Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases
by Grenville Kleiser
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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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Felicitous Phrases: curious, fantastic, and charming - calculated, logical, and dispassionate
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Felicitous Phrases: dwarfed, scant, and wretched - danger, difficulty, and hardship
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Felicitous Phrases: eagerness, heartiness, and vehemence - fustian, padding, and irrelevancy
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Felicitous Phrases: gaunt, desolate, and despoiled - humor, fancy, and susceptibility
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Felicitous Phrases: idle, profuse, and profligate - luxurious, whimsical, and selfish
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Felicitous Phrases: magnificent, sumptuous, and stately - overriding, arrogant, and quarrelsome
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Felicitous Phrases: pain, toil, and privation - puzzles, tangles, and questionings
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Felicitous Phrases: quarrels, misunderstandings, and enmities - rush, roar, and shriek
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Felicitous Phrases: sacredness, dignity, and loveliness - sympathy, service, and compassion
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Felicitous Phrases: talent, scholarship, and refinement - wrinkled, careworn, and pale
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Literary Expressions: A painful thought was flooding his mind - A wordless farewell
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Literary Expressions: Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting - Awaiting his summons to the eternal silence
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Literary Expressions: Bandied about from mouth to mouth - Dull black eyes under their precipice of brows
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Literary Expressions: Earth danced under a heat haze - Guilty of girlish sentimentality
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Literary Expressions: Half choked by a rising paroxysm of rage - Humiliating paltriness of revenge
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Literary Expressions: Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle - Rudely reminded of life's serious issues
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Literary Expressions: Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill - Swift summer into the autumn flowed
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Literary Expressions: Taking the larger sweeps in the march of mind - The hungry curiosity of the mind
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Literary Expressions: The idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought - The swing of the pendulum through an arch of centuries
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Literary Expressions: The tempered daylight of an olive garden - Twilight creeps upon the darkening mind
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Literary Expressions: Unapproachable grandeur and simplicity - Your mind enthroned in the seventh circle of content
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Striking Similes: A blind rage like a fire swept over him - And the smile she softly uses fills the silence like a speech
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Striking Similes: Each like a corpse within its grave - Great scarlet poppies lay in drifts
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Striking Similes: Hair as harsh as tropical grass and gray as ashes - Hushed like a breathless lyre
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Striking Similes: I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew - Kingdoms melt away like snow
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Striking Similes: Laboring like a giant - Like a yellow silken scarf the thick fog hangs
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Striking Similes: Like an alien ghost I stole away - Like sweet thoughts in a dream
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Striking Similes: Like the awful shadow of some unseen power - Lovely the land unknown
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Striking Similes: March on my soul nor like the laggard stay - Quivering like an eager race-horse to start
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Striking Similes: Rage, rage ye tears, that never more should creep... - Swifter than the twinkling of an eye
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Striking Similes: Talking and thinking became to him... - The music almost died away
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Striking Similes: The name that cuts into my soul like a knife - Then the lover sighing like furnace
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Striking Similes: Theories sprouted in his mind like mushrooms - Turning easily and securely as on a perfect axle
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Conversational Phrases: A most extraordinary idea! - Human nature interests me very much indeed
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Conversational Phrases: I admire your foresight - I could never forgive myself for that
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Conversational Phrases: I dare say your intuition is quite right - I seem to have heard that sentiment before
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Conversational Phrases: I shall at once proceed to forget it - It has never occurred to me
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Conversational Phrases: It is a curious fact - It would take too long to formulate my thought
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Conversational Phrases: Join us, please, when you have time - Surely you would not countenance that
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Conversational Phrases: Tell me in what way you want me to help you - True, I forgot!
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Public Speaking Phrases: And now allow me to call attention - Away then with the notion
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Public Speaking Phrases: Had I time for all that might be said - However, it is to me a very refreshing thing
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Public Speaking Phrases: I anticipate with pleasing expectation - I distrust all general theories of
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Public Speaking Phrases: I imagine that no one will be disposed - I rejoice to think I remark here
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Public Speaking Phrases: I remember a reference made - I thank you very sincerely for the honor
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Public Speaking Phrases: I think I am correct in saying - I yielded to the earnest solicitations
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Public Speaking Phrases: It is natural to ask the question - It may still more probably be said
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Public Speaking Phrases: Language is inadequate to voice my appreciation - My regret is intensified by the thought
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Public Speaking Phrases: Then again, in corroboration - Think of the cool disregard
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Public Speaking Phrases: What, then, are we to believe - Your presence seems to say
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Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts - A pleasant flow of appropriate language
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Miscellaneous Phrases: A pompous failure - Ample scope for the exercise of his astonishing gifts
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Miscellaneous Phrases: An abandoned and exaggerated grief - Awaited with feverish anxiety
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Miscellaneous Phrases: Bandied to and fro - Dwindled to alarmingly small dimensions
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Miscellaneous Phrases: Easy-going to the point of lethargy - Hopelessly belated in its appearance
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Miscellaneous Phrases: Jealous and formidable foes - Quixotically generous about money
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Miscellaneous Phrases: Radiantly and transparently happy - Swift and vehement outbursts of feeling
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