Business

A

• A request for further particulars will not involve any obligation
• A telegram is enclosed for your use, as this matter is urgent
• Accept our thanks for your recent remittance
• Acknowledging the receipt of your recent inquiry
• After examination we can confidently say
• After very carefully considering
• Again thanking you for the inquiry
• Agreeable to our conversation
• An addressed envelope is enclosed for your convenience
• An early reply will greatly oblige
• Answering your recent inquiry
• Any information you may give us will be appreciated
• Any time that may suit your convenience
• As a matter of convenience and economy
• As a special favor we ask
• As directed in your letter, we are shipping to you
• As explained in our previous letter
• As it will give us an opportunity to demonstrate our ability
• As stated in our previous letter
• As we have received no response from you
• As you, doubtless, are aware
• As you probably have been told
• As your experience has probably shown you
• Assuring you of every courtesy
• Assuring you of our entire willingness to comply with your request
• Assuring you of prompt and careful cooperation
• At the present writing
• At the suggestion of one of our patrons
• At your earliest opportunity
• Awaiting the favor of your prompt attention
• Awaiting the pleasure of serving you
• Awaiting your early communication
• Awaiting your further commands
• Awaiting your pleasure

B

• Believing you will answer this promptly

C

• Complying with your request
• Conditions make it obligatory for us

D

• Do not hesitate to let us know
• Do not overlook this opportunity
• Do you realize that you can

E

• Enclosed please find a memorandum
• Enclosed we beg to hand you
• Enclosed you will find a circular which will fully explain

F

• For some years past
• For your convenience we enclose a stamped envelope
• For your further information we take pleasure in sending to you
• Frankly, we believe it is extremely worth while for you
• From the standpoint of serviceability

H

• Here is a complete answer to
• Here is your opportunity
• Hoping for a continuance of your interest
• Hoping for a definite reply
• Hoping that our relations may prove mutually satisfactory
• Hoping to be favored with your order
• How may we serve you further?
• However, because of the special circumstances attached

I

• I am compelled to inform you
• I am confident that you will be thoroughly satisfied
• I am directed to say to you
• I am, gentlemen, yours faithfully
• I am giving the matter my personal attention
• I am, my dear sir, yours faithfully
• I am still holding this offer open to you
• I ask that you be good enough
• I beg to request that you give me some information
• I believe I understand perfectly just how you feel about
• I have been favorably impressed by your
• I have now much pleasure in confirming
• I have pleasure in acknowledging
• I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt
• I have the honor to remain
• I herewith submit my application
• I highly appreciate this mark of confidence
• I look forward to pleasant personal relations in the future
• I regret exceedingly to inform you
• I remain, my dear sir, yours faithfully
• I shall be pleased to forward descriptive circulars
• I shall esteem it a personal favor
• I should welcome an interview at your convenience
• I sincerely hope that you will give the subject your earnest consideration
• I take pleasure in replying to your inquiry concerning
• I trust I shall hear from you soon
• I want to express the hope that our pleasant business relations will continue
• I want to interest you
• I want to thank you for your reply
• I wish to confirm my letter
• If I can be of further service, please address me
• If it is not convenient for you
• If there is any valid reason why you are unable
• If we can be of service to you
• If we can help you in any way
• If we have not made everything perfectly clear, please let us know
• If you accommodate us, the favor will be greatly appreciated
• If you are interested, please let us hear from you
• If you are thinking about ordering
• If you desire, our representative will call
• If you have any cause for dissatisfaction
• If you give this matter your prompt attention
• In accordance with the terms of our offer
• In accordance with your request
• In answering your inquiry regarding
• In any event, a reply to this will be very much appreciated
• In closing we can only assure you
• In compliance with your favor
• In compliance with your request, we are pleased to send to you
• In conclusion, we can assure you
• In order to facilitate our future transactions
• In reference to your application
• In regard to your proposition
• In reply thereto, we wish to inform you
• In reply to your valued favor
• In response to your recent request
• In spite of our best efforts it is not probable
• In thanking you for the patronage with which you have favored us
• In view of all these facts, we feel justified in claiming
• Information has just reached me
• It gives us pleasure to recommend
• It has consistently been our aim to help our customers
• It is a matter of great regret to us
• It is a pleasure for me to answer your inquiry
• It is a well known fact
• It is interesting to note
• It is our very great pleasure to advise you
• It is the policy of our house
• It seems clear that our letter must have miscarried
• It was purely an oversight on our part
• It will be entirely satisfactory to us
• It will be our aim to interest you
• It will be readily appreciated
• It will be to your advantage
• It will doubtless be more convenient for you
• It will interest you to know
• It will receive the same careful attention

