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Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases novel. A total of 393 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases.by Greenville Kleiser.INTRODUCTION The most powerful and
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases.by Greenville Kleiser.INTRODUCTION The most powerful and the most perfect expression of thought and feeling through the medium of oral language must be traced to the mastery of words. Nothing is better suited to lead speake
- 101 enmity, suspicion, and hatred enrich, discipline, and embellish enthusiasm, vehemence, and spirit envy, jealousy, and malice equable, animated, and alert erect, elastic, and graceful error, ignorance, and strife essence, existence, and ident.i.ty esteem
- 102 freedom, honor, and dignity fresh, vigorous, and telling fretfulness, irritability, and petulance friendly, amiable, and sincere frigid, austere, and splendid fruitful, luminous, and progressive full, animated, and varied fullness, force, and precision
- 103 helpless, hopeless, and downtrodden high, lofty, and n.o.ble high-spirited, confident, and genial history, philosophy, and eloquence homage, ability, and culture honesty, probity, and justice [probity = integrity; uprightness] honors, riches, and power
- 104 joyous, delightful, and gay justice, mercy, and peace K keen, clear, and accurate knowing, feeling, and willing knowledge, skill, and foresight L labors, anxieties, and trials large, rhythmical, and pleasing laughter, ridicule, and sneers lead, attack,
- 105 monstrous, incredible, and inhuman moral, material, and social motionless, staring, and appalled motives, purposes, and intentions mountains, seas, and vineyards moved, swayed, and ruled murder, destruction, and agony mystery, vagueness, and jargon N na
- 106 pervading, searching, and saturating petty, unsuccessful, and unamiable philosophy, morals, and discoveries picturesque, daring, and potent piety, charity, and humility pillage, arson, and bloodshed pious, patient, and trustful pity, sympathy, and compa
- 107 quarrels, misunderstandings, and enmities questions, disputes, and controversies quicken, sharpen, and intensify quiet, unaffected, and unostentatious R raise, refine, and elevate rapid, robust, and effective rapt, emotional, and mystic raptures, transp
- 108 scheming, contriving, and dishonesty self-absorbed, conceited, and contemptuous self-conscious, artificial, and affected self-exacting, laborious, and inexhaustible selfishness, coa.r.s.eness, and mendacity [mendacity = untruthfulness] sense, grace, and
- 109 strong, cool, and inflexible studied, discussed, and debated st.u.r.dy, energetic, and high-minded style, manner, and disposition subtle, delicate, and refined successful, energetic, and ingenious sudden, vehement, and unfamed suggestive, stimulating, a
- 110 unity, emphasis, and coherence unmodulated, cold, and expressionless unphilosophical, unsystematic, and discursive unscrupulous, heartless, and hypocritical unwholesome, bewildering, and unprofitable unworldly, peaceable, and philosophical upright, kind
- 111 actual, positive, certain, and genuine adequate, uniform, proportionate, and equitable adventurous, fine, active, and gossipy adverse, antagonistic, unfriendly, and hostile advisable, advantageous, acceptable, and expedient affable, diffident, humble, a
- 112 business, profession, occupation, and vocation C candid, sincere, familiar, and ingenuous captious, petulant, peevish, and splenetic [captious = point out trivial faults] cautious, discreet, considerate, and provident certain, confident, positive, and u
- 113 desperate, extreme, wreckless, and irremediable despicable, abject, servile, and worthless destructive, detrimental, deleterious, and subversive desultory, discursive, loose, and unmethodical [desultory = disconnected: haphazard] detestable, abominable, h
- 114 expend, dissipate, waste, and squander F facile, showy, cheap, and superficial faithful, truthful, loyal, and trustworthy fame, distinction, dignity, and honor fanatic, enthusiast, visionary, and zealot fanciful, unreal, fantastic, and grotesque fancy,
- 115 gleam, glimmer, glance, and glitter gloomy, dismal, dark, and dejected glorious, n.o.ble, exalted, and resplendent glut, gorge, cloy, and satiate [cloy = too filling, rich, or sweet] good, safe, venerable, and solid government, law, order, and organizat
