14/07/2024
0 Grenville Kleiser Essay/Short nonfiction , Fiction , Languages , Non-fiction 165
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases is a practical handbook written by Grenville Kleiser. Grenville is known for his writings on humor, positive thinking and inspirational thought. This serves as a handbook of pertinent expressions, striking similes and terms for embellishing speech and literature.
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001 – How To Use This Book
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003 – Useful Phrases: abandoned hope – ample culture
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004 – Useful Phrases: amusing artlessness – azure sky
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005 – Useful Phrases: babbling gossip – bygone period
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006 – Useful Phrases: cabalistic phrase – collateral duties
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007 – Useful Phrases: collective wisdom – contingent reasons
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008 – Useful Phrases: continuous endeavor – cynical disregard
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009 – Useful Phrases: damaging admission – diligently propagated
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010 – Useful Phrases: dim comprehension – dynastic insolence
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011 – Useful Phrases: eager animosity – entrancing sadness
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012 – Useful Phrases: enveloping presence – exultant condition
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013 – Useful Phrases: facetious mood – flickering conscience
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014 – Useful Phrases: flighty obstinacy – futile babble
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015 – Useful Phrases: gabbling reminiscences – gymnastic agility
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016 – Useful Phrases: habitual deference – hysterical agitation
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017 – Useful Phrases: iconoclastic attitude – incipient fancy
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018 – Useful Phrases: incisive critic – inquisitional rack
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019 – Useful Phrases: inquisitive observer – isolated splendor
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020 – Useful Phrases: jaded sensibility – lying equivocations
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021 – Useful Phrases: maddening monotony – meteoric splendors
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022 – Useful Phrases: methodical regularity – mythical kingdom
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023 – Useful Phrases: naive manner – overworked drudge
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024 – Useful Phrases: pacific disposition – political malcontent
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025 – Useful Phrases: polluting taints – pyrotechnic outburst
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026 – Useful Phrases: quailing culprit – remarkable sagacity
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027 – Useful Phrases: remedial measure – ruthless commercialism
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028 – Useful Phrases: sacerdotal preeminence – shuddering reluctance
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029 – Useful Phrases: shuffling preliminaries – starched sterility
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030 – Useful Phrases: starlit eminence – systematic interaction
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031 – Useful Phrases: tacit assumption – tyrannical disposition
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032 – Useful Phrases: ubiquitous activity – undue predilection
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033 – Useful Phrases: undulating hills – unpalatable truth
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034 – Useful Phrases: unparalleled atrocities – utmost scorn
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035 – Useful Phrases: vacant stupidity – vulnerable foe
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036 – Useful Phrases: wabbling enterprise – zoologically considered
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037 – Significant Phrases: abashed and ashamed – awkwardness and crudity
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038 – Significant Phrases: babel and confusion – civilized and cultured
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039 – Significant Phrases: clamorous and wild – cynical and contemptuous
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040 – Significant Phrases: dangers and pitfalls – digressive and wanton
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041 – Significant Phrases: dilatory and hesitating – dwindle and disappear
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042 – Significant Phrases: eagerness and ecstasy – exuberant and infectious
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043 – Significant Phrases: fabulous and fabricated – futile and untrustworthy
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044 – Significant Phrases: gaiety and grace – hypocrisy and impudence
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045 – Significant Phrases: ideas and achievements – indomitable and dogged
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046 – Significant Phrases: indorsed and applauded – isolated and detached
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047 – Significant Phrases: jabber and chatter – luxury and pomp
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048 – Significant Phrases: madness and folly – mystic and wonderful
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049 – Significant Phrases: nagging and squabbling – overworked and fagged
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050 – Significant Phrases: pains and penalties – puzzled and affected
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051 – Significant Phrases: quackery and incompetence – rust and disuse
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052 – Significant Phrases: sad and melancholy – spacious and lofty
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053 – Significant Phrases: sparkling and spontaneous – sympathetic and consoling
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054 – Significant Phrases: taciturn and laconic – tyrant and oppressor
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055 – Significant Phrases: unaccountable and grotesque – vulgar and artificial
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056 – Significant Phrases: wandering and erratic – zigzag and deviating
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057 – Felicitous Phrases: ability, humor, and perspicacity – busy, active, and toiling
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058 – Felicitous Phrases: curious, fantastic, and charming – calculated, logical, and dispassionate
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059 – Felicitous Phrases: dwarfed, scant, and wretched – danger, difficulty, and hardship
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060 – Felicitous Phrases: eagerness, heartiness, and vehemence – fustian, padding, and irrelevancy
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061 – Felicitous Phrases: gaunt, desolate, and despoiled – humor, fancy, and susceptibility
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062 – Felicitous Phrases: idle, profuse, and profligate – luxurious, whimsical, and selfish
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063 – Felicitous Phrases: magnificent, sumptuous, and stately – overriding, arrogant, and quarrelsome
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064 – Felicitous Phrases: pain, toil, and privation – puzzles, tangles, and questionings
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065 – Felicitous Phrases: quarrels, misunderstandings, and enmities – rush, roar, and shriek
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066 – Felicitous Phrases: sacredness, dignity, and loveliness – sympathy, service, and compassion
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067 – Felicitous Phrases: talent, scholarship, and refinement – wrinkled, careworn, and pale
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068 – Impressive Phrases: able, skilful,… – business, profession,…
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069 – Impressive Phrases: candid, sincere,… – dull, heavy,…
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070 – Impressive Phrases: earth, air,… – gross, academic,..
