Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases
by Grenville Kleiser
About this book
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
2Plan Of Study
3Useful Phrases: abandoned hope - ample culture
4Useful Phrases: amusing artlessness - azure sky
5Useful Phrases: babbling gossip - bygone period
6Useful Phrases: cabalistic phrase - collateral duties
7Useful Phrases: collective wisdom - contingent reasons
8Useful Phrases: continuous endeavor - cynical disregard
9Useful Phrases: damaging admission - diligently propagated
10Useful Phrases: dim comprehension - dynastic insolence
11Useful Phrases: eager animosity - entrancing sadness
12Useful Phrases: enveloping presence - exultant condition
13Useful Phrases: facetious mood - flickering conscience
14Useful Phrases: flighty obstinacy - futile babble
15Useful Phrases: gabbling reminiscences - gymnastic agility
16Useful Phrases: habitual deference - hysterical agitation
17Useful Phrases: iconoclastic attitude - incipient fancy
18Useful Phrases: incisive critic - inquisitional rack
19Useful Phrases: inquisitive observer - isolated splendor
20Useful Phrases: jaded sensibility - lying equivocations
21Useful Phrases: maddening monotony - meteoric splendors
22Useful Phrases: methodical regularity - mythical kingdom
23Useful Phrases: naive manner - overworked drudge
24Useful Phrases: pacific disposition - political malcontent
25Useful Phrases: polluting taints - pyrotechnic outburst
26Useful Phrases: quailing culprit - remarkable sagacity
27Useful Phrases: remedial measure - ruthless commercialism
28Useful Phrases: sacerdotal preeminence - shuddering reluctance
29Useful Phrases: shuffling preliminaries - starched sterility
30Useful Phrases: starlit eminence - systematic interaction
31Useful Phrases: tacit assumption - tyrannical disposition
32Useful Phrases: ubiquitous activity - undue predilection
33Useful Phrases: undulating hills - unpalatable truth
34Useful Phrases: unparalleled atrocities - utmost scorn
35Useful Phrases: vacant stupidity - vulnerable foe
36Useful Phrases: wabbling enterprise - zoologically considered
37Significant Phrases: abashed and ashamed - awkwardness and crudity
38Significant Phrases: babel and confusion - civilized and cultured
39Significant Phrases: clamorous and wild - cynical and contemptuous
40Significant Phrases: dangers and pitfalls - digressive and wanton
41Significant Phrases: dilatory and hesitating - dwindle and disappear
42Significant Phrases: eagerness and ecstasy - exuberant and infectious
43Significant Phrases: fabulous and fabricated - futile and untrustworthy
44Significant Phrases: gaiety and grace - hypocrisy and impudence
45Significant Phrases: ideas and achievements - indomitable and dogged
46Significant Phrases: indorsed and applauded - isolated and detached
47Significant Phrases: jabber and chatter - luxury and pomp
48Significant Phrases: madness and folly - mystic and wonderful
49Significant Phrases: nagging and squabbling - overworked and fagged
50Significant Phrases: pains and penalties - puzzled and affected
51Significant Phrases: quackery and incompetence - rust and disuse
52Significant Phrases: sad and melancholy - spacious and lofty
53Significant Phrases: sparkling and spontaneous - sympathetic and consoling
54Significant Phrases: taciturn and laconic - tyrant and oppressor
55Significant Phrases: unaccountable and grotesque - vulgar and artificial
56Significant Phrases: wandering and erratic - zigzag and deviating
57Felicitous Phrases: ability, humor, and perspicacity - busy, active, and toiling
58Felicitous Phrases: curious, fantastic, and charming - calculated, logical, and dispassionate
59Felicitous Phrases: dwarfed, scant, and wretched - danger, difficulty, and hardship
60Felicitous Phrases: eagerness, heartiness, and vehemence - fustian, padding, and irrelevancy
61Felicitous Phrases: gaunt, desolate, and despoiled - humor, fancy, and susceptibility
62Felicitous Phrases: idle, profuse, and profligate - luxurious, whimsical, and selfish
63Felicitous Phrases: magnificent, sumptuous, and stately - overriding, arrogant, and quarrelsome
64Felicitous Phrases: pain, toil, and privation - puzzles, tangles, and questionings
65Felicitous Phrases: quarrels, misunderstandings, and enmities - rush, roar, and shriek
66Felicitous Phrases: sacredness, dignity, and loveliness - sympathy, service, and compassion
67Felicitous Phrases: talent, scholarship, and refinement - wrinkled, careworn, and pale
68Impressive Phrases: able, skilful,... - business, profession,...
