Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

by Grenville Kleiser

165 chapters15h 50mEnglish1917

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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

Chapters (164)

1How To Use This Book

292

2Plan Of Study

292

3Useful Phrases: abandoned hope - ample culture

313

4Useful Phrases: amusing artlessness - azure sky

250

5Useful Phrases: babbling gossip - bygone period

237

6Useful Phrases: cabalistic phrase - collateral duties

167

7Useful Phrases: collective wisdom - contingent reasons

163

8Useful Phrases: continuous endeavor - cynical disregard

247

9Useful Phrases: damaging admission - diligently propagated

387

10Useful Phrases: dim comprehension - dynastic insolence

351

11Useful Phrases: eager animosity - entrancing sadness

350

12Useful Phrases: enveloping presence - exultant condition

294

13Useful Phrases: facetious mood - flickering conscience

173

14Useful Phrases: flighty obstinacy - futile babble

196

15Useful Phrases: gabbling reminiscences - gymnastic agility

271

16Useful Phrases: habitual deference - hysterical agitation

293

17Useful Phrases: iconoclastic attitude - incipient fancy

425

18Useful Phrases: incisive critic - inquisitional rack

345

19Useful Phrases: inquisitive observer - isolated splendor

346

20Useful Phrases: jaded sensibility - lying equivocations

330

21Useful Phrases: maddening monotony - meteoric splendors

265

22Useful Phrases: methodical regularity - mythical kingdom

231

23Useful Phrases: naive manner - overworked drudge

379

24Useful Phrases: pacific disposition - political malcontent

446

25Useful Phrases: polluting taints - pyrotechnic outburst

536

26Useful Phrases: quailing culprit - remarkable sagacity

200

27Useful Phrases: remedial measure - ruthless commercialism

153

28Useful Phrases: sacerdotal preeminence - shuddering reluctance

289

29Useful Phrases: shuffling preliminaries - starched sterility

302

30Useful Phrases: starlit eminence - systematic interaction

234

31Useful Phrases: tacit assumption - tyrannical disposition

307

32Useful Phrases: ubiquitous activity - undue predilection

244

33Useful Phrases: undulating hills - unpalatable truth

247

34Useful Phrases: unparalleled atrocities - utmost scorn

253

35Useful Phrases: vacant stupidity - vulnerable foe

187

36Useful Phrases: wabbling enterprise - zoologically considered

191

37Significant Phrases: abashed and ashamed - awkwardness and crudity

255

38Significant Phrases: babel and confusion - civilized and cultured

292

39Significant Phrases: clamorous and wild - cynical and contemptuous

306

40Significant Phrases: dangers and pitfalls - digressive and wanton

219

41Significant Phrases: dilatory and hesitating - dwindle and disappear

284

42Significant Phrases: eagerness and ecstasy - exuberant and infectious

376

43Significant Phrases: fabulous and fabricated - futile and untrustworthy

287

44Significant Phrases: gaiety and grace - hypocrisy and impudence

317

45Significant Phrases: ideas and achievements - indomitable and dogged

204

46Significant Phrases: indorsed and applauded - isolated and detached

217

47Significant Phrases: jabber and chatter - luxury and pomp

247

48Significant Phrases: madness and folly - mystic and wonderful

175

49Significant Phrases: nagging and squabbling - overworked and fagged

250

50Significant Phrases: pains and penalties - puzzled and affected

369

51Significant Phrases: quackery and incompetence - rust and disuse

298

52Significant Phrases: sad and melancholy - spacious and lofty

228

53Significant Phrases: sparkling and spontaneous - sympathetic and consoling

246

54Significant Phrases: taciturn and laconic - tyrant and oppressor

288

55Significant Phrases: unaccountable and grotesque - vulgar and artificial

349

56Significant Phrases: wandering and erratic - zigzag and deviating

137

57Felicitous Phrases: ability, humor, and perspicacity - busy, active, and toiling

251

58Felicitous Phrases: curious, fantastic, and charming - calculated, logical, and dispassionate

251

59Felicitous Phrases: dwarfed, scant, and wretched - danger, difficulty, and hardship

272

60Felicitous Phrases: eagerness, heartiness, and vehemence - fustian, padding, and irrelevancy

275

61Felicitous Phrases: gaunt, desolate, and despoiled - humor, fancy, and susceptibility

220

62Felicitous Phrases: idle, profuse, and profligate - luxurious, whimsical, and selfish

260

63Felicitous Phrases: magnificent, sumptuous, and stately - overriding, arrogant, and quarrelsome

231

64Felicitous Phrases: pain, toil, and privation - puzzles, tangles, and questionings

225

65Felicitous Phrases: quarrels, misunderstandings, and enmities - rush, roar, and shriek

158

66Felicitous Phrases: sacredness, dignity, and loveliness - sympathy, service, and compassion

245

67Felicitous Phrases: talent, scholarship, and refinement - wrinkled, careworn, and pale

308

68Impressive Phrases: able, skilful,... - business, profession,...

