Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases
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Grenville Kleiser
(3,939 Sterne; 49 Bewertungen)
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)
Chapters
Significant Phrases: fabulous and fabricated - futile and untrustworthy
4:47
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)
Significant Phrases: gaiety and grace - hypocrisy and impudence
5:17
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)
Significant Phrases: ideas and achievements - indomitable and dogged
3:24
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)
Significant Phrases: sparkling and spontaneous - sympathetic and consoling
4:06
Read by jenneferdawn
Felicitous Phrases: ability, humor, and perspicacity - busy, active, and toiling
4:11
Read by Mochan42
Felicitous Phrases: curious, fantastic, and charming - calculated, logical, and…
4:11
Read by Marwa Gamil
Felicitous Phrases: dwarfed, scant, and wretched - danger, difficulty, and har…
4:32
Read by Marwa Gamil
Felicitous Phrases: eagerness, heartiness, and vehemence - fustian, padding, an…
4:35
Read by Sandra Zera
Felicitous Phrases: gaunt, desolate, and despoiled - humor, fancy, and suscept…
3:40
Read by Brian Lojeck
Felicitous Phrases: idle, profuse, and profligate - luxurious, whimsical, and s…
4:20
Read by Brian Lojeck
Felicitous Phrases: magnificent, sumptuous, and stately - overriding, arrogant,…
3:51
Read by Justin S Barrett
Felicitous Phrases: pain, toil, and privation - puzzles, tangles, and question…
3:45
Read by William Haseltine
Felicitous Phrases: quarrels, misunderstandings, and enmities - rush, roar, and…
2:38
Read by Rohanna
Felicitous Phrases: sacredness, dignity, and loveliness - sympathy, service, an…
4:05
Read by William Haseltine
Felicitous Phrases: talent, scholarship, and refinement - wrinkled, careworn, a…
5:08
Read by Marwa Gamil
Prepositional Phrases "of": earnestness of enthusiasm - futility of pride
4:12
Read by Joseph Etcheto
Prepositional Phrases "of": page of desolation - ruts of conventionality
4:52
Read by Joseph Etcheto
Prepositional Phrases "into": hushed into silence - withdraw into solitude
1:51
Read by Joe Brenneman
Prepositional Phrases "with": abounding with plenty - intoxicated with joy
2:23
Read by Joe Brenneman
Literary Expressions: A bitterness crept into her face - A nimble-witted oppone…
6:53
Read by Lee Elliott
Literary Expressions: A painful thought was flooding his mind - A wordless fare…
6:27
Read by Joe Brenneman
Literary Expressions: Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting - Awai…
8:18
Read by Ken Crooker
Literary Expressions: Bandied about from mouth to mouth - Dull black eyes under…
6:47
Read by Ken Crooker
Literary Expressions: Earth danced under a heat haze - Guilty of girlish sentim…
4:06
Read by Heather Lawrence
Literary Expressions: Half choked by a rising paroxysm of rage - Humiliating pa…
9:26
Read by David Best
Literary Expressions: Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle -…
10:45
Read by Pete Darby
Literary Expressions: Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill - Swift summer i…
7:27
Read by Heather Lawrence
Literary Expressions: Taking the larger sweeps in the march of mind - The hungr…
8:09
Read by C.L.Coney
Literary Expressions: The idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought - The swing of…
9:37
Read by C.L.Coney
Literary Expressions: The tempered daylight of an olive garden - Twilight creep…
5:34
Read by C.L.Coney
Literary Expressions: Unapproachable grandeur and simplicity - Your mind enthro…
3:39
Read by C.L.Coney
Striking Similes: A blind rage like a fire swept over him - And the smile she s…
10:55
Read by SueAnn Dozier
Striking Similes: As a child in play scatters... - Awkward as a cart-horse
6:39
Read by Joe Brenneman
Striking Similes: Each like a corpse within its grave - Great scarlet poppies l…
4:36
Read by Joe Brenneman
Striking Similes: Hair as harsh as tropical grass and gray as ashes - Hushed li…
9:19
Read by Sandra Zera
Striking Similes: I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew - Kingdoms melt away…
3:36
Read by Sandra Zera
Striking Similes: Laboring like a giant - Like a yellow silken scarf the thick …
7:03
Read by Rohanna
Striking Similes: Like an alien ghost I stole away - Like sweet thoughts in a d…
6:31
Read by Rohanna
Striking Similes: Like the awful shadow of some unseen power - Lovely the land …
6:32
Read by Rohanna
Striking Similes: March on my soul nor like the laggard stay - Quivering like a…
6:49
Read by Sarah Jennings
Striking Similes: Rage, rage ye tears, that never more should creep... - Swifte…
10:25
Read by Sandra Zera
Striking Similes: Talking and thinking became to him... - The music almost died…
