 Section 148 of 15,000 Useful Phrases by Grenville Kleiser, read for LibriVox.org by Tricia G. L. Language is inadequate to voice my appreciation. Lastly, I do not understand. Lastly, it cannot be denied. Less than this could not be said. Lest I should be accused of quibbling. Let all of us labor in this work. Let anyone imagine to himself. Let anyone who doubts. Let everyone consider. Let it be clearly understood, I repeat it. Let it be remembered. Let it not be objected. Let it not be supposed that I impute. Note, impute relate to a particular cause or source and note. Let me add another thing. Let me add my final word. Let me add one other hint. Let me also say a word in regard. Let me answer these questions. Let me ask you to imagine. Let me ask your leave to propose. Let me be allowed to devote a few words. Let me call attention to another fact. Let me commend to you. Let me direct your attention now to. Let me entreat you to examine. Let me give one more instance. Let me give one parting word. Let me give you an illustration. Let me here make one remark. Let me here say. Let me hope that I have said enough. Let me illustrate again. Let me make myself distinctly understood. Let me make use of an illustration. Let me not be thought offensive. Let me now conclude with. Let me once more urge upon you. Let me protest against the manner. Let me quite temporarily defend. Let me rather make the supposition. Let me say a practical word. Let me simply declare. Let me tell you an interesting reminiscence. Let me thank you once more. Let me urge you earnestly. Let no man congratulate himself. Let our conception be enlarged. Let our object be. Let that question be answered by. Let the facts be granted. Let these instances suffice. Let this be the record made. Let this inspire us with abhorrence of. Let us approach the subject from another side. Let us attempt a survey. Let us be perfectly just. Let us be quite practical. Let us bear perpetually in mind. Let us begin at the beginning. Let us begin by examining. Let us briefly review. Let us brush aside once for all. Let us cherish. Let us confirm our opinion. Let us consider for a moment. Let us devote ourselves. Let us discard all prejudice. Let us do all we can. Let us draw an illustration. Let us endeavor to understand. Let us enumerate. Let us figure to ourselves. Let us for the moment put aside. Let us get a clear understanding. Let us heed the voice. Let us hope and believe. Let us hope that future generations. Let us imitate. Let us inquire also. Let us labor and pray. Let us likewise remember. Let us look briefly at a few particulars. Let us look nearer home. Let us not be fearful. Let us not be misled. Let us not be misunderstood. Let us not flatter ourselves. Let us not for a moment forget. Let us not limit our view. Let us now apply the views presented. Let us now consider the characteristics. Let us now see the results. Let us now turn our consideration. Let us observe this analogy. Let us pass on to another fact. Let us pause a moment. Let us push the inquiry yet further. Let us rather listen to. Let us reflect how vain. Let us remember this. Let us remind ourselves. Let us resolve. Let us scrutinize the facts. Let us suppose for argument's sake. Let us suppose the case to be. Let us take for instance. Let us then be assured. Let us then be worthy of. Let us therefore say once for all. Let us try to form a mental picture. Let us turn to the contemplation of. Let your imagination realize. Like all citizens of high ideals. Likely enough. Little wonder therefore. Long have I been convinced. Look at it in another way. Look at some of these questions. Look at the situation. M. Mainly I believe. Making allowances for differences of opinion. Many of us have had the good fortune. Many of you perhaps recollect. May I ask you to believe? May I not speak here? May I try to show that every effort? May I venture to suggest? May it not also be advanced? May the day come quickly? Meantime it is encouraging to think. Meanwhile let us freely recognize. Men are in the habit of saying. Men are telling us nowadays. Men everywhere testify. More and more it is felt. More than once have I had to express. More than this need not be said. Moreover I have insisted. Moreover I would counsel you. Moreover when we pass judgment. Much has been said and written about. My appreciation has been quickened. My belief therefore is. My duty is to endeavor to show. My experience tells me. My first duty is to express to you. My friends do you really believe? My friends I propose. My heart tells me. My idea therefore is. My last criticism upon. My mind is not moved by. My mind most perfectly acquiesces. My next objection is. My own private opinion is. My present business is. My regret is intensified by the thought. End of section 148. This recording is in the public domain. Section 149 of 15,000 Useful Phrases by Grenville Kleiser. Read for LibreVox.org by Joe Breneman. N, nay, I boldly say. Nay, it will be a relief to my mind. Nay, there is a general feeling. Need I say that I mean? Neither should you deceive. Never before have I so strongly felt. Never can I cease to feel. Never did there devolve. Never for a moment believe. Never have I felt so forcibly. Never was a weaker defense attempted. Never was there a greater mistake. Never was there an instance. Nevertheless we can admit. Next from what has been said it is plain. Next I consider. Next it will be denied. No argument can overwhelm a fact. No defense is to be found. No distinct test can be named. No doubt in the first instance. No doubt there are many questions. No doubt to most of us. No finer sentence has come down to us. No greater service could be rendered. No longer do we believe. No man regrets more than I do. No one can feel this more strongly. No one can, I think, pretend. No one can see the end. No one here, I am sure. No one, I suppose, would say. No one, I think, can fail to observe. No one, I think, will dispute the statement. No one need to exaggerate. No one will accuse me. No true man ever believes. None can have failed to observe. Nor am I disparaging or discouraging. Nor can I forget either. Nor can it be justly said. Nor can we afford to waste time. Nor can we forget how long. Nor can we now ask. Nor do I believe. Nor do I doubt. Nor do I pretend. Nor do I think there can be found. Nor does it matter much. Nor has there been wanting. Nor indeed am I supposing. Nor is it a fair objection. Nor is it probable. Nor is this all. Nor let me forget to add here. Nor must I be understood as saying. Nor must it be forgotten. Nor need we fear to speak. Nor should any attempt be made. Nor will history fail to record. Nor will I enlarge on the matter. Not at all. Not only so. Not that I quarrel with. Nothing but the deepest sense. Nothing can be further from the truth. Nothing could be clear. Nothing could be more striking. Nothing is more common in the world. Nothing that you can do. Notwithstanding all that has been said. Notwithstanding all this I hold. Now bear with me when I say. Now comes the question. Now comparing these instances together. Now from these instances it is plain. Now having spoken of. Now I admit. Now I am far from denying. Now I am far from undervaluing. Now I am justified in calling this. Now I am obliged to say. Now I do not wish you to believe. Now I have a closing sentence or two. Now I pass on to consider. Now I shall not occupy your time. Now I understand the argument. Now I will undertake to say. Now I wish to call your attention. Now if you will clearly understand. Now is there any ground or basis for. Now it is an undoubted fact. Now it is evident. Now it is not at all strange. Now it is on