281

69Impressive Phrases: candid, sincere,... - dull, heavy,...

364

70Impressive Phrases: earth, air,... - gross, academic,..

378

71Impressive Phrases: habit, custom,... - lucidity, impressiveness,...

341

72Impressive Phrases: malice, anger,... - purpose, meaning,...

340

73Impressive Phrases: quack, imposture,... - symmetry, proportion,..

260

74Impressive Phrases: tact, courtesy,... - worry, annoyance,...

250

75Prepositional Phrases "of": abandon of spontaneity - business of life

275

76Prepositional Phrases "of": cadences of delirium - dust of defeat

232

77Prepositional Phrases "of": earnestness of enthusiasm - futility of pride

252

78Prepositional Phrases "of": gaiety of spirit - irony of life

241

79Prepositional Phrases "of": jangle of sounds - overflow of vitality

250

80Prepositional Phrases "of": page of desolation - ruts of conventionality

292

81Prepositional Phrases "of": sadness of soul - system of aspersion

214

82Prepositional Phrases "of": taint of megalomania - zone of delusion

256

83Prepositional Phrases "by": affected by externals - hushed by denial

185

84Prepositional Phrases "by": impelled by duty - wrenched by emotions

213

85Prepositional Phrases "in": absorbed in meditation - kept in abeyance

196

86Prepositional Phrases "in": landmarks in memory - weak in conception

227

87Prepositional Phrases "into": abashed into silence - goaded into action

119

88Prepositional Phrases "into": hushed into silence - withdraw into solitude

111

89Prepositional Phrases "to": addicted to flattery - hostile to progress

110

90Prepositional Phrases "to": impervious to suggestion - yield to reason

148

91Prepositional Phrases "with": abounding with plenty - intoxicated with joy

143

92Prepositional Phrases "with": kindle with enthusiasm - work with zeal

149

93Business Phrases

1477

94Literary Expressions: A bitterness crept into her face - A nimble-witted opponent

413

95Literary Expressions: A painful thought was flooding his mind - A wordless farewell

387

96Literary Expressions: Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting - Awaiting his summons to the eternal silence

498

97Literary Expressions: Bandied about from mouth to mouth - Dull black eyes under their precipice of brows

407

98Literary Expressions: Earth danced under a heat haze - Guilty of girlish sentimentality

246

99Literary Expressions: Half choked by a rising paroxysm of rage - Humiliating paltriness of revenge

566

100Literary Expressions: I capitulated by inadvertence - Kiss-provoking lips

306

101Literary Expressions: Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle - Rudely reminded of life's serious issues

645

102Literary Expressions: Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill - Swift summer into the autumn flowed

447

103Literary Expressions: Taking the larger sweeps in the march of mind - The hungry curiosity of the mind

489

104Literary Expressions: The idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought - The swing of the pendulum through an arch of centuries

577

105Literary Expressions: The tempered daylight of an olive garden - Twilight creeps upon the darkening mind

334

106Literary Expressions: Unapproachable grandeur and simplicity - Your mind enthroned in the seventh circle of content

219

107Striking Similes: A blind rage like a fire swept over him - And the smile she softly uses fills the silence like a speech

655

108Striking Similes: As a child in play scatters... - Awkward as a cart-horse

399

109Striking Similes: Babbling like a child - Dull as champagne

393

110Striking Similes: Each like a corpse within its grave - Great scarlet poppies lay in drifts ...

276

111Striking Similes: Hair as harsh as tropical grass and gray as ashes - Hushed like a breathless lyre

559

112Striking Similes: I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew - Kingdoms melt away like snow

216

113Striking Similes: Laboring like a giant - Like a yellow silken scarf the thick fog hangs

423

114Striking Similes: Like an alien ghost I stole away - Like sweet thoughts in a dream

391

115Striking Similes: Like the awful shadow of some unseen power - Lovely the land unknown...

