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FIFTEEN THOUSAND USEFUL PHRASES BY GRENVILLE KLEISER-SECTION VII LITERARY EXPRESSIONS (B to H)

 B


Bandied about from mouth to mouth


Barricade the road to truth


Bartering the higher aspirations of life


Beaming with pleasurable anticipation


Before was the open malignant sea


Beguiled the weary soul of man


Beneath the cold glare of the desolate night


Bent on the lofty ends of her destiny


Beset by agreeable hallucinations


Beset with smiling hills


Beside himself in an ecstasy of pleasure


Betokening an impulsive character


Beyond the farthest edge of night


Birds were fluting in the tulip-trees


Biting sentences flew about


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 certain frigid and deferential surprise


Broke in a stupendous roar upon the shuddering air


Browsing at will on all the uplands of knowledge and thought


Buffeted by all the winds of passion


Buried hopes rose from their sepulchers


Buried in the quicksands of ignorance


But none the less peremptorily

                             [peremptorily = ending all debate or action]


By a curious irony of fate


By a happy turn of thinking


By virtue of his impassioned curiosity



C


Carried the holiday in his eye


Chafed at the restraints imposed on him


Cheeks furrowed by strong purpose and feeling


Childlike contour of the body


Cleansed of prejudice and self-interest


Cloaked in prim pretense


Clothed with the witchery of fiction


Clutch at the very heart of the usurping mediocrity


Cold gaze of curiosity


Collapse into a dreary and hysterical depression


Comment of rare and delightful flavor


Conjuring up scenes of incredible beauty and terror


Conscious of unchallenged supremacy


Constant indulgence of wily stratagem and ambitious craft


Contemptuously indifferent to the tyranny of public opinion


Covered with vegetation in wild luxuriance


Crisp sparkle of the sea


Crystallize about a common nucleus


Cultivated with a commensurate zeal


Current play of light gossip


Curtains of opaque rain



D


Dallying in maudlin regret over the past

                                        [maudlin = tearfully sentimental]


Dark with unutterable sorrows


Darkness oozed out from between the trees


Dawn had broken


Day stood distinct in the sky


Days of vague and fantastic melancholy


Days that are brief and shadowed


Deep shame and rankling remorse


Deficient in affectionate or tender impulses


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 passages of solemn and pompous monotony.


Disguised itself as chill critical impartiality


Dismal march of death


Distinguished by hereditary rank or social position


Distract and beguile the soul


Distressing in their fatuous ugliness


Diverted into alien channels


Diverting her eyes, she pondered


Dogs the footsteps


Doled out in miserly measure


Doubt tortured him


Doubts beset her lonely and daring soul


Down the steep of disenchantment


Dreams and visions were surpassed


Dreams that fade and die in the dim west


Drear twilight of realities


Drift along the stream of fancy


Drowned in the deep reticence of the sea


Drowsiness coiled insidiously about him


Dull black eyes under their precipice of brows



E


Earth danced under a heat haze


Easily moved to gaiety and pleasure


Either way her fate was cruel


Embrace with ardor the prospect of serene leisure


Endearing sweetness and manner


Endeavoring to smile away his chagrin


Endlessly shifting moods


Endowed with all those faculties

that can make the world a garden of enchantment


Endowed with life and emphasis


Enduring with smiling composure

the near presence of people who are distasteful


Enjoyed with astonishing unscrupulousness


Enticed irresistibly by the freedom of an open horizon


Essay a flight of folly


Evanescent shades of feeling        [evanescent = vanishing like vapor]


Events took an unexpected sinister turn


Every curve of her features seemed to express

a fine arrogant acrimony and harsh truculence


Everywhere the fragrance of a bountiful earth


Exasperated by what seemed a wilful pretense of ignorance


Exhibits itself in fastidious crotchets


Expectation darkened into anxiety


Experience and instinct warred within her


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


Felicitousness in the choice and exquisiteness in the collocation of words


Fettered by poverty and toil


Feverish tide of life


Fine precision of intent


Fitful tumults of noble passion


Fleeting touches of something alien and intrusive


Floating in the clouds of reverie


Fluctuations of prosperity and adversity


Flushed with a suffusion that crimsoned her whole countenance


Forebodings possessed her


Foreshadowing summer's end


Forever echo in the heart


Forever sings itself in memory


Formless verbosity and a passionate rhetoric


Fragments of most touching melody


Free from rigid or traditional fetters


Freedom and integrity of soul


Freighted with strange, vague longings


Frosty thraldom of winter                 [thraldom = servitude; bondage]