6:35
Read by Marwa Gamil
Striking Similes: The name that cuts into my soul like a knife - Then the lover…
8:27
Read by Betsie Bush
Striking Similes: Theories sprouted in his mind like mushrooms - Turning easily…
6:21
Read by Betsie Bush
Conversational Phrases: A most extraordinary idea! - Human nature interests me …
6:38
Read by C Pannier
Conversational Phrases: I admire your foresight - I could never forgive myself …
7:28
Read by Mark Mascolino
Conversational Phrases: I dare say your intuition is quite right - I seem to ha…
9:02
Read by Precious
Conversational Phrases: I shall at once proceed to forget it - It has never occ…
6:45
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
Conversational Phrases: It is a curious fact - It would take too long to formul…
6:17
Read by Heather Lawrence
Conversational Phrases: Join us, please, when you have time - Surely you would …
7:00
Read by Ken Crooker
Conversational Phrases: Tell me in what way you want me to help you - True, I f…
6:38
Read by Ken Crooker
Conversational Phrases: Undeniably true - Would you mind telling me your opinio…
3:47
Read by Elizabeth Palmer
Conversational Phrases: Yes and no - Your statement is somewhat startling
4:49
Read by Elizabeth Palmer
Public Speaking Phrases: And now allow me to call attention - Away then with th…
8:01
Read by Scot Colford
Public Speaking Phrases: Be assured, then - But it has been suggested to me
4:55
Read by Sandra Zera
Public Speaking Phrases: But it is a fact - By this time it will be suspected
4:20
Read by Joe Brenneman
Public Speaking Phrases: Had I time for all that might be said - However, it is…
3:16
Read by Joe Brenneman
Public Speaking Phrases: I anticipate with pleasing expectation - I distrust al…
7:39
Read by Joe Brenneman
Public Speaking Phrases: I do again and again urge upon you - I hasten to conce…
8:10
Read by Ken Crooker
Public Speaking Phrases: I have a dark suspicion - I hope you will not accuse me
11:49
Read by Ken Crooker
Public Speaking Phrases: I imagine that no one will be disposed - I rejoice to …
9:23
Read by Stephen Lamb
Public Speaking Phrases: I remember a reference made - I thank you very sincere…
9:41
Read by David Best
Public Speaking Phrases: I think I am correct in saying - I yielded to the earn…
10:38
Read by David Best
Public Speaking Phrases: Indeed, can anyone tell me - It is my present purpose
9:25
Read by Sandra Zera
Public Speaking Phrases: It is natural to ask the question - It may still more …
5:38
Read by Maura Walsh
Public Speaking Phrases: It must be a cause of delight - Just the reverse is tr…
5:21
Read by Maura Walsh
Public Speaking Phrases: Nay, I boldly say - Now, you will understand from this
5:43
Read by Joe Brenneman
Public Speaking Phrases: Observe again - Surely it is not too much for me to say
7:43
Read by Joe Brenneman
Public Speaking Phrases: Then again, in corroboration - Think of the cool disre…
5:49
Read by Betsie Bush
Public Speaking Phrases: This absurdity arises - Very strange is this indeed
5:15
Read by Don Powers
Public Speaking Phrases: We all agree as to - What strikes the mind so forcibly
9:02
Read by Jason Isbell
Public Speaking Phrases: What, then, are we to believe - Your presence seems to…
6:57
Read by Jason Isbell
Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts - A pleasant flow of ap…
7:01
Read by Joan Walton
Miscellaneous Phrases: A pompous failure - Ample scope for the exercise of his …
7:21
Read by Joan Walton
Miscellaneous Phrases: An abandoned and exaggerated grief - Awaited with feveri…
6:03
Read by Heather Lawrence
Miscellaneous Phrases: Bandied to and fro - Dwindled to alarmingly small dimens…
6:58
Read by Heather Lawrence
Miscellaneous Phrases: Easy-going to the point of lethargy - Hopelessly belated…
9:30
Read by Luigina
Miscellaneous Phrases: Jealous and formidable foes - Quixotically generous abou…
10:34
Read by Luigina
Miscellaneous Phrases: Radiantly and transparently happy - Swift and vehement o…
8:02
Read by Jason Isbell
Miscellaneous Phrases: Take root in the heart - The sycophants of the rich
12:00
Read by Nick Davies
Bewertungen
Cringe and Whinge
Vivia, LibriVox populi
(4 Sterne)
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
librivoxbooks
(4 Sterne)
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.
Thank you
tranquille
(4 Sterne)
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
userdce
(4 Sterne)
057 and 148 missing thanx for the these wonderful chapters
very helpful
Isam
(4 Sterne)
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
(5 Sterne)
Sandra Zeras' voice is angelic!
Phable
(5 Sterne)
Sections 111 and 112 are read by Sandra Zera; her voice absolutely shifts my consciousness in such a perfect way!