J

• Just mail the enclosed card

K

• Kindly endorse your reply on the enclosed sheet
• Kindly let us have your confirmation at your earliest convenience
• Kindly let us know your pleasure concerning
• Kindly read the enclosed list

L

• Let me thank you for the opportunity to give this matter my personal attention
• Let us assure you of our desire to cooperate with you
• Let us assure you that we are very much pleased
• Let us know if there is any further attention
• Let us thank you again for opening an account with us
• Looking forward to the early receipt of some of your orders

M

• May I ask you to do us a great favor by
• May we be favored with a reply
• Meantime soliciting your forbearance
• Meanwhile permit me to thank you for your kind attention

O

• On referring to your account we notice
• Our letter must have gone astray
• Our relations with your house must have hitherto been very pleasant
• Our services are at your command
• Our stock has been temporarily exhausted
• Owing to our inability to collect out-standing debts

P

• Permit me to add
• Permit us to express our sincere appreciation
• Please accept the thanks of the writer
• Please consider this letter an acknowledgment
• Please favor us with a personal communication
• Please feel assured that we shall use every endeavor
• Possibly the enclosure may suggest to you
• Promptly on receipt of your telegram
• Pursuant to your letter

R

• Recently we had occasion
• Referring to your esteemed favor
• Regretting our inability to serve you in the present instance
• Reluctant as we are to believe
• Requesting your kind attention to this matter

S

• Should you decide to act upon this latter suggestion
• So many requests of a similar nature come to us
• Soliciting a continuance of your patronage

T

• Thank you for your expression of confidence
• Thanking you for your inquiry
• Thanking you for your past patronage
• Thanking you for your promptness.
• Thanking you in advance for an early reply
• Thanking you in anticipation
• The causes for the delay were beyond our control
• The margin of profit which we allow ourselves
• The proof is in this fact
• The proposition appeals to us as a good one
• Therefore we are able to make you this offer
• Therefore we trust you will write to us promptly
• These points should be most carefully considered
• This arrangement will help us over the present difficulty
• This is according to our discussion
• This matter has been considered very seriously
• This personal guarantee I look upon as a service to you
• This privileged communication is for the exclusive use
• This will amply repay you
• Trusting that we may have the pleasure of serving you
• Trusting to receive your best consideration

U

• Under no circumstances can we entertain such an arrangement
• Under separate cover we are mailing to you
• Under these circumstances we are willing to extend the terms
• Unfortunately we are compelled at certain times
• Unless you can give us reasonable assurance
• Upon being advised that these terms are satisfactory
• Upon receiving your letter of

