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FIFTEEN THOUSAND USEFUL PHRASES BY GRENVILLE KLEISER-SECTION VII LITERARY EXPRESSIONS (I to Y)

 I


I capitulated by inadvertence


I cut my reflections adrift


I felt a qualm of apprehension


I suffered agonies of shyness


I took the good day from the hands of God as a perfect gift


I was in a somber mood


I was overshadowed by a deep boding


I was piqued   [piqued = resentment; indignation]


I yielded to the ingratiating mood of the day


Ill-bred insolence was his only weapon


Ill-dissimulated fits of ambition


Imbued with a vernal freshness       [vernal = resembling spring; fresh]


Immense and careless prodigality


Immense objects which dwarf us


Immersed in secret schemes


Immured in a trivial round of duty       [immured = confine within]


Impassioned and earnest language


Impatient and authoritative tones


Impervious to the lessons of experience


Implying an immense melancholy


Imprisoned within an enchanted circle


In a deprecating tone of apology


In a flash of revelation


In a gale of teasing merriment


In a misery of annoyance and mortification


In a musing ecstasy of contemplation


In a sky stained with purple, the moon slowly rose


In a spirit of indulgent irony


In a strain of exaggerated gallantry


In a tone of after-dinner perfunctoriness

                                 [perfunctoriness = with little interest]


In a tone of musing surprise


In a tumult of self-approval and towering exultation


In a vague and fragmentary way


In a wise, superior, slightly scornful manner


In accents of menace and wrath


In its whole unwieldy compass


In moments of swift and momentous decision


In quest of something to amuse


In requital for various acts of rudeness


In the air was the tang of spring


In the dusky path of a dream


In the face of smarting disillusions


In the flush and heyday of youth and gaiety and loveliness


In the heyday of friendship


In the mild and mellow maturity of age


In the perpetual presence of everlasting verities


In this breathless chase of pleasure


In this chastened mood I left him


Incapable of initiative or boldness


Inconceivable perversion of reasoning


Indolently handsome eyes


Indulge in pleasing discursiveness


Ineffable sensation of irritability


Infantile insensibility to the solemnity of his bereavement


Infantine simplicity and lavish waste


Innumerable starlings clove the air        [clove = split]


Insensible to its subtle influence


Inspired by the immortal flame of youth


Intangible and indescribable essence


Intense love of excitement and adventure


Intimations of unpenetrated mysteries


Into her eyes had come a hostile challenge


Into the purple sea the orange hues of heaven sunk silently


Into the very vestibule of death


Involuntarily she sighed


Involuntary awkwardness and reserve


Involved in a labyrinth of perplexities


It came to him with a stab of enlightenment


It elicited a remarkably clear and coherent statement


It is a flight beyond the reach of human magnanimity


It is a thing infinitely subtle


It is not every wind that can blow you from your anchorage


It lends no dazzling tints to fancy


It moved me to a strange exhilaration


It parted to a liquid horizon and showed the gray rim of the sea


It proved a bitter disillusion


It seemed intolerably tragic


It seemed to exhale a silent and calm authority


It was a breathless night of suspense


It was a desolating vision


It was a night of little ease to his toiling mind


It was a night of stupefying surprises


It was all infinitely soft and refreshing to the eye


It was an evening of great silences and spaces, wholly tranquil


It was sheer, exuberant, instinctive, unreasoning, careless joy


It was the ecstasy and festival of summer


It was torture of the most exquisite kind



J


Jealousies and animosities which pricked their sluggish blood to tingling


Joy rioted in his large dark eyes


Judging without waiting to ponder over bulky tomes



K


Kind of unscrupulous contempt for gravity


Kiss-provoking lips



L


Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle


Language of excessive flattery and adulation


Lapped in soft music of adulation


Lapse into pathos and absurdity


Large, dark, luminous eyes that behold everything about them


Latent vein of whimsical humor


Lead to the strangest aberrations


Leaping from lambent flame into eager and passionate fire

                                      [lambent = effortlessly brilliant]