question. Now let me speak with the greatest care. Now let me stop for a moment. Now let us consider. Now observe my drift. Now sir I am truly horrified. Now the answer we should give. Now the question here at issue. Now the world will say. Now there is a close alliance between. Now this is precisely the danger. Now this is to some extent. Now understand me definitely. Now we do not maintain. Now we will inquire. Now what I want you to realize. Now with regard to. Now you will allow me to state. Now you will understand from this. End of section 149. This recording is in a public domain. Section 150 of 15,000 Useful Phrases. By Greenville Kleiser. Read for LibriVox.org by Jill Breneman. Oh. Observe again. Occasionally you ought to read. Of course I am aware. Of course I am putting an impossible case. Of course I cannot be taken to mean. Of course I do not maintain. Of course I do not stop here. Of course I would not allow. Of course much may be said. Of course these remarks hold good. Of course we may if we please. Of course you will sympathize. Of one thing however I am certain. Of this briefly. Of this statement I will only say. Of this truth I shall convince you by. On a review of the whole subject. On occasions of this kind. On such a day as this. On the contrary I am assuming. On the occasion to which I refer. On the other hand it is clear. On the whole then I observe. On this auspicious occasion. On this point I do not mean to dwell. On this subject you need not suspect. Once again there are those. Once more I emphasize. Once more let me try to put into words. One additional remark. One almost wishes. One cannot decline to note. One concluding remark has to be made. One fact is clear and indisputable. One further word. One important topic remains. One is fairly tempted to wish. One lesson history may be said to repeat. One might be challenged to produce. One of the ancients said. One of the most commonly known. One of the most extraordinary incidents. One of the things I recollect with most pride. One of these signs is the fact. One or two points are made clear. One other circumstance. One other remark suggests itself. One remark I will make. One thing more will complete this question. One thing which always impressed me. One very striking tendency. One word in courtesy I must say. One word more in a serious vein. One would naturally suppose. Only so much do I know. Opinions are divided as to whether. Or to come near home. Or to take but one other example. Or narrowly speaking such deductions. Others may hold other options. We not to think. Our thoughts wonder back. Over and above all this. P. Pardon me if. Perhaps another reason why. Perhaps however in speaking to you. Perhaps however some among you will be. Perhaps I may be best able to illustrate. Perhaps I ought to say. Perhaps it may be doubted. Perhaps sir I am mistaken in. Permit me frankly to say. Permit me to add another circumstance. Permit me to bring home to you. Personally I am far too firm a believer. Pray sir let me say. R. Read but your history a right. Recollect sir. Reflections such as these. Rely upon it. Remember I do not seek to. Remembering some past occurrences. Returning then to the consideration. S. Seriously then do I beg you. I shall tell you. Shall we complain? Should there be an objection I answer. Since then it is provided. Since then this is the case. Sir with all my heart I respond. So accustomed are we. So at least it seems to me. So far as I know. So far as my observation and experience goes. So far in general. So I say to you. So it comes to pass. So long as we continue to love truth and duty. So men are asking. So much at first sight. So much on this subject. So that I may venture to say. So that if you were persuaded. So then ought we also. So to add one other example. So too I may go on to speak. So when I hear people say. Some have insisted. Some of you can recall the time. Some of you may think this visionary. Some of you will remember. Someone will perhaps object. Some prejudice is attached. Some writer has said. Sometimes I venture to think. Sometimes it may happen. Speaking in this place. Startling as this may appear to you. Stating only the truth I affirm. Still another encouraging fact. Still further. Still I cannot part from my subject. Still I have generally found. Still I imagine you would consider it. Still I know what answer I can make to. Still it may with justice be said. Still one thing more. Still we ought to be grateful. Strictly in confidence I do not think. Strictly speaking there is no such thing. Such a doctrine is essentially superficial. Such are the rather tolerant ideas. Such considerations as these. Such I believe would be the consequences. Such illustrations are not frequent. Such in brief is the story. Such is steadfastly my opinion. Such is the deep prejudice now existing. Such is the intellectual view we take. Such is the lesson which I am taught. Such is the progress. Such is the truth. Such sir I conceive to be. Such then is the true idea. Such too is the characteristic of. Suffer me to point out. Suffice it to say here. Summing up what I have said. Suppose we turn our eyes to. Surely I do not misinterpret. Surely it is a paradox. Surely it is not too much for me to say. Ending of section 150. This recording is in the public domain. Section 151 of 15,000 Useful Phrases by Grenville Kleiser. Read for LibriVox.org by Holly Curtley. May 8, 2007, Birmingham, Alabama. Take another instance. Take one of the most recent cases. Take the simple fact. Take this example. Taking a broader view. Taking the facts by themselves. That is a further point. That is a natural boast. That is a pure assumption. That is all it seems necessary to me. That is all very good. That is far from my thoughts. That is final and conclusive. That is the lesson of history. That is the question of questions. That you may conceive the force of. The answer is easy to find. The answer is ready. The belief is born of the wish. The day is at hand. The decided objection is raised. The doctrine I am combating. The doctrine is admirable. The effect too often is The evolution of events has brought. The fact has made a deep impression on me. The fact has often been insisted. The fact to be particularly noted. The facts are clear and unequivocal. The facts may be strung together. The first business of every major. The first business of every major. The first business of every man. The first counsel I would offer. The first great fact to remember is The first point to be ascertained. The first practical thought is The first remarkable instance was The first thing I wish to note. The first thing that we have to consider. The future historian will no doubt The generous feeling that has promoted you. The great mass of the people. The hour is at hand. The illustration is analogous. The important thing is The instance I shall choose. The irresistible tendency of The kindness with which I have been received. The last and distinguishing feature is The latest inclination I have seen. The lesson which we should take most to heart. The main cause of all this. The more you examine this matter The most concise tribute paid. The most reasonable anticipation. The most remarkable step forward. The most striking characteristic. The most sublime instance that I know. The next point is The next question to be considered is The next thing I consider indispensable. The occasion that calls us together. The one central difference between The only course that remains open. The only plea to be offered. The other day I observed. The paramount consideration is The perils that beset us here. The pleasing duty is assigned me. The point I have urged upon you