- 116 informal, natural, unconventional, and careless insolent, impudent, impertinent, and flippant integrity, frankness, sincerity, and truthfulness intellectual, moral, emotional, and esthetic intense, earnest, violent, and extreme invent, discover, design,
- 117 mild, gentle, humble, and submissive mismanagement, indecision, obstinacy, and hardihood mixture, medley, variety, and diversification modesty, fineness, sensitiveness, and fastidiousness money, position, power, and consequence mood, temper, humor, and
- 118 powerful, efficient, vivid, and forcible precise, delicate, discriminating, and fastidious prejudicial, injurious, noxious, and pernicious preposterous, irrational, unreasonable, and nonsensical pretense, subterfuge, simulation, and disguise prevent, re
- 119 sentence, judgment, verdict, and doom serene, composed, conservative, and orderly several, sundry, many, and various severe, stern, stiff, and stringent shameless, corrupt, depraved, and vicious shock, surprise, terror, and forlornness simple, hearty, j
- 120 tumultuous, riotous, disorderly, and turbulent U ugly, evil, hateful, and base uncertain, questionable, erroneous, and mistaken unctuous, shrill, brisk, and demonstrative [unctuous = exaggerated, insincere] unhappy, unfortunate, distressed, and disastro
- 121 abhorrence of meanness absence of vainglory abyss of ignominy accent of conviction accretions of time acc.u.mulation of ages accuracy of aim acquisition of knowledge activity of attention acuteness of sensibility admixture of fear affectation of content
- 122 betrayal of trust bevy of maidens bewilderment of feeling birds of prey bit of portraiture bitterness of anguish blackness of spirit blandishments of society blast of adversity blaze of fury blend of dignity bliss of solitude bloom of earth blow of fate
- 123 clap of thunder clarity of thinking clash of arms cloak of ecclesiasticism code of morals cogency of argument combination of calamities command of wit community of interest compa.s.s of imagination complexity of life confidence of genius conflict of wil
- 124 depth of despair dereliction of duty derogation of character despoiled of riches dest.i.tute of power desultoriness of detail [desultoriness = haphazard; random] device of secrecy devoid of merit devoutness of faith dexterity of phrase diapason of motiv
- 125 equanimity of mind era of fads error of judgment essence of eloquence excellence of vision excess of candor excitation of purpose excursiveness of thought exhibition of joy exhilaration of spirits expenditure of energy explosion of rage expression of st
- 126 fluctuation of fortune flush of youth flutter of expectation fog of sentimentalism force of conviction forest of faces form of captiousness [captiousness = point out trivial faults] fountain of learning fragment of conversation frame of mind frankness o
- 127 groundwork of melancholy growth of experience guide of aspiration gulf of incongruity gust of laughter H harbor of refuge harvest of regrets haven of rest haze of distance heat of enthusiasm height of absurdity hint of bitterness hopeful of success hori
- 128 intensity of faith interchange of ideas interval of leisure intoxication of vanity intrepidity of youth intuition of immortality invasion of thought irony of life J jangle of sounds jargon of philosophy jumble of facts justness of decision K keenness of
- 129 maze of words measure of absurdity minister of vengeance minuteness of description miracle of miracles mists of criticism modesty of reserve moment of la.s.situde monster of ingrat.i.tude monstrosities of character mood of tranquillity muddle of motives
- 130 pageant of life pang of regret parade of erudition [erudition = extensive learning] pa.s.sion of patriotism pa.s.sivity of mind pattern of virtue peals of laughter pendulum of opinion pensiveness of feeling perils of fortune period of la.s.situde pertur
- 131 puzzledom of life Q quagmire of distrust qualities of leaders.h.i.+p qualm of conscience question of honor quickness of apprehension quivering of pain R radiance of morning range of experience rashness of intention ravages of time ray of hope reaches of
- 132 scantiness of resources scarves of smoke school of adversity sc.r.a.p of knowledge scruple of conscience searchlight of truth semblance of composure sensation of pity sense of urgency sentiment of disapprobation [approbation = warm approval; praise] seq