Leave to the imagination the endless vista of possibilities


Life flowed in its accustomed stream


Lights and shadows of reviving memory crossed her face


Lionized by fashionable society


Long intertangled lines of silver streamlets


Lost in a delirious wonder


Lost in irritable reflection


Love hovered in her gaze


Ludicrous attempts of clumsy playfulness and tawdry eloquence


Luke-warm assurance of continued love


Lulled by dreamy musings


Luminous with great thoughts



M


Magnanimous indifference to meticulous niceties


Making the ear greedy to remark offense


Marching down to posterity with divine honors


Marked out for some strange and preternatural doom


Mawkishly effeminate sentiment


Memories plucked from wood and field


Memory was busy at his heart


Merged in a sentiment of unutterable sadness and compassion


Microscopic minuteness of eye


Misgivings of grave kinds


Mockery crept into her tone


Molded by the austere hand of adversity


Moments of utter idleness and insipidity


Moods of malicious reaction and vindictive recoil


Morn, in yellow and white, came broadening out of the mountains


Mumble only jargon of dotage


My body is too frail for its moods



N


Nature seemed to revel in unwonted contrasts       [unwonted = unusual]


New ambitions pressed upon his fancy


New dreams began to take wing in his imagination


Night after night the skies were wine-blue and bubbling with stars


Night passes lightly in the open world,

with its stars and dews and perfumes


Nights of fathomless blackness


No mark of trick or artifice


Noble and sublime patience


Nursed by brooding thought



O


Obsessed with the modishness of the hour


Occasional flashes of tenderness and love


Oddly disappointing and fickle


One gracious fact emerges here


One long torture of soul


One of the golden twilights which transfigure the world


Oppressed and disheartened by an all-pervading desolation


Oppressed with a confused sense of cumbrous material

                                                  [cumbrous = cumbersome]