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071 – Impressive Phrases: habit, custom,… – lucidity, impressiveness,…
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072 – Impressive Phrases: malice, anger,… – purpose, meaning,…
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073 – Edit: Impressive Phrases: quack, imposture,… – symmetry, proportion,..
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074 – Edit: Impressive Phrases: tact, courtesy,… – worry, annoyance,…
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075 – Prepositional Phrases of: abandon of spontaneity – business of life
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076 – Prepositional Phrases of: cadences of delirium – dust of defeat
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077 – Prepositional Phrases of: earnestness of enthusiasm – futility of pride
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078 – Prepositional Phrases of: gaiety of spirit – irony of life
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079 – Prepositional Phrases of: jangle of sounds – overflow of vitality
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080 – Prepositional Phrases of: page of desolation – ruts of conventionality
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081 – Prepositional Phrases of: sadness of soul – system of aspersion
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082 – Prepositional Phrases of: taint of megalomania – zone of delusion
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083 – Prepositional Phrases by: affected by externals – hushed by denial
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084 – Prepositional Phrases by: impelled by duty – wrenched by emotions
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085 – Prepositional Phrases in: absorbed in meditation – kept in abeyance
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086 – Prepositional Phrases in: landmarks in memory – weak in conception
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087 – Prepositional Phrases into: abashed into silence – goaded into action
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088 – Prepositional Phrases into: hushed into silence – withdraw into solitude
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089 – Prepositional Phrases to: addicted to flattery – hostile to progress
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090 – Prepositional Phrases to: impervious to suggestion – yield to reason
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091 – Prepositional Phrases with: abounding with plenty – intoxicated with joy
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092 – Prepositional Phrases with: kindle with enthusiasm – work with zeal
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093 – Business Phrases
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094 – Literary Expressions: A bitterness crept into her face – A nimble-witted opponent
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095 – Literary Expressions: A painful thought was flooding his mind – A wordless farewell
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096 – Literary Expressions: Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting – Awaiting his summons to the eternal silence
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097 – Literary Expressions: Bandied about from mouth to mouth – Dull black eyes under their precipice of brows
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098 – Literary Expressions: Earth danced under a heat haze – Guilty of girlish sentimentality
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099 – Literary Expressions: Half choked by a rising paroxysm of rage – Humiliating paltriness of revenge
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100 – Literary Expressions: I capitulated by inadvertence – Kiss-provoking lips
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101 – Literary Expressions: Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle – Rudely reminded of life’s serious issues
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102 – Literary Expressions: Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill – Swift summer into the autumn flowed
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103 – Literary Expressions: Taking the larger sweeps in the march of mind – The hungry curiosity of the mind
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104 – Literary Expressions: The idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought – The swing of the pendulum through an arch of centuries
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105 – Literary Expressions: The tempered daylight of an olive garden – Twilight creeps upon the darkening mind
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106 – Literary Expressions: Unapproachable grandeur and simplicity – Your mind enthroned in the seventh circle of content
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107 – 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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108 – Striking Similes: As a child in play scatters… – Awkward as a cart-horse
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109 – Striking Similes: Babbling like a child – Dull as champagne
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110 – Striking Similes: Each like a corpse within its grave – Great scarlet poppies lay in drifts …
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111 – Striking Similes: Hair as harsh as tropical grass and gray as ashes – Hushed like a breathless lyre
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112 – Striking Similes: I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew – Kingdoms melt away like snow
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113 – Striking Similes: Laboring like a giant – Like a yellow silken scarf the thick fog hangs
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114 – Striking Similes: Like an alien ghost I stole away – Like sweet thoughts in a dream
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115 – Striking Similes: Like the awful shadow of some unseen power – Lovely the land unknown…
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116 – Striking Similes: March on my soul nor like the laggard stay – Quivering like an eager race-horse to start
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117 – Striking Similes: Rage, rage ye tears, that never more should creep… – Swifter than the twinkling of an eye
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118 – Striking Similes: Talking and thinking became to him… – The music almost died away…