- 133 succession of events suggestion of fancy sum of happiness summit of misery suns.h.i.+ne of life supremacy of good surface of events surfeit of verbiage [surfeit = supply to excess] surge of pathos suspense of judgment suspicion of flattery sweep of land
- 134 tumult of applause turmoil of controversy turn of events twilight of elderliness twinge of envy U unity of purpose universality of experience V vagrancy of thought valley of misfortune vanguard of progress vehemence of manner vehicle of intercourse veil
- 135 Preposition "by" A affected by externals allayed by sympathy animated by victory appraised by fas.h.i.+on a.s.sailed by conscience attained by effort avert by prayer B ballasted by brains beset by difficulties bound by opinion branded by defea
- 136 fired by wrath forbid by authority fortified by faith G governed by precedent guided by instinct H haunted by visions hushed by denial I impelled by duty inculcated by practise induced by misrepresentation influenced by caution inspired by love L learne
- 137 supported by evidence T thwarted by fortune tempered by charity tormented by jealousy tortured by doubt U unadorned by artifice undaunted by failure undetermined by sorrow undone by treachery unfettered by fear urged by curiosity V vitalized by thought
- 138 E end in smoke enumerate in detail experienced in duplicity F feeble in influence fertile in consequence flourish in luxuriance founded in truth G gaze in astonishment go in pursuit graceful in proportion grievously in error H hold in bondage I immersed
- 139 petulant in expression plead in vain pleasing in outline plunged in darkness positive in judgment practical in application pride in success protest in vain pursued in leisure Q quick in suggestion R ready in resource recoiling in terror remote in charac
- 140 B beguile into reading betray into speech blending into harmony bring into disrepute bullied into silence burn into memory burst into view C call into question carry into conflict chill into apathy coming into vogue cringe into favor crumbled into dust
- 141 H hushed into silence I incursions into controversy insight into truth inveigled into dispute [inveigled = convince by coaxing, flattery] K kindle into action L lapse into pedantry [pedantries = attention to detail or rules] lash into silence launch int
- 142 usher into society V vanish into mystery W wander into digression wheedled into acquiescence withdraw into solitude Preposition "to" A addicted to flattery adherence to principle affect to believe akin to truth alive to opportunity allied to v
- 143 exposed to derision F fly to plat.i.tudes foredoomed to failure G given to extravagance ground to atoms H hara.s.sed to death hostile to progress I impervious to suggestion impossible to reconcile impotent to save incentive to devotion incitement to ang
- 144 resort to violence run to seed S seek to overawe serve to embitter spur to action stimulus to ambition stirred to remonstrance subject to scrutiny succ.u.mb to fascination superior to circ.u.mstances susceptible to argument T temptation to doubt tend to
- 145 burn with indignation C cling with tenacity clothe with authority compatible with freedom comply with tradition conceal with difficulty consistent with facts covered with ignominy crush with sorrow D deny with emphasis depressed with fear dispense with
- 146 overcome with shyness overflowing with love overhung with gloom P performed with regularity pervaded with grandeur proceed with alertness punish with severity Q quicken with pride quiver with anxiety R radiant with victory regard with loathing relate wi
- 147 BUSINESS PHRASES A A request for further particulars will not involve any obligation A telegram is enclosed for your use, as this matter is urgent Accept our thanks for your recent remittance Acknowledging the receipt of your recent inquiry After examin
- 148 Enclosed you will find a circular which will fully explain F For some years past For your convenience we enclose a stamped envelope For your further information we take pleasure in sending to you Frankly, we believe it is extremely worth while for you F
- 149 If it is not convenient for you If there is any valid reason why you are unable If we can be of service to you If we can help you in any way If we have not made everything perfectly clear, please let us know If you accommodate us, the favor will be grea
