Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases by Grenville Kleiser (1868 - 1935)
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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
Alt-BC: Lucy Burgoyne
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Miscellaneous Phrases: Take root in the heart - The sycophants of the rich
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Miscellaneous Phrases: Radiantly and transparently happy - Swift and vehement outbursts of feeling
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Miscellaneous Phrases: Jealous and formidable foes - Quixotically generous about money
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Miscellaneous Phrases: I adjured him - Its dominating and inspiring influence
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Miscellaneous Phrases: Easy-going to the point of lethargy - Hopelessly belated in its appearance
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Miscellaneous Phrases: Bandied to and fro - Dwindled to alarmingly small dimensions
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Miscellaneous Phrases: An abandoned and exaggerated grief - Awaited with feverish anxiety
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Miscellaneous Phrases: A pompous failure - Ample scope for the exercise of his astonishing gifts
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts - A pleasant flow of appropriate language
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Public Speaking Phrases: What, then, are we to believe - Your presence seems to say
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Public Speaking Phrases: We all agree as to - What strikes the mind so forcibly
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Public Speaking Phrases: This absurdity arises - Very strange is this indeed
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Public Speaking Phrases: Then again, in corroboration - Think of the cool disregard
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Public Speaking Phrases: Take another instance - The whole story of civilization
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Public Speaking Phrases: Observe again - Surely it is not too much for me to say
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Public Speaking Phrases: Nay, I boldly say - Now, you will understand from this
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Public Speaking Phrases: Language is inadequate to voice my appreciation - My regret is intensified by the thought
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Public Speaking Phrases: It must be a cause of delight - Just the reverse is true
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Public Speaking Phrases: It is natural to ask the question - It may still more probably be said
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Public Speaking Phrases: Indeed, can anyone tell me - It is my present purpose
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Public Speaking Phrases: If any man be so persuaded - In widening our view
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Public Speaking Phrases: I think I am correct in saying - I yielded to the earnest solicitations
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Public Speaking Phrases: I remember a reference made - I thank you very sincerely for the honor
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Public Speaking Phrases: I imagine that no one will be disposed - I rejoice to think I remark here
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Public Speaking Phrases: I have a dark suspicion - I hope you will not accuse me
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Public Speaking Phrases: I do again and again urge upon you - I hasten to concede
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Public Speaking Phrases: I anticipate with pleasing expectation - I distrust all general theories of
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Public Speaking Phrases: I abide by my statement - I am willing to know
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Public Speaking Phrases: Had I time for all that might be said - However, it is to me a very refreshing thing
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Public Speaking Phrases: Can it be supposed - Granting all this
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Public Speaking Phrases: But it is a fact - By this time it will be suspected
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Public Speaking Phrases: Be assured, then - But it has been suggested to me
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Public Speaking Phrases: And now allow me to call attention - Away then with the notion
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Public Speaking Phrases: A fact of vast moment - And next I would ask
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Conversational Phrases: Yes and no - Your statement is somewhat startling
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Conversational Phrases: Undeniably true - Would you mind telling me your opinion?
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Conversational Phrases: Tell me in what way you want me to help you - True, I forgot!
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Conversational Phrases: Join us, please, when you have time - Surely you would not countenance that
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Conversational Phrases: It is a curious fact - It would take too long to formulate my thought
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Conversational Phrases: I shall at once proceed to forget it - It has never occurred to me
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Conversational Phrases: I dare say your intuition is quite right - I seem to have heard that sentiment before
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Conversational Phrases: I admire your foresight - I could never forgive myself for that
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Conversational Phrases: A most extraordinary idea! - Human nature interests me very much indeed
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Striking Similes: Unbends like a loosened bow - Youth like a summer morn
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Striking Similes: Theories sprouted in his mind like mushrooms - Turning easily and securely as on a perfect axle
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Striking Similes: The name that cuts into my soul like a knife - Then the lover sighing like furnace
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Striking Similes: Talking and thinking became to him... - The music almost died away...
