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Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

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

Year of Publication: 1917Genres: Language learning , Reference

Running Time: 15 hours 50 minutes 56 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	Introduction Betsie Bush	12:20
2	How To Use This Book Maria Morabe	4:52
3	Plan Of Study Maria Morabe	4:52
4	Useful Phrases: abandoned hope - ample culture Betsie Bush	5:13
5	Useful Phrases: amusing artlessness - azure sky roolynninms	4:10
6	Useful Phrases: babbling gossip - bygone period roolynninms	3:57
7	Useful Phrases: cabalistic phrase - collateral duties roolynninms	2:47
8	Useful Phrases: collective wisdom - contingent reasons roolynninms	2:43
9	Useful Phrases: continuous endeavor - cynical disregard pallavy	4:07
10	Useful Phrases: damaging admission - diligently propagated Diana Troldahl	6:27
11	Useful Phrases: dim comprehension - dynastic insolence Diana Troldahl	5:51
12	Useful Phrases: eager animosity - entrancing sadness David Barnes	5:50
13	Useful Phrases: enveloping presence - exultant condition skern922	4:54
14	Useful Phrases: facetious mood - flickering conscience E. Plein	2:53
15	Useful Phrases: flighty obstinacy - futile babble pallavy	3:16
16	Useful Phrases: gabbling reminiscences - gymnastic agility pallavy	4:31
17	Useful Phrases: habitual deference - hysterical agitation pallavy	4:53
18	Useful Phrases: iconoclastic attitude - incipient fancy Chris Chapman	7:05
19	Useful Phrases: incisive critic - inquisitional rack Chris Chapman	5:45
20	Useful Phrases: inquisitive observer - isolated splendor Kira Rutherford-Boese	5:46
21	Useful Phrases: jaded sensibility - lying equivocations Kira Rutherford-Boese	5:30
22	Useful Phrases: maddening monotony - meteoric splendors Linton	4:25
23	Useful Phrases: methodical regularity - mythical kingdom Linton	3:51
24	Useful Phrases: naive manner - overworked drudge Linton	6:19
25	Useful Phrases: pacific disposition - political malcontent Denny Sayers (d. 2015)	7:26
26	Useful Phrases: polluting taints - pyrotechnic outburst Denny Sayers (d. 2015)	8:56
27	Useful Phrases: quailing culprit - remarkable sagacity Lisa Chau	3:20
28	Useful Phrases: remedial measure - ruthless commercialism Jordan Mueller	2:33
29	Useful Phrases: sacerdotal preeminence - shuddering reluctance Lisa Chau	4:49
30	Useful Phrases: shuffling preliminaries - starched sterility Lisa Chau	5:02
31	Useful Phrases: starlit eminence - systematic interaction Jordan Mueller	3:54
32	Useful Phrases: tacit assumption - tyrannical disposition Lisa Chau	5:07
33	Useful Phrases: ubiquitous activity - undue predilection Lisa Chau	4:04
34	Useful Phrases: undulating hills - unpalatable truth Lisa Chau	4:07
35	Useful Phrases: unparalleled atrocities - utmost scorn Lisa Chau	4:13
36	Useful Phrases: vacant stupidity - vulnerable foe Lisa Chau	3:07
37	Useful Phrases: wabbling enterprise - zoologically considered Heather Lambert	3:11
38	Significant Phrases: abashed and ashamed - awkwardness and crudity Claire Goget	4:15
39	Significant Phrases: babel and confusion - civilized and cultured Lisa Chau	4:52
40	Significant Phrases: clamorous and wild - cynical and contemptuous Lisa Chau	5:06
41	Significant Phrases: dangers and pitfalls - digressive and wanton Lisa Chau	3:39
42	Significant Phrases: dilatory and hesitating - dwindle and disappear Shirley Donahue	4:44
43	Significant Phrases: eagerness and ecstasy - exuberant and infectious Shirley Donahue	6:16
44	Significant Phrases: fabulous and fabricated - futile and untrustworthy Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)	4:47
45	Significant Phrases: gaiety and grace - hypocrisy and impudence Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)	5:17
46	Significant Phrases: ideas and achievements - indomitable and dogged Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)	3:24
47	Significant Phrases: indorsed and applauded - isolated and detached Julian Jamison	3:37
48	Significant Phrases: jabber and chatter - luxury and pomp dhenderson	4:07