- 150 Kindly endorse your reply on the enclosed sheet Kindly let us have your confirmation at your earliest convenience Kindly let us know your pleasure concerning Kindly read the enclosed list L Let me thank you for the opportunity to give this matter my per
- 151 Thanking you for your promptness. Thanking you in advance for an early reply Thanking you in antic.i.p.ation The causes for the delay were beyond our control The margin of profit which we allow ourselves The proof is in this fact The proposition appeals
- 152 We are sorry to learn from your letter We are thoroughly convinced of the need We are totally at a loss to understand We are very anxious to have you try We are very glad to testify to the merit of We ask for a continuance of your confidence We ask that
- 153 We offer you the services of an expert We particularly want to interest you We realize that this matter has escaped your attention We realize that this is simply an oversight on your part We regret exceedingly that you have been inconvenienced We regret
- 154 We urge that you write to us by early mail We venture to enclose herewith We very much wish you to examine We want every opportunity to demonstrate our willingness We want particularly to impress upon you this fact We want to please you in every respect
- 155 Your usual attention will oblige SECTION VII LITERARY EXPRESSIONS A A bitterness crept into her face A blazing blue sky poured down torrents of light A book to beguile the tedious hours A brave but turbulent aristocracy A broad, complacent, admiring imb
- 156 A figure full of decision and dignity A firm and balanced manhood A first faint trace of irritation A fitful boy full of dreams and hopes A flame of scarlet crept in a swift diagonal across his cheeks A fleeting and furtive air of triumph A flood of pri
- 157 A man of matchless modesty and refinement A manner bright with interest and interrogation A manner nervously anxious to please A melancholy monotone beat on ones heart A mere exhibition of fussy diffuseness A mere figment of a poets fancy A mien and asp
- 158 A sense of infinite peace brooded over the place A sense of meditative content A sense of repression was upon her A sentiment of distrust in its worth had crept into her thoughts A sheaf of letters A s.h.i.+mmer of golden sun shaking through the trees A
- 159 A swift knowledge came to her A swift unformulated fear A swiftly unrolling panorama of dreams A tangle of ugly words A thousand evanescent memories of happy days [evanescent = vanis.h.i.+ng like vapor] A thousand unutterable fears bore irresistible des
- 160 All the place is peopled with sweet airs All the sky was mother-of-pearl and tender All the unknown of the night and of the universe was pressing upon him All the world was flooded with a soft golden light All was a vague jumble of chaotic impressions A
- 161 An incursion of the loud, the vulgar and meretricious [meretricious = plausible but false] An inexplicable and uselessly cruel caprice of fate An inexpressible fervor of serenity An ingratiating, awkward and, wistful grace An inspired ray was in his eyes
- 162 Black inky night Blithe with the bliss of the morning Blown about by every wind of doctrine Bookish precision and professional peculiarity Borne from lip to lip Borne onward by slow-footed time Borne with a faculty of willing compromise Bowed with a cer
- 163 Delicately emerging stars Delicious throng of sensations Despite her pretty insolence Dignity and sweet patience were in her look Dim opalescence of the moon Dimly foreshadowed on the horizon Dimmed by the cold touch of unjust suspicion Disfigured by pa
- 164 Exquisite graciousness of manner Exquisitely stung by the thought F Familiar and endearing intimacy Fatally and indissolubly united Fathomless depths of suffering Fear held him in a vice Feeding his scholarly curiosity Feeling humiliated by the avowal F
- 165 Haunt the recesses of the memory Haunted with a chill and unearthly foreboding He accosted me with trepidation He adroitly s.h.i.+fted his ground He airily lampooned their most cherished prejudices He bowed submission He braced himself to the exquisite
- 166 He surrendered himself to gloomy thought He threaded a labyrinth of obscure streets He threw a tons weight of resolve upon his muscles He threw out phrases of ill-humor He threw round a measuring eye He treads the primrose path of dalliance He used an u
