Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

0 Introduction 740 1 How To Use This Book 292 2 Plan Of Study 292 3 Useful Phrases: abandoned hope - ample culture 313 4 Useful Phrases: amusing artlessness - azure sky 250 5 Useful Phrases: babbling gossip - bygone period 237 6 Useful Phrases: cabalistic phrase - collateral duties 167 7 Useful Phrases: collective wisdom - contingent reasons 163 8 Useful Phrases: continuous endeavor - cynical disregard 247 9 Useful Phrases: damaging admission - diligently propagated 387 10 Useful Phrases: dim comprehension - dynastic insolence 351 11 Useful Phrases: eager animosity - entrancing sadness 350 12 Useful Phrases: enveloping presence - exultant condition 294 13 Useful Phrases: facetious mood - flickering conscience 173 14 Useful Phrases: flighty obstinacy - futile babble 196 15 Useful Phrases: gabbling reminiscences - gymnastic agility 271 16 Useful Phrases: habitual deference - hysterical agitation 293 17 Useful Phrases: iconoclastic attitude - incipient fancy 425 18 Useful Phrases: incisive critic - inquisitional rack 345 19 Useful Phrases: inquisitive observer - isolated splendor 346 20 Useful Phrases: jaded sensibility - lying equivocations 330 21 Useful Phrases: maddening monotony - meteoric splendors 265 22 Useful Phrases: methodical regularity - mythical kingdom 231 23 Useful Phrases: naive manner - overworked drudge 379 24 Useful Phrases: pacific disposition - political malcontent 446 25 Useful Phrases: polluting taints - pyrotechnic outburst 536 26 Useful Phrases: quailing culprit - remarkable sagacity 200 27 Useful Phrases: remedial measure - ruthless commercialism 153 28 Useful Phrases: sacerdotal preeminence - shuddering reluctance 289 29 Useful Phrases: shuffling preliminaries - starched sterility 302 30 Useful Phrases: starlit eminence - systematic interaction 234 31 Useful Phrases: tacit assumption - tyrannical disposition 307 32 Useful Phrases: ubiquitous activity - undue predilection 244 33 Useful Phrases: undulating hills - unpalatable truth 247 34 Useful Phrases: unparalleled atrocities - utmost scorn 253 35 Useful Phrases: vacant stupidity - vulnerable foe 187 36 Useful Phrases: wabbling enterprise - zoologically considered 191 37 Significant Phrases: abashed and ashamed - awkwardness and crudity 255 38 Significant Phrases: babel and confusion - civilized and cultured 292 39 Significant Phrases: clamorous and wild - cynical and contemptuous 306 40 Significant Phrases: dangers and pitfalls - digressive and wanton 219 41 Significant Phrases: dilatory and hesitating - dwindle and disappear 284 42 Significant Phrases: eagerness and ecstasy - exuberant and infectious 376 43 Significant Phrases: fabulous and fabricated - futile and untrustworthy 287 44 Significant Phrases: gaiety and grace - hypocrisy and impudence 317 45 Significant Phrases: ideas and achievements - indomitable and dogged 204 46 Significant Phrases: indorsed and applauded - isolated and detached 217 47 Significant Phrases: jabber and chatter - luxury and pomp 247 48 Significant Phrases: madness and folly - mystic and wonderful 175 49 Significant Phrases: nagging and squabbling - overworked and fagged 250 50 Significant Phrases: pains and penalties - puzzled and affected 369 51 Significant Phrases: quackery and incompetence - rust and disuse 298 52 Significant Phrases: sad and melancholy - spacious and lofty 228 53 Significant Phrases: sparkling and spontaneous - sympathetic and consoling 246 54 Significant Phrases: taciturn and laconic - tyrant and oppressor 288 55 Significant Phrases: unaccountable and grotesque - vulgar and artificial 349 56 Significant Phrases: wandering and erratic - zigzag and deviating 137 57 Felicitous Phrases: ability, humor, and perspicacity - busy, active, and toiling 251 58 Felicitous Phrases: curious, fantastic, and charming - calculated, logical, and dispassionate 251 59 Felicitous Phrases: dwarfed, scant, and wretched - danger, difficulty, and hardship 272 60 Felicitous Phrases: eagerness, heartiness, and vehemence - fustian, padding, and irrelevancy 275 61 Felicitous Phrases: gaunt, desolate, and despoiled - humor, fancy, and susceptibility 220 62 Felicitous Phrases: idle, profuse, and profligate - luxurious, whimsical, and selfish 260 63 Felicitous Phrases: magnificent, sumptuous, and stately - overriding, arrogant, and quarrelsome 231 64 Felicitous Phrases: pain, toil, and privation - puzzles, tangles, and questionings 225 65 Felicitous Phrases: quarrels, misunderstandings, and enmities - rush, roar, and shriek 158 66 Felicitous Phrases: sacredness, dignity, and loveliness - sympathy, service, and compassion 245 67 Felicitous Phrases: talent, scholarship, and refinement - wrinkled, careworn, and pale 308 68 Impressive Phrases: able, skilful,... - business, profession,... 