is The point I wish a little further to speak of. The point to which I shall call your attention. The popular notion is The practical inference from all this. The presence of this brilliant assemblage. The pressing question is The prevalent opinion no doubt. The proof of this statement is to be found. The question is deeply involved. The question then recurs. The remedy I believe to be The result I fancy has been The result of the whole. The rule will always hold good. The sacred voice of inspiration. The same is true in respect of The seeing all comes back. The sentiment to which I am to respond. The sentiment which you have expressed. The simple rule and test. The simple truth is The soundness of this doctrine depends The strongest proof I have. The subject of the evening's address. The subject which has been assigned to me. The task has been placed in my hands. The testimony of history is The theory seems at first sight. The thought with which I shall close. The time has manifestly now arrived. The time is not far distant. The time is now come for me. The times are full of signs and warnings. The toast I am about to propose to you. The vain wish has sometimes been indulged. The view I have been enforcing. The view is more misleading. The warmth and kindness of your reception. The welcome that has been extended to me. The whole story of civilization. End of section 151. This recording is in the public domain. Section 152 of 15,000 Useful Phrases by Grenville Cleiser. Read for LibriVox.org by Betsy Bush. Public speaking phrases. Then again in corroboration. Then again when men say. Then take the other side of the argument. Then the question arises. Then there is another story. Then too it must be remembered. There are certain old truths. There are few spectacles. There are hopeful signs of. There are, I believe, many who think. There are indeed exceptions. There are indeed persons who profess. There are many educated and intelligent people. There are people in every community. There are several reasons why. There are some slight modifications. There are some who are fond of looking at. There are some who have an idea. There are those of us who can remember. There are those who wish. There are two conflicting theories. There can be but one answer. There can be no doubt. There has been a great deal of discussion lately. There has been no period of time. There have been differences of opinion. There is a characteristic saying. There is a class of person. There is a common saying. There is a conviction. There is a degree of evidence. There is a genuine grief. There is a great deal of rash talking. There is a growing disposition. There is a large class of thinkers. There is a lesson of profound interest. There is a more important question. There is a more serious lesson. There is a multitude of facts. There is a question of vital importance. There is a very common tendency. There is a vital difference of opinion. There is an analogy in this respect. There is an ancient story to the effect. There is an external controversy. There is another class of men. There is another factor. There is another object equally important. There is another point of view. There is another remarkable analogy. There is another sense in which. There is, at any rate, to be said. There is but one consideration. There is certainly no reason. There is hardly any limit. There is, however, another opinion. There is, however, one caution. There is little truth in. There is no field of human activity. There is no good reason. There is no justification for. There is no mistaking the purpose. There is no more insidious peril. There is no more striking exemplification. There is no occasion to exaggerate. There is no page of history. There is no sense in saying. There is no worse perversion. There is not a shadow of evidence. There is nothing more repulsive. There is nothing overstated in this description. There is nothing to show. There is one story which it is said. There is only one sense in which. There is some difference of opinion. There is something strangely interesting. There is yet another distinction. There is yet one other remark. There ought certainly to be. There was but one alternative. There was one remarkable incident. There will always be a number of men. There will be no difficulty. There yet remains. Therefore there is no possibility of a doubt. Therefore lies your responsibility. These alone would not be sufficient. These are enough to refute the opinion. These are general councils. These are generalizations. These are my reasons for. These are points for consideration. These considerations have great weight with me. These expectations do not hold in the case of. These ideas naturally present themselves. These instances are far more common. These instances are indications. These last words lead me to say. These objections only go to show. These questions I shall examine. These various partial views. They mistake the intelligence. They would persuade you to think for a moment. Think of the cool disregard. End of section 152 of 15,000 Useful Phrases by Grenville-Kleiser. This recording is in the public domain. This absurdity arises. This appeal to the common sense. This argument is especially cogent. This, at least, is sure. This being the case. This being true. This being undeniable. It is plain. This being understood. I ask. This brings me to a single remark. This brings us to a subject. This episode goes to proof. This fact was soon made manifest. This, from the nature of the case. This I concede to be the business. This I consider to be my own case. This I have told you. This is a general statement. This is a very one-sided conception. This is a very serious situation. This is an astonishing announcement. This is conceded by. This is contrary to all argument. This is doubtless to truth. This is especially the case. This is essentially an age of. This is in the main just. This is just like saying. This is not all. This is not the main point of objection. This is not the occasion of the place. This is obvious. This is on the whole reasonable. This is the only other illustration of. This is owing in great measure too. This is precisely what we ought to do. This is said in no spirit of. This is suggested to us. This is the design and intention. This is the great fact. This is the main point on which the inquiry turns. This is the meaning of. This is the obvious answer. This is the point I want to impress upon you. This is the point of view. This is the position of our minds. This is the radical question. This is the sentiment of mankind. This is the starting point. This is the sum. This is to be found in the fact. This is what I am led to say. This is what may be objected. This is why I take the liberty. This language is plain. This leads me to the question. This leads us to inquire. This may be said without prejudice. This might be illustrated at length. This much is certain. This sentiment was well nigh universal. This surely is the conclusion. This then is the answer. This then is the drift of my illustration. This then is what I mean by saying. This will be evident at once. This you cannot deny. Those who have watched the tendencies. Thus a great deal may be done. Thus analogies suggest. Thus far I will only admit. Thus I am led to another remark. Thus if you look into. Thus instances occur now and then. Thus it comes to pass. Thus my imagination tells me. Thus much however I may say. Thus much I may be allowed to say. Thus much may be sufficient to recall. Thus we see. Time would not permit me. To a man of the highest public spirit. To avoid all possibility of being misunderstood. To be more explicit. To be sure. We