Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

001 - How To Use This Book

002 - Plan of Study

003 - Useful Phrases: abandoned hope - ample culture

004 - Useful Phrases: amusing artlessness - azure sky

005 - Useful Phrases: babbling gossip - bygone period

006 - Useful Phrases: cabalistic phrase - collateral duties

007 - Useful Phrases: collective wisdom - contingent reasons

008 - Useful Phrases: continuous endeavor - cynical disregard

009 - Useful Phrases: damaging admission - diligently propagated

010 - Useful Phrases: dim comprehension - dynastic insolence

011 - Useful Phrases: eager animosity - entrancing sadness

012 - Useful Phrases: enveloping presence - exultant condition

013 - Useful Phrases: facetious mood - flickering conscience

014 - Useful Phrases: flighty obstinacy - futile babble

015 - Useful Phrases: gabbling reminiscences - gymnastic agility

016 - Useful Phrases: habitual deference - hysterical agitation

017 - Useful Phrases: iconoclastic attitude - incipient fancy

018 - Useful Phrases: incisive critic - inquisitional rack

019 - Useful Phrases: inquisitive observer - isolated splendor

020 - Useful Phrases: jaded sensibility - lying equivocations

021 - Useful Phrases: maddening monotony - meteoric splendors

022 - Useful Phrases: methodical regularity - mythical kingdom

023 - Useful Phrases: naive manner - overworked drudge

024 - Useful Phrases: pacific disposition - political malcontent

025 - Useful Phrases: polluting taints - pyrotechnic outburst

026 - Useful Phrases: quailing culprit - remarkable sagacity

027 - Useful Phrases: remedial measure - ruthless commercialism

028 - Useful Phrases: sacerdotal preeminence - shuddering reluctance

029 - Useful Phrases: shuffling preliminaries - starched sterility

030 - Useful Phrases: starlit eminence - systematic interaction

031 - Useful Phrases: tacit assumption - tyrannical disposition

032 - Useful Phrases: ubiquitous activity - undue predilection

033 - Useful Phrases: undulating hills - unpalatable truth

034 - Useful Phrases: unparalleled atrocities - utmost scorn

035 - Useful Phrases: vacant stupidity - vulnerable foe

036 - Useful Phrases: wabbling enterprise - zoologically considered

037 - Significant Phrases: abashed and ashamed - awkwardness and crudity

038 - Significant Phrases: babel and confusion - civilized and cultured

039 - Significant Phrases: clamorous and wild - cynical and contemptuous

040 - Significant Phrases: dangers and pitfalls - digressive and wanton

041 - Significant Phrases: dilatory and hesitating - dwindle and disappear

042 - Significant Phrases: eagerness and ecstasy - exuberant and infectious

043 - Significant Phrases: fabulous and fabricated - futile and untrustworthy

044 - Significant Phrases: gaiety and grace - hypocrisy and impudence

045 - Significant Phrases: ideas and achievements - indomitable and dogged

046 - Significant Phrases: indorsed and applauded - isolated and detached

047 - Significant Phrases: jabber and chatter - luxury and pomp

048 - Significant Phrases: madness and folly - mystic and wonderful

049 - Significant Phrases: nagging and squabbling - overworked and fagged

050 - Significant Phrases: pains and penalties - puzzled and affected

051 - Significant Phrases: quackery and incompetence - rust and disuse

052 - Significant Phrases: sad and melancholy - spacious and lofty

053 - Significant Phrases: sparkling and spontaneous - sympathetic and consoling

054 - Significant Phrases: taciturn and laconic - tyrant and oppressor

055 - Significant Phrases: unaccountable and grotesque - vulgar and artificial

056 - Significant Phrases: wandering and erratic - zigzag and deviating

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

073 - Edit: Impressive Phrases: quack, imposture,... - symmetry, proportion,..

074 - Edit: Impressive Phrases: tact, courtesy,... - worry, annoyance,...

075 - Prepositional Phrases of: abandon of spontaneity - business of life

076 - Prepositional Phrases of: cadences of delirium - dust of defeat

077 - Prepositional Phrases of: earnestness of enthusiasm - futility of pride

078 - Prepositional Phrases of: gaiety of spirit - irony of life

079 - Prepositional Phrases of: jangle of sounds - overflow of vitality

080 - Prepositional Phrases of: page of desolation - ruts of conventionality

081 - Prepositional Phrases of: sadness of soul - system of aspersion

082 - Prepositional Phrases of: taint of megalomania - zone of delusion

083 - Prepositional Phrases by: affected by externals - hushed by denial

084 - Prepositional Phrases by: impelled by duty - wrenched by emotions

085 - Prepositional Phrases in: absorbed in meditation - kept in abeyance

086 - Prepositional Phrases in: landmarks in memory - weak in conception

087 - Prepositional Phrases into: abashed into silence - goaded into action

088 - Prepositional Phrases into: hushed into silence - withdraw into solitude

089 - Prepositional Phrases to: addicted to flattery - hostile to progress

090 - Prepositional Phrases to: impervious to suggestion - yield to reason

091 - Prepositional Phrases with: abounding with plenty - intoxicated with joy

092 - Prepositional Phrases with: kindle with enthusiasm - work with zeal

093 - Business Phrases

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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