281 69 Impressive Phrases: candid, sincere,... - dull, heavy,... 364 70 Impressive Phrases: earth, air,... - gross, academic,.. 378 71 Impressive Phrases: habit, custom,... - lucidity, impressiveness,... 341 72 Impressive Phrases: malice, anger,... - purpose, meaning,... 340 73 Impressive Phrases: quack, imposture,... - symmetry, proportion,.. 260 74 Impressive Phrases: tact, courtesy,... - worry, annoyance,... 250 75 Prepositional Phrases "of": abandon of spontaneity - business of life 275 76 Prepositional Phrases "of": cadences of delirium - dust of defeat 232 77 Prepositional Phrases "of": earnestness of enthusiasm - futility of pride 252 78 Prepositional Phrases "of": gaiety of spirit - irony of life 241 79 Prepositional Phrases "of": jangle of sounds - overflow of vitality 250 80 Prepositional Phrases "of": page of desolation - ruts of conventionality 292 81 Prepositional Phrases "of": sadness of soul - system of aspersion 214 82 Prepositional Phrases "of": taint of megalomania - zone of delusion 256 83 Prepositional Phrases "by": affected by externals - hushed by denial 185 84 Prepositional Phrases "by": impelled by duty - wrenched by emotions 213 85 Prepositional Phrases "in": absorbed in meditation - kept in abeyance 196 86 Prepositional Phrases "in": landmarks in memory - weak in conception 227 87 Prepositional Phrases "into": abashed into silence - goaded into action 119 88 Prepositional Phrases "into": hushed into silence - withdraw into solitude 111 89 Prepositional Phrases "to": addicted to flattery - hostile to progress 110 90 Prepositional Phrases "to": impervious to suggestion - yield to reason 148 91 Prepositional Phrases "with": abounding with plenty - intoxicated with joy 143 92 Prepositional Phrases "with": kindle with enthusiasm - work with zeal 149 93 Business Phrases 1477 94 Literary Expressions: A bitterness crept into her face - A nimble-witted opponent 413 95 Literary Expressions: A painful thought was flooding his mind - A wordless farewell 387 96 Literary Expressions: Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting - Awaiting his summons to the eternal silence 498 97 Literary Expressions: Bandied about from mouth to mouth - Dull black eyes under their precipice of brows 407 98 Literary Expressions: Earth danced under a heat haze - Guilty of girlish sentimentality 246 99 Literary Expressions: Half choked by a rising paroxysm of rage - Humiliating paltriness of revenge 566 100 Literary Expressions: I capitulated by inadvertence - Kiss-provoking lips 306 101 Literary Expressions: Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle - Rudely reminded of life's serious issues 645 102 Literary Expressions: Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill - Swift summer into the autumn flowed 447 103 Literary Expressions: Taking the larger sweeps in the march of mind - The hungry curiosity of the mind 489 104 Literary Expressions: The idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought - The swing of the pendulum through an arch of centuries 577 105 Literary Expressions: The tempered daylight of an olive garden - Twilight creeps upon the darkening mind 334 106 Literary Expressions: Unapproachable grandeur and simplicity - Your mind enthroned in the seventh circle of content 219 107 Striking Similes: A blind rage like a fire swept over him - And the smile she softly uses fills the silence like a speech 655 108 Striking Similes: As a child in play scatters... - Awkward as a cart-horse 399 109 Striking Similes: Babbling like a child - Dull as champagne 393 110 Striking Similes: Each like a corpse within its grave - Great scarlet poppies lay in drifts ... 276 111 Striking Similes: Hair as harsh as tropical grass and gray as ashes - Hushed like a breathless lyre 559 112 Striking Similes: I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew - Kingdoms melt away like snow 216 113 Striking Similes: Laboring like a giant - Like a yellow silken scarf the thick fog hangs 423 114 Striking Similes: Like an alien ghost I stole away - Like sweet thoughts in a dream 391 115 Striking Similes: Like the awful shadow of some unseen power - Lovely the land unknown... 