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Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

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

Genre(s): Reference, Language learning

Language: English

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

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