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FIFTEEN THOUSAND USEFUL PHRASES BY GRENVILLE KLEISER-SECTION VII LITERARY EXPRESSIONS (A)

 


SECTION VII


LITERARY EXPRESSIONS



A


A bitterness crept into her face


A blazing blue sky poured down torrents of light


A book to beguile the tedious hours


A brave but turbulent aristocracy


A broad, complacent, admiring imbecility breathed from his nose and lips


A burlesque feint of evading a blow


A callous and conscienceless brute


A calm and premeditated prudence


A calmness settled on his spirit


A campaign of unbridled ferocity


A carefully appraising eye


A ceaselessly fleeting sky


A certain implication of admiring confidence


A charming air of vigor and vitality


A childish belief in his own impeccability


A cold, hard, frosty penuriousness was his prevalent characteristic

                      [penuriousness = stingy; barren; poverty-stricken]


A compassion perfectly angelic


A constant stream of rhythmic memories


A covertly triumphant voice


A creature of the most delicate and rapid responses


A crop of disappointments


A cunning intellect patiently diverting every circumstance to its design


A curious and inexplicable uneasiness


A curious vexation fretted her


A daily avalanche of vituperation

                                [vituperation = harshly abusive language]


A dandified, pretty-boy-looking sort of figure


A dark and relentless fate


A day monotonous and colorless


A dazzling completeness of beauty


A deep and brooding resentment


A delicious throng of sensations


A deliciously tantalizing sense


A detached segment of life


A dire monotony of bookish idiom


A disheveled and distraught figure


A face singularly acute and intelligent


A faint accent of reproach


A faint sense of compunction moved her


A faint, transient, wistful smile lightened her brooding face


A faint tremor of amusement was on his lips


A faintly quizzical look came into his incisive stare


A fawn-colored sea streaked here and there with tints of deepest orange


A fever of enthusiasm


A few tears came to soften her seared vision


A fiery exclamation of wrath and disdain


A figure full of decision and dignity


A firm and balanced manhood


A first faint trace of irritation


A fitful boy full of dreams and hopes


A flame of scarlet crept in a swift diagonal across his cheeks


A fleeting and furtive air of triumph


A flood of pride rose in him


A foreboding of some destined change


A fortuitous series of happy thoughts


A frigid touch of the hand


A fugitive intangible charm


A gay exuberance of ambition


A generation of men lavishly endowed with genius


A gentle sarcasm ruffled her anger


A ghastly whiteness overspread the cheek


A glance of extraordinary meaning


A glassy expression of inattention


A glassy stare of deprecating horror


A glittering infectious smile


A gloom overcame him


A golden haze of pensive light


A golden summer of marvelous fertility


A graceful readiness and vigor


A grave man of pretending exterior


A great pang gripped her heart


A great process of searching and shifting


A great sickness of heart smote him


A great soul smitten and scourged,

but still invested with the dignity of immortality


A grim and shuddering fascination


A gush of entrancing melody


A gusty breeze blew her hair about unheeded


A half-breathless murmur of amazement and incredulity


A half-uneasy, half-laughing compunction


A harassing anxiety of sorrow


A harvest of barren regrets


A haunting and horrible sense of insecurity


A heavy oppression seemed to brood upon the air


A helpless anger simmered in him


A hint of death in the icy breath of the gale


A hot and virulent skirmish


A hot uprush of hatred and loathing


A kind of ineffable splendor crowns the day


A lapse from the well-ordered decencies of civilization


A large, rich, copious human endowment


A late star lingered, remotely burning


A laugh of jovial significance


A light of unwonted pleasure in her eyes         [unwonted = unusual]


A little jaded by gastronomical exertions


A lukewarm and selfish love


A man of imperious will             [imperious = arrogantly domineering]


A man of matchless modesty and refinement


A manner bright with interest and interrogation


A manner nervously anxious to please


A melancholy monotone beat on one's heart


A mere exhibition of fussy diffuseness


A mere figment of a poet's fancy


A mien and aspect singularly majestic       [mien = bearing or manner]


A mild and deprecating air


A mind singularly practical and sagacious   [sagacious = wise]


