1. 000 – Introduction
2. 001 – How To Use This Book
3. 002 – Plan of Study
4. 003 – Useful Phrases: abandoned hope – ample culture
5. 004 – Useful Phrases: amusing artlessness – azure sky
6. 005 – Useful Phrases: babbling gossip – bygone period
7. 006 – Useful Phrases: cabalistic phrase – collateral duties
8. 007 – Useful Phrases: collective wisdom – contingent reasons
9. 008 – Useful Phrases: continuous endeavor – cynical disregard
10. 009 – Useful Phrases: damaging admission – diligently propagated
11. 010 – Useful Phrases: dim comprehension – dynastic insolence
12. 011 – Useful Phrases: eager animosity – entrancing sadness
13. 012 – Useful Phrases: enveloping presence – exultant condition
14. 013 – Useful Phrases: facetious mood – flickering conscience
15. 014 – Useful Phrases: flighty obstinacy – futile babble
16. 015 – Useful Phrases: gabbling reminiscences – gymnastic agility
17. 016 – Useful Phrases: habitual deference – hysterical agitation
18. 017 – Useful Phrases: iconoclastic attitude – incipient fancy
19. 018 – Useful Phrases: incisive critic – inquisitional rack
20. 019 – Useful Phrases: inquisitive observer – isolated splendor
21. 020 – Useful Phrases: jaded sensibility – lying equivocations
22. 021 – Useful Phrases: maddening monotony – meteoric splendors
23. 022 – Useful Phrases: methodical regularity – mythical kingdom
24. 023 – Useful Phrases: naive manner – overworked drudge
25. 024 – Useful Phrases: pacific disposition – political malcontent
26. 025 – Useful Phrases: polluting taints – pyrotechnic outburst
27. 026 – Useful Phrases: quailing culprit – remarkable sagacity
28. 027 – Useful Phrases: remedial measure – ruthless commercialism
29. 028 – Useful Phrases: sacerdotal preeminence – shuddering reluctance
30. 029 – Useful Phrases: shuffling preliminaries – starched sterility
31. 030 – Useful Phrases: starlit eminence – systematic interaction
32. 031 – Useful Phrases: tacit assumption – tyrannical disposition
33. 032 – Useful Phrases: ubiquitous activity – undue predilection
34. 033 – Useful Phrases: undulating hills – unpalatable truth
35. 034 – Useful Phrases: unparalleled atrocities – utmost scorn
36. 035 – Useful Phrases: vacant stupidity – vulnerable foe
37. 036 – Useful Phrases: wabbling enterprise – zoologically considered
38. 037 – Significant Phrases: abashed and ashamed – awkwardness and crudity
39. 038 – Significant Phrases: babel and confusion – civilized and cultured
40. 039 – Significant Phrases: clamorous and wild – cynical and contemptuous
41. 040 – Significant Phrases: dangers and pitfalls – digressive and wanton
42. 041 – Significant Phrases: dilatory and hesitating – dwindle and disappear
43. 042 – Significant Phrases: eagerness and ecstasy – exuberant and infectious
44. 043 – Significant Phrases: fabulous and fabricated – futile and untrustworthy
45. 044 – Significant Phrases: gaiety and grace – hypocrisy and impudence
46. 045 – Significant Phrases: ideas and achievements – indomitable and dogged
47. 046 – Significant Phrases: indorsed and applauded – isolated and detached
48. 047 – Significant Phrases: jabber and chatter – luxury and pomp
49. 048 – Significant Phrases: madness and folly – mystic and wonderful
50. 049 – Significant Phrases: nagging and squabbling – overworked and fagged
51. 050 – Significant Phrases: pains and penalties – puzzled and affected
52. 051 – Significant Phrases: quackery and incompetence – rust and disuse
53. 052 – Significant Phrases: sad and melancholy – spacious and lofty
54. 053 – Significant Phrases: sparkling and spontaneous – sympathetic and consoling
55. 054 – Significant Phrases: taciturn and laconic – tyrant and oppressor
56. 055 – Significant Phrases: unaccountable and grotesque – vulgar and artificial
57. 056 – Significant Phrases: wandering and erratic – zigzag and deviating
58. 057 – Felicitous Phrases: ability, humor, and perspicacity – busy, active, and toiling
59. 058 – Felicitous Phrases: curious, fantastic, and charming – calculated, logical, and dispassionate
60. 059 – Felicitous Phrases: dwarfed, scant, and wretched – danger, difficulty, and hardship
61. 060 – Felicitous Phrases: eagerness, heartiness, and vehemence – fustian, padding, and irrelevancy
62. 061 – Felicitous Phrases: gaunt, desolate, and despoiled – humor, fancy, and susceptibility
63. 062 – Felicitous Phrases: idle, profuse, and profligate – luxurious, whimsical, and selfish
64. 063 – Felicitous Phrases: magnificent, sumptuous, and stately – overriding, arrogant, and quarrelsome
65. 064 – Felicitous Phrases: pain, toil, and privation – puzzles, tangles, and questionings
66. 065 – Felicitous Phrases: quarrels, misunderstandings, and enmities – rush, roar, and shriek
67. 066 – Felicitous Phrases: sacredness, dignity, and loveliness – sympathy, service, and compassion
68. 067 – Felicitous Phrases: talent, scholarship, and refinement – wrinkled, careworn, and pale
69. 068 – Impressive Phrases: able, skilful,… – business, profession,…
70. 069 – Impressive Phrases: candid, sincere,… – dull, heavy,…
71. 070 – Impressive Phrases: earth, air,… – gross, academic,..