sometimes hear. To bring the matter near at home. To convince them of this. To feel the true force of this argument. To illustrate. To make my story quite complete. To me however it would appear. To my way of conceiving such matters. To prevent misapprehension. To some it may sound like a paradox. To sum up all that has been said. To sum up in one word. To take a very different instance. To the conclusion thus drawn. To the enormous majority of person. To these general considerations. To this I answer. To this it will be replied. To what other cause can you ascribe. Today as never before. Treading close upon the heels. Tried by this standard. True it is. True there are difficulties. Truly it is a subject for astonishment. Two things are made very clear. You. Under all the circumstances. Under these favoring conditions. Under this head. Undoubtedly we may find. Unfortunately it is a truth. Unless I could be sure. Up to this moment I have stated. The. Very strange is this indeed. End of section 153. This recording is in the public domain. Agree as to. We all feel the force of the maxim. We all in equal sincerity profess. We almost shudder when we see. We are accustomed to lay stress upon. We are all familiar with. We are approaching an era. We are apt to forget. We are assembled here today. We are beginning to realize. We are bound to give heed. We are constantly being told. We are fulfilling what I believe to be. We are in the habit of saying. We are met tonight. We are not able to prove. We are not disinterested. We are quite unable to speculate. We are told emphatically. We are tolerably certain. We believe with a certain belief. We can but pause to contemplate. We can imagine the amazement of. We cannot but be struck with. We cannot escape the truth. We cannot have this too deeply fixed. We cannot too highly honor the temper of. We cannot wonder. We can only applaud the sentiment. We can only bow with awe. We can presume. We can remember with pride. We can see to some extent. We continually hear nowadays. We deeply appreciate the circumstances of. We do not quarrel with those. We do not question the reality. We do well to recall. We easily persuade ourselves. We feel keenly about such things. We grope blindly along. We have a firm assurance. We have a right to claim. We have an overpowering sense. We have been accustomed to. We have been told by more than one. We have come together tonight. We have great reason to be thankful. We have heard lately. We have hear plain proof. We have need to examine. We have no means of knowing. We have no other alternative. We have not yet solved the problem. We have sought on this occasion. We have the evidence of this. We have the good fortune tonight. We have to admit. We have witnessed on many occasions. We hear it is said sometimes. We hear no complaint. We heartily wish and mean. We hold fast to the principle. We laugh to scorn the idea. We may all of us agree. We may be permitted to remember. We may contemplate with satisfaction. We may have a deep consciousness. We may indeed consider. We may not know precisely how. We must also look. We must constantly direct our purpose. We must not be deceived. We must not mistake. We must realize conscientiously. We must remember. We need no proof to assure us. We need not look far for reasons. We need not trouble ourselves. We of this generation. We often hear persons say. We ought in strict propriety. We pride ourselves upon the fact. We rightly pay all honor. We see in a variety of ways. We shall all doubtless concede. We shall be blind not to perceive. We shall do well to remember. We shall have no difficulty in determining. We should be convinced. We should contemplate and compare. We should dread nothing so much. We should lend our influence. We should not question for a moment. We should not therefore question. We stand astonished at. We stumble and falter and fall. We take it for granted. We will not stop to inquire. Waity as these conditions are. Well, gentlemen, it must be confessed. Well, may we explain. Well, now, let us propose. Well, that being the case, I say. Were I to enter into a detailed description? Were I to speculate? What are the precise characteristics? What are we to think of? What are you going to do? What can avail? What can be more intelligible? What can be more monstrous than? What can I say better? What commonly happens is this. What could be more captivating? What could be more true? What do we gain by? What do we understand to have been? What I mean is this. What I now say is. What I object to is. What I propose to do is. What I shall actually attempt to show here. What I suggest is. What is more important? What is more remarkable? What is the pretext? What is this but to say? What more shall I say? What remains but to wish you? What strikes the mind so forcibly? In section 154, this recording is in the public domain. Section 155 of 15,000 Useful Phrases by Grinnell Kleiser Read for LubriVox.org by Jason Isbell www.chubamdevelopment.com What then are we to believe? What then can be the reason? What then I may be asked? What then is the use? What then was the nature of? What is the consequence of? What we are concerned to know is. What we have most to complain of? What would you say? Whatever a man thinks. Whatever deference of opinion may exist. Whatever opinion I may express. Whatever the truth may be. When I am told. When I hear it said. When I remember the history. When I review these circumstances. When I speak of this question. When I thus profess myself. When one remembers. When we consider the vastness. When we contemplate. When we get so far as this. When we look closely at. When will men understand? When you are assured. When you did me the honor to invite me. Whence it is I say. Whence was the proof to come? While acknowledging the great value. While I feel most keenly the honor. While I have hinted to you. Whilst I am on this matter. Who can deny the effect? Who can say in a word? Who does not like to see? Who has not felt the constraint? Who that reads does not see? Who will accuse me? Why again should I take notice? Why need you seek to disprove? Will any gentleman say? Will anyone answer? Will it be whispered? Will it not be well for us? Will you allow me to present to you? Will you bear with me? Will you mistake this? Will you permit me to thank you? With all my heart I share. With possibly a single exception. With respect to what has been said. With this ideal clearly before us. With whatever opinions we come here. Without going into any details. Without me saying a word more. Why? Yet I am convinced. Yet I am willing to admit. Yet I am willing to conclude. Yet I feel quite free to say. Yet I, for one, do not hesitate to admit. Yet I have never been thoroughly satisfied. Yet I suppose it is worthwhile. Yet I would have to think. Yet if you were to ask the question. Yet it is instructive and interesting. Yet it is no less true. Yet it is perfectly plain. Yet let me consider what consequences must. Yet may I not remind you. You all know the history of. You and I are always contrasting. You are at a parting of the ways. You are now invited to do honour. You can never forget. You cannot assert. You do not need to be told. You have all read the story. You have been gracious enough to assign me. You have been mindful. You have been pleased to confer upon me. You have but to observe. You have done me a great honour. You have no right. You have not forgotten. You have often pondered over. You have sometimes been astonished. You know that it is impossible to. You know the legend which has grown up. You know very well. You may also be assured. You may be acquainted with. You may be sure. You