69Impressive Phrases: candid, sincere,... - dull, heavy,...
70Impressive Phrases: earth, air,... - gross, academic,..
71Impressive Phrases: habit, custom,... - lucidity, impressiveness,...
72Impressive Phrases: malice, anger,... - purpose, meaning,...
73Impressive Phrases: quack, imposture,... - symmetry, proportion,..
74Impressive Phrases: tact, courtesy,... - worry, annoyance,...
75Prepositional Phrases "of": abandon of spontaneity - business of life
76Prepositional Phrases "of": cadences of delirium - dust of defeat
77Prepositional Phrases "of": earnestness of enthusiasm - futility of pride
78Prepositional Phrases "of": gaiety of spirit - irony of life
79Prepositional Phrases "of": jangle of sounds - overflow of vitality
80Prepositional Phrases "of": page of desolation - ruts of conventionality
81Prepositional Phrases "of": sadness of soul - system of aspersion
82Prepositional Phrases "of": taint of megalomania - zone of delusion
83Prepositional Phrases "by": affected by externals - hushed by denial
84Prepositional Phrases "by": impelled by duty - wrenched by emotions
85Prepositional Phrases "in": absorbed in meditation - kept in abeyance
86Prepositional Phrases "in": landmarks in memory - weak in conception
87Prepositional Phrases "into": abashed into silence - goaded into action
88Prepositional Phrases "into": hushed into silence - withdraw into solitude
89Prepositional Phrases "to": addicted to flattery - hostile to progress
90Prepositional Phrases "to": impervious to suggestion - yield to reason
91Prepositional Phrases "with": abounding with plenty - intoxicated with joy
92Prepositional Phrases "with": kindle with enthusiasm - work with zeal
93Business Phrases
94Literary Expressions: A bitterness crept into her face - A nimble-witted opponent
95Literary Expressions: A painful thought was flooding his mind - A wordless farewell
96Literary Expressions: Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting - Awaiting his summons to the eternal silence
97Literary Expressions: Bandied about from mouth to mouth - Dull black eyes under their precipice of brows
98Literary Expressions: Earth danced under a heat haze - Guilty of girlish sentimentality
99Literary Expressions: Half choked by a rising paroxysm of rage - Humiliating paltriness of revenge
100Literary Expressions: I capitulated by inadvertence - Kiss-provoking lips
101Literary Expressions: Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle - Rudely reminded of life's serious issues
102Literary Expressions: Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill - Swift summer into the autumn flowed
103Literary Expressions: Taking the larger sweeps in the march of mind - The hungry curiosity of the mind
104Literary Expressions: The idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought - The swing of the pendulum through an arch of centuries
105Literary Expressions: The tempered daylight of an olive garden - Twilight creeps upon the darkening mind
106Literary Expressions: Unapproachable grandeur and simplicity - Your mind enthroned in the seventh circle of content
107Striking Similes: A blind rage like a fire swept over him - And the smile she softly uses fills the silence like a speech
108Striking Similes: As a child in play scatters... - Awkward as a cart-horse
109Striking Similes: Babbling like a child - Dull as champagne
110Striking Similes: Each like a corpse within its grave - Great scarlet poppies lay in drifts ...
111Striking Similes: Hair as harsh as tropical grass and gray as ashes - Hushed like a breathless lyre
112Striking Similes: I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew - Kingdoms melt away like snow
113Striking Similes: Laboring like a giant - Like a yellow silken scarf the thick fog hangs
114Striking Similes: Like an alien ghost I stole away - Like sweet thoughts in a dream
115Striking Similes: Like the awful shadow of some unseen power - Lovely the land unknown...
