Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

1. Introduction

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2. How To Use This Book

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3. Plan Of Study

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4. Useful Phrases: abandoned hope - ample culture

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5. Useful Phrases: amusing artlessness - azure sky

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6. Useful Phrases: babbling gossip - bygone period

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7. Useful Phrases: cabalistic phrase - collateral duties

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8. Useful Phrases: collective wisdom - contingent reasons

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9. Useful Phrases: continuous endeavor - cynical disregard

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10. Useful Phrases: damaging admission - diligently propagated

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11. Useful Phrases: dim comprehension - dynastic insolence

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12. Useful Phrases: eager animosity - entrancing sadness

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13. Useful Phrases: enveloping presence - exultant condition

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14. Useful Phrases: facetious mood - flickering conscience

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15. Useful Phrases: flighty obstinacy - futile babble

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16. Useful Phrases: gabbling reminiscences - gymnastic agility

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17. Useful Phrases: habitual deference - hysterical agitation

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18. Useful Phrases: iconoclastic attitude - incipient fancy

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19. Useful Phrases: incisive critic - inquisitional rack

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20. Useful Phrases: inquisitive observer - isolated splendor

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21. Useful Phrases: jaded sensibility - lying equivocations

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22. Useful Phrases: maddening monotony - meteoric splendors

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23. Useful Phrases: methodical regularity - mythical kingdom

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24. Useful Phrases: naive manner - overworked drudge

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25. Useful Phrases: pacific disposition - political malcontent

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26. Useful Phrases: polluting taints - pyrotechnic outburst

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27. Useful Phrases: quailing culprit - remarkable sagacity

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28. Useful Phrases: remedial measure - ruthless commercialism

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29. Useful Phrases: sacerdotal preeminence - shuddering reluctance

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30. Useful Phrases: shuffling preliminaries - starched sterility

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31. Useful Phrases: starlit eminence - systematic interaction

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32. Useful Phrases: tacit assumption - tyrannical disposition

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33. Useful Phrases: ubiquitous activity - undue predilection

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34. Useful Phrases: undulating hills - unpalatable truth

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35. Useful Phrases: unparalleled atrocities - utmost scorn

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36. Useful Phrases: vacant stupidity - vulnerable foe

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37. Useful Phrases: wabbling enterprise - zoologically considered

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38. Significant Phrases: abashed and ashamed - awkwardness and crudity

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39. Significant Phrases: babel and confusion - civilized and cultured

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40. Significant Phrases: clamorous and wild - cynical and contemptuous

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41. Significant Phrases: dangers and pitfalls - digressive and wanton

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42. Significant Phrases: dilatory and hesitating - dwindle and disappear

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43. Significant Phrases: eagerness and ecstasy - exuberant and infectious

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44. Significant Phrases: fabulous and fabricated - futile and untrustworthy

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45. Significant Phrases: gaiety and grace - hypocrisy and impudence

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46. Significant Phrases: ideas and achievements - indomitable and dogged

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47. Significant Phrases: indorsed and applauded - isolated and detached

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48. Significant Phrases: jabber and chatter - luxury and pomp

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49. Significant Phrases: madness and folly - mystic and wonderful

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50. Significant Phrases: nagging and squabbling - overworked and fagged

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51. Significant Phrases: pains and penalties - puzzled and affected

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52. Significant Phrases: quackery and incompetence - rust and disuse

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53. Significant Phrases: sad and melancholy - spacious and lofty

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54. Significant Phrases: sparkling and spontaneous - sympathetic and consoling

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55. Significant Phrases: taciturn and laconic - tyrant and oppressor

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56. Significant Phrases: unaccountable and grotesque - vulgar and artificial

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57. Significant Phrases: wandering and erratic - zigzag and deviating

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58. Felicitous Phrases: ability, humor, and perspicacity - busy, active, and toiling

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59. Felicitous Phrases: curious, fantastic, and charming - calculated, logical, and dispassionate

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60. Felicitous Phrases: dwarfed, scant, and wretched - danger, difficulty, and hardship

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61. Felicitous Phrases: eagerness, heartiness, and vehemence - fustian, padding, and irrelevancy

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62. Felicitous Phrases: gaunt, desolate, and despoiled - humor, fancy, and susceptibility