may depend upon it. You may remember. You may well be proud. You may well study the example. You might apply to yourselves. You must not forget. You must understand I do not mean to claim. You ought not to disregard what I say. You remember how. You will allow me to say with becoming brevity. You will be pleased to hear. You will bear me out when I say. You will clearly understand. You will expect me to say something about. You will forgive me. You will join with me, I trust. You will observe. You will pardon me, I am sure. You will scarcely be surprised. You would never dream of urging. You yourselves are the evidence. Your friendly and generous words. Your good sense must tell you. Your presence seems to say. In Section 155, this recording is in the public domain, recorded by Jason Isbell, www.shabamdevelopment.com Section 156 of 15,000 Useful Phrases by Grenville Kleiser, read for LibriVox.org by Joan Walton in Mountain View, California. A bewildering labyrinth of facts, a blank absence of interest or sympathy, a bloodless diplomatist, a breach of confidence, a brilliant and paradoxical talker, a burning sense of shame and horror, a century of disillusionment, a certain catholicity of taste, a cheap and coarse cynicism, a civilizing agency of conspicuous value, a cleanness and probity of life, a commendable restraint, a condescending and patronizing spirit, a confused and troublesome time, a conscientious anxiety to do the right thing, a conspicuous and crowning service, a constant source of surprise and delight, a contemptible species of mockery, a convenient makeshift, a copious torrent of pleasantry, a course of arrogant obstinacy, a crumb of consolation, a crystallized embodiment of the age, a cynical and selfish hedonist, a dangerous varnish of refinement, a dead theological dogma, a decorous and well-intentioned person, a deep and most impressive solemnity, a deep and strange suggestiveness, a deep authentic impression of disinterestedness, a dereliction of duty, a disaster of the first magnitude, a distorted and pessimistic view of life, a dogmatic and self-righteous spirit, a duel of brains, a dull collocation of words, a fastidious sense of fitness, a fatal and moral hollowness, a feeling of lofty remoteness, a feminine excess of inconsequence, a final and irrevocable settlement, a firmness tempered by the most scrupulous courtesy, a fitting interval for penitence, a flippant rejoinder, a flood of external impressions, a flourish of rhetoric, a fund of curious information, a furtive groping after knowledge, a gambler's desperate chance, a ghastly mixture of defiance and conceit, a glaring example of rapacity, a graceful non-entity, a great and many-sided personality, a great capacity for generous indignation, a great source of confusion, a gross piece of stupidity, a habit of writing a theory too hard, a habit of rigorous definition, a happy and compensating experience, a haughty self-assertion of equality, a hideous absurdity, a hideous orgy of massacre and outrage, a high pitch of eloquence, a home-like and festive aspect, a hopeless enigma, a hotbed of disturbance, a hushed rustle of applause testified to a widespread approbation, a keenly receptive and intensely sensitive temperament, a kind of fantastic patchwork, a kind of surly reluctance, a laudable stimulus, a law of retributive justice, a less revolutionary innovation, a life of studious contemplation, a limpidity and lucidity of style, a lingering tinge of admiration, a lively sense of what is dishonorable, a long accumulating store of discontent and unrest, a long tangle of unavoidable detail, a look threatening and peremptory, a many-sided and far-reaching enthusiasm, a marvelous sharpener of the faculties, a melancholy preponderance of mischief, a memory-haunting phrase, a mercenary marriage, a mere conjectural estimate, a microscopic care in the search of words, a misconception which is singularly prevalent, a mixture of malignancy and madness, a modicum of truth, a monstrous travesty, a mood of hard skepticism, a more than ordinary share of baseness and depravity, a most laudable zeal, a most repulsive and incomprehensible idiom, a most unseasonable piece of impertinence, a multitude of groundless alarms, a murderous tenacity about trifles, a mysterious and an intractable pestilence, a mysterious and inscrutable power, a narrow and superficial survey, a nature somewhat frivolous and irresolute, a needlessly offensive manner, a nimble interchange of uninteresting gossip, a noble and puissant nation, a novel and perplexing course, a numerous company, a painful and disconcerting deformity, a partial disenchantment, a passage of extraordinary daring, a patchwork of compromises, a permanent and habitual state of mind, a pernicious and growing tendency, a perversion of judgment, a phantom of the brain, a piece of grotesque stupidity, a pleasant flow of appropriate language. End of Section 156. This recording is in the public domain. Recorded by Joan Walton in Mountain View, California. Section 157 of 15,000 Useful Phrases by Grenville Kleiser. Read for LibriVox.org by Joan Walton in Mountain View, California. A pompous failure, a potential menace to life, a powerful and persuasive orator, a prevalent characteristic of her nature, a prey to the tongue of the public, a pristine vigor of style, a profusion of compliments, a proposition inherently vicious, a purile illusion, a quenchless thirst for expression, a rage akin to frenzy, a rare precision of insight, a rather desperate procedure, a reckless fashion, a recrudescence of superstition, a relish for the sublime, a reversion to the boldest paganism, a rigid avoidance of extravagance and excess, a ripple of applause, a restraining and conservative force, a robust and consistent application, a sacred and indissoluble union, a sane philosophy of life, a secluded dreamer of dreams, a secret and wistful charm, a sense of deepening discouragement, a sense of indescribable reverence, a series of brief and irritating hopes, a settled conviction of success, a sharp difference of opinion, a sharp pang of regretful surprise, a shrewd eye to the main chance, a signaled deed of justice, a skeptical suspension of judgment, a slight and superficial tribute, a slowly subsiding frenzy, a snare and a delusion, a somewhat complicated and abstruse calculation, a sordid and detestable motive, a sort of incredulous stupefaction, a source of unfailing delight and wonder, a species of moral usurpation, a spirit inimical to learning, a spirit of complacent pessimism, a startling and unfortunate digression, a state of scarcely veiled insurrection, a state of urgent necessity, a stern decree of fate, a stern foe of snobbishness, a storm of public indignation, a strange mixture of carelessness, generosity and caprice, a strangely perverse and poverty-stricken imagination, a strong assumption of superiority, a subjugated and sullen population, a sudden revulsion, a supposed ground of affinity, a synonym for retrogression, a taunting accusation of falsehood, a tedious and needless drudgery, a temper which brooked no resistance, a temporary expedient, a tender tone of remonstrance, a theme of endless meditation, a thing of moods and moments, a thoroughly sincere and unaffected effort, a thousand mangled delusions, a tissue of dull excuses, a tone of exaggerated solicitude, a touch of exquisite pathos, a trace of obvious sarcasm, a transcript of the common conscience, a trifle prim and puritanic, a truth begirt with fire, a unique and overwhelming charm, a vague aversion, a variety of conflicting and profound emotions, a variety of enfeebling amendments, a vast multitude of facts, a vastly extended vision of