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Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

by Grenville KLEISER (1868 - 1935)

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


Business Phrases

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How To Use This Book

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Introduction

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Miscellaneous Phrases: A pompous failure - Ample scope for the exercise of his astonishing gifts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Plan Of Study

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Significant Phrases: abashed and ashamed - awkwardness and crudity

Significant Phrases: babel and confusion - civilized and cultured

Significant Phrases: clamorous and wild - cynical and contemptuous

Significant Phrases: dangers and pitfalls - digressive and wanton

Significant Phrases: dilatory and hesitating - dwindle and disappear

Significant Phrases: eagerness and ecstasy - exuberant and infectious

Significant Phrases: fabulous and fabricated - futile and untrustworthy

Significant Phrases: gaiety and grace - hypocrisy and impudence

Significant Phrases: ideas and achievements - indomitable and dogged

Significant Phrases: indorsed and applauded - isolated and detached

Significant Phrases: jabber and chatter - luxury and pomp

Significant Phrases: madness and folly - mystic and wonderful

Significant Phrases: nagging and squabbling - overworked and fagged

Significant Phrases: pains and penalties - puzzled and affected

Significant Phrases: quackery and incompetence - rust and disuse

Significant Phrases: sad and melancholy - spacious and lofty

Significant Phrases: sparkling and spontaneous - sympathetic and consoling

Significant Phrases: taciturn and laconic - tyrant and oppressor

Significant Phrases: unaccountable and grotesque - vulgar and artificial

Significant Phrases: wandering and erratic - zigzag and deviating

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

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

Striking Similes: Babbling like a child - Dull as champagne

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Useful Phrases: abandoned hope - ample culture

Useful Phrases: amusing artlessness - azure sky

Useful Phrases: babbling gossip - bygone period

Useful Phrases: cabalistic phrase - collateral duties

Useful Phrases: collective wisdom - contingent reasons

Useful Phrases: continuous endeavor - cynical disregard

Useful Phrases: damaging admission - diligently propagated

Useful Phrases: dim comprehension - dynastic insolence

Useful Phrases: eager animosity - entrancing sadness

Useful Phrases: enveloping presence - exultant condition

Useful Phrases: facetious mood - flickering conscience

Useful Phrases: flighty obstinacy - futile babble

Useful Phrases: gabbling reminiscences - gymnastic agility

Useful Phrases: habitual deference - hysterical agitation

Useful Phrases: iconoclastic attitude - incipient fancy

Useful Phrases: incisive critic - inquisitional rack

Useful Phrases: inquisitive observer - isolated splendor

Useful Phrases: jaded sensibility - lying equivocations

Useful Phrases: maddening monotony - meteoric splendors

Useful Phrases: methodical regularity - mythical kingdom

Useful Phrases: naive manner - overworked drudge

Useful Phrases: pacific disposition - political malcontent

Useful Phrases: polluting taints - pyrotechnic outburst

Useful Phrases: quailing culprit - remarkable sagacity

Useful Phrases: remedial measure - ruthless commercialism

Useful Phrases: sacerdotal preeminence - shuddering reluctance

Useful Phrases: shuffling preliminaries - starched sterility

Useful Phrases: starlit eminence - systematic interaction

Useful Phrases: tacit assumption - tyrannical disposition

Useful Phrases: ubiquitous activity - undue predilection

Useful Phrases: undulating hills - unpalatable truth

Useful Phrases: unparalleled atrocities - utmost scorn

Useful Phrases: vacant stupidity - vulnerable foe

Useful Phrases: wabbling enterprise - zoologically considered