72. 071 – Impressive Phrases: habit, custom,… – lucidity, impressiveness,…
73. 072 – Impressive Phrases: malice, anger,… – purpose, meaning,…
74. 073 – Edit: Impressive Phrases: quack, imposture,… – symmetry, proportion,..
75. 074 – Edit: Impressive Phrases: tact, courtesy,… – worry, annoyance,…
76. 075 – Prepositional Phrases of: abandon of spontaneity – business of life
77. 076 – Prepositional Phrases of: cadences of delirium – dust of defeat
78. 077 – Prepositional Phrases of: earnestness of enthusiasm – futility of pride
79. 078 – Prepositional Phrases of: gaiety of spirit – irony of life
80. 079 – Prepositional Phrases of: jangle of sounds – overflow of vitality
81. 080 – Prepositional Phrases of: page of desolation – ruts of conventionality
82. 081 – Prepositional Phrases of: sadness of soul – system of aspersion
83. 082 – Prepositional Phrases of: taint of megalomania – zone of delusion
84. 083 – Prepositional Phrases by: affected by externals – hushed by denial
85. 084 – Prepositional Phrases by: impelled by duty – wrenched by emotions
86. 085 – Prepositional Phrases in: absorbed in meditation – kept in abeyance
87. 086 – Prepositional Phrases in: landmarks in memory – weak in conception
88. 087 – Prepositional Phrases into: abashed into silence – goaded into action
89. 088 – Prepositional Phrases into: hushed into silence – withdraw into solitude
90. 089 – Prepositional Phrases to: addicted to flattery – hostile to progress
91. 090 – Prepositional Phrases to: impervious to suggestion – yield to reason
92. 091 – Prepositional Phrases with: abounding with plenty – intoxicated with joy
93. 092 – Prepositional Phrases with: kindle with enthusiasm – work with zeal
94. 093 – Business Phrases
95. 094 – Literary Expressions: A bitterness crept into her face – A nimble-witted opponent
96. 095 – Literary Expressions: A painful thought was flooding his mind – A wordless farewell
97. 096 – Literary Expressions: Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting – Awaiting his summons to the eternal silence
98. 097 – Literary Expressions: Bandied about from mouth to mouth – Dull black eyes under their precipice of brows
99. 098 – Literary Expressions: Earth danced under a heat haze – Guilty of girlish sentimentality
100. 099 – Literary Expressions: Half choked by a rising paroxysm of rage – Humiliating paltriness of revenge
101. 100 – Literary Expressions: I capitulated by inadvertence – Kiss-provoking lips
102. 101 – Literary Expressions: Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle – Rudely reminded of life’s serious issues
103. 102 – Literary Expressions: Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill – Swift summer into the autumn flowed
104. 103 – Literary Expressions: Taking the larger sweeps in the march of mind – The hungry curiosity of the mind
105. 104 – Literary Expressions: The idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought – The swing of the pendulum through an arch of centuries
106. 105 – Literary Expressions: The tempered daylight of an olive garden – Twilight creeps upon the darkening mind
107. 106 – Literary Expressions: Unapproachable grandeur and simplicity – Your mind enthroned in the seventh circle of content
108. 107 – Striking Similes: A blind rage like a fire swept over him – And the smile she softly uses fills the silence like a speech
109. 108 – Striking Similes: As a child in play scatters… – Awkward as a cart-horse
110. 109 – Striking Similes: Babbling like a child – Dull as champagne
111. 110 – Striking Similes: Each like a corpse within its grave – Great scarlet poppies lay in drifts …
112. 111 – Striking Similes: Hair as harsh as tropical grass and gray as ashes – Hushed like a breathless lyre
113. 112 – Striking Similes: I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew – Kingdoms melt away like snow
114. 113 – Striking Similes: Laboring like a giant – Like a yellow silken scarf the thick fog hangs
115. 114 – Striking Similes: Like an alien ghost I stole away – Like sweet thoughts in a dream
116. 115 – Striking Similes: Like the awful shadow of some unseen power – Lovely the land unknown…
117. 116 – Striking Similes: March on my soul nor like the laggard stay – Quivering like an eager race-horse to start
118. 117 – Striking Similes: Rage, rage ye tears, that never more should creep… – Swifter than the twinkling of an eye
119. 118 – Striking Similes: Talking and thinking became to him… – The music almost died away…
120. 119 – Striking Similes: The name that cuts into my soul like a knife – Then the lover sighing like furnace
121. 120 – Striking Similes: Theories sprouted in his mind like mushrooms – Turning easily and securely as on a perfect axle
122. 121 – Striking Similes: Unbends like a loosened bow – Youth like a summer morn
123. 122 – Conversational Phrases: A most extraordinary idea! – Human nature interests me very much indeed
124. 123 – Conversational Phrases: I admire your foresight – I could never forgive myself for that
125. 124 – Edit: Conversational Phrases: I dare say your intuition is quite right – I seem to have heard that sentiment before
126. 125 – Conversational Phrases: I shall at once proceed to forget it – It has never occurred to me
127. 126 – Conversational Phrases: It is a curious fact – It would take too long to formulate my thought
128. 127 – Conversational Phrases: Join us, please, when you have time – Surely you would not countenance that
129. 128 – Conversational Phrases: Tell me in what way you want me to help you – True, I forgot!