392 116 Striking Similes: March on my soul nor like the laggard stay - Quivering like an eager race-horse to start 409 117 Striking Similes: Rage, rage ye tears, that never more should creep... - Swifter than the twinkling of an eye 625 118 Striking Similes: Talking and thinking became to him... - The music almost died away... 395 119 Striking Similes: The name that cuts into my soul like a knife - Then the lover sighing like furnace 507 120 Striking Similes: Theories sprouted in his mind like mushrooms - Turning easily and securely as on a perfect axle 381 121 Striking Similes: Unbends like a loosened bow - Youth like a summer morn 498 122 Conversational Phrases: A most extraordinary idea! - Human nature interests me very much indeed 398 123 Conversational Phrases: I admire your foresight - I could never forgive myself for that 448 124 Conversational Phrases: I dare say your intuition is quite right - I seem to have heard that sentiment before 542 125 Conversational Phrases: I shall at once proceed to forget it - It has never occurred to me 405 126 Conversational Phrases: It is a curious fact - It would take too long to formulate my thought 377 127 Conversational Phrases: Join us, please, when you have time - Surely you would not countenance that 420 128 Conversational Phrases: Tell me in what way you want me to help you - True, I forgot! 398 129 Conversational Phrases: Undeniably true - Would you mind telling me your opinion? 227 130 Conversational Phrases: Yes and no - Your statement is somewhat startling 289 131 Public Speaking Phrases: A fact of vast moment - And next I would ask 449 132 Public Speaking Phrases: And now allow me to call attention - Away then with the notion 481 133 Public Speaking Phrases: Be assured, then - But it has been suggested to me 295 134 Public Speaking Phrases: But it is a fact - By this time it will be suspected 260 135 Public Speaking Phrases: Can it be supposed - Granting all this 252 136 Public Speaking Phrases: Had I time for all that might be said - However, it is to me a very refreshing thing 196 137 Public Speaking Phrases: I abide by my statement - I am willing to know 376 138 Public Speaking Phrases: I anticipate with pleasing expectation - I distrust all general theories of 459 139 Public Speaking Phrases: I do again and again urge upon you - I hasten to concede 490 140 Public Speaking Phrases: I have a dark suspicion - I hope you will not accuse me 709 141 Public Speaking Phrases: I imagine that no one will be disposed - I rejoice to think I remark here 563 142 Public Speaking Phrases: I remember a reference made - I thank you very sincerely for the honor 581 143 Public Speaking Phrases: I think I am correct in saying - I yielded to the earnest solicitations 638 144 Public Speaking Phrases: If any man be so persuaded - In widening our view 638 145 Public Speaking Phrases: Indeed, can anyone tell me - It is my present purpose 565 146 Public Speaking Phrases: It is natural to ask the question - It may still more probably be said 338 147 Public Speaking Phrases: It must be a cause of delight - Just the reverse is true 321 148 Public Speaking Phrases: Language is inadequate to voice my appreciation - My regret is intensified by the thought 503 149 Public Speaking Phrases: Nay, I boldly say - Now, you will understand from this 343 150 Public Speaking Phrases: Observe again - Surely it is not too much for me to say 463 151 Public Speaking Phrases: Take another instance - The whole story of civilization 408 152 Public Speaking Phrases: Then again, in corroboration - Think of the cool disregard 349 153 Public Speaking Phrases: This absurdity arises - Very strange is this indeed 315 154 Public Speaking Phrases: We all agree as to - What strikes the mind so forcibly 542 155 Public Speaking Phrases: What, then, are we to believe - Your presence seems to say 417 156 Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts - A pleasant flow of appropriate language 421 157 Miscellaneous Phrases: A pompous failure - Ample scope for the exercise of his astonishing gifts 441 158 Miscellaneous Phrases: An abandoned and exaggerated grief - Awaited with feverish anxiety 363 159 Miscellaneous Phrases: Bandied to and fro - Dwindled to alarmingly small dimensions 418 160 Miscellaneous Phrases: Easy-going to the point of lethargy - Hopelessly belated in its appearance 570 161 Miscellaneous Phrases: I adjured him - Its dominating and inspiring influence 673 162 Miscellaneous Phrases: Jealous and formidable foes - Quixotically generous about money 634 163 Miscellaneous Phrases: Radiantly and transparently happy - Swift and vehement outbursts of feeling 482 164 Miscellaneous Phrases: Take root in the heart - The sycophants of the rich 720