- 167 Her scarlet lip curled cruelly Her smile was faintly depreciatory Her smile was linked with a sigh Her solicitude thrilled him Her stare dissolved Her step seemed to pity the gra.s.s it prest Her strength was scattered in fits of agitation Her stumbling
- 168 His mind leaped gladly to meet new issues and fresh tides of thought His mind was dazed and wandering in a mist of memories His mood yielded His mouth quivered with pleasure His pa.s.sions vented themselves with sneers His pulses leaped anew His reputat
- 169 Impatient and authoritative tones Impervious to the lessons of experience Implying an immense melancholy Imprisoned within an enchanted circle In a deprecating tone of apology In a flash of revelation In a gale of teasing merriment In a misery of annoya
- 170 It came to him with a stab of enlightenment It elicited a remarkably clear and coherent statement It is a flight beyond the reach of human magnanimity It is a thing infinitely subtle It is not every wind that can blow you from your anchorage It lends no
- 171 M Magnanimous indifference to meticulous niceties Making the ear greedy to remark offense Marching down to posterity with divine honors Marked out for some strange and preternatural doom Mawkishly effeminate sentiment Memories plucked from wood and fiel
- 172 Peopled the night with thoughts Perpetual gloom and seclusion of life Pertinent to the thread of the discussion Pervasive silence which wraps us in a mantle of content Piles of golden clouds just peering above the horizon Plat.i.tudinous and pompously s
- 173 Scorched with the lightning of momentary indignation Scorning such paltry devices Scotched but not slain Scrupulous morality of conduct Seem to swim in a sort of blurred mist before the eyes Seething with suppressed wrath Seize on greedily Sensuous enjo
- 174 She stood her ground with the most perfect dignity She strangled a fierce tide of feeling that welled up within her She swept away all opposing opinion with the swift rush of her enthusiasm She thrived on insincerity She twitted him merrily She was both
- 175 Stripped to its bare skeleton Strode forth imperiously [imperious = arrogantly overbearing] Struck by a sudden curiosity Struck dumb with strange surprise Stung by his thoughts, and impatient of rest Stung by the splendor of the prospect Subdued pa.s.sa
- 176 The anguish of a spiritual conflict tore his heart The artificial smile of languor The awful and implacable approach of doom The babble of brooks grown audible The babbledom that dogs the heels of fame The bait proved incredibly successful The balm of s
- 177 The earth looked despoiled The east alone frowned with clouds The easy grace of an unpremeditated agreeable talker The easy-going indolence of a sedentary life The echo of its wrathful roar surged and boomed among the hills The empurpled hills standing
- 178 The hungry curiosity of the mind The idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought The idle chatter of the crowd The immediate tyranny of a present emotion The inaccessible solitude of the sky The incarnation of all loveliness The incoherent loquacity of a ner
- 179 The music of her presence was singing a swift melody in his blood The music of unforgotten years sounded again in his soul The mute melancholy landscape The mystery obsessed him The naked fact of death The nameless and inexpressible fascination of midni
- 180 The rosy-hued sky went widening off into the distance The rosy twilight of boyhood The royal arrogance of youth The sadness in him deepened inexplicably The scars of rancor and remorse The scent of roses stole in with every breath of air The sea heaved
- 181 The summit of human attainment The sun blazed torridly The sun goes down in flame on the far horizon The sun lay golden-soft over the huddled hills The sunlight spread at a gallop along the hillside The sunset was rus.h.i.+ng to its height through every
- 182 Their eyes met glancingly Their troth had been plighted There was a kind of exhilaration in this subtle baiting There was a mild triumph in her tone There was a mournful and dim haze around the moon There was a strange ma.s.sing and curving of the cloud
- 183 Unspoken messages from some vaster world Unstable moral equilibrium of boyhood Until sleep overtakes us at a stride Untouched by the ruthless spirit of improvement Upon the mountain-tops of meditation Urbanely plastic and versatile Uttering grandiose pu