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63. Felicitous Phrases: idle, profuse, and profligate - luxurious, whimsical, and selfish

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64. Felicitous Phrases: magnificent, sumptuous, and stately - overriding, arrogant, and quarrelsome

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65. Felicitous Phrases: pain, toil, and privation - puzzles, tangles, and questionings

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66. Felicitous Phrases: quarrels, misunderstandings, and enmities - rush, roar, and shriek

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67. Felicitous Phrases: sacredness, dignity, and loveliness - sympathy, service, and compassion

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68. Felicitous Phrases: talent, scholarship, and refinement - wrinkled, careworn, and pale

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69. Impressive Phrases: able, skilful,... - business, profession,...

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70. Impressive Phrases: candid, sincere,... - dull, heavy,...

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71. Impressive Phrases: earth, air,... - gross, academic,..

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72. Impressive Phrases: habit, custom,... - lucidity, impressiveness,...

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73. Impressive Phrases: malice, anger,... - purpose, meaning,...

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74. Impressive Phrases: quack, imposture,... - symmetry, proportion,..

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75. Impressive Phrases: tact, courtesy,... - worry, annoyance,...

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76. Prepositional Phrases "of": abandon of spontaneity - business of life

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77. Prepositional Phrases "of": cadences of delirium - dust of defeat

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78. Prepositional Phrases "of": earnestness of enthusiasm - futility of pride

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79. Prepositional Phrases "of": gaiety of spirit - irony of life

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80. Prepositional Phrases "of": jangle of sounds - overflow of vitality

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81. Prepositional Phrases "of": page of desolation - ruts of conventionality

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82. Prepositional Phrases "of": sadness of soul - system of aspersion

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83. Prepositional Phrases "of": taint of megalomania - zone of delusion

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84. Prepositional Phrases "by": affected by externals - hushed by denial

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85. Prepositional Phrases "by": impelled by duty - wrenched by emotions

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86. Prepositional Phrases "in": absorbed in meditation - kept in abeyance

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87. Prepositional Phrases "in": landmarks in memory - weak in conception

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88. Prepositional Phrases "into": abashed into silence - goaded into action

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89. Prepositional Phrases "into": hushed into silence - withdraw into solitude

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90. Prepositional Phrases "to": addicted to flattery - hostile to progress

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91. Prepositional Phrases "to": impervious to suggestion - yield to reason

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92. Prepositional Phrases "with": abounding with plenty - intoxicated with joy

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93. Prepositional Phrases "with": kindle with enthusiasm - work with zeal

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94. Business Phrases

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95. Literary Expressions: A bitterness crept into her face - A nimble-witted opponent

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96. Literary Expressions: A painful thought was flooding his mind - A wordless farewell

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97. Literary Expressions: Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting - Awaiting his summons to the eternal silence

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98. Literary Expressions: Bandied about from mouth to mouth - Dull black eyes under their precipice of brows

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99. Literary Expressions: Earth danced under a heat haze - Guilty of girlish sentimentality

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100. Literary Expressions: Half choked by a rising paroxysm of rage - Humiliating paltriness of revenge

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101. Literary Expressions: I capitulated by inadvertence - Kiss-provoking lips

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102. Literary Expressions: Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle - Rudely reminded of life's serious issues

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103. Literary Expressions: Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill - Swift summer into the autumn flowed

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104. Literary Expressions: Taking the larger sweeps in the march of mind - The hungry curiosity of the mind

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105. Literary Expressions: The idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought - The swing of the pendulum through an arch of centuries

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106. Literary Expressions: The tempered daylight of an olive garden - Twilight creeps upon the darkening mind

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107. Literary Expressions: Unapproachable grandeur and simplicity - Your mind enthroned in the seventh circle of content

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108. 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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109. Striking Similes: As a child in play scatters... - Awkward as a cart-horse

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110. Striking Similes: Babbling like a child - Dull as champagne

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111. Striking Similes: Each like a corpse within its grave - Great scarlet poppies lay in drifts ...

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112. Striking Similes: Hair as harsh as tropical grass and gray as ashes - Hushed like a breathless lyre

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113. Striking Similes: I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew - Kingdoms melt away like snow

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114. Striking Similes: Laboring like a giant - Like a yellow silken scarf the thick fog hangs

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115. Striking Similes: Like an alien ghost I stole away - Like sweet thoughts in a dream

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116. Striking Similes: Like the awful shadow of some unseen power - Lovely the land unknown...

