Skip to main content
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

di Grenville Kleiser
Apri come podcast
  • Prezzo: 0,00 USD
  • Fornitore: Librivox
  • Lingue: 
    English
  • Generi: 
    Sconosciuto
  • Valutazione: 
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

Capitoli

01
Introduction
--:--
--:--
Scarica
02
How To Use This Book
--:--
--:--
Scarica
03
Plan Of Study
--:--
--:--
Scarica
04
Useful Phrases: abandoned hope - ample culture
--:--
--:--
Scarica
05
Useful Phrases: amusing artlessness - azure sky
--:--
--:--
Scarica
06
Useful Phrases: babbling gossip - bygone period
--:--
--:--
Scarica
07
Useful Phrases: cabalistic phrase - collateral duties
--:--
--:--
Scarica
08
Useful Phrases: collective wisdom - contingent reasons
--:--
--:--
Scarica
09
Useful Phrases: continuous endeavor - cynical disregard
--:--
--:--
Scarica
10
Useful Phrases: damaging admission - diligently propagated
--:--
--:--
Scarica
11
Useful Phrases: dim comprehension - dynastic insolence
--:--
--:--
Scarica
12
Useful Phrases: eager animosity - entrancing sadness
--:--
--:--
Scarica
13
Useful Phrases: enveloping presence - exultant condition
--:--
--:--
Scarica
14
Useful Phrases: facetious mood - flickering conscience
--:--
--:--
Scarica
15
Useful Phrases: flighty obstinacy - futile babble
--:--
--:--
Scarica
16
Useful Phrases: gabbling reminiscences - gymnastic agility
--:--
--:--
Scarica
17
Useful Phrases: habitual deference - hysterical agitation
--:--
--:--
Scarica
18
Useful Phrases: iconoclastic attitude - incipient fancy
--:--
--:--
Scarica
19
Useful Phrases: incisive critic - inquisitional rack
--:--
--:--
Scarica
20
Useful Phrases: inquisitive observer - isolated splendor
--:--
--:--
Scarica
21
Useful Phrases: jaded sensibility - lying equivocations
--:--
--:--
Scarica
22
Useful Phrases: maddening monotony - meteoric splendors
--:--
--:--
Scarica
23
Useful Phrases: methodical regularity - mythical kingdom
--:--
--:--
Scarica
24
Useful Phrases: naive manner - overworked drudge
--:--
--:--
Scarica
25
Useful Phrases: pacific disposition - political malcontent
--:--
--:--
Scarica
26
Useful Phrases: polluting taints - pyrotechnic outburst
--:--
--:--
Scarica
27
Useful Phrases: quailing culprit - remarkable sagacity
--:--
--:--
Scarica
28
Useful Phrases: remedial measure - ruthless commercialism
--:--
--:--
Scarica
29
Useful Phrases: sacerdotal preeminence - shuddering reluctance
--:--
--:--
Scarica
30
Useful Phrases: shuffling preliminaries - starched sterility
--:--
--:--
Scarica
31
Useful Phrases: starlit eminence - systematic interaction
--:--
--:--
Scarica
32
Useful Phrases: tacit assumption - tyrannical disposition
--:--
--:--
Scarica
33
Useful Phrases: ubiquitous activity - undue predilection
--:--
--:--
Scarica
34
Useful Phrases: undulating hills - unpalatable truth
--:--
--:--
Scarica
35
Useful Phrases: unparalleled atrocities - utmost scorn
--:--
--:--
Scarica
36
Useful Phrases: vacant stupidity - vulnerable foe
--:--
--:--
Scarica
37
Useful Phrases: wabbling enterprise - zoologically considered
--:--
--:--
Scarica
38
Significant Phrases: abashed and ashamed - awkwardness and crudity
--:--
--:--
Scarica
39
Significant Phrases: babel and confusion - civilized and cultured
--:--
--:--
Scarica
40
Significant Phrases: clamorous and wild - cynical and contemptuous
--:--
--:--
Scarica
41
Significant Phrases: dangers and pitfalls - digressive and wanton
--:--
--:--
Scarica
42
Significant Phrases: dilatory and hesitating - dwindle and disappear
--:--
--:--
Scarica
43
Significant Phrases: eagerness and ecstasy - exuberant and infectious
--:--
--:--
Scarica
44
Significant Phrases: fabulous and fabricated - futile and untrustworthy
--:--
--:--
Scarica
45
Significant Phrases: gaiety and grace - hypocrisy and impudence
--:--
--:--
Scarica
46
Significant Phrases: ideas and achievements - indomitable and dogged
--:--
--:--
Scarica
47
Significant Phrases: indorsed and applauded - isolated and detached
--:--
--:--
Scarica
48
Significant Phrases: jabber and chatter - luxury and pomp
--:--
--:--
Scarica
49
Significant Phrases: madness and folly - mystic and wonderful
--:--
--:--
Scarica
50
Significant Phrases: nagging and squabbling - overworked and fagged
