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Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

by Grenville KLEISER (1868 - 1935)

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

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

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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 , 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 , 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 , 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