Outweighing years of sorrow and bitterness


Over and over the paroxysms of grief and longing submerged her


Overhung and overspread with ivy


Overshadowed by a vague depression



P


Pale and vague desolation


Pallor of reflected glories


Palpitating with rage and wounded sensibility


Panting after distinction


Peace brooded over all


Pelted with an interminable torrent of words


Penetrate beneath the surface to the core


Peopled the night with thoughts


Perpetual gloom and seclusion of life


Pertinent to the thread of the discussion


Pervasive silence which wraps us in a mantle of content


Piles of golden clouds just peering above the horizon


Platitudinous and pompously sentimental


Plaudits of the unlettered mob


Pleasant and flower-strewn vistas of airy fancy


Pledged with enthusiastic fervor


Plumbing the depth of my own fears


Poignant doubts and misgivings


Power of intellectual metamorphosis


Power to assuage the thirst of the soul


Precipitated into mysterious depths of nothingness


Preening its wings for a skyward flight


Pressing cares absorbed him


Pride working busily within her


Proclaimed with joyous defiance


Prodigal of discriminating epithets


Prodigious boldness and energy of intellect


Products of dreaming indolence


Profound and chilling solitude of the spot


Proof of his imperturbability and indifference


Provocative of bitter hostility


Pulling the strings of many enterprises


Purge the soul of nonsense



Q


Quickened and enriched by new contacts with life and truth


Quivering with restrained grief



R


Radiant with the beautiful glamor of youth


Ransack the vocabulary


Red tape of officialdom


Redolent of the night lamp


Reflecting the solemn and unfathomable stars


Regarded with an exulting pride


Rehabilitated and restored to dignity


Remorselessly swept into oblivion


Resounding generalities and conventional rhetoric


Respect forbade downright contradiction


Restless and sore and haughty feelings were busy within


Retort leaped to his lips


Rigid adherence to conventionalities


Rudely disconcerting in her behavior


Rudely reminded of life's serious issues



S


Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill


Sadness prevailed among her moods


Scorched with the lightning of momentary indignation


Scorning such paltry devices


Scotched but not slain


Scrupulous morality of conduct


Seem to swim in a sort of blurred mist before the eyes


Seething with suppressed wrath


Seize on greedily


Sensuous enjoyment of the outward show of life


Serenity beamed from his look


Serenity of paralysis and death


Seriousness lurked in the depths of her eyes


Served to recruit his own jaded ideas


Set anew in some fresh and appealing form


Setting all the sane traditions at defiance


Shadowy vistas of sylvan beauty


She affected disdain


She assented in precisely the right terms


She bandies adjectives with the best


She challenged his dissent


She cherished no petty resentments


She curled her fastidious lip


She curled her lip with defiant scorn


She did her best to mask her agitation


She disarmed anger and softened asperity        [asperity = harshness]


She disclaimed fatigue


She fell into a dreamy silence


She fell into abstracted reverie


She felt herself carried off her feet by the rush of incoherent impressions


She flushed an agitated pink


She forced a faint quivering smile


She frowned incomprehension


She had an air of restrained fury


She had an undercurrent of acidity


She hugged the thought of her own unknown and unapplauded integrity


She lingered a few leisurely seconds


She nodded mutely


She nourished a dream of ambition


She permitted herself a delicate little smile


She poured out on him the full opulence of a proud recognition


She questioned inimically             [inimically = unfriendly; hostile]


She recaptured herself with difficulty


She regarded him stonily out of flint-blue eyes


She sat eyeing him with frosty calm


She seemed the embodiment of dauntless resolution


She seemed wrapped in a veil of lassitude


She shook hands grudgingly


She softened her frown to a quivering smile


She spoke with hurried eagerness


She spoke with sweet severity


She stilled and trampled on the inward protest


She stood her ground with the most perfect dignity


She strangled a fierce tide of feeling that welled up within her


She swept away all opposing opinion with the swift rush of her enthusiasm


She thrived on insincerity


She twitted him merrily


She was both weary and placated


She was conscious of a tumultuous rush of sensations


She was demure and dimly appealing


She was exquisitely simple


She was gripped with a sense of suffocation and panic


She was in an anguish of sharp and penetrating remorse


She was oppressed by a dead melancholy


She was stricken to the soul


She wore an air of wistful questioning


Sheer superfluity of happiness


Sickening contrasts and diabolic ironies of life


Silence fell


Singing lustily as if to exorcise the demon of gloom


Skirmishes and retreats of conscience


Slender experience of the facts of life


Slope towards extinction


Slow the movement was and tortuous


Slowly disengaging its significance from the thicket of words


So innocent in her exuberant happiness


Soar into a rosy zone of contemplation


Softened by the solicitude of untiring and anxious love


Solitary and sorely smitten souls


Some dim-remembered and dream-like images


Some exquisite refinement in the architecture of the brain


Some flash of witty irrelevance


Something curiously suggestive and engaging


Something eminently human beaconed from his eyes


Something full of urgent haste


Something indescribably reckless and desperate in such a picture


Something that seizes tyrannously upon the soul


Sore beset by the pressure of temptation


Specious show of impeccability


Spectacular display of wrath


Spur and whip the tired mind into action


Stale and facile platitudes


Stamped with unutterable and solemn woe


Startled into perilous activity


Startling leaps over vast gulfs of time


Stem the tide of opinion


Stern emptying of the soul


Stimulated to an ever deepening subtlety


Stirred into a true access of enthusiasm


Stony insensibility to the small pricks and frictions of daily life


Strange capacities and suggestions both of vehemence and pride


Strange laughings and glitterings of silver streamlets


Stripped to its bare skeleton


Strode forth imperiously   [imperious = arrogantly overbearing]