Fugitive felicities of thought and sensation


Full of dreams and refinements and intense abstractions


Full of majestic tenderness



G


Gathering all her scattered impulses into a passionate act of courage


Gaze dimly through a maze of traditions


Generosity pushed to prudence


Gleams of sunlight, bewildered like ourselves,

struggled, surprised, through the mist and disappeared


Glowing with haste and happiness


Go straight, as if by magic, to the inner meaning


Goaded on by his sense of strange importance


Graceful length of limb and fall of shoulders


Great shuddering seized on her


Green hills pile themselves upon each other's shoulders


Grim and sullen after the flush of the morning


Guilty of girlish sentimentality



H


Half choked by a rising paroxysm of rage


Half-suffocated by his triumph


Hardened into convictions and resolves


Haughtiness and arrogance were largely attributed to him


Haunt the recesses of the memory


Haunted with a chill and unearthly foreboding


He accosted me with trepidation


He adroitly shifted his ground


He airily lampooned their most cherished prejudices


He bowed submission


He braced himself to the exquisite burden of life


He condescended to intimate speech with her


He conversed with a colorless fluency


He could detect the hollow ring of fundamental nothingness


He could do absolutely naught


He drank of the spirit of the universe


He drew near to a desperate resolve


He evinced his displeasure by a contemptuous sneer or a grim scowl


He felt an unaccountable loathing


He felt the ironic rebound of her words


He flung diffidence to the winds


He flushed crimson


He found the silence intolerably irksome


He frowned perplexedly


He gave her a baffled stare


He gave himself to a sudden day-dream


He gave his ear to this demon of false glory


He grew wanton with success


He had acted with chivalrous delicacy of honor


He had the eye of an eagle in his trade


He had the gift of deep, dark silences


He held his breath in admiring silence


He laughed away my protestations


He lent no countenance to the insensate prattle


He listened greedily and gazed intent


He made a loathsome object


He made the politest of monosyllabic replies


He murmured a civil rejoinder


He murmured a vague acceptance


He mused a little while in grave thought


He never wears an argument to tatters


He only smiled with fatuous superiority


He paused, stunned and comprehending


He perceived the iron hand within the velvet glove


He raised a silencing hand


He ruled autocratically


He sacrificed the vulgar prizes of life


He sat on thorns


He set his imagination adrift


He shambled away with speed


He sighed deeply, from a kind of mental depletion


He smote her quickening sensibilities


He submitted in brooding silence


He suppressed every sign of surprise


He surrendered himself to gloomy thought


He threaded a labyrinth of obscure streets


He threw a ton's 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 unguarded adjective


He was a tall, dark, saturnine youth, sparing of speech

                                        [saturnine = melancholy; sullen]


He was aware of emotion


He was born to a lively and intelligent patriotism


He was dimly mistrustful of it


He was discreetly silent


He was empty of thought


He was entangled in a paradox


He was giving his youth away by handfuls


He was haunted and begirt by presences


He was measured and urbane


He was most profoundly skeptical


He was nothing if not grandiloquent


He was quaking on the precipice of a bad bilious attack


He was utterly detached from life


He went hot and cold


He would fall into the blackest melancholies


He writhed in the grip of a definite apprehension


He writhed with impotent humiliation


Her blank gaze chilled you


Her bright eyes were triumphant


Her eyes danced with malice


Her eyes dilated with pain and fear


Her eyes were full of wondering interest


Her eyes were limpid and her beauty was softened

by an air of indolence and languor         [languor = dreamy, lazy mood]


Her face stiffened anew into a gray obstinacy


Her face was lit up by a glow of inspiration and resolve


Her haughty step waxed timorous and vigilant


Her head throbbed dangerously


Her heart appeared to abdicate its duties


Her heart fluttered with a vague terror


Her heart pounded in her throat


Her heart was full of speechless sorrow


Her hurrying thoughts clamored for utterance


Her imagination recoiled


Her interest flagged


Her life had dwarfed her ambitions


Her limbs ran to marble


Her lips hardened


Her lips parted in a keen expectancy


Her mind was a store-house of innocuous anecdote


Her mind was beaten to the ground by the catastrophe


Her mood was unaccountably chilled


Her musings took a sudden and arbitrary twist


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 grass it prest


Her strength was scattered in fits of agitation


Her stumbling ignorance which sought the road of wisdom


Her thoughts outstripped her erring feet


Her tone was gathering remonstrance


Her tongue on the subject was sharpness itself


Her tongue stumbled and was silent


Her voice had the coaxing inflections of a child


Her voice trailed off vaguely


Her voice was full of temper, hard-held


Her voice, with a tentative question in it, rested in air


Her wariness seemed put to rout


His accents breathed profound relief


His agitation increased


His brow grew knit and gloomy


His brow was in his hand


His conscience leapt to the light


His constraint was excruciating


His curiosity is quenched


His dignity counseled him to be silent


His ears sang with the vibrating intensity of his secret existence


His eyes had a twinkle of reminiscent pleasantry


His eyes literally blazed with savage fire


His eyes shone with the pure fire of a great purpose


His eyes stared unseeingly


His face caught the full strength of the rising wind


His face dismissed its shadow


His face fell abruptly into stern lines


His face lit with a fire of decision


His face showed a pleased bewilderment


His face torn with conflict


His face was gravely authoritative


His gaze faltered and fell


His gaze searched her face


His gaze seemed full of unconquerable hopefulness


His hand supported his chin


His hands were small and prehensible

                                  [prehensible = capable of being seized]


His heart asserted itself again, thunderously beating


His heart rebuked him


His heart was full of enterprise


His impatient scorn expired


His last illusions crumbled


His lips loosened in a furtively exultant smile


His lips seemed to be permanently parted in a good-humored smile


His mind echoed with words


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 passions vented themselves with sneers


His pulses leaped anew


His reputation had withered


His sensibilities were offended


His shrewd gaze fixed appraisingly upon her


His soul full of fire and eagle-winged


His soul was compressed into a single agony of prayer


His soul was wrung with a sudden wild homesickness


His speech faltered


His swift and caustic satire


His temper was dark and explosive


His thoughts galloped


His thoughts were in clamoring confusion


His tone assumed a certain asperity   [asperity = roughness; harshness]


His torpid ideas awoke again


His troubled spirit shifted its load


His vagrant thoughts were in full career


His voice insensibly grew inquisitorial


His voice was thick with resentment and futile protest


His whole face was lighted with a fierce enthusiasm


His whole frame seemed collapsed and shrinking


His whole tone was flippant and bumptious


His words trailed off brokenly


His youthful zeal was contagious


Hope was far and dim


How sweet and reasonable the pale shadows of those

who smile from some dim corner of our memories


Humiliating paltriness of revenge


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