--:--
--:--
Scarica
51
Significant Phrases: pains and penalties - puzzled and affected
--:--
--:--
Scarica
52
Significant Phrases: quackery and incompetence - rust and disuse
--:--
--:--
Scarica
53
Significant Phrases: sad and melancholy - spacious and lofty
--:--
--:--
Scarica
54
Significant Phrases: sparkling and spontaneous - sympathetic and consoling
--:--
--:--
Scarica
55
Significant Phrases: taciturn and laconic - tyrant and oppressor
--:--
--:--
Scarica
56
Significant Phrases: unaccountable and grotesque - vulgar and artificial
--:--
--:--
Scarica
57
Significant Phrases: wandering and erratic - zigzag and deviating
--:--
--:--
Scarica
58
Felicitous Phrases: ability, humor, and perspicacity - busy, active, and toiling
--:--
--:--
Scarica
59
Felicitous Phrases: curious, fantastic, and charming - calculated, logical, and dispassionate
--:--
--:--
Scarica
60
Felicitous Phrases: dwarfed, scant, and wretched - danger, difficulty, and hardship
--:--
--:--
Scarica
61
Felicitous Phrases: eagerness, heartiness, and vehemence - fustian, padding, and irrelevancy
--:--
--:--
Scarica
62
Felicitous Phrases: gaunt, desolate, and despoiled - humor, fancy, and susceptibility
--:--
--:--
Scarica
63
Felicitous Phrases: idle, profuse, and profligate - luxurious, whimsical, and selfish
--:--
--:--
Scarica
64
Felicitous Phrases: magnificent, sumptuous, and stately - overriding, arrogant, and quarrelsome
--:--
--:--
Scarica
65
Felicitous Phrases: pain, toil, and privation - puzzles, tangles, and questionings
--:--
--:--
Scarica
66
Felicitous Phrases: quarrels, misunderstandings, and enmities - rush, roar, and shriek
--:--
--:--
Scarica
67
Felicitous Phrases: sacredness, dignity, and loveliness - sympathy, service, and compassion
--:--
--:--
Scarica
68
Felicitous Phrases: talent, scholarship, and refinement - wrinkled, careworn, and pale
--:--
--:--
Scarica
69
Impressive Phrases: able, skilful,... - business, profession,
--:--
--:--
Scarica
70
Impressive Phrases: candid, sincere,... - dull, heavy,
--:--
--:--
Scarica
71
Impressive Phrases: earth, air,... - gross, academic,
--:--
--:--
Scarica
72
Impressive Phrases: habit, custom,... - lucidity, impressiveness,
--:--
--:--
Scarica
73
Impressive Phrases: malice, anger,... - purpose, meaning,
--:--
--:--
Scarica
74
Impressive Phrases: quack, imposture,... - symmetry, proportion,
--:--
--:--
Scarica
75
Impressive Phrases: tact, courtesy,... - worry, annoyance,
--:--
--:--
Scarica
76
Prepositional Phrases "of": abandon of spontaneity - business of life
--:--
--:--
Scarica
77
Prepositional Phrases "of": cadences of delirium - dust of defeat
--:--
--:--
Scarica
78
Prepositional Phrases "of": earnestness of enthusiasm - futility of pride
--:--
--:--
Scarica
79
Prepositional Phrases "of": gaiety of spirit - irony of life
--:--
--:--
Scarica
80
Prepositional Phrases "of": jangle of sounds - overflow of vitality
--:--
--:--
Scarica
81
Prepositional Phrases "of": page of desolation - ruts of conventionality
--:--
--:--
Scarica
82
Prepositional Phrases "of": sadness of soul - system of aspersion
--:--
--:--
Scarica
83
Prepositional Phrases "of": taint of megalomania - zone of delusion
--:--
--:--
Scarica
84
Prepositional Phrases "by": affected by externals - hushed by denial
--:--
--:--
Scarica
85
Prepositional Phrases "by": impelled by duty - wrenched by emotions
--:--
--:--
Scarica
86
Prepositional Phrases "in": absorbed in meditation - kept in abeyance
--:--
--:--
Scarica
87
Prepositional Phrases "in": landmarks in memory - weak in conception
--:--
--:--
Scarica
88
Prepositional Phrases "into": abashed into silence - goaded into action
--:--
--:--
Scarica
89
Prepositional Phrases "into": hushed into silence - withdraw into solitude
--:--
--:--
Scarica
90
Prepositional Phrases "to": addicted to flattery - hostile to progress
--:--
--:--
Scarica
91
Prepositional Phrases "to": impervious to suggestion - yield to reason
--:--
--:--
Scarica
92
Prepositional Phrases "with": abounding with plenty - intoxicated with joy
--:--
--:--
Scarica
93
Prepositional Phrases "with": kindle with enthusiasm - work with zeal
--:--
--:--
Scarica
94
Business Phrases
--:--
--:--
Scarica
95