Struck by a sudden curiosity


Struck dumb with strange surprise


Stung by his thoughts, and impatient of rest


Stung by the splendor of the prospect


Subdued passages of unobtrusive majesty


Sublime indifference to contemporary usage and taste


Submission to an implied rebuke


Subtle indications of great mental agitation


Subtle suggestions of remoteness


Such things as the eye of history sees


Such was the petty chronicle


Suddenly a thought shook him


Suddenly overawed by a strange, delicious shyness


Suddenly smitten with unreality


Suddenly snuffed out in the middle of ambitious schemes


Suffered to languish in obscurity


Sugared remonstrances and cajoleries


Suggestions of veiled and vibrant feeling


Summer clouds floating feathery overhead


Sunk in a phraseological quagmire


Sunk into a gloomy reverie


Sunny silence broods over the realm of little cottages


Supreme arbiter of conduct


Susceptibility to fleeting impressions


Sweet smoke of burning twigs hovered in the autumn day


Swift summer into the autumn flowed



T


Taking the larger sweeps in the march of mind


Tears of outraged vanity blurred her vision


Teased with impertinent questions


Tenderness breathed from her


Tense with the anguish of spiritual struggle


Terror filled the more remote chambers of his brain with riot


Tethered to earth


That which flutters the brain for a moment


The accelerated beat of his thoughts


The affluent splendor of the summer day


The afternoon was filled with sound and sunshine


The afternoon was waning


The air and sky belonged to midsummer


The air darkened swiftly


The air is touched with a lazy fragrance, as of hidden flowers


The air was caressed with song


The air was full of fugitive strains of old songs


The air was raw and pointed


The allurements of a coquette


The ambition and rivalship of men


The angry blood burned in his face


The anguish of a spiritual conflict tore his heart


The artificial smile of languor


The awful and implacable approach of doom


The babble of brooks grown audible


The babbledom that dogs the heels of fame


The bait proved incredibly successful


The balm of solitary musing


The beauty straightway vanished


The beckonings of alien appeals


The benign look of a father


The blandishments of pleasure and pomp of power


The blinding mist came down and hid the land


The blue bowl of the sky, all glorious with the blaze of a million worlds


The bound of the pulse of spring


The buzz of idolizing admiration


The caressing peace of bright soft sunshine


The chaotic sound of the sea


The chill of forlorn old age


The chill of night crept in from the street


The chivalric sentiment of honor


The chivalrous homage of respect


The clamorous agitation of rebellious passions


The clouded, restless, jaded mood


The constant iteration of the sea's wail


The contagion of extravagant luxury


The conversation became desultory      [desultory = haphazardly; random]


The crowning touch of pathos


The current of his ideas flowed full and strong


The dance whizzed on with cumulative fury


The dawn is singing at the door


The day sang itself into evening


The day was at once redolent and vociferous

     [redolent = emitting fragrance; aromatic; suggestive; reminiscent]

     [vociferous = conspicuously and offensively loud]


