Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases


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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 (15 hr 50 min)

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Introduction 12:20 Leído por Betsie Bush
How To Use This Book 4:52 Leído por Maria Morabe
Plan Of Study 4:52 Leído por Maria Morabe
Useful Phrases: abandoned hope - ample culture 5:13 Leído por Betsie Bush
Useful Phrases: amusing artlessness - azure sky 4:10 Leído por roolynninms
Useful Phrases: babbling gossip - bygone period 3:57 Leído por roolynninms
Useful Phrases: cabalistic phrase - collateral duties 2:47 Leído por roolynninms
Useful Phrases: collective wisdom - contingent reasons 2:43 Leído por roolynninms
Useful Phrases: continuous endeavor - cynical disregard 4:07 Leído por pallavy
Useful Phrases: damaging admission - diligently propagated 6:27 Leído por Diana Troldahl
Useful Phrases: dim comprehension - dynastic insolence 5:51 Leído por Diana Troldahl
Useful Phrases: eager animosity - entrancing sadness 5:50 Leído por David Barnes
Useful Phrases: enveloping presence - exultant condition 4:54 Leído por skern922
Useful Phrases: facetious mood - flickering conscience 2:53 Leído por E. Plein
Useful Phrases: flighty obstinacy - futile babble 3:16 Leído por pallavy
Useful Phrases: gabbling reminiscences - gymnastic agility 4:31 Leído por pallavy
Useful Phrases: habitual deference - hysterical agitation 4:53 Leído por pallavy
Useful Phrases: iconoclastic attitude - incipient fancy 7:05 Leído por Chris Chapman
Useful Phrases: incisive critic - inquisitional rack 5:45 Leído por Chris Chapman
Useful Phrases: inquisitive observer - isolated splendor 5:46 Leído por Kira Rutherford-Boese
Useful Phrases: jaded sensibility - lying equivocations 5:30 Leído por Kira Rutherford-Boese
Useful Phrases: maddening monotony - meteoric splendors 4:25 Leído por Linton
Useful Phrases: methodical regularity - mythical kingdom 3:51 Leído por Linton
Useful Phrases: naive manner - overworked drudge 6:19 Leído por Linton
Useful Phrases: pacific disposition - political malcontent 7:26 Leído por Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Useful Phrases: polluting taints - pyrotechnic outburst 8:56 Leído por Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Useful Phrases: quailing culprit - remarkable sagacity 3:20 Leído por Lisa Chau
Useful Phrases: remedial measure - ruthless commercialism 2:33 Leído por Jordan Mueller
Useful Phrases: sacerdotal preeminence - shuddering reluctance 4:49 Leído por Lisa Chau
Useful Phrases: shuffling preliminaries - starched sterility 5:02 Leído por Lisa Chau
Useful Phrases: starlit eminence - systematic interaction 3:54 Leído por Jordan Mueller
Useful Phrases: tacit assumption - tyrannical disposition 5:07 Leído por Lisa Chau
Useful Phrases: ubiquitous activity - undue predilection 4:04 Leído por Lisa Chau
Useful Phrases: undulating hills - unpalatable truth 4:07 Leído por Lisa Chau
Useful Phrases: unparalleled atrocities - utmost scorn 4:13 Leído por Lisa Chau
Useful Phrases: vacant stupidity - vulnerable foe 3:07 Leído por Lisa Chau
Useful Phrases: wabbling enterprise - zoologically considered 3:11 Leído por Heather Lambert
Significant Phrases: abashed and ashamed - awkwardness and crudity 4:15 Leído por Claire Goget
Significant Phrases: babel and confusion - civilized and cultured 4:52 Leído por Lisa Chau
Significant Phrases: clamorous and wild - cynical and contemptuous 5:06 Leído por Lisa Chau
Significant Phrases: dangers and pitfalls - digressive and wanton 3:39 Leído por Lisa Chau
Significant Phrases: dilatory and hesitating - dwindle and disappear 4:44 Leído por Shirley Donahue
Significant Phrases: eagerness and ecstasy - exuberant and infectious 6:16 Leído por Shirley Donahue
Significant Phrases: fabulous and fabricated - futile and untrustworthy 4:47 Leído por Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)
Significant Phrases: gaiety and grace - hypocrisy and impudence 5:17 Leído por Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)
