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