The day was blind with fog


The day was gracious


The days passed in a stately procession


The days when you dared to dream


The debilitating fears of alluring fate


The deep and solemn purple of the summer night


The deep flush ebbed out of his face


The deep tranquillity of the shaded solitude


The deepening twilight filled with shadowy visions


The deepest wants and aspirations of his soul


The delicatest reproof of imagined distrust


The demerit of an unworthy alliance


The desire of the moth for the star


The dimness of the sealed eye and soul


The dreamy solicitations of indescribable afterthoughts


The dying day lies beautiful in the tender glow of the evening


The early morning of the Indian summer day was tinged with blue mistiness


The earth looked despoiled


The east alone frowned with clouds


The easy grace of an unpremeditated agreeable talker


The easy-going indolence of a sedentary life


The echo of its wrathful roar surged and boomed among the hills


The empurpled hills standing up, solemn and sharp,

out of the green-gold air


The enchanting days of youth


The eternal questioning of inscrutable fate


The evening comes with slow steps


The evening star silvery and solitary on the girdle of the early night


The exaggerations of morbid hallucinations


The excitement of rival issues


The extraordinary wistful look of innocence and simplicity


The eye of a scrutinizing observer


The eyes burnt with an amazing fire


The eyes filled with playfulness and vivacity


The father's vigil of questioning sorrow


The fine flower of culture


The first recoil from her disillusionment


The flawless triumph of art


The flight of the autumnal days


The flower of courtesy


The fluttering of untried wings


The foreground was incredibly shabby


The fragrance of a dear and honored name


The freshening breeze struck his brow with a cooling hand


The freshness of some pulse of air from an invisible sea


The fruit of vast and heroic labors


The general effect was of extraordinary lavish profusion


The give and take was delicious


The gloom of the afternoon deepened


The gloom of winter dwelt on everything


The gloomy insolence of self-conceit


The glow of the ambitious fire


The golden gloom of the past and the bright-hued hope of the future


The golden riot of the autumn leaves


The golden sunlight of a great summer day


The gray air rang and rippled with lark music


The grimaces and caperings of buffoonery


The grotesque nightmare of a haunting fear


The hand of time sweeps them into oblivion


The haunting melody of some familiar line of verse


The haunting phrase leaped to my brain


The headlong vigor of sheer improvisation


The heights of magnanimity and love


The high-bred pride of an oriental


The hills were clad in rose and amethyst


The hill-tops gleam in morning's spring


The hinted sweetness of the challenge aroused him


The hot humiliation of it overwhelmed her


The hungry curiosity of the mind


The idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought


The idle chatter of the crowd


The immediate tyranny of a present emotion


The inaccessible solitude of the sky


The incarnation of all loveliness


The incoherent loquacity of a nervous patient [loquacity = very talkative]


The indefinable air of good-breeding


The indefinable yearning for days that were dead


The indefinite atmosphere of an opulent nature


The intercepted glances of wondering eyes


The intrusive question faded


The invidious stigma of selfishness        [invidious = rousing ill will]


The iron hand of oppression


The irresistible and ceaseless onflow of time


The irrevocable past and the uncertain future


The landscape ran, laughing, downhill to the sea


The leaden sky rests heavily on the earth


The leaves of time drop stealthily


The leaves syllabled her name in cautious whispers


The lights winked


The little incident seemed to throb with significance


The lofty grace of a prince


The loud and urgent pageantry of the day


The low hills on the horizon wore a haze of living blue


The machinations of a relentless mountebank

                                      [mountebank = flamboyant charlatan]


The machinations of an unscrupulous enemy


The magical lights of the horizon


The majestic solemnity of the moment

yielded to the persuasive warmth of day


The marvelous beauty of her womanhood


The maximum of attainable and communicable truth


The melancholy day weeps in monotonous despair


The melodies of birds and bees


The memory of the night grew fantastic and remote


The meticulous observation of facts


The mind freezes at the thought


The mind was filled with a formless dread


The mocking echoes of long-departed youth


The moment marked an epoch


The moon is waning below the horizon


The more's the pity


The morning beckons


The morning droned along peacefully


The most servile acquiescence


The multiplicity of odors competing for your attention


The murmur of soft winds in the tree-tops


The murmur of the surf boomed in melancholy mockery


The murmuring of summer seas


The music and mystery of the sea


The music of her delicious voice


The music of her presence was singing a swift melody in his blood


The music of unforgotten years sounded again in his soul


The mute melancholy landscape


The mystery obsessed him


The naked fact of death


The nameless and inexpressible fascination of midnight music


The narrow glen was full of the brooding power of one universal spirit


The nascent spirit of chivalry


The night was drowned in stars


The old ruddy conviction deserted me


The onrush and vividness of life


The opulent sunset


The orange pomp of the setting sun


The oscillations of human genius


The outpourings of a tenderness reawakened by remorse


The pageantry of sea and sky


The palest abstractions of thought


The palpitating silence lengthened


The panorama of life was unrolled before him


The paraphernalia of power and prosperity


The parting crimson glory of the ripening summer sun


The past slowly drifted out of his thought


The pendulous eyelids of old age


The penetrating odors assailed his memory as something unforgettable


The pent-up intolerance of years of repression


The perfume of the mounting sea saturated the night with wild fragrance


The piquancy of the pageant of life     [piquancy = tart spiciness]


The pith and sinew of mature manhood


The plenitude of her piquant ways     [piquant = engagingly stimulating]