- 184 SECTION VIII STRIKING SIMILES A A blind rage like a fire swept over him A book that rends and tears like a broken saw A breath of melancholy made itself felt like a chill and sudden gust from some unknown sea A cloud in the west like a pall creeps upwar
- 185 A shadow of melancholy touched her lithe fancies, as a cloud dims the waving of golden grain A silver moon, like a new-stamped coin, rode triumphant in the sky A slow thought that crept like a cold worm through all his brain A smile flashed over her face,
- 186 And Dusk, with breast as of a dove, brooded And eyes as bright as the day And fell as cold as a lump of clay And her cheek was like a rose And here were forests ancient as the hills And many a fountain, rivulet, and pond, as clear as elemental diamond,
- 187 As gay and busy as a brook As gently as the flower gives forth its perfume As gently as withered leaves float from a tree As graceful as a bough As grave as a judge As great as the first day of creation As high as heaven As I dropped like a bolt from th
- 188 As those move easiest who have learnd to dance As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again As though Pharaoh should set the Israelites to make a pin instead of a pyramid As unapproachable as a star As weird as the elfin lights As well try to photog
- 189 Chaste as the icicle Cheeks as soft as July peaches Chill breath of winter Choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity Cities scattered over the world like ant-hills Cities that rise and sink like bubbles Clear and definite like the glance of a
- 190 Die like flies Dip and surge lightly to and fro, like the red harbor-buoy Disappearing into distance like a hazy sea Dissatisfaction had settled on his mind like a shadow Dissolve like some unsubstantial vision faded Do make a music like to rustling sat
- 191 Fit closely together as the close-set stones of a building Fixd like a beacon-tower above the waves of a tempest Flame like a flag unfurled Flap loose and slack like a drooping sail Flashed with the brilliancy of a well-cut jewel Fled like sweet dreams
- 192 He lay like a warrior taking his rest He lived as modestly as a hermit He looked f.a.gged and sallow, like the day [f.a.gged = worked to exhaustion] He looked with the bland, expressionless stare of an overgrown baby He played with grave questions as a ca
- 193 Her heart has grown icy as a fountain in the fall Her holy love that like a vestal flame had burned Her impulse came and went like fireflies in the dusk Her lashes like fans upon her cheek Her laugh is like a rainbow-tinted spray Her lips are like two b
- 194 His voice is as the thin faint song when the wind wearily sighs in the gra.s.s His voice rose like a stream of rich distilled perfumes His voice was like the clap of thunder which interrupts the warbling birds among the leaves His whole soul wavered and s
- 195 It was as if a door had been opened into a furnace, so the eyes blazed It would collapse as if by enchantment Its temples and its palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to Heaven J Jealousy, fierce as the fires K Kindle like an angels wings
- 196 Like a great ring of pure and endless light Like a great tune to which the planets roll Like a high and radiant ocean Like a high-born maiden Like a jewel every cottage cas.e.m.e.nt showed Like a joyless eye that finds no object worth its constancy Like
- 197 Like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed Like a whirlwind they went past Like a withered leaf the moon is blown across the bay Like a world of suns.h.i.+ne Like a yellow silken scarf the thick fog hangs Like an alien ghost I stole away Lik
- 198 Like lead his feet were Like leaves in wintry weather Like leviathans afloat Like lighting a candle to the sun Like making a mountain out of a mole-hill Like mariners pulling the life-boat Like mice that steal in and out as if they feared the light Like
- 199 Like the dance of some gay sunbeam Like the dawn of the morn Like the detestable and spidery araucaria [araucaria = evergreen trees of South America and Australia]Like the dew on the mountain Like the dim scent in violets Like the drifting foam of a rest
- 200 Like two flaming stars were his eyes Like vaporous shapes half seen Like village curs that bark when their fellows do Like wasted hours of youth Like winds that bear sweet music, when they breathe through some dim latticed chamber Like wine-stain to a f