A mouth of inflexible decision


A murmur of complacency


A mystery everlastingly impenetrable


A nameless sadness which is always born of moonlight


A new and overmastering impulse


A new doubt assailed her


A new marvel of the sky


A new trouble was dawning on his thickening mental horizon


A nimble-witted opponent


A painful thought was flooding his mind


A pang of jealousy not unmingled with scorn


A patience worthy of admiration


A perfect carnival of fun


A perfect crime of clumsiness


A piteous aspect of woe


A portent full of possible danger


A potion to be delicately supped at leisure


A powerful agitation oppressed him


A prevailing sentiment of uneasy discontent


A prey to listless uneasiness


A profound and absorbing interest


A profound and eager hopefulness


A profound and rather irritating egotist by nature


A prop for my faint heart


A propitious sky, marbled with pearly white

                               [propitious = favorable; kindly; gracious]


A protest wavered on her lip


A puissant and brilliant family             [puissant = powerful; mighty]


A queer, uncomfortable perplexity began to invade her


A quick flame leaped in his eyes


A quick shiver ruffled the brooding stillness of the water


A quiver of resistance ran through her


A remarkable fusion of morality and art


A random gleam of light


A rare and dazzling order of beauty


A rhythmical torrent of eloquent prophecy


A river of shame swept over him


A sad inquiry seemed to dwell in her gaze


A satisfied sense of completeness


A secret sweeter than the sea or sky can whisper


A sensation of golden sweetness and delight


A sense of desolation and disillusionment overwhelmed me


A sense of infinite peace brooded over the place


A sense of meditative content


A sense of repression was upon her


A sentiment of distrust in its worth had crept into her thoughts


A sheaf of letters


A shimmer of golden sun shaking through the trees


A shiver of apprehension crisped her skin


A shuffling compromise between defiance and prostration


A sigh of large contentment


A sight for the angels to weep over


A skepticism which prompted rebellion


A slight movement of incredulous dissent


A smile full of subtle charm


A smile of exquisite urbanity


A soft insidious plea


A soft intonation of profound sorrow


A soft suspicion of ulterior motives


A solemn glee possessed my mind


A solemn gray expanse that lost itself far away in the gray of the sea


A solemn utterance of destiny


A somber and breathless calm hung over the deepening eve


A somewhat melancholy indolence


A somewhat sharp and incisive voice


A sonorous voice bade me enter


A soothing and quieting touch was gently laid upon her soul


A sort of eager, almost appealing amiability


A sort of stolid despairing acquiescence


A sort of stunned incredulity


A soundless breeze that was little more than a whisper


A spacious sense of the amplitude of life's possibilities


A staccato cough interrupted the flow of speech


A state of sullen self-absorption


A steady babble of talk and laughter


A step was at her heels


A stifling sensation of pain and suspense


A stinging wind swept the woods


A strange compound of contradictory elements


A stream of easy talk


A strong convulsion shook the vague indefinite form


A strong susceptibility to the ridiculous


A subtle emphasis of scorn


A sudden and stinging delight


A sudden gleam of insight


A sudden uncontrollable outburst of feeling


A super-abundance of boisterous animal spirits


A supercilious scorn and pity          [supercilious =  haughty disdain]


A super-refinement of taste


A swaggering air of braggadocio      [braggadocio = pretentious bragging]


A sweet bewilderment of tremulous apprehension      [tremulous = fearful]


A sweet, quiet, sacred, stately seclusion


A swift knowledge came to her


A swift unformulated fear


A swiftly unrolling panorama of dreams


A tangle of ugly words


A thousand evanescent memories of happy days

                                      [evanescent = vanishing like vapor]


A thousand unutterable fears bore irresistible despotism over her thoughts


A time of disillusion followed


A tiny stream meandering amiably


A tone of arduous admiration


A torn and tumultuous sky


A total impression ineffable and indescribable


A tragic futility


A treacherous throb of her voice


A true similitude of what befalls many men and women


A tumult of vehement feeling


A tumultuous rush of sensations


A twinge of embarrassment


A vague and wistful melancholy


A vast sweet silence crept through the trees


A veritable spring-cleaning of the soul


A very practised and somewhat fastidious critic


A violent and mendacious tongue              [mendacious = false; untrue]