116Striking Similes: March on my soul nor like the laggard stay - Quivering like an eager race-horse to start
117Striking Similes: Rage, rage ye tears, that never more should creep... - Swifter than the twinkling of an eye
118Striking Similes: Talking and thinking became to him... - The music almost died away...
119Striking Similes: The name that cuts into my soul like a knife - Then the lover sighing like furnace
120Striking Similes: Theories sprouted in his mind like mushrooms - Turning easily and securely as on a perfect axle
121Striking Similes: Unbends like a loosened bow - Youth like a summer morn
122Conversational Phrases: A most extraordinary idea! - Human nature interests me very much indeed
123Conversational Phrases: I admire your foresight - I could never forgive myself for that
124Conversational Phrases: I dare say your intuition is quite right - I seem to have heard that sentiment before
125Conversational Phrases: I shall at once proceed to forget it - It has never occurred to me
126Conversational Phrases: It is a curious fact - It would take too long to formulate my thought
127Conversational Phrases: Join us, please, when you have time - Surely you would not countenance that
128Conversational Phrases: Tell me in what way you want me to help you - True, I forgot!
129Conversational Phrases: Undeniably true - Would you mind telling me your opinion?
130Conversational Phrases: Yes and no - Your statement is somewhat startling
131Public Speaking Phrases: A fact of vast moment - And next I would ask
132Public Speaking Phrases: And now allow me to call attention - Away then with the notion
133Public Speaking Phrases: Be assured, then - But it has been suggested to me
134Public Speaking Phrases: But it is a fact - By this time it will be suspected
135Public Speaking Phrases: Can it be supposed - Granting all this
136Public Speaking Phrases: Had I time for all that might be said - However, it is to me a very refreshing thing
137Public Speaking Phrases: I abide by my statement - I am willing to know
138Public Speaking Phrases: I anticipate with pleasing expectation - I distrust all general theories of
139Public Speaking Phrases: I do again and again urge upon you - I hasten to concede
140Public Speaking Phrases: I have a dark suspicion - I hope you will not accuse me
141Public Speaking Phrases: I imagine that no one will be disposed - I rejoice to think I remark here
142Public Speaking Phrases: I remember a reference made - I thank you very sincerely for the honor
143Public Speaking Phrases: I think I am correct in saying - I yielded to the earnest solicitations
144Public Speaking Phrases: If any man be so persuaded - In widening our view
145Public Speaking Phrases: Indeed, can anyone tell me - It is my present purpose
146Public Speaking Phrases: It is natural to ask the question - It may still more probably be said
147Public Speaking Phrases: It must be a cause of delight - Just the reverse is true
148Public Speaking Phrases: Language is inadequate to voice my appreciation - My regret is intensified by the thought
149Public Speaking Phrases: Nay, I boldly say - Now, you will understand from this
150Public Speaking Phrases: Observe again - Surely it is not too much for me to say
151Public Speaking Phrases: Take another instance - The whole story of civilization
152Public Speaking Phrases: Then again, in corroboration - Think of the cool disregard
153Public Speaking Phrases: This absurdity arises - Very strange is this indeed
154Public Speaking Phrases: We all agree as to - What strikes the mind so forcibly
155Public Speaking Phrases: What, then, are we to believe - Your presence seems to say
156Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts - A pleasant flow of appropriate language
157Miscellaneous Phrases: A pompous failure - Ample scope for the exercise of his astonishing gifts
158Miscellaneous Phrases: An abandoned and exaggerated grief - Awaited with feverish anxiety
159Miscellaneous Phrases: Bandied to and fro - Dwindled to alarmingly small dimensions
160Miscellaneous Phrases: Easy-going to the point of lethargy - Hopelessly belated in its appearance
161Miscellaneous Phrases: I adjured him - Its dominating and inspiring influence
162Miscellaneous Phrases: Jealous and formidable foes - Quixotically generous about money
163Miscellaneous Phrases: Radiantly and transparently happy - Swift and vehement outbursts of feeling
164Miscellaneous Phrases: Take root in the heart - The sycophants of the rich
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