Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

Grenville Kleiser (1868–1935)

Read by Betsie Bush, Maria Morabe, roolynninms and 27 others

15h 50m · 165 chapters

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

Chapters

1. 1How To Use This Book4 min
2. 2Plan Of Study4 min
3. 3Useful Phrases: abandoned hope - ample culture5 min
4. 4Useful Phrases: amusing artlessness - azure sky4 min
5. 5Useful Phrases: babbling gossip - bygone period3 min
6. 6Useful Phrases: cabalistic phrase - collateral duties2 min
7. 7Useful Phrases: collective wisdom - contingent reasons2 min
8. 8Useful Phrases: continuous endeavor - cynical disregard4 min
9. 9Useful Phrases: damaging admission - diligently propagated6 min
10. 10Useful Phrases: dim comprehension - dynastic insolence5 min
11. 11Useful Phrases: eager animosity - entrancing sadness5 min
12. 12Useful Phrases: enveloping presence - exultant condition4 min
13. 13Useful Phrases: facetious mood - flickering conscience2 min
14. 14Useful Phrases: flighty obstinacy - futile babble3 min
15. 15Useful Phrases: gabbling reminiscences - gymnastic agility4 min
16. 16Useful Phrases: habitual deference - hysterical agitation4 min
17. 17Useful Phrases: iconoclastic attitude - incipient fancy7 min
18. 18Useful Phrases: incisive critic - inquisitional rack5 min
19. 19Useful Phrases: inquisitive observer - isolated splendor5 min
20. 20Useful Phrases: jaded sensibility - lying equivocations5 min
21. 21Useful Phrases: maddening monotony - meteoric splendors4 min
22. 22Useful Phrases: methodical regularity - mythical kingdom3 min
23. 23Useful Phrases: naive manner - overworked drudge6 min
24. 24Useful Phrases: pacific disposition - political malcontent7 min
25. 25Useful Phrases: polluting taints - pyrotechnic outburst8 min
26. 26Useful Phrases: quailing culprit - remarkable sagacity3 min
27. 27Useful Phrases: remedial measure - ruthless commercialism2 min
28. 28Useful Phrases: sacerdotal preeminence - shuddering reluctance4 min
29. 29Useful Phrases: shuffling preliminaries - starched sterility5 min
30. 30Useful Phrases: starlit eminence - systematic interaction3 min

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