The presage of disaster was in the air


The pressure of accumulated misgivings


The preternatural pomposities of the pulpit


The pristine freshness of spring


The pull of soul on body


The pulse of the rebounding sea


The purging sunlight of clear poetry


The purple vaulted night


The question drummed in head and heart day and night


The question irresistibly emerged


The quick pulse of gain


The radiant serenity of the sky


The radiant stars brooded over the stainless fields,

white with freshly fallen snow


The restlessness of offended vanity


The retreating splendor of autumn


The rising storm of words


The river ran darkly, mysteriously by


The river sang with its lips to the pebbles


The roar of the traffic rose to thunder


The romantic ardor of a generous mind


The room had caught a solemn and awful quietude


The rosy-hued sky went widening off into the distance


The rosy twilight of boyhood


The royal arrogance of youth


The sadness in him deepened inexplicably


The scars of rancor and remorse


The scent of roses stole in with every breath of air


The sea heaved silvery, far into the night


The sea slept under a haze of golden winter sun


The sea-sweep enfolds you, satisfying eye and mind


The sea-wind buffeted their faces


The secret and subduing charm of the woods


The see-saw of a wavering courage


The sentimental tourist will be tempted to tarry


The shadows of the night seemed to retreat


The shadows rested quietly under the breezeless sky


The shafts of ridicule


The sheer weight of unbearable loneliness


The shiver of the dusk passed fragrantly down the valley


The silence grew stolid


The silence was uncomfortable and ominous


The silent day perfumed with the hidden flowers


The silver silence of the night


The sinking sun made mellow gold of all the air


The sky grew brighter with the imminent day


The sky grew ensaffroned with the indescribable hue that heralds day


The sky put on the panoply of evening


The sky was a relentless, changeless blue


The sky was dull and brooding


The sky was heavily sprinkled with stars


The sky was turning to the pearly gray of dawn


The smiling incarnation of loveliness


The song of hurrying rivers


The sound of the sea waxed


The spacious leisure of the forest


The spell of a deathless dream was upon them


The star-strewn spaces of the night


The stars looked down in their silent splendor


The stars seemed attentive


The steadfast mind kept its hope


The steady thunder of the sea accented the silence


The still voice of the poet


The stillness of a forced composure


The stillness of the star-hung night


The strangest thought shimmered through her


The stream forgot to smile


The streams laughed to themselves


The strident discord seemed to mock his mood


The stunning crash of the ocean saluted her


The subtle emanation of other influences seemed to arrest and chill him


The sudden rush of the awakened mind


The summit of human attainment


The sun blazed torridly


The sun goes down in flame on the far horizon


The sun lay golden-soft over the huddled hills


The sunlight spread at a gallop along the hillside


The sunset was rushing to its height

through every possible phase of violence and splendor


The suspicion of secret malevolence


The swelling tide of memory


The swing of the pendulum through an arch of centuries


The tempered daylight of an olive garden


The tender grace of a day that is fled


The tension of struggling tears which strove for an outlet


The thought leaped


The timely effusion of tearful sentiment


The tone betrayed a curious irritation


The torture of his love and terror crushed him


The trees rustled and whispered to the streams


The tumult in her heart subsided


The tumult in her mind found sudden speech


The tumult of pride and pleasure


The tune of moving feet in the lamplit city


The tyranny of nipping winds and early frosts


The unmasked batteries of her glorious gray eyes


The vacant fields looked blankly irresponsive


The vast and shadowy stream of time


The vast cathedral of the world


The vast unexplored land of dreams


The velvet of the cloudless sky grew darker, and the stars more luminous


The veneer of a spurious civilization


The very pulsation and throbbing of his intellect


The very silence of the place appeared a source of peril


The vision fled him


The vivifying touch of humor


The web of lies is rent in pieces


The wheel of her thought turned in the same desolate groove


The whispering rumble of the ocean


The white seething surf fell exhausted along the shore


The whole exquisite night was his


The whole sea of foliage is shaken and broken up

with little momentary shiverings and shadows


The wide horizon forever flames with summer


The wild whirl of nameless regret and passionate sorrow


The wild winds flew round, sobbing in their dismay


The wind charged furiously through it, panting towards the downs


The wind piped drearily


The wind was in high frolic with the rain


The winnowed tastes of the ages


The woods were silent with adoration


The youth of the soul


The zenith turned shell pink


Their ephemeral but enchanting beauty had expired forever

                                     [ephemeral = markedly short-lived]