49	Significant Phrases: madness and folly - mystic and wonderful dhenderson	2:55
50	Significant Phrases: nagging and squabbling - overworked and fagged dhenderson	4:10
51	Significant Phrases: pains and penalties - puzzled and affected Kathy	6:09
52	Significant Phrases: quackery and incompetence - rust and disuse Kathy	4:58
53	Significant Phrases: sad and melancholy - spacious and lofty Kathy	3:48
54	Significant Phrases: sparkling and spontaneous - sympathetic and consoling jenneferdawn	4:06
55	Significant Phrases: taciturn and laconic - tyrant and oppressor Scot Colford	4:48
56	Significant Phrases: unaccountable and grotesque - vulgar and artificial Marwa Gamil	5:49
57	Significant Phrases: wandering and erratic - zigzag and deviating twofistededitor	2:17
58	Felicitous Phrases: ability, humor, and perspicacity - busy, active, and toiling Mochan42	4:11
59	Felicitous Phrases: curious, fantastic, and charming - calculated, logical, and dispassionate Marwa Gamil	4:11
60	Felicitous Phrases: dwarfed, scant, and wretched - danger, difficulty, and hardship Marwa Gamil	4:32
61	Felicitous Phrases: eagerness, heartiness, and vehemence - fustian, padding, and irrelevancy Sandra Zera	4:35
62	Felicitous Phrases: gaunt, desolate, and despoiled - humor, fancy, and susceptibility Brian Lojeck	3:40
63	Felicitous Phrases: idle, profuse, and profligate - luxurious, whimsical, and selfish Brian Lojeck	4:20
64	Felicitous Phrases: magnificent, sumptuous, and stately - overriding, arrogant, and quarrelsome Justin S Barrett	3:51
65	Felicitous Phrases: pain, toil, and privation - puzzles, tangles, and questionings William Haseltine	3:45
66	Felicitous Phrases: quarrels, misunderstandings, and enmities - rush, roar, and shriek Rohanna	2:38
67	Felicitous Phrases: sacredness, dignity, and loveliness - sympathy, service, and compassion William Haseltine	4:05
68	Felicitous Phrases: talent, scholarship, and refinement - wrinkled, careworn, and pale Marwa Gamil	5:08
69	Impressive Phrases: able, skilful,... - business, profession,... Stephen Lamb	4:41
70	Impressive Phrases: candid, sincere,... - dull, heavy,... Stephen Lamb	6:04
71	Impressive Phrases: earth, air,... - gross, academic,.. Stephen Lamb	6:18
72	Impressive Phrases: habit, custom,... - lucidity, impressiveness,... Stephen Lamb	5:41
73	Impressive Phrases: malice, anger,... - purpose, meaning,... Stephen Lamb	5:40
74	Impressive Phrases: quack, imposture,... - symmetry, proportion,.. Stephen Lamb	4:20
75	Impressive Phrases: tact, courtesy,... - worry, annoyance,... Stephen Lamb	4:10
76	Prepositional Phrases "of": abandon of spontaneity - business of life Joseph Etcheto	4:35
77	Prepositional Phrases "of": cadences of delirium - dust of defeat Alex Foster	3:52
78	Prepositional Phrases "of": earnestness of enthusiasm - futility of pride Joseph Etcheto	4:12
79	Prepositional Phrases "of": gaiety of spirit - irony of life Joseph Etcheto	4:01
80	Prepositional Phrases "of": jangle of sounds - overflow of vitality Joseph Etcheto	4:10
81	Prepositional Phrases "of": page of desolation - ruts of conventionality Joseph Etcheto	4:52
82	Prepositional Phrases "of": sadness of soul - system of aspersion Joseph Etcheto	3:34
83	Prepositional Phrases "of": taint of megalomania - zone of delusion Joseph Etcheto	4:16
84	Prepositional Phrases "by": affected by externals - hushed by denial Scot Colford	3:05
85	Prepositional Phrases "by": impelled by duty - wrenched by emotions Precious	3:33
86	Prepositional Phrases "in": absorbed in meditation - kept in abeyance Precious	3:16
87	Prepositional Phrases "in": landmarks in memory - weak in conception Precious	3:47
88	Prepositional Phrases "into": abashed into silence - goaded into action Joe Brenneman	1:59
89	Prepositional Phrases "into": hushed into silence - withdraw into solitude Joe Brenneman	1:51
90	Prepositional Phrases "to": addicted to flattery - hostile to progress Joe Brenneman	1:50
91	Prepositional Phrases "to": impervious to suggestion - yield to reason Joe Brenneman	2:28
92	Prepositional Phrases "with": abounding with plenty - intoxicated with joy Joe Brenneman	2:23
