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.
by grenville kleiser.
by grenville kleiser.
Fulsome praise, I call it…
From Chapter IX, Conversational Phrases
I would infinitely rather…
From Chapter X, Public Speaking Phrases
Enticed irresistibly by the freedom of an open horizon…
From Chapter VII, Literary Phrases
(Congrats, Class of 2012!)
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Like a troop of boys let loose from school, the adventurers went by…
From Chapter VIII, Striking Similes
(Congrats, 2012. May post-college be an ever-wonderful adventure for all of us. Also, screw the gender specific language of this phrase. Girls and non-binaries obviously welcome, too.)
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Such was the petty chronicle…
From Chapter VII, Literary Expressions
A flame of scarlet crept in a swift diagonal across his cheeks
From Chapter VII, Literary Expressions
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