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119 – Striking Similes: The name that cuts into my soul like a knife – Then the lover sighing like furnace
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120 – Striking Similes: Theories sprouted in his mind like mushrooms – Turning easily and securely as on a perfect axle
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121 – Striking Similes: Unbends like a loosened bow – Youth like a summer morn
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122 – Conversational Phrases: A most extraordinary idea! – Human nature interests me very much indeed
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123 – Conversational Phrases: I admire your foresight – I could never forgive myself for that
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124 – Edit: Conversational Phrases: I dare say your intuition is quite right – I seem to have heard that sentiment before
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125 – Conversational Phrases: I shall at once proceed to forget it – It has never occurred to me
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126 – Conversational Phrases: It is a curious fact – It would take too long to formulate my thought
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127 – Conversational Phrases: Join us, please, when you have time – Surely you would not countenance that
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128 – Conversational Phrases: Tell me in what way you want me to help you – True, I forgot!
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129 – Conversational Phrases: Undeniably true – Would you mind telling me your opinion?
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130 – Conversational Phrases: Yes and no – Your statement is somewhat startling
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131 – Public Speaking Phrases: A fact of vast moment – And next I would ask
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132 – Public Speaking Phrases: And now allow me to call attention – Away then with the notion
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133 – Public Speaking Phrases: Be assured, then – But it has been suggested to me
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134 – Public Speaking Phrases: But it is a fact – By this time it will be suspected
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135 – Public Speaking Phrases: Can it be supposed – Granting all this
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136 – 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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137 – Public Speaking Phrases: I abide by my statement – I am willing to know
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138 – Public Speaking Phrases: I anticipate with pleasing expectation – I distrust all general theories of
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139 – Public Speaking Phrases: I do again and again urge upon you – I hasten to concede
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140 – Public Speaking Phrases: I have a dark suspicion – I hope you will not accuse me
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141 – Public Speaking Phrases: I imagine that no one will be disposed – I rejoice to think I remark here
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142 – Public Speaking Phrases: I remember a reference made – I thank you very sincerely for the honor
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143 – Public Speaking Phrases: I think I am correct in saying – I yielded to the earnest solicitations
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144 – Public Speaking Phrases: If any man be so persuaded – In widening our view
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145 – Public Speaking Phrases: Indeed, can anyone tell me – It is my present purpose
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146 – Public Speaking Phrases: It is natural to ask the question – It may still more probably be said
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147 – Public Speaking Phrases: It must be a cause of delight – Just the reverse is true
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148 – Public Speaking Phrases: Language is inadequate to voice my appreciation – My regret is intensified by the thought
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149 – Public Speaking Phrases: Nay, I boldly say – Now, you will understand from this
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150 – Public Speaking Phrases: Observe again – Surely it is not too much for me to say
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151 – Public Speaking Phrases: Take another instance – The whole story of civilization
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152 – Public Speaking Phrases: Then again, in corroboration – Think of the cool disregard
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153 – Public Speaking Phrases: This absurdity arises – Very strange is this indeed
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154 – Public Speaking Phrases: We all agree as to – What strikes the mind so forcibly
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155 – Public Speaking Phrases: What, then, are we to believe – Your presence seems to say
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156 – Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts – A pleasant flow of appropriate language
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157 – Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts – A pleasant flow of appropriate language
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158 – Miscellaneous Phrases: An abandoned and exaggerated grief – Awaited with feverish anxiety
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159 – Miscellaneous Phrases: Bandied to and fro – Dwindled to alarmingly small dimensions
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160 – Miscellaneous Phrases: Easy-going to the point of lethargy – Hopelessly belated in its appearance
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161 – Miscellaneous Phrases: I adjured him – Its dominating and inspiring influence
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162 – Miscellaneous Phrases: Jealous and formidable foes – Quixotically generous about money
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163 – Miscellaneous Phrases: Radiantly and transparently happy – Swift and vehement outbursts of feeling
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164 – Miscellaneous Phrases: Take root in the heart – The sycophants of the rich