392

116Striking Similes: March on my soul nor like the laggard stay - Quivering like an eager race-horse to start

409

117Striking Similes: Rage, rage ye tears, that never more should creep... - Swifter than the twinkling of an eye

625

118Striking Similes: Talking and thinking became to him... - The music almost died away...

395

119Striking Similes: The name that cuts into my soul like a knife - Then the lover sighing like furnace

507

120Striking Similes: Theories sprouted in his mind like mushrooms - Turning easily and securely as on a perfect axle

381

121Striking Similes: Unbends like a loosened bow - Youth like a summer morn

498

122Conversational Phrases: A most extraordinary idea! - Human nature interests me very much indeed

398

123Conversational Phrases: I admire your foresight - I could never forgive myself for that

448

124Conversational Phrases: I dare say your intuition is quite right - I seem to have heard that sentiment before

542

125Conversational Phrases: I shall at once proceed to forget it - It has never occurred to me

405

126Conversational Phrases: It is a curious fact - It would take too long to formulate my thought

377

127Conversational Phrases: Join us, please, when you have time - Surely you would not countenance that

420

128Conversational Phrases: Tell me in what way you want me to help you - True, I forgot!

398

129Conversational Phrases: Undeniably true - Would you mind telling me your opinion?

227

130Conversational Phrases: Yes and no - Your statement is somewhat startling

289

131Public Speaking Phrases: A fact of vast moment - And next I would ask

449

132Public Speaking Phrases: And now allow me to call attention - Away then with the notion

481

133Public Speaking Phrases: Be assured, then - But it has been suggested to me

295

134Public Speaking Phrases: But it is a fact - By this time it will be suspected

260

135Public Speaking Phrases: Can it be supposed - Granting all this

252

136Public Speaking Phrases: Had I time for all that might be said - However, it is to me a very refreshing thing

196

137Public Speaking Phrases: I abide by my statement - I am willing to know

376

138Public Speaking Phrases: I anticipate with pleasing expectation - I distrust all general theories of

459

139Public Speaking Phrases: I do again and again urge upon you - I hasten to concede

490

140Public Speaking Phrases: I have a dark suspicion - I hope you will not accuse me

709

141Public Speaking Phrases: I imagine that no one will be disposed - I rejoice to think I remark here

563

142Public Speaking Phrases: I remember a reference made - I thank you very sincerely for the honor

581

143Public Speaking Phrases: I think I am correct in saying - I yielded to the earnest solicitations

638

144Public Speaking Phrases: If any man be so persuaded - In widening our view

638

145Public Speaking Phrases: Indeed, can anyone tell me - It is my present purpose

565

146Public Speaking Phrases: It is natural to ask the question - It may still more probably be said

338

147Public Speaking Phrases: It must be a cause of delight - Just the reverse is true

321

148Public Speaking Phrases: Language is inadequate to voice my appreciation - My regret is intensified by the thought

503

149Public Speaking Phrases: Nay, I boldly say - Now, you will understand from this

343

150Public Speaking Phrases: Observe again - Surely it is not too much for me to say

463

151Public Speaking Phrases: Take another instance - The whole story of civilization

408

152Public Speaking Phrases: Then again, in corroboration - Think of the cool disregard

349

153Public Speaking Phrases: This absurdity arises - Very strange is this indeed

315

154Public Speaking Phrases: We all agree as to - What strikes the mind so forcibly

542

155Public Speaking Phrases: What, then, are we to believe - Your presence seems to say

417

156Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts - A pleasant flow of appropriate language

421

157Miscellaneous Phrases: A pompous failure - Ample scope for the exercise of his astonishing gifts

441

158Miscellaneous Phrases: An abandoned and exaggerated grief - Awaited with feverish anxiety

363

159Miscellaneous Phrases: Bandied to and fro - Dwindled to alarmingly small dimensions

418

160Miscellaneous Phrases: Easy-going to the point of lethargy - Hopelessly belated in its appearance

570

161Miscellaneous Phrases: I adjured him - Its dominating and inspiring influence

673

162Miscellaneous Phrases: Jealous and formidable foes - Quixotically generous about money

634

163Miscellaneous Phrases: Radiantly and transparently happy - Swift and vehement outbursts of feeling

482

164Miscellaneous Phrases: Take root in the heart - The sycophants of the rich

720

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