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117. Striking Similes: March on my soul nor like the laggard stay - Quivering like an eager race-horse to start

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118. Striking Similes: Rage, rage ye tears, that never more should creep... - Swifter than the twinkling of an eye

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119. Striking Similes: Talking and thinking became to him... - The music almost died away...

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120. Striking Similes: The name that cuts into my soul like a knife - Then the lover sighing like furnace

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121. Striking Similes: Theories sprouted in his mind like mushrooms - Turning easily and securely as on a perfect axle

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122. Striking Similes: Unbends like a loosened bow - Youth like a summer morn

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123. Conversational Phrases: A most extraordinary idea! - Human nature interests me very much indeed

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124. Conversational Phrases: I admire your foresight - I could never forgive myself for that

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125. Conversational Phrases: I dare say your intuition is quite right - I seem to have heard that sentiment before

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126. Conversational Phrases: I shall at once proceed to forget it - It has never occurred to me

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127. Conversational Phrases: It is a curious fact - It would take too long to formulate my thought

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128. Conversational Phrases: Join us, please, when you have time - Surely you would not countenance that

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129. Conversational Phrases: Tell me in what way you want me to help you - True, I forgot!

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130. Conversational Phrases: Undeniably true - Would you mind telling me your opinion?

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131. Conversational Phrases: Yes and no - Your statement is somewhat startling

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132. Public Speaking Phrases: A fact of vast moment - And next I would ask

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133. Public Speaking Phrases: And now allow me to call attention - Away then with the notion

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134. Public Speaking Phrases: Be assured, then - But it has been suggested to me

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135. Public Speaking Phrases: But it is a fact - By this time it will be suspected

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136. Public Speaking Phrases: Can it be supposed - Granting all this

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137. 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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138. Public Speaking Phrases: I abide by my statement - I am willing to know

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139. Public Speaking Phrases: I anticipate with pleasing expectation - I distrust all general theories of

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140. Public Speaking Phrases: I do again and again urge upon you - I hasten to concede

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141. Public Speaking Phrases: I have a dark suspicion - I hope you will not accuse me

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142. Public Speaking Phrases: I imagine that no one will be disposed - I rejoice to think I remark here

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143. Public Speaking Phrases: I remember a reference made - I thank you very sincerely for the honor

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144. Public Speaking Phrases: I think I am correct in saying - I yielded to the earnest solicitations

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145. Public Speaking Phrases: If any man be so persuaded - In widening our view

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146. Public Speaking Phrases: Indeed, can anyone tell me - It is my present purpose

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147. Public Speaking Phrases: It is natural to ask the question - It may still more probably be said

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148. Public Speaking Phrases: It must be a cause of delight - Just the reverse is true

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149. Public Speaking Phrases: Language is inadequate to voice my appreciation - My regret is intensified by the thought

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150. Public Speaking Phrases: Nay, I boldly say - Now, you will understand from this

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151. Public Speaking Phrases: Observe again - Surely it is not too much for me to say

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152. Public Speaking Phrases: Take another instance - The whole story of civilization

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153. Public Speaking Phrases: Then again, in corroboration - Think of the cool disregard

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154. Public Speaking Phrases: This absurdity arises - Very strange is this indeed

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155. Public Speaking Phrases: We all agree as to - What strikes the mind so forcibly

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156. Public Speaking Phrases: What, then, are we to believe - Your presence seems to say

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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: A pompous failure - Ample scope for the exercise of his astonishing gifts

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159. Miscellaneous Phrases: An abandoned and exaggerated grief - Awaited with feverish anxiety

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160. Miscellaneous Phrases: Bandied to and fro - Dwindled to alarmingly small dimensions

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161. Miscellaneous Phrases: Easy-going to the point of lethargy - Hopelessly belated in its appearance

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162. Miscellaneous Phrases: I adjured him - Its dominating and inspiring influence

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163. Miscellaneous Phrases: Jealous and formidable foes - Quixotically generous about money

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164. Miscellaneous Phrases: Radiantly and transparently happy - Swift and vehement outbursts of feeling

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165. Miscellaneous Phrases: Take root in the heart - The sycophants of the rich

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