opportunity, a vehement and direct attack, a very elusive and delicate thought, a very formidable problem, a vigilant reserve, a violent and base columniator, a voice of matchless compass and eloquence, a warmth of seemingly generous indignations, a wealth of resource that seemed inexhaustible, a welcome release from besetting difficulties, a whole catalog of disastrous blunders, a whole whirlpool of various emotions, a bounding bodily vigor, above and beyond and before all else, absurd and inconsequential career, abundant and congenial employment, accidental rather than intentional, accustomed to ascribe to chance, acquired sentiments of propriety, activities of the discursive intellect, actuated by an unduly anxious desire, acute sensibility coupled with quickness of intellect, adhere too tenaciously to forms and modes, admirable mastery of technique, admit the soft impeachment, admitted with a childlike cheerfulness, advance by leaps and bounds, advancing to dignity and honor, adventitious aids to memory, affectation and superfluous ornament, aggravated to an unspeakable degree, agitated and perplexed by a dozen cross-currents of conflicting tendency, agreeable and humanizing intercourse, aided by strong mental endowments, airy swiftness of treatment, alien to the purpose, all sorts of petty tyrannies, all the resources of a burnished rhetoric, allied by taste and circumstances, allied with a marked imperiousness, almost incredible obtuse-ness, altogether monstrous and unnatural, always observant and discriminating, amazed and confound of the imagination, amiable and indulgent hostess, amid many and pressing avocations, amid the homeliest details of daily life, amid the rush and roar of life, ample scope for the exercise of his astonishing gifts. End section 157. This recording is in the public domain, recorded by Joan Walton, Mountain View, California. Section 158. A 15,000 Useful Phrases by Grenville Kleiser, read for LibriVox.org An Abandoned and Exaggerated Grief An Accidental Encounter An Act of Folly Amounting to Wickedness An Afternoon of Painfully Constrained Behavior An Agreeable Image of Serene Dignity An Air of Artificial Constraint An Air of Round-Eyed Profundity An Alarm-Sense of Strange Responsibilities An Almost-Excessive Exactness An Almost-Supple-Crawl Regularity and Seclusion An Ample and Imposing Structure An Apostle of Unworldly Arter An Appreciable Menace An Ardent and Gifted Youth An Eredictum An Artful and Malignant Enemy An Assumption Entirely Gretitious An Assumption which Proved Erroneous An Atmosphere of Sending Geity An Attitude of Passive Impartiality An Authoritative and Conclusive Inquiry An Aggregious Assumption An Elaborate Assumption of Indifference An Endless Field for Discussion An Innovating and Emasculating Form of Indulgence An Ennobling and Invigorating Influence An Entirely Nedulable Quantity An Essentially Grotesque and Commonplace Thing An Eternal and Imperishable Example An Exalted and Chomerical Sense of Honor An Excessive, Unaltered Praise An Excessive Refinement of Healing An Expression at Once Confident and Appealing An Extensive and Populous Country An Habitual Studiness and Coolness of Reflection An Honest and Unquestioning Pride An Icy Indifference An Idol and Unworthy Action An Ill-Assorted Vocabulary An Immeasurable Advantage An Imminent and Overmastering Peril An Improtrupable Demiener and Steadiness of Mind An Implacable Foe An Inborn Irresistible Impulse An Incongruous Spectacle An Incredible Mental Legility An Indefineable Tain of Prigishness An Indescribable Frankness and Simplicity of Character An Indolent Surrender to Mere Sense of His Experience An Indomitable and Unselfish Soul An Irradicable Love of Fun and Mystification An Inevitable Factor of Human Conduct An Inexhaustible Copiousness and Readiness of Speech An Insatiable Appetite for Trifles An Insatiable Veracity An Inscrutable Mystery An Intentional Breach of Politeness An Interchange of Civilities An Intolerable Deal of Guesswork An Involuntary Gesture of Remonstrance An Irrevolent Bit of Magniloquence An Irrepressible and Impassioned Hopefulness An Irritating and Dangerous Treatment An Inching Propensity for Argument An Object of Indestructible Interest An Obnoxious Member of Society An Ominous Lowl and Silence An Open and Violent Rupture An Outburst of Impassioned Elegance An Unaccountable Feeling of Antipathy An Unbecoming Vihemence An Undisciplined State of Feeling An Unairing Sense of Humour An Unparalleled and Almost Miraculous Growth An Unparalleled Atrocity An Unpatriotic and Ignorable Act An Unreasoning Form of Coercion An Utterly Vile and Detestable Spirit And Now I Address Myself to My Task And Like Announced in a Tone of Pious Satisfaction Another Thought Importuned Him Anticipated with Lively Expectation Apparent Rather than Real Appealed to a Tardy Justice Appreciably Above the Level of Mediocrity Arbitrary Assumption of Power Ardentally and Enthusiastically Convinced Argued with Immense Force of Feeling Arrayed with Scrupulous Neatness Arrogance and Untutored Hottingness As an Unpartial Bystander As Belated as they are Fallacious As by a Secret of Freemasonry As Odious as it is Absurd As Ridiculous as it was Unnecessary As we Scan the Vague Unknown Assailed by Pogent Doubts Assumed a Menacing Attitude Assumed Almost Heroic Proportions At Once Epigrammatic and Arresting At Once Misleading and Infelicitous At the Mercy of Small Prejudices Attained by Rigorous Self-Restraint Attended by Inseparable Difficulties Averted by Some Happy Stroke of Fortune Await the Sentence of Impartial Posterity Awaited with Feverish Anxiety End of Section 158 This Recording is in the Public Domain Section 159 of 15,000 Useful Phrases By Grenville Kleiser Read for LibriVox.org B. Bandied to and fro Based on a Fundamental Error Beguile the Tedium of the Journey Bemoaning and Bewailing His Sad Fortune Be Set with External Dangers Betrayed into Deplorable Error Bewildering Multiplication of Details Beyond the Dreams of Everest Blended with Courage and Devotion Blind Leaders of the Blind Blunt the Finer Sensibilities Blustering Desire for Publicity Bound up with Impossibilities and Insurgities Breathed in Almost Exaggerated Humility Bread in the Teapid Reticence of Propriety Brief Ventures of Kindliness Brilliant Display of Ingenious Argument Bring Odium Upon the Individual Brisk Directness of Speech Brutal Recognition of Failure Burst of Unpremeditated Frankness But Delusions and Fantasmagoria But that is besides the Mark But this is a Degression By a Curious Perversity of Fate By a Happy Turn of Thinking By a Whimsical Diversion By Common Consent By Means of Crafty Insinuations By No Means Inconsolable By Temperament Incompatible By the Common Judgment of the Thinking World By the Shear Centripetal Force of Sympathy By Virtue of a Common Understanding By Way of Rejoinder C. Calculated to Create Disgust Calm Strength and Constancy Capable of a Severe Scientific Treatment Capacitive for Urbanity and Moderation Carried Into Port by Fair Winds Caught Unawares by a Base Impulse Seizeless Tramp of Humanity Censored for His Negligence Championing the Cause of Religious Education Chasened and Refined by Experience Checked by the Voice of Authority Cherished the Aimable Illusion Cherishing a Huge Fallacy Childishly Inaccurate and Absurd Chivalrous Loyalty and High Verbarance Clever and Captivating Elegance Coarse and Glittering Austination Reherent and Continuous Trend of Thought Commended by Perfect Suavity Common Ground of Agreement Complicated and Infinitely Embittered Conceded from a Sense of Justice Conceived with Imperfect Knowledge Concentrated and Implacable Resolve Conditions of Unspeakable Humiliation