Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases
Author(s): Grenville Kleiser
Genre(s): Reference, Language Learning
Narrators: Betsie Bush, Maria Morabe, Roolynninms, Pallavy, Diana Troldahl, David Barnes, Skern922, E. Plein, Chris Chapman, Kira Rutherford-Boese, Linton, Denny Sayers (d. 2015), Lisa Chau, Jordan Mueller, Heather Lambert, Claire Goget, Shirley Donahue, Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014), Julian Jamison, Dhenderson, Kathy, Jenneferdawn, Scot Colford, Marwa Gamil, Twofistededitor, Mochan42, Sandra Zera, Brian Lojeck, Justin S Barrett, William Haseltine, Rohanna, Stephen Lamb, Joseph Etcheto, Alex Foster, Precious, Joe Brenneman, Liquidneutrino, Karen Savage, Lee Elliott, Ken Crooker, Heather Lawrence, David Best, Pete Darby, C.L.Coney, SueAnn Dozier, Sarah Jennings, C Pannier, Mark Mascolino, Lee Ann Howlett, Elizabeth Palmer, Rose, Jeff Wadden, Ekpyrotic, Maura Walsh, Guava, Holly, Don Powers, Jason Isbell, Joan Walton, Luigina, Nick Davies
Number of Chapters: 165
Length: 15 hours and 50 minutes
Language: English
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
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Significant Phrases: fabulous and fabricated - futile and untrustworthy (Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014))
Felicitous Phrases: curious, fantastic, and charming - calculated, logical, and dispassionate (Marwa Gamil)
Felicitous Phrases: eagerness, heartiness, and vehemence - fustian, padding, and irrelevancy (Sandra Zera)
Felicitous Phrases: gaunt, desolate, and despoiled - humor, fancy, and susceptibility (Brian Lojeck)
Felicitous Phrases: idle, profuse, and profligate - luxurious, whimsical, and selfish (Brian Lojeck)
Felicitous Phrases: magnificent, sumptuous, and stately - overriding, arrogant, and quarrelsome (Justin S Barrett)
Felicitous Phrases: pain, toil, and privation - puzzles, tangles, and questionings (William Haseltine)
Felicitous Phrases: sacredness, dignity, and loveliness - sympathy, service, and compassion (William Haseltine)
Felicitous Phrases: talent, scholarship, and refinement - wrinkled, careworn, and pale (Marwa Gamil)
Literary Expressions: Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting - Awaiting his summons to the eternal silence (Ken Crooker)
Literary Expressions: Bandied about from mouth to mouth - Dull black eyes under their precipice of brows (Ken Crooker)
Literary Expressions: Earth danced under a heat haze - Guilty of girlish sentimentality (Heather Lawrence)
Literary Expressions: Half choked by a rising paroxysm of rage - Humiliating paltriness of revenge (David Best)
Literary Expressions: Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle - Rudely reminded of life's serious issues (Pete Darby)
Literary Expressions: Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill - Swift summer into the autumn flowed (Heather Lawrence)
Literary Expressions: Taking the larger sweeps in the march of mind - The hungry curiosity of the mind (C.L.Coney)
Literary Expressions: The idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought - The swing of the pendulum through an arch of centuries (C.L.Coney)
Literary Expressions: The tempered daylight of an olive garden - Twilight creeps upon the darkening mind (C.L.Coney)
Literary Expressions: Unapproachable grandeur and simplicity - Your mind enthroned in the seventh circle of content (C.L.Coney)
Striking Similes: A blind rage like a fire swept over him - And the smile she softly uses fills the silence like a speech (SueAnn Dozier)
Striking Similes: Each like a corpse within its grave - Great scarlet poppies lay in drifts ... (Joe Brenneman)
Striking Similes: Hair as harsh as tropical grass and gray as ashes - Hushed like a breathless lyre (Sandra Zera)
Striking Similes: I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew - Kingdoms melt away like snow (Sandra Zera)
Striking Similes: March on my soul nor like the laggard stay - Quivering like an eager race-horse to start (Sarah Jennings)
Striking Similes: Rage, rage ye tears, that never more should creep... - Swifter than the twinkling of an eye (Sandra Zera)
Striking Similes: Talking and thinking became to him... - The music almost died away... (Marwa Gamil)
Striking Similes: The name that cuts into my soul like a knife - Then the lover sighing like furnace (Betsie Bush)
Striking Similes: Theories sprouted in his mind like mushrooms - Turning easily and securely as on a perfect axle (Betsie Bush)
Conversational Phrases: A most extraordinary idea! - Human nature interests me very much indeed (C Pannier)
Conversational Phrases: I admire your foresight - I could never forgive myself for that (Mark Mascolino)
Conversational Phrases: I dare say your intuition is quite right - I seem to have heard that sentiment before (Precious)
Conversational Phrases: I shall at once proceed to forget it - It has never occurred to me (Lee Ann Howlett)
Conversational Phrases: It is a curious fact - It would take too long to formulate my thought (Heather Lawrence)
Conversational Phrases: Join us, please, when you have time - Surely you would not countenance that (Ken Crooker)
Conversational Phrases: Undeniably true - Would you mind telling me your opinion? (Elizabeth Palmer)
Public Speaking Phrases: And now allow me to call attention - Away then with the notion (Scot Colford)
Public Speaking Phrases: Had I time for all that might be said - However, it is to me a very refreshing thing (Joe Brenneman)
Public Speaking Phrases: I anticipate with pleasing expectation - I distrust all general theories of (Joe Brenneman)
Public Speaking Phrases: I imagine that no one will be disposed - I rejoice to think I remark here (Stephen Lamb)
Public Speaking Phrases: I remember a reference made - I thank you very sincerely for the honor (David Best)
Public Speaking Phrases: I think I am correct in saying - I yielded to the earnest solicitations (David Best)
Public Speaking Phrases: It is natural to ask the question - It may still more probably be said (Maura Walsh)
Public Speaking Phrases: Language is inadequate to voice my appreciation - My regret is intensified by the thought (guava)
Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts - A pleasant flow of appropriate language (Joan Walton)
Miscellaneous Phrases: A pompous failure - Ample scope for the exercise of his astonishing gifts (Joan Walton)
Miscellaneous Phrases: An abandoned and exaggerated grief - Awaited with feverish anxiety (Heather Lawrence)
Miscellaneous Phrases: Bandied to and fro - Dwindled to alarmingly small dimensions (Heather Lawrence)
Miscellaneous Phrases: Easy-going to the point of lethargy - Hopelessly belated in its appearance (Luigina)
The audiobook Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases falls under the genres of Reference, Language Learning. It is written by Grenville Kleiser.