A vivid and arresting presentation


A waking dream overshadowed her


A weird world of morbid horrors


A well-bred mixture of boldness and courtesy


A wild vivacity was in her face and manner


A wile of the devil's       [wile = trick intended to deceive or ensnare]


A wind strayed through the gardens


A withering sensation of ineffable boredom


A wordless farewell


Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting


Absorbed in a stream of thoughts and reminiscences


Absorbed in the scent and murmur of the night


Accidents which perpetually deflect our vagrant attention


Across the gulf of years


Administering a little deft though veiled castigation


Affected an ironic incredulity


Affecting a tone of gayety


After a first moment of reluctance


After an eternity of resolutions, doubts, and indecisions


Aghast at his own helplessness


Agitated and enthralled by day-dreams


Agitated with violent and contending emotions


Alien paths and irrelevant junketings


All embrowned and mossed with age


All her gift of serene immobility brought into play


All hope of discreet reticence was ripped to shreds


All the lesser lights paled into insignificance


All the magic of youth and joy of life was there


All the place is peopled with sweet airs


All the sky was mother-of-pearl and tender


All the unknown of the night and of the universe was pressing upon him


All the world was flooded with a soft golden light


All was a vague jumble of chaotic impressions


All was incomprehensible


All was instinctive and spontaneous


Aloof from the motley throng


Ambition shivered into fragments


Amid distress and humiliation


Amid the direful calamities of the time


An acute note of distress in her voice


An agreeably grave vacuity


An air half quizzical and half deferential


An air of affected civility


An air of being meticulously explicit


An air of inimitable, scrutinizing, superb impertinence


An air of stern, deep, and irredeemable gloom hung over and pervaded all


An air of uncanny familiarity


An air which was distinctly critical


An almost pathetic appearance of ephemeral fragility

                                      [ephemeral = markedly short-lived]


An almost riotous prodigality of energy


An answering glow of gratitude


An antagonist worth her steel


An artful stroke of policy


An assumption of hostile intent


An assurance of good-nature that forestalled hostility


An atmosphere of extraordinary languor    [languor = dreamy, lazy mood ]


An atmosphere thick with flattery and toadyism


An attack of peculiar virulence and malevolence


An audacious challenge of ridicule


An avidity that bespoke at once the restlessness,   [avidity = eagerness]

and the genius of her mind


An awe crept over me


An eager and thirsty ear


An easy prey to the powers of folly


An effusive air of welcome


An equal degree of well-bred worldly cynicism


An erect, martial, majestic, and imposing personage


An eternity of silence oppressed him


An expression of mildly humorous surprise


An expression of rare and inexplicable personal energy


An exquisite perception of things beautiful and rare


An iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart


An ignoring eye


An impenetrable screen of foliage


An impersonal and slightly ironic interest


An impervious beckoning motion


An inarticulate echo of his longing


An increased gentleness of aspect


An incursion of the loud, the vulgar and meretricious

                                    [meretricious = plausible but false]


An inexplicable and uselessly cruel caprice of fate


An inexpressible fervor of serenity


An ingratiating, awkward and, wistful grace


An inspired ray was in his eyes


An instant she stared unbelievingly


An intense and insatiable hunger for light and truth


An intense travail of mind


An obscure thrill of alarm


An odd little air of penitent self-depreciation


An open wit and recklessness of bearing


An oppressive sense of strange sweet odor


An optimistic after-dinner mood


An overburdening sense of the inexpressible


An uncomfortable premonition of fear


An unfailing sweetness and unerring perception


An unpleasant and heavy sensation sat at his heart


An unredeemed dreariness of thought


An unsuspected moral obtuseness


An utter depression of soul


And day peers forth with her blank eyes


And what is all this pother about?     [pother = commotion; disturbance]


Animated by noble pride


Anticipation painted the world in rose


Appalled in speechless disgust


Appealing to the urgent temper of youth


Apprehensive solicitude about the future


Ardent words of admiration


Armed all over with subtle antagonisms


Artless and unquestioning devotion


As if smitten by a sudden spasm


As the long train sweeps away into the golden distance


August and imperial names in the kingdom of thought


Awaiting his summons to the eternal silence


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