Conducive to Well-Being and Efficiency Confused Rumblings Presaging a Different Epoch Constrained by the Sober Exercise of Judgment Consumed by a Demon of Activity Continuous and Stubborn Disregard Contrary to the Clearest Conviction of His Judgment Couched in Terms of Fain Devotion Credulous and Emotionally Extravagant Creative Incredibility and Derision Criticized with Unsparing Vigor Crude Undigested Masses of Suggestion Cruel and Baseless Calumnies Cynically Repudiate All Obligations D. Daily Usages and Modes of Thinking Dangerously Near Snobbery Darkly Insinuating What May Possibly Happen Dazzled by Their Novelty and Brilliance Debased by Common Use Deep Essentials of Moral Grandier Deeply Engrossed in Congenial Work Deeply Moved as Well as Keenly Stung Deeply Rooted in the Heart of Humanity Defiant of Analysis and Rule Degenerate into Comparative Feebleness Degenerated into Deadness and Formality Degrading into Bathing Curiosity Deliberate in Cautious Reflection Delicacy of Perception and Quick-Tact Delude Many Minds into Acquiescence Dense to the Point of Stupidity Discanting on Them Cursorily Devices Generally Hell to be Discreditable Devious in Parallous Ways Devoid of Hysteria and Extravagance Dexterous Modes of Concealment Dictated by an Overweening Partiality Different Degree Only and Not in Kind Difficult and Abtruse Questions Diffidence Overwhelmed Him Diffusing Beneficient Results Dignified by Deliberation and Privacy Dimmily Implying Some Sort of Jest Discreditable and Insincere Support Distaining the Guidance of Reason Disenchanting Effect of Time and Experience Disfigured by Glaring Faults Disguised in Sentimental February Dispel All Anxious Concern Displayed Enormous Power and Splunder Distinguished Themselves by Their Accentricities Distracted by Contending Desires Diversity of Mind and Temperament Divested of All Personal Feelings Dogged and Shameless Beyond All Precedent Dominated by No Prevailing Taste or Fashion Doomed by Inexorable Fate Doomed to Impermanence and Transiency Drawback in Distrust and Misgiving Dreaded and Detested Rival Driven Towards Disaffection and Violence Due to Historical Perspective Dull and Trite Common Places Dwindled to Alarmingly Small Dimensions End of Section 159 This recording is in the public domain Section 160 of 15,000 Useful Phrases by Grenville Pleiser Read for LibriVox.org Easygoing to the Point of Lethargy Elementary Principles of Right and Wrong Embittered and Fanatical Agitation Encrusted with Pedantry and Prejudice Endless and Intricate Technicalities Endowed with Undreamed-of Powers Enforced by Coercive Measures Enormities of Crime and Anomalies of Law Entangled in Theological Controversy Entirely Futile and Negligible Erroneous Assumptions and Sophistries Espoused with Extraordinary Arter Essentially One-Sided and Incomplete Eternally Fruitful and Stimulating Evidently Malicious and Adroit Evinces a Hardened Conscience And An Insensibility to Shame Exact and Resolute Allegiance Examples of Terrific and Explosive Energy Exasperating to the Last Degree Excruciating Cruelty and Injustice Exposed to Damaging Criticism Exposing His Arrogance and Folly to Merited Contempt Expressions of Unrestrained Grief Exquisite Lucidity of Statement Extraordinarily Subtle and Penetrating Analysis Exuberant Rush of Words Facile and Fertile Literary Brains Faithfully and Religiously Askewed Fallen into the Convenient Oblivion of the Waste Basket Fanatical and Dangerous Excesses Far off and Incredibly Remote Festidious Correctness of Form Fate Had Turned and Twisted a Thousand Ways Fed by Many Currants from the Long Stream of Human Experience Feigning a Virtuous Indignation Fertility of Argumentative Resource Fictitious and Adventitious Aid Finely Touched to the Fine Issues Fit to Stand the Gaze of Millions Fits and Starts of Generosity Fixed Convictions of Mankind Flouted as Unpractical Foolish and Inflexible Superstition Fostering and Preserving Order Free from All Controversial Pettyfogging Fraded with the Most Precious Cargo Frequently Recurring Forms of Awkwardness Fresh and Unsuspected Loveliness From the Standpoint of Experiency and Effectiveness Full and Tuneful Diction Full of Ardent Affection and Gratitude Full of Presentiments of Some Evil Full of Singular Freshness Insight and Power Full of Speculation and a Deep Restrained Excitement Fumble and Stumble in Helpless in Capacity Gain the Applause of Future Ages Generous to Way Pathetic and Touching Degree Give Vent to His Indignation Given an Ear to a Little Neighborly Gossip Glances and Smiles of Tassid Contempt Gnawing at the Vitals of Society Grace and Gentleness of Manor Graceful Succession of Sentences Gratuitous and Arbitrating Meddling Greed it with Analoid Satisfaction Grooves of Intellectual Habit Growing Sense of Bewilderment and Dismay Guilty and Baffled Antagonists Habits of Unintelligent Routine Habitual Self-Possession and Self-Respect Happy and Gracious Willingness Hearts Sold and Joyously Joyous Haunted by Blank Misgivings He Affected Neither Pump Nor Grander He Became More Blandly Garless He Declined the Preferred Hospitality He Dropped into Inelegant Silence He Eludes Analysis and Baffles Description He Glanced at Her Indulgently He Had the Habit of Self-Engrossed Silences He Harbored His Misgivings in Silence He Poured Bitter and Biting Ridicule On His Disconfident Opponents He Spoke with Sledgehammer Directness He Suffers Nothing to Draw Him Aside He Took His Courage in Both Hands He Turned on Me a Glance of Stored Intelligence He Was Dishevelled and Untidy He Was Inexhaustively Voluble Heavily Fraded with Erudition Heights of Serene Contemplation Her Voice Had a Wooden Resonance And a Ghost of a Lisp High Bound in Official Pedantry High and Undescouraged Hope High-Handed in Difference to All Restraint His Chin Had Two Vanishing and Aspen His First Zeal Was Flagging His General Attitude Suggested an Idea That He Had an Oration for You His Gestures and His Gate Were Untidy His Mood Was One of Pure Exceltation His Plee Was Irresistible His Tone Verged on the Ironical His Work Was Lidiculously Stable His Work Was Lidiculously Perfunctory Hopelessly Belated in His Appearance End of Section 160 This Recording is in the Public Domain Section 161 of 15,000 Useful Phrases by Granville Kleiser Read for LibriVox.org I adjured him I am not without a lurking suspicion I bemoan my unlucky fate I could almost allege it as a supreme example I have somewhat overshot the mark I lost myself in a reverie of gratitude I made bold to retort I must hazard the story I was extremely perplexed I will permit myself the liberty of saying I would feign belief Illuminate with sinister effect Immediate and effectual steps Immense capacity for ceaseless progress Immunity from criticism and control Impartial and exacting judgment Impatient of despotic influence Impelled by strong conviction Imperiled in a restless age Imperious in its demands Impotent outbreaks of unreasoning rage Impromptu parades of noisy patriotism In a diversity of application In a fever of apprehension In a frenzy of fussy excitement In a frowning abstraction In a great and fruitful way In a high degree culpable In a kind of confused astonishment In a most commendable fashion In a most impressive vein In a position of undisputed supremacy In a rapture of imagined ecstasy In a secret and surreptitious way In a spirit of friendliness and conciliation In a state of moolish reluctance In a state of nervous exacerbation In a state of virtuous complacency In a tone of uneasy interrogation In a transport of ambitious vanity In a whirlwind of feeling and memory In accents embarrassed and hesitating In alliance with steady clearness of intellect In