Significant Phrases: ideas and achievements - indomitable and dogged 3:24 Leído por Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)
Significant Phrases: indorsed and applauded - isolated and detached 3:37 Leído por Julian Jamison
Significant Phrases: jabber and chatter - luxury and pomp 4:07 Leído por dhenderson
Significant Phrases: madness and folly - mystic and wonderful 2:55 Leído por dhenderson
Significant Phrases: nagging and squabbling - overworked and fagged 4:10 Leído por dhenderson
Significant Phrases: pains and penalties - puzzled and affected 6:09 Leído por Kathy
Significant Phrases: quackery and incompetence - rust and disuse 4:58 Leído por Kathy
Significant Phrases: sad and melancholy - spacious and lofty 3:48 Leído por Kathy
Significant Phrases: sparkling and spontaneous - sympathetic and consoling 4:06 Leído por jenneferdawn
Significant Phrases: taciturn and laconic - tyrant and oppressor 4:48 Leído por Scot Colford
Significant Phrases: unaccountable and grotesque - vulgar and artificial 5:49 Leído por Marwa Gamil
Significant Phrases: wandering and erratic - zigzag and deviating 2:17 Leído por twofistededitor
Felicitous Phrases: ability, humor, and perspicacity - busy, active, and toiling 4:11 Leído por Mochan42
Felicitous Phrases: curious, fantastic, and charming - calculated, logical, and… 4:11 Leído por Marwa Gamil
Felicitous Phrases: dwarfed, scant, and wretched - danger, difficulty, and har… 4:32 Leído por Marwa Gamil
Felicitous Phrases: eagerness, heartiness, and vehemence - fustian, padding, an… 4:35 Leído por Sandra Zera
Felicitous Phrases: gaunt, desolate, and despoiled - humor, fancy, and suscept… 3:40 Leído por Brian Lojeck
Felicitous Phrases: idle, profuse, and profligate - luxurious, whimsical, and s… 4:20 Leído por Brian Lojeck
Felicitous Phrases: magnificent, sumptuous, and stately - overriding, arrogant,… 3:51 Leído por Justin S Barrett
Felicitous Phrases: pain, toil, and privation - puzzles, tangles, and question… 3:45 Leído por William Haseltine
Felicitous Phrases: quarrels, misunderstandings, and enmities - rush, roar, and… 2:38 Leído por Rohanna
Felicitous Phrases: sacredness, dignity, and loveliness - sympathy, service, an… 4:05 Leído por William Haseltine
Felicitous Phrases: talent, scholarship, and refinement - wrinkled, careworn, a… 5:08 Leído por Marwa Gamil
Impressive Phrases: able, skilful,... - business, profession,... 4:41 Leído por Stephen Lamb
Impressive Phrases: candid, sincere,... - dull, heavy,... 6:04 Leído por Stephen Lamb
Impressive Phrases: earth, air,... - gross, academic,.. 6:18 Leído por Stephen Lamb
Impressive Phrases: habit, custom,... - lucidity, impressiveness,... 5:41 Leído por Stephen Lamb
Impressive Phrases: malice, anger,... - purpose, meaning,... 5:40 Leído por Stephen Lamb
Impressive Phrases: quack, imposture,... - symmetry, proportion,.. 4:20 Leído por Stephen Lamb
Impressive Phrases: tact, courtesy,... - worry, annoyance,... 4:10 Leído por Stephen Lamb
Prepositional Phrases "of": abandon of spontaneity - business of life 4:35 Leído por Joseph Etcheto
Prepositional Phrases "of": cadences of delirium - dust of defeat 3:52 Leído por Alex Foster
Prepositional Phrases "of": earnestness of enthusiasm - futility of pride 4:12 Leído por Joseph Etcheto
Prepositional Phrases "of": gaiety of spirit - irony of life 4:01 Leído por Joseph Etcheto
Prepositional Phrases "of": jangle of sounds - overflow of vitality 4:10 Leído por Joseph Etcheto
Prepositional Phrases "of": page of desolation - ruts of conventionality 4:52 Leído por Joseph Etcheto
Prepositional Phrases "of": sadness of soul - system of aspersion 3:34 Leído por Joseph Etcheto
Prepositional Phrases "of": taint of megalomania - zone of delusion 4:16 Leído por Joseph Etcheto
Prepositional Phrases "by": affected by externals - hushed by denial 3:05 Leído por Scot Colford
Prepositional Phrases "by": impelled by duty - wrenched by emotions 3:33 Leído por Precious
Prepositional Phrases "in": absorbed in meditation - kept in abeyance 3:16 Leído por Precious
Prepositional Phrases "in": landmarks in memory - weak in conception 3:47 Leído por Precious