93	Prepositional Phrases "with": kindle with enthusiasm - work with zeal liquidneutrino	2:29
94	Business Phrases Karen Savage	24:37
95	Literary Expressions: A bitterness crept into her face - A nimble-witted opponent Lee Elliott	6:53
96	Literary Expressions: A painful thought was flooding his mind - A wordless farewell Joe Brenneman	6:27
97	Literary Expressions: Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting - Awaiting his summons to the eternal silence Ken Crooker	8:18
98	Literary Expressions: Bandied about from mouth to mouth - Dull black eyes under their precipice of brows Ken Crooker	6:47
99	Literary Expressions: Earth danced under a heat haze - Guilty of girlish sentimentality Heather Lawrence	4:06
100	Literary Expressions: Half choked by a rising paroxysm of rage - Humiliating paltriness of revenge David Best	9:26
101	Literary Expressions: I capitulated by inadvertence - Kiss-provoking lips David Best	5:06
102	Literary Expressions: Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle - Rudely reminded of life's serious issues Pete Darby	10:45
103	Literary Expressions: Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill - Swift summer into the autumn flowed Heather Lawrence	7:27
104	Literary Expressions: Taking the larger sweeps in the march of mind - The hungry curiosity of the mind C.L.Coney	8:09
105	Literary Expressions: The idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought - The swing of the pendulum through an arch of centuries C.L.Coney	9:37
106	Literary Expressions: The tempered daylight of an olive garden - Twilight creeps upon the darkening mind C.L.Coney	5:34
107	Literary Expressions: Unapproachable grandeur and simplicity - Your mind enthroned in the seventh circle of content C.L.Coney	3:39
108	Striking Similes: A blind rage like a fire swept over him - And the smile she softly uses fills the silence like a speech SueAnn Dozier	10:55
109	Striking Similes: As a child in play scatters... - Awkward as a cart-horse Joe Brenneman	6:39
110	Striking Similes: Babbling like a child - Dull as champagne Joe Brenneman	6:33
111	Striking Similes: Each like a corpse within its grave - Great scarlet poppies lay in drifts ... Joe Brenneman	4:36
112	Striking Similes: Hair as harsh as tropical grass and gray as ashes - Hushed like a breathless lyre Sandra Zera	9:19
113	Striking Similes: I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew - Kingdoms melt away like snow Sandra Zera	3:36
114	Striking Similes: Laboring like a giant - Like a yellow silken scarf the thick fog hangs Rohanna	7:03
115	Striking Similes: Like an alien ghost I stole away - Like sweet thoughts in a dream Rohanna	6:31
116	Striking Similes: Like the awful shadow of some unseen power - Lovely the land unknown... Rohanna	6:32
117	Striking Similes: March on my soul nor like the laggard stay - Quivering like an eager race-horse to start Sarah Jennings	6:49
118	Striking Similes: Rage, rage ye tears, that never more should creep... - Swifter than the twinkling of an eye Sandra Zera	10:25
119	Striking Similes: Talking and thinking became to him... - The music almost died away... Marwa Gamil	6:35
120	Striking Similes: The name that cuts into my soul like a knife - Then the lover sighing like furnace Betsie Bush	8:27
121	Striking Similes: Theories sprouted in his mind like mushrooms - Turning easily and securely as on a perfect axle Betsie Bush	6:21
122	Striking Similes: Unbends like a loosened bow - Youth like a summer morn Scot Colford	8:18
123	Conversational Phrases: A most extraordinary idea! - Human nature interests me very much indeed C Pannier	6:38
124	Conversational Phrases: I admire your foresight - I could never forgive myself for that Mark Mascolino	7:28
125	Conversational Phrases: I dare say your intuition is quite right - I seem to have heard that sentiment before Precious	9:02
126	Conversational Phrases: I shall at once proceed to forget it - It has never occurred to me Lee Ann Howlett	6:45
127	Conversational Phrases: It is a curious fact - It would take too long to formulate my thought Heather Lawrence	6:17