amazed ejaculation In an imminent and unique sense In an imminent degree In deference to a unanimous sentiment In extenuation of the past In high good humor In his customary, sententious fashion In its most odious and intolerable shape In language terse yet familiar In moments of the most imminent peril In quite incredible confusion In seasons of difficulty and trial In spite of plausible arguments In terms of imperishable beauty In the dim procession of years In the highest conceivable degree In the local phrase In the nature of things In the ordinarily accepted sense In the realm of conjecture In the scheme of things In the tone of one who moralizes In the tinkling of an eye In the world of letters In tones of genuine admiration In capable of flashy make-believe Insighted by a lust for gain In comparable lucidity and penetrativeness In conceivable clumsiness of organization Indulge a train of gentle recollection Indulging a sickly and nauseating petulance Ineffably dreary and unpicturesque Infected with a feverish dissatisfaction Infuse a wholesome terror Chemical to true and determined principle Inimitable grace and felicity In judicious and inelegant ostentation Innumerable and incessant creations Inordinate greed and love of wealth Insatiably greedy of recognition Insensibility to moral perspective and proportion Insolent and riotous excess Inspired by a vague malevolence Inspirited by approval and applause Instances might be multiplied indefinitely Instantly alive to the slightest breach of decorum Insufferable violence to the feelings Intense and stubborn dogmatism Intense sensitiveness to injustice Intercourse with polished society Intervals of respite and repose Invade against established customs Invested with a partial authority Inventorate forces of opposition Invincible jealousy and hate Involuntary thrill of gratified vanity Involved in profound uncertainty Involving ourselves in embarrassments Inward appraisal and self-renouncement Irregulated and dyssultory education Irrelevant to the main issue Irresistibly impelled by conscience Irritable bitterness and angry suspicion It assumes the shape of malignity It betrays a great want of prudence and discernment It defies description It dissipates every doubt and scruple It enslaves the imagination It extorted from him expressions of irritability It gives one a little grip at the throat It has been stigmatized as irrelevant It has more than passing interest It has seldom been surpassed It imposes no constraint It is a capital blunder It is a common error among ignorant people It is a consoling reflection It is a mark of great instability It is a staggering thought It is always something vicious It is an odd jealousy It is an intolerable idea It is impossible to resist acknowledging this It is little more than a platitude It is not consistent with elevated and dignified character It is not wholly insignificant It is notoriously easy to exaggerate It is the common consent of men It is unnecessary to multiply instances It makes life insupportable It must be a matter of conjecture It occasion suspicion and discontent It runs counter to all established customs It was a matter of notoriety It wears a ragged and dangerous front It would be a fruitless and unthankful task It would be superfluous to say It would not seem an improbable conclusion It's dominating and inspiring influence End of section 161 This recording is in the public domain Section 162 of 15,000 Useful Phrases by Grenville Kleiser read for LibriVox.org Jealous and formidable foes Justifiable in certain exigencies Keen power of calculation and unhesitating audacity Kindle the flames of genuine oratory Naughty and subtle disquisitions Labored and far-fetched elocution Laid down in a most unflinching and vigorous fashion Lamentable instances of extravagance Lashed themselves into fury Lacks theories and corresponding practices Lay hold of the affections Layden mood of environments of courtesy Bit disregarded Inks in the chain of reasoning Little less than scandalous Lofty and distinguished simplicity Long-sighted continuity of thought and plan Looking at the matter by and large Looming large and ugly in the public Lose an OTO's statement Lost in indolent content Lovely beyond all words Lucidity and argumentative vigor Lulled into a sense of false satisfaction Maddened by a jealous hate Maintained with ingenuity and vigor Manifestly harsh and barbarous Marvelous copiousness of illustration Marvelously suggestive and inspiring Man of profound erudition Mere effects of negligence Microscopic analysis of character Mingle distrust and fear Ministering to mere pleasure and indulgence Minutely and rationally exposing their imperfections Morbid and subjective brooding More or less severe and prolonged Moved to unaccustomed tears My worst suspicions were confirmed Mysterious and invincible darkness Naked vigor of resolution Naturally prone to believe Necessity thus imposed by prudence Nervous and faceless folly No more than brief palliatives of oar mitigations Noble and sublime patience Noisy torrent of talk Not adverse to a little gossip Not so much polished as varnished Noted for their quixotic love of adventure Nothing could be more capcious or unfair Nothing remained but a graceful acquiescence Notoriously distracted by internecine jealousies Objects of general censure Obscured beneath the rubbish of the age Obsessed with an overween pride Obstacles that are difficult but not insuperable Obviously at variance with facts Occasion by direct moral turpitude Oddly amenable to the proposed innovations Often employed promiscuously Ominous and swift days Omitting all compliments and commonplaces On a noble and commanding scale On sure ground of fact On the edge of great irritability On the horns of the dilemma One of life's ironical adjustments One of the foreseen and inevitable results One tissue of freshness, folly, ingratitude and injustice Opening flouted in disavowed Oppressed by some vague dread Organs of party rage and popular frenzy Our opinions were diametrically opposed Our vaunted civilization Outward mark of obeisance and humiliation Overcome by an axis of misery Overshadowed by a fretful anxiety Overwhelmed with reproach and popular indignation Painful and lamentable indifference Pulpably and unmistakably commonplace Parading an exception to prove a rule Paralyzed by infirmity of purpose Paralyzing doubts and scruples Paramount obligation and righteousness Partial and fragmentary evidence Passionately addicted to pleasure Patently inimical to liberty Patience under continual provocation Peculiarly liable to misinterpretation Peddling in pitiful compromises Pelting one another with catch words Perfectly illustrated and exemplified Perpetually excite our curiosity Pierced to the quick Pitiful shifts of policy Plainly dictated by a lofty purpose Pleading the exigencies of strategical interest Plunged into tumultuous preoccupation Pointed out with triumphant malice Polished beauty of diction Political storm and stress Position of titular command Preached with a fierce unction Precipitate and arbitrary changes Predict the gloomiest consequences Pregnant with a lesson of the deepest import Presented with matchless vigor and courage Prinsely generosity of praise Predigious and potentious events Protacted to a vexatious length Proud schemes for aggrandizement Provocative of bitter hostility Pruned of their excrescences and grotesque extremes Perched of glaringly offensive features Pursued to a vicious extent Questioned and tested in the crucible of experience Quickened into a stabbing suspicion Quickness to conceive and courage to execute Quite destitute of resources Quixoticly generous about money