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Striking Similes: Rage, rage ye tears, that never more should creep... - Swifter than the twinkling of an eye
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Striking Similes: March on my soul nor like the laggard stay - Quivering like an eager race-horse to start
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Striking Similes: Like the awful shadow of some unseen power - Lovely the land unknown...
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Striking Similes: Like an alien ghost I stole away - Like sweet thoughts in a dream
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Striking Similes: Laboring like a giant - Like a yellow silken scarf the thick fog hangs
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Striking Similes: I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew - Kingdoms melt away like snow
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Striking Similes: Hair as harsh as tropical grass and gray as ashes - Hushed like a breathless lyre
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Striking Similes: Each like a corpse within its grave - Great scarlet poppies lay in drifts ...
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Striking Similes: Babbling like a child - Dull as champagne
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Striking Similes: As a child in play scatters... - Awkward as a cart-horse
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Striking Similes: A blind rage like a fire swept over him - And the smile she softly uses fills the silence like a speech
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Literary Expressions: Unapproachable grandeur and simplicity - Your mind enthroned in the seventh circle of content
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Literary Expressions: The tempered daylight of an olive garden - Twilight creeps upon the darkening mind
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Literary Expressions: The idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought - The swing of the pendulum through an arch of centuries
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Literary Expressions: Taking the larger sweeps in the march of mind - The hungry curiosity of the mind
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Literary Expressions: Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill - Swift summer into the autumn flowed
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Literary Expressions: Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle - Rudely reminded of life's serious issues
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Literary Expressions: I capitulated by inadvertence - Kiss-provoking lips
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Literary Expressions: Half choked by a rising paroxysm of rage - Humiliating paltriness of revenge
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Literary Expressions: Earth danced under a heat haze - Guilty of girlish sentimentality
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Literary Expressions: Bandied about from mouth to mouth - Dull black eyes under their precipice of brows
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Literary Expressions: Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting - Awaiting his summons to the eternal silence
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Literary Expressions: A painful thought was flooding his mind - A wordless farewell
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Literary Expressions: A bitterness crept into her face - A nimble-witted opponent
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Business Phrases
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Prepositional Phrases "with": kindle with enthusiasm - work with zeal
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Prepositional Phrases "with": abounding with plenty - intoxicated with joy
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Prepositional Phrases "to": impervious to suggestion - yield to reason
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Prepositional Phrases "to": addicted to flattery - hostile to progress
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Prepositional Phrases "into": hushed into silence - withdraw into solitude
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Prepositional Phrases "into": abashed into silence - goaded into action
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Prepositional Phrases "in": landmarks in memory - weak in conception
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Prepositional Phrases "in": absorbed in meditation - kept in abeyance
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Prepositional Phrases "by": impelled by duty - wrenched by emotions
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Prepositional Phrases "by": affected by externals - hushed by denial
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Prepositional Phrases "of": taint of megalomania - zone of delusion
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Prepositional Phrases "of": sadness of soul - system of aspersion
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Prepositional Phrases "of": page of desolation - ruts of conventionality
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Prepositional Phrases "of": jangle of sounds - overflow of vitality
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Prepositional Phrases "of": gaiety of spirit - irony of life
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Prepositional Phrases "of": earnestness of enthusiasm - futility of pride
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Prepositional Phrases "of": cadences of delirium - dust of defeat
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Prepositional Phrases "of": abandon of spontaneity - business of life
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Impressive Phrases: tact, courtesy,... - worry, annoyance,...
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Impressive Phrases: quack, imposture,... - symmetry, proportion,..
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Impressive Phrases: malice, anger,... - purpose, meaning,...
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Impressive Phrases: habit, custom,... - lucidity, impressiveness,...
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Impressive Phrases: earth, air,... - gross, academic,..
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Impressive Phrases: candid, sincere,... - dull, heavy,...
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Impressive Phrases: able, skilful,... - business, profession,...