W

• We acknowledge with pleasure the receipt of your order
• We admit that you are justified in your complaint
• We again solicit an opportunity
• We again thank you for your inquiry
• We always endeavor to please
• We appreciate the order you were kind enough to send to us
• We appreciate your patronage very much
• We are always glad to furnish information
• We are anxious to make satisfactory adjustment
• We are at a loss to understand why
• We are at your service at all times
• We are confident that you will have no further trouble
• We are extremely desirous of pleasing our patrons
• We are in a position to give you considerable help
• We are in receipt of your communication regarding
• We are indeed sorry to learn
• We are perfectly willing to make concessions
• We are pleased to receive your request for information
• We are pleased to send you descriptive circulars
• We are reluctant to adopt such severe measures
• We are satisfied regarding your statement
• We are sending to you by mail
• We are sorry to learn from your letter
• We are thoroughly convinced of the need
• We are totally at a loss to understand
• We are very anxious to have you try
• We are very glad to testify to the merit of
• We ask for a continuance of your confidence
• We ask that you kindly let us hear from you
• We assume that you are considering
• We assure you of our confidence in the reliability
• We assure you of our desire to be of service
• We await an early, and we trust, a favorable reply
• We await the courtesy of an early answer
• We beg a moment of your attention and serious consideration
• We believe that if you will carefully consider the matter
• We believe you will readily understand our position
• We can assure you that any order with which you favor us
• We desire information pertaining to your financial condition
• We desire to effect a settlement
• We desire to express our appreciation of your patronage
• We desire to impress upon you
• We expect to be in the market soon
• We feel assured that you will appreciate
• We feel sure that you will approve of our action in this matter
• We frankly apologize to you
• We hasten to acknowledge the receipt
• We have anticipated a heavy demand
• We have, as yet, no definite understanding
• We have come to the conclusion
• We have endeavored to serve the needs of your organization
• We have found it impossible
• We have much pleasure in answering your inquiry
• We have no desire to adopt harsh measures
• We have not had the pleasure of placing your name on our ledgers
• We have not, however, had the pleasure of hearing from you
• We have not yet had time to sift the matter thoroughly
• We have the honor to be, gentlemen
• We have the honor to inform you
• We have thought it best to forward
• We have your request for information regarding
• We hesitated for a while to pursue the matter
• We hope that an understanding can be reached
• We hope that we shall have many opportunities to demonstrate our ability
• We hope that you will find the enclosed booklet very interesting
• We hope to hear favorably from you
• We hope you will appreciate
• We hope you will excuse the unavoidable delay
• We invite your attention to
• We must insist upon a prompt settlement
• We must, therefore, insist on the terms of the agreement
• We note that the time is at hand
• We offer you the services of an expert
• We particularly want to interest you
• We realize that this matter has escaped your attention
• We realize that this is simply an oversight on your part
• We regret exceedingly that you have been inconvenienced
• We regret our inability to meet your wishes
• We regret that owing to the press of business
• We regret that this misunderstanding has occurred
• We regret that we are not in a position
• We regret that we are unable to grant your request
• We regret the necessity of calling your attention
• We regret to be compelled for this reason to withdraw the privilege
• We regret to learn that you are disappointed
• We remain, dear sir, yours faithfully
• We remain, gentlemen, with thanks
• We shall await your early commands with interest
• We shall await your reply with interest
• We shall be glad to fill your order
• We shall be glad to have you tell us frankly
• We shall be glad to render you any assistance in our power
• We shall be happy to meet your requirements
• We shall be indebted to you for your courtesy
• We shall be pleased to receive the remittance
• We shall be pleased to take the matter up further
• We shall do everything in our power
• We shall do our best to correct the mistake
• We shall feel compelled
• We shall heartily appreciate any information
• We shall use every endeavor
• We suggest that this is an opportune time
• We suggest that you consider
• We take pleasure in enclosing herewith
• We take pleasure in explaining the matter you asked about
• We take the liberty of deviating from your instructions
• We take the liberty of writing to you.
• We thank you for calling our attention
• We thank you for your courteous letter
• We thank you for your kind inquiry of recent date
• We thank you very gratefully for your polite and friendly letter
• We thank you very much for the frank statement of your affairs
• We thank you very sincerely for your assistance
• We think you will agree
• We trust our explanation will meet with your approval
• We trust that we may hear favorably from you
• We trust that you will give this matter your immediate attention
• We trust you may secure some of the exceptional values
• We trust you will find it correct
• We trust you will not consider us unduly strict
• We trust you will promptly comply with our previous suggestions
• We understand your position
• We urge that you write to us by early mail
• We venture to enclose herewith
• We very much wish you to examine
• We want every opportunity to demonstrate our willingness
• We want particularly to impress upon you this fact
• We want to please you in every respect
• We want to remind you again
• We want you to read the booklet carefully
• We will at once enter your order
• We will be compelled to take the necessary steps
• We will be glad to lay before you the fullest details
• We will be pleased to give it careful consideration
• We will gladly accommodate you
• We will gladly extend to you similar courtesies whenever we can do so
• We will make it a point to give your correspondence close attention
• We would appreciate a remittance
• We would consider it a great favor
• We would draw your attention to the fact
• We would request, as a special favor
• We write to suggest to you
• We write to urge upon you the necessity
• We wrote to you at length
• While we appreciate the peculiar circumstances
• While we feel that we are in no way responsible
• Why not allow us this opportunity to satisfy you
• Will you give us, in confidence, your opinion
• Will you give us the benefit of your experience
• Will you kindly advise us in order that we may adjust our records
• Will you please give us your immediate attention
• With our best respects and hoping to hear from you
• With reference to your favor of yesterday
• With regard to your inquiry
• With the fullest assurance that we are considering
• With the greatest esteem and respect

Y

• You are certainly justified in complaining
• You are evidently aware that there is