128	Conversational Phrases: Join us, please, when you have time - Surely you would not countenance that Ken Crooker	7:00
129	Conversational Phrases: Tell me in what way you want me to help you - True, I forgot! Ken Crooker	6:38
130	Conversational Phrases: Undeniably true - Would you mind telling me your opinion? Elizabeth Palmer	3:47
131	Conversational Phrases: Yes and no - Your statement is somewhat startling Elizabeth Palmer	4:49
132	Public Speaking Phrases: A fact of vast moment - And next I would ask Rose	7:29
133	Public Speaking Phrases: And now allow me to call attention - Away then with the notion Scot Colford	8:01
134	Public Speaking Phrases: Be assured, then - But it has been suggested to me Sandra Zera	4:55
135	Public Speaking Phrases: But it is a fact - By this time it will be suspected Joe Brenneman	4:20
136	Public Speaking Phrases: Can it be supposed - Granting all this Joe Brenneman	4:12
137	Public Speaking Phrases: Had I time for all that might be said - However, it is to me a very refreshing thing Joe Brenneman	3:16
138	Public Speaking Phrases: I abide by my statement - I am willing to know Jeff Wadden	6:16
139	Public Speaking Phrases: I anticipate with pleasing expectation - I distrust all general theories of Joe Brenneman	7:39
140	Public Speaking Phrases: I do again and again urge upon you - I hasten to concede Ken Crooker	8:10
141	Public Speaking Phrases: I have a dark suspicion - I hope you will not accuse me Ken Crooker	11:49
142	Public Speaking Phrases: I imagine that no one will be disposed - I rejoice to think I remark here Stephen Lamb	9:23
143	Public Speaking Phrases: I remember a reference made - I thank you very sincerely for the honor David Best	9:41
144	Public Speaking Phrases: I think I am correct in saying - I yielded to the earnest solicitations David Best	10:38
145	Public Speaking Phrases: If any man be so persuaded - In widening our view Ekpyrotic	10:38
146	Public Speaking Phrases: Indeed, can anyone tell me - It is my present purpose Sandra Zera	9:25
147	Public Speaking Phrases: It is natural to ask the question - It may still more probably be said Maura Walsh	5:38
148	Public Speaking Phrases: It must be a cause of delight - Just the reverse is true Maura Walsh	5:21
149	Public Speaking Phrases: Language is inadequate to voice my appreciation - My regret is intensified by the thought guava	8:23
150	Public Speaking Phrases: Nay, I boldly say - Now, you will understand from this Joe Brenneman	5:43
151	Public Speaking Phrases: Observe again - Surely it is not too much for me to say Joe Brenneman	7:43
152	Public Speaking Phrases: Take another instance - The whole story of civilization Holly	6:48
153	Public Speaking Phrases: Then again, in corroboration - Think of the cool disregard Betsie Bush	5:49
154	Public Speaking Phrases: This absurdity arises - Very strange is this indeed Don Powers	5:15
155	Public Speaking Phrases: We all agree as to - What strikes the mind so forcibly Jason Isbell	9:02
156	Public Speaking Phrases: What, then, are we to believe - Your presence seems to say Jason Isbell	6:57
157	Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts - A pleasant flow of appropriate language Joan Walton	7:01
158	Miscellaneous Phrases: A pompous failure - Ample scope for the exercise of his astonishing gifts Joan Walton	7:21
159	Miscellaneous Phrases: An abandoned and exaggerated grief - Awaited with feverish anxiety Heather Lawrence	6:03
160	Miscellaneous Phrases: Bandied to and fro - Dwindled to alarmingly small dimensions Heather Lawrence	6:58
161	Miscellaneous Phrases: Easy-going to the point of lethargy - Hopelessly belated in its appearance Luigina	9:30
162	Miscellaneous Phrases: I adjured him - Its dominating and inspiring influence Luigina	11:13
163	Miscellaneous Phrases: Jealous and formidable foes - Quixotically generous about money Luigina	10:34
164	Miscellaneous Phrases: Radiantly and transparently happy - Swift and vehement outbursts of feeling Jason Isbell	8:02
165	Miscellaneous Phrases: Take root in the heart - The sycophants of the rich Nick Davies	12:00