Literary Expressions: A bitterness crept into her face - A nimble-witted opponent
--:--
--:--
Scarica
96
Literary Expressions: A painful thought was flooding his mind - A wordless farewell
--:--
--:--
Scarica
97
Literary Expressions: Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting - Awaiting his summons to the eternal silence
--:--
--:--
Scarica
98
Literary Expressions: Bandied about from mouth to mouth - Dull black eyes under their precipice of brows
--:--
--:--
Scarica
99
Literary Expressions: Earth danced under a heat haze - Guilty of girlish sentimentality
--:--
--:--
Scarica
100
Literary Expressions: Half choked by a rising paroxysm of rage - Humiliating paltriness of revenge
--:--
--:--
Scarica
101
Literary Expressions: I capitulated by inadvertence - Kiss-provoking lips
--:--
--:--
Scarica
102
Literary Expressions: Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle - Rudely reminded of life's serious issues
--:--
--:--
Scarica
103
Literary Expressions: Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill - Swift summer into the autumn flowed
--:--
--:--
Scarica
104
Literary Expressions: Taking the larger sweeps in the march of mind - The hungry curiosity of the mind
--:--
--:--
Scarica
105
Literary Expressions: The idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought - The swing of the pendulum through an arch of centuries
--:--
--:--
Scarica
106
Literary Expressions: The tempered daylight of an olive garden - Twilight creeps upon the darkening mind
--:--
--:--
Scarica
107
Literary Expressions: Unapproachable grandeur and simplicity - Your mind enthroned in the seventh circle of content
--:--
--:--
Scarica
108
Striking Similes: A blind rage like a fire swept over him - And the smile she softly uses fills the silence like a speech
--:--
--:--
Scarica
109
Striking Similes: As a child in play scatters... - Awkward as a cart-horse
--:--
--:--
Scarica
110
Striking Similes: Babbling like a child - Dull as champagne
--:--
--:--
Scarica
111
Striking Similes: Each like a corpse within its grave - Great scarlet poppies lay in drifts
--:--
--:--
Scarica
112
Striking Similes: Hair as harsh as tropical grass and gray as ashes - Hushed like a breathless lyre
--:--
--:--
Scarica
113
Striking Similes: I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew - Kingdoms melt away like snow
--:--
--:--
Scarica
114
Striking Similes: Laboring like a giant - Like a yellow silken scarf the thick fog hangs
--:--
--:--
Scarica
115
Striking Similes: Like an alien ghost I stole away - Like sweet thoughts in a dream
--:--
--:--
Scarica
116
Striking Similes: Like the awful shadow of some unseen power - Lovely the land unknown
--:--
--:--
Scarica
117
Striking Similes: March on my soul nor like the laggard stay - Quivering like an eager race-horse to start
--:--
--:--
Scarica
118
Striking Similes: Rage, rage ye tears, that never more should creep... - Swifter than the twinkling of an eye
--:--
--:--
Scarica
119
Striking Similes: Talking and thinking became to him... - The music almost died away
--:--
--:--
Scarica
120
Striking Similes: The name that cuts into my soul like a knife - Then the lover sighing like furnace
--:--
--:--
Scarica
121
Striking Similes: Theories sprouted in his mind like mushrooms - Turning easily and securely as on a perfect axle
--:--
--:--
Scarica
122
Striking Similes: Unbends like a loosened bow - Youth like a summer morn
--:--
--:--
Scarica
123
Conversational Phrases: A most extraordinary idea! - Human nature interests me very much indeed
--:--
--:--
Scarica
124
Conversational Phrases: I admire your foresight - I could never forgive myself for that
--:--
--:--
Scarica
125
Conversational Phrases: I dare say your intuition is quite right - I seem to have heard that sentiment before
--:--
--:--
Scarica
126
Conversational Phrases: I shall at once proceed to forget it - It has never occurred to me
--:--
--:--
Scarica
127
Conversational Phrases: It is a curious fact - It would take too long to formulate my thought
--:--
--:--
Scarica
128
Conversational Phrases: Join us, please, when you have time - Surely you would not countenance that
--:--
--:--
Scarica
129
Conversational Phrases: Tell me in what way you want me to help you - True, I forgot!