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Felicitous Phrases: talent, scholarship, and refinement - wrinkled, careworn, and pale
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Felicitous Phrases: sacredness, dignity, and loveliness - sympathy, service, and compassion
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Felicitous Phrases: quarrels, misunderstandings, and enmities - rush, roar, and shriek
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Felicitous Phrases: pain, toil, and privation - puzzles, tangles, and questionings
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Felicitous Phrases: magnificent, sumptuous, and stately - overriding, arrogant, and quarrelsome
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Felicitous Phrases: idle, profuse, and profligate - luxurious, whimsical, and selfish
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Felicitous Phrases: gaunt, desolate, and despoiled - humor, fancy, and susceptibility
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Felicitous Phrases: eagerness, heartiness, and vehemence - fustian, padding, and irrelevancy
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Felicitous Phrases: dwarfed, scant, and wretched - danger, difficulty, and hardship
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Felicitous Phrases: curious, fantastic, and charming - calculated, logical, and dispassionate
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Felicitous Phrases: ability, humor, and perspicacity - busy, active, and toiling
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Significant Phrases: wandering and erratic - zigzag and deviating
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Significant Phrases: unaccountable and grotesque - vulgar and artificial
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Significant Phrases: taciturn and laconic - tyrant and oppressor
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Significant Phrases: sparkling and spontaneous - sympathetic and consoling
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Significant Phrases: sad and melancholy - spacious and lofty
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Significant Phrases: quackery and incompetence - rust and disuse
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Significant Phrases: pains and penalties - puzzled and affected
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Significant Phrases: nagging and squabbling - overworked and fagged
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Significant Phrases: madness and folly - mystic and wonderful
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Significant Phrases: jabber and chatter - luxury and pomp
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Significant Phrases: indorsed and applauded - isolated and detached
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Significant Phrases: ideas and achievements - indomitable and dogged
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Significant Phrases: gaiety and grace - hypocrisy and impudence
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Significant Phrases: fabulous and fabricated - futile and untrustworthy
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Significant Phrases: eagerness and ecstasy - exuberant and infectious
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Significant Phrases: dilatory and hesitating - dwindle and disappear
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Significant Phrases: dangers and pitfalls - digressive and wanton
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Significant Phrases: clamorous and wild - cynical and contemptuous
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Significant Phrases: babel and confusion - civilized and cultured
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Significant Phrases: abashed and ashamed - awkwardness and crudity
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: wabbling enterprise - zoologically considered
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: vacant stupidity - vulnerable foe
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: unparalleled atrocities - utmost scorn
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: undulating hills - unpalatable truth
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: ubiquitous activity - undue predilection
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: tacit assumption - tyrannical disposition
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: starlit eminence - systematic interaction
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: shuffling preliminaries - starched sterility
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: sacerdotal preeminence - shuddering reluctance
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: remedial measure - ruthless commercialism
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: quailing culprit - remarkable sagacity
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: polluting taints - pyrotechnic outburst
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: pacific disposition - political malcontent
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: naive manner - overworked drudge
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: methodical regularity - mythical kingdom
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: maddening monotony - meteoric splendors
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: jaded sensibility - lying equivocations
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: inquisitive observer - isolated splendor
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: incisive critic - inquisitional rack
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: iconoclastic attitude - incipient fancy
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: habitual deference - hysterical agitation
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: gabbling reminiscences - gymnastic agility
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: flighty obstinacy - futile babble
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: facetious mood - flickering conscience
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: enveloping presence - exultant condition
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: eager animosity - entrancing sadness
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: dim comprehension - dynastic insolence
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: damaging admission - diligently propagated
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: continuous endeavor - cynical disregard
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: collective wisdom - contingent reasons
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: cabalistic phrase - collateral duties
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: babbling gossip - bygone period
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: amusing artlessness - azure sky
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Useful Phrases: abandoned hope - ample culture
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Plan Of Study
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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How To Use This Book
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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Introduction
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Jan 01, 1970 |