nagging and squabbling - overworked and faggedSignificant Phrases: pains and penalties - puzzled and affectedSignificant Phrases: quackery and incompetence - rust and disuseSignificant Phrases: sad and melancholy - spacious and loftySignificant Phrases: sparkling and spontaneous - sympathetic and consolingSignificant Phrases: taciturn and laconic - tyrant and oppressorSignificant Phrases: unaccountable and grotesque - vulgar and artificialSignificant Phrases: wandering and erratic - zigzag and deviatingFelicitous Phrases: ability, humor, and perspicacity - busy, active, and toilingFelicitous Phrases: curious, fantastic, and charming - calculated, logical, and dispassionateFelicitous Phrases: dwarfed, scant, and wretched - danger, difficulty, and hardshipFelicitous Phrases: eagerness, heartiness, and vehemence - fustian, padding, and irrelevancyFelicitous Phrases: gaunt, desolate, and despoiled - humor, fancy, and susceptibilityFelicitous Phrases: idle, profuse, and profligate - luxurious, whimsical, and selfishFelicitous Phrases: magnificent, sumptuous, and stately - overriding, arrogant, and quarrelsomeFelicitous Phrases: pain, toil, and privation - puzzles, tangles, and questioningsFelicitous Phrases: quarrels, misunderstandings, and enmities - rush, roar, and shriekFelicitous Phrases: sacredness, dignity, and loveliness - sympathy, service, and compassionFelicitous Phrases: talent, scholarship, and refinement - wrinkled, careworn, and paleImpressive 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 lifePrepositional Phrases "of": cadences of delirium - dust of defeatPrepositional Phrases "of": earnestness of enthusiasm - futility of pridePrepositional Phrases "of": gaiety of spirit - irony of lifePrepositional Phrases "of": jangle of sounds - overflow of vitalityPrepositional Phrases "of": page of desolation - ruts of conventionalityPrepositional Phrases "of": sadness of soul - system of aspersionPrepositional Phrases "of": taint of megalomania - zone of delusionPrepositional Phrases "by": affected by externals - hushed by denialPrepositional Phrases "by": impelled by duty - wrenched by emotionsPrepositional Phrases "in": absorbed in meditation - kept in abeyancePrepositional Phrases "in": landmarks in memory - weak in conceptionPrepositional Phrases "into": abashed into silence - goaded into actionPrepositional Phrases "into": hushed into silence - withdraw into solitudePrepositional Phrases "to": addicted to flattery - hostile to progressPrepositional Phrases "to": impervious to suggestion - yield to reasonPrepositional Phrases "with": abounding with plenty - intoxicated with joyPrepositional Phrases "with": kindle with enthusiasm - work with zealBusiness PhrasesLiterary Expressions: A bitterness crept into her face - A nimble-witted opponentLiterary Expressions: A painful thought was flooding his mind - A wordless farewellLiterary Expressions: Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting - Awaiting his summons to the eternal silenceLiterary Expressions: Bandied about from mouth to mouth - Dull black eyes under their precipice of browsLiterary Expressions: Earth danced under a heat haze - Guilty of girlish sentimentalityLiterary Expressions: Half choked by a rising paroxysm of rage - Humiliating paltriness of revengeLiterary Expressions: I capitulated by inadvertence - Kiss-provoking lipsLiterary Expressions: Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle - Rudely reminded of life's serious issuesLiterary Expressions: Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill - Swift summer into the autumn flowedLiterary Expressions: Taking the larger sweeps in the march of mind - The hungry curiosity of the mindLiterary Expressions: The idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought - The swing of the pendulum through an arch of centuriesLiterary Expressions: The tempered daylight of an olive garden - Twilight creeps upon the darkening mindLiterary Expressions: Unapproachable grandeur and simplicity - Your mind enthroned in the seventh circle of contentStriking Similes: A blind rage like a fire swept over him - And the smile she softly uses fills the silence like a speechStriking Similes: As a child in play scatters... - Awkward as a cart-horseStriking Similes: Babbling like a child - Dull as champagneStriking 