130. 129 – Conversational Phrases: Undeniably true – Would you mind telling me your opinion?
131. 130 – Conversational Phrases: Yes and no – Your statement is somewhat startling
132. 131 – Public Speaking Phrases: A fact of vast moment – And next I would ask
133. 132 – Public Speaking Phrases: And now allow me to call attention – Away then with the notion
134. 133 – Public Speaking Phrases: Be assured, then – But it has been suggested to me
135. 134 – Public Speaking Phrases: But it is a fact – By this time it will be suspected
136. 135 – Public Speaking Phrases: Can it be supposed – Granting all this
137. 136 – Public Speaking Phrases: Had I time for all that might be said – However, it is to me a very refreshing thing
138. 137 – Public Speaking Phrases: I abide by my statement – I am willing to know
139. 138 – Public Speaking Phrases: I anticipate with pleasing expectation – I distrust all general theories of
140. 139 – Public Speaking Phrases: I do again and again urge upon you – I hasten to concede
141. 140 – Public Speaking Phrases: I have a dark suspicion – I hope you will not accuse me
142. 141 – Public Speaking Phrases: I imagine that no one will be disposed – I rejoice to think I remark here
143. 142 – Public Speaking Phrases: I remember a reference made – I thank you very sincerely for the honor
144. 143 – Public Speaking Phrases: I think I am correct in saying – I yielded to the earnest solicitations
145. 144 – Public Speaking Phrases: If any man be so persuaded – In widening our view
146. 145 – Public Speaking Phrases: Indeed, can anyone tell me – It is my present purpose
147. 146 – Public Speaking Phrases: It is natural to ask the question – It may still more probably be said
148. 147 – Public Speaking Phrases: It must be a cause of delight – Just the reverse is true
149. 148 – Public Speaking Phrases: Language is inadequate to voice my appreciation – My regret is intensified by the thought
150. 149 – Public Speaking Phrases: Nay, I boldly say – Now, you will understand from this
151. 150 – Public Speaking Phrases: Observe again – Surely it is not too much for me to say
152. 151 – Public Speaking Phrases: Take another instance – The whole story of civilization
153. 152 – Public Speaking Phrases: Then again, in corroboration – Think of the cool disregard
154. 153 – Public Speaking Phrases: This absurdity arises – Very strange is this indeed
155. 154 – Public Speaking Phrases: We all agree as to – What strikes the mind so forcibly
156. 155 – Public Speaking Phrases: What, then, are we to believe – Your presence seems to say
157. 156 – Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts – A pleasant flow of appropriate language
158. 157 – Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts – A pleasant flow of appropriate language
159. 158 – Miscellaneous Phrases: An abandoned and exaggerated grief – Awaited with feverish anxiety
160. 159 – Miscellaneous Phrases: Bandied to and fro – Dwindled to alarmingly small dimensions
161. 160 – Miscellaneous Phrases: Easy-going to the point of lethargy – Hopelessly belated in its appearance
162. 161 – Miscellaneous Phrases: I adjured him – Its dominating and inspiring influence
163. 162 – Miscellaneous Phrases: Jealous and formidable foes – Quixotically generous about money
164. 163 – Miscellaneous Phrases: Radiantly and transparently happy – Swift and vehement outbursts of feeling
165. 164 – Miscellaneous Phrases: Take root in the heart – The sycophants of the rich