--:--
--:--
Scarica
130
Conversational Phrases: Undeniably true - Would you mind telling me your opinion?
--:--
--:--
Scarica
131
Conversational Phrases: Yes and no - Your statement is somewhat startling
--:--
--:--
Scarica
132
Public Speaking Phrases: A fact of vast moment - And next I would ask
--:--
--:--
Scarica
133
Public Speaking Phrases: And now allow me to call attention - Away then with the notion
--:--
--:--
Scarica
134
Public Speaking Phrases: Be assured, then - But it has been suggested to me
--:--
--:--
Scarica
135
Public Speaking Phrases: But it is a fact - By this time it will be suspected
--:--
--:--
Scarica
136
Public Speaking Phrases: Can it be supposed - Granting all this
--:--
--:--
Scarica
137
Public Speaking Phrases: Had I time for all that might be said - However, it is to me a very refreshing thing
--:--
--:--
Scarica
138
Public Speaking Phrases: I abide by my statement - I am willing to know
--:--
--:--
Scarica
139
Public Speaking Phrases: I anticipate with pleasing expectation - I distrust all general theories of
--:--
--:--
Scarica
140
Public Speaking Phrases: I do again and again urge upon you - I hasten to concede
--:--
--:--
Scarica
141
Public Speaking Phrases: I have a dark suspicion - I hope you will not accuse me
--:--
--:--
Scarica
142
Public Speaking Phrases: I imagine that no one will be disposed - I rejoice to think I remark here
--:--
--:--
Scarica
143
Public Speaking Phrases: I remember a reference made - I thank you very sincerely for the honor
--:--
--:--
Scarica
144
Public Speaking Phrases: I think I am correct in saying - I yielded to the earnest solicitations
--:--
--:--
Scarica
145
Public Speaking Phrases: If any man be so persuaded - In widening our view
--:--
--:--
Scarica
146
Public Speaking Phrases: Indeed, can anyone tell me - It is my present purpose
--:--
--:--
Scarica
147
Public Speaking Phrases: It is natural to ask the question - It may still more probably be said
--:--
--:--
Scarica
148
Public Speaking Phrases: It must be a cause of delight - Just the reverse is true
--:--
--:--
Scarica
149
Public Speaking Phrases: Language is inadequate to voice my appreciation - My regret is intensified by the thought
--:--
--:--
Scarica
150
Public Speaking Phrases: Nay, I boldly say - Now, you will understand from this
--:--
--:--
Scarica
151
Public Speaking Phrases: Observe again - Surely it is not too much for me to say
--:--
--:--
Scarica
152
Public Speaking Phrases: Take another instance - The whole story of civilization
--:--
--:--
Scarica
153
Public Speaking Phrases: Then again, in corroboration - Think of the cool disregard
--:--
--:--
Scarica
154
Public Speaking Phrases: This absurdity arises - Very strange is this indeed
--:--
--:--
Scarica
155
Public Speaking Phrases: We all agree as to - What strikes the mind so forcibly
--:--
--:--
Scarica
156
Public Speaking Phrases: What, then, are we to believe - Your presence seems to say
--:--
--:--
Scarica
157
Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts - A pleasant flow of appropriate language
--:--
--:--
Scarica
158
Miscellaneous Phrases: A pompous failure - Ample scope for the exercise of his astonishing gifts
--:--
--:--
Scarica
159
Miscellaneous Phrases: An abandoned and exaggerated grief - Awaited with feverish anxiety
--:--
--:--
Scarica
160
Miscellaneous Phrases: Bandied to and fro - Dwindled to alarmingly small dimensions
--:--
--:--
Scarica
161
Miscellaneous Phrases: Easy-going to the point of lethargy - Hopelessly belated in its appearance
--:--
--:--
Scarica
162
Miscellaneous Phrases: I adjured him - Its dominating and inspiring influence
--:--
--:--
Scarica
163
Miscellaneous Phrases: Jealous and formidable foes - Quixotically generous about money
--:--
--:--
Scarica
164
Miscellaneous Phrases: Radiantly and transparently happy - Swift and vehement outbursts of feeling
--:--
--:--
Scarica
165
Miscellaneous Phrases: Take root in the heart - The sycophants of the rich
--:--
--:--
Scarica

Recensioni

Accedi per scrivere una recensione