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 lyreStriking Similes: I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew - Kingdoms melt away like snowStriking Similes: Laboring like a giant - Like a yellow silken scarf the thick fog hangsStriking Similes: Like an alien ghost I stole away - Like sweet thoughts in a dreamStriking 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 startStriking Similes: Rage, rage ye tears, that never more should creep... - Swifter than the twinkling of an eyeStriking 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 furnaceStriking Similes: Theories sprouted in his mind like mushrooms - Turning easily and securely as on a perfect axleStriking Similes: Unbends like a loosened bow - Youth like a summer mornConversational Phrases: A most extraordinary idea! - Human nature interests me very much indeedConversational Phrases: I admire your foresight - I could never forgive myself for thatConversational Phrases: I dare say your intuition is quite right - I seem to have heard that sentiment beforeConversational Phrases: I shall at once proceed to forget it - It has never occurred to meConversational Phrases: It is a curious fact - It would take too long to formulate my thoughtConversational Phrases: Join us, please, when you have time - Surely you would not countenance thatConversational 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 startlingPublic Speaking Phrases: A fact of vast moment - And next I would askPublic Speaking Phrases: And now allow me to call attention - Away then with the notionPublic Speaking Phrases: Be assured, then - But it has been suggested to mePublic Speaking Phrases: But it is a fact - By this time it will be suspectedPublic Speaking Phrases: Can it be supposed - Granting all thisPublic Speaking Phrases: Had I time for all that might be said - However, it is to me a very refreshing thingPublic Speaking Phrases: I abide by my statement - I am willing to knowPublic Speaking Phrases: I anticipate with pleasing expectation - I distrust all general theories ofPublic Speaking Phrases: I do again and again urge upon you - I hasten to concedePublic Speaking Phrases: I have a dark suspicion - I hope you will not accuse mePublic Speaking Phrases: I imagine that no one will be disposed - I rejoice to think I remark herePublic Speaking Phrases: I remember a reference made - I thank you very sincerely for the honorPublic Speaking Phrases: I think I am correct in saying - I yielded to the earnest solicitationsPublic Speaking Phrases: If any man be so persuaded - In widening our viewPublic Speaking Phrases: Indeed, can anyone tell me - It is my present purposePublic Speaking Phrases: It is natural to ask the question - It may still more probably be saidPublic Speaking Phrases: It must be a cause of delight - Just the reverse is truePublic Speaking Phrases: Language is inadequate to voice my appreciation - My regret is intensified by the thoughtPublic Speaking Phrases: Nay, I boldly say - Now, you will understand from thisPublic Speaking Phrases: Observe again - Surely it is not too much for me to sayPublic Speaking Phrases: Take another instance - The whole story of civilizationPublic Speaking Phrases: Then again, in corroboration - Think of the cool disregardPublic Speaking Phrases: This absurdity arises - Very strange is this indeedPublic Speaking Phrases: We all agree as to - What strikes the mind so forciblyPublic Speaking Phrases: What, then, are we to believe - Your presence seems to sayMiscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts - A pleasant flow of appropriate languageMiscellaneous Phrases: A pompous failure - Ample scope for the exercise of his astonishing giftsMiscellaneous Phrases: An abandoned and exaggerated grief - Awaited with feverish anxietyMiscellaneous Phrases: Bandied to and fro - Dwindled to alarmingly small dimensionsMiscellaneous Phrases: Easy-going to the point of lethargy - Hopelessly belated in its appearanceMiscellaneous Phrases: I adjured him - Its dominating and inspiring influenceMiscellaneous Phrases: Jealous and formidable foes - Quixotically generous about moneyMiscellaneous Phrases: Radiantly and transparently happy - Swift and vehement outbursts of feelingMiscellaneous Phrases: Take root in the heart - The sycophants of the rich

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