Their eyes met glancingly


Their troth had been plighted


There was a kind of exhilaration in this subtle baiting


There was a mild triumph in her tone


There was a mournful and dim haze around the moon


There was a strange massing and curving of the clouds


There was a thrill in the air


There was a time I might have trod the sunlit heights


There was no glint of hope anywhere


There was no menace in the night's silvern calmness


There was something so kindly in its easy candor


There was spendthrift grandeur


These qualities were raised to the white heat of enthusiasm


They became increasingly turbid and phantasmagorical

                                [phantasmagorical =  fantastic imagery]


They escaped the baffled eye


They sit heavy on the soul


They were vastly dissimilar


This exquisite conjunction and balance


This little independent thread of inquiry

ran through the texture of his mind and died away


This shadowy and chilling sentiment unaccountably creeps over me


Thought shook through her in poignant pictures


Thoughts came thronging in panic haste


Thrilled by fresh and indescribable odors


Thrilled with a sense of strange adventure


Through a cycle of many ages


Through endless and labyrinthine sentences


Thrilled to the depths of her being


Time had passed unseen


Tinsel glitter of empty titles


Tired with a dull listless fatigue


To all intents and purposes


To speak with entire candor


To stay his tottering constancy


To the scourging he submitted with a good grace


Tossed disdainfully off from young and ardent lips


Touched every moment with shifting and enchanting beauty


Touched with a bewildering and elusive beauty


Transcendental contempt for money


Transformed with an overmastering passion


Trouble gathered on his brow


Turning the world topsy-turvey


Twilight creeps upon the darkening mind



U


Unapproachable grandeur and simplicity


Unaware of her bitter taunt


Under the vivifying touch of genius


Unearthly in its malignant glee


Unfathomed depths and impossibilities


Unforced and unstudied depth of feeling


Unspoiled by praise or blame


Unspoken messages from some vaster world


Unstable moral equilibrium of boyhood


Until sleep overtakes us at a stride


Untouched by the ruthless spirit of improvement


Upon the mountain-tops of meditation


Urbanely plastic and versatile


Uttering grandiose puerilities     [puerilities = childishness, silly]



V


Vain allurements of folly and fashion


Variously ramified and delicately minute channels of expression


Varnished over with a cold repellent cynicism


Vast sweep of mellow distances


Veiled by some equivocation


Vibrant with the surge of human passions


Vicissitudes of wind and weather

                           [vicissitudes = sudden or unexpected changes]


Vigor and richness of resource


Visible and palpable pains and penalties


Voices that charm the ear and echo with a subtle resonance in the soul


Volcanic upheavings of imprisoned passions



W


Wantonly and detestably unkind


Waylay Destiny and bid him stand and deliver


Wayward and strangely playful responses


Wearing the white flower of a blameless life


What sorry and pitiful quibbling


When a pleasant countryside tunes the spirit to a serene harmony of mood


When music is allied to words


When the frame and the mind alike seem unstrung and listless


When the profane voices are hushed


When the waves show their teeth in the flying breeze


Whilst the morn kissed the sleep from her eyes


Whistled life away in perfect contentment


Wholly alien to his spirit


With a vanquished and weary sigh


Womanly fickleness and caprice


Words and acts easily wrenched from their true significance


Worn to shreds by anxiety


Wrapped in a sudden intensity of reflection


Wrapped in an inaccessible mood


Wrapped in scudding rain


Wrapt in his odorous and many-colored robe


Wrapt in inward contemplation


Wrought of an emotion infectious and splendidly dangerous


Wrought out of intense and tragic experience



Y


Yielding to a wave of pity


Your mind enthroned in the seventh circle of content


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