Prepositional Phrases "into": abashed into silence - goaded into action 1:59 Leído por Joe Brenneman
Prepositional Phrases "into": hushed into silence - withdraw into solitude 1:51 Leído por Joe Brenneman
Prepositional Phrases "to": addicted to flattery - hostile to progress 1:50 Leído por Joe Brenneman
Prepositional Phrases "to": impervious to suggestion - yield to reason 2:28 Leído por Joe Brenneman
Prepositional Phrases "with": abounding with plenty - intoxicated with joy 2:23 Leído por Joe Brenneman
Prepositional Phrases "with": kindle with enthusiasm - work with zeal 2:29 Leído por liquidneutrino
Business Phrases 24:37 Leído por Karen Savage
Literary Expressions: A bitterness crept into her face - A nimble-witted oppone… 6:53 Leído por Lee Elliott
Literary Expressions: A painful thought was flooding his mind - A wordless fare… 6:27 Leído por Joe Brenneman
Literary Expressions: Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting - Awai… 8:18 Leído por Ken Crooker
Literary Expressions: Bandied about from mouth to mouth - Dull black eyes under… 6:47 Leído por Ken Crooker
Literary Expressions: Earth danced under a heat haze - Guilty of girlish sentim… 4:06 Leído por Heather Lawrence
Literary Expressions: Half choked by a rising paroxysm of rage - Humiliating pa… 9:26 Leído por David Best
Literary Expressions: I capitulated by inadvertence - Kiss-provoking lips 5:06 Leído por David Best
Literary Expressions: Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle -… 10:45 Leído por Pete Darby
Literary Expressions: Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill - Swift summer i… 7:27 Leído por Heather Lawrence
Literary Expressions: Taking the larger sweeps in the march of mind - The hungr… 8:09 Leído por C.L.Coney
Literary Expressions: The idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought - The swing of… 9:37 Leído por C.L.Coney
Literary Expressions: The tempered daylight of an olive garden - Twilight creep… 5:34 Leído por C.L.Coney
Literary Expressions: Unapproachable grandeur and simplicity - Your mind enthro… 3:39 Leído por C.L.Coney
Striking Similes: A blind rage like a fire swept over him - And the smile she s… 10:55 Leído por SueAnn Dozier
Striking Similes: As a child in play scatters... - Awkward as a cart-horse 6:39 Leído por Joe Brenneman
Striking Similes: Babbling like a child - Dull as champagne 6:33 Leído por Joe Brenneman
Striking Similes: Each like a corpse within its grave - Great scarlet poppies l… 4:36 Leído por Joe Brenneman
Striking Similes: Hair as harsh as tropical grass and gray as ashes - Hushed li… 9:19 Leído por Sandra Zera
Striking Similes: I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew - Kingdoms melt away… 3:36 Leído por Sandra Zera
Striking Similes: Laboring like a giant - Like a yellow silken scarf the thick … 7:03 Leído por Rohanna
Striking Similes: Like an alien ghost I stole away - Like sweet thoughts in a d… 6:31 Leído por Rohanna
Striking Similes: Like the awful shadow of some unseen power - Lovely the land … 6:32 Leído por Rohanna
Striking Similes: March on my soul nor like the laggard stay - Quivering like a… 6:49 Leído por Sarah Jennings
Striking Similes: Rage, rage ye tears, that never more should creep... - Swifte… 10:25 Leído por Sandra Zera
Striking Similes: Talking and thinking became to him... - The music almost died… 6:35 Leído por Marwa Gamil
Striking Similes: The name that cuts into my soul like a knife - Then the lover… 8:27 Leído por Betsie Bush
Striking Similes: Theories sprouted in his mind like mushrooms - Turning easily… 6:21 Leído por Betsie Bush
Striking Similes: Unbends like a loosened bow - Youth like a summer morn 8:18 Leído por Scot Colford
Conversational Phrases: A most extraordinary idea! - Human nature interests me … 6:38 Leído por C Pannier
Conversational Phrases: I admire your foresight - I could never forgive myself … 7:28 Leído por Mark Mascolino
Conversational Phrases: I dare say your intuition is quite right - I seem to ha… 9:02 Leído por Precious
Conversational Phrases: I shall at once proceed to forget it - It has never occ… 6:45 Leído por Lee Ann Howlett
Conversational Phrases: It is a curious fact - It would take too long to formul… 6:17 Leído por Heather Lawrence
Conversational Phrases: Join us, please, when you have time - Surely you would … 7:00 Leído por Ken Crooker
Conversational Phrases: Tell me in what way you want me to help you - True, I f… 6:38 Leído por Ken Crooker
Conversational Phrases: Undeniably true - Would you mind telling me your opinio… 3:47 Leído por Elizabeth Palmer
Conversational Phrases: Yes and no - Your statement is somewhat startling 4:49 Leído por Elizabeth Palmer
Public Speaking Phrases: A fact of vast moment - And next I would ask 7:29 Leído por Rose
Public Speaking Phrases: And now allow me to call attention - Away then with th… 8:01 Leído por Scot Colford
Public Speaking Phrases: Be assured, then - But it has been suggested to me 4:55 Leído por Sandra Zera
Public Speaking Phrases: But it is a fact - By this time it will be suspected 4:20 Leído por Joe Brenneman
Public Speaking Phrases: Can it be supposed - Granting all this 4:12 Leído por Joe Brenneman
Public Speaking Phrases: Had I time for all that might be said - However, it is… 3:16 Leído por Joe Brenneman
Public Speaking Phrases: I abide by my statement - I am willing to know 6:16 Leído por Jeff Wadden
Public Speaking Phrases: I anticipate with pleasing expectation - I distrust al… 7:39 Leído por Joe Brenneman
Public Speaking Phrases: I do again and again urge upon you - I hasten to conce… 8:10 Leído por Ken Crooker
Public Speaking Phrases: I have a dark suspicion - I hope you will not accuse me 11:49 Leído por Ken Crooker
Public Speaking Phrases: I imagine that no one will be disposed - I rejoice to … 9:23 Leído por Stephen Lamb
Public Speaking Phrases: I remember a reference made - I thank you very sincere… 9:41 Leído por David Best
Public Speaking Phrases: I think I am correct in saying - I yielded to the earn… 10:38 Leído por David Best
Public Speaking Phrases: If any man be so persuaded - In widening our view 10:38 Leído por Ekpyrotic
Public Speaking Phrases: Indeed, can anyone tell me - It is my present purpose 9:25 Leído por Sandra Zera
Public Speaking Phrases: It is natural to ask the question - It may still more … 5:38 Leído por Maura Walsh
Public Speaking Phrases: It must be a cause of delight - Just the reverse is tr… 5:21 Leído por Maura Walsh
Public Speaking Phrases: Language is inadequate to voice my appreciation - My r… 8:23 Leído por guava
Public Speaking Phrases: Nay, I boldly say - Now, you will understand from this 5:43 Leído por Joe Brenneman
Public Speaking Phrases: Observe again - Surely it is not too much for me to say 7:43 Leído por Joe Brenneman
Public Speaking Phrases: Take another instance - The whole story of civilization 6:48 Leído por Holly
Public Speaking Phrases: Then again, in corroboration - Think of the cool disre… 5:49 Leído por Betsie Bush
Public Speaking Phrases: This absurdity arises - Very strange is this indeed 5:15 Leído por Don Powers
Public Speaking Phrases: We all agree as to - What strikes the mind so forcibly 9:02 Leído por Jason Isbell
Public Speaking Phrases: What, then, are we to believe - Your presence seems to… 6:57 Leído por Jason Isbell
Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts - A pleasant flow of ap… 7:01 Leído por Joan Walton
Miscellaneous Phrases: A pompous failure - Ample scope for the exercise of his … 7:21 Leído por Joan Walton
Miscellaneous Phrases: An abandoned and exaggerated grief - Awaited with feveri… 6:03 Leído por Heather Lawrence
Miscellaneous Phrases: Bandied to and fro - Dwindled to alarmingly small dimens… 6:58 Leído por Heather Lawrence
Miscellaneous Phrases: Easy-going to the point of lethargy - Hopelessly belated… 9:30 Leído por Luigina
Miscellaneous Phrases: I adjured him - Its dominating and inspiring influence 11:13 Leído por Luigina
Miscellaneous Phrases: Jealous and formidable foes - Quixotically generous abou… 10:34 Leído por Luigina
Miscellaneous Phrases: Radiantly and transparently happy - Swift and vehement o… 8:02 Leído por Jason Isbell
Miscellaneous Phrases: Take root in the heart - The sycophants of the rich 12:00 Leído por Nick Davies

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Cringe and Whinge


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Prose as froze as an old garden hose? Wildly outdated social norms? Give us some moré! These are among the most delectable of the treats many LibriVoxians seek out. After cringing, I'm always amused by reviewers who whinge sourly about works in the public domain being outdated ... read this part reallly slowwwly...".innn the public domain". ... look up the definition if you have to. Then look up a book on developing a sense of humor. Or just go away. Too many complaints can ruin or even disappear things, good things. Like PBS deadbeats complaining so much about pledge breaks that it has practically gutted the whole listener-supported aspect. If you like commercials better, change channels. Don't wreck it for the rest of us! learn to hold your tongue, esp. when volunteers are doing the work for you free of charge, people! Statistically some of us are born bereft of empathy and a conscience, but the rest can get with the program and can the dopey complaints.

Published in 1919


(4 stars)

Of course they are outdated! The book was published in 1919!! This was meant to be a fun little read with little to no practical use.

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I had no idea that this sort of thing even existed, and am greatful to publisher. I am not well schooled as I had as ayoungman a reading disability. I am older now and just worked my way though this disability. I find it just wonderful that someone would develope this an that an uneducated person of intelligence has access to it. I will not give it my highest rating because this LibriVox to me is a great adventure and no telling what is going to be my next great discovery.

057 and 148 missing


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057 and 148 missing thanx for the these wonderful chapters

very helpful


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As English is my second language I often run out of proper words to express my ideas. This book help me to expand my pool of selection.

such a nice collection of words


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Sandra Zeras' voice is angelic!


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Sections 111 and 112 are read by Sandra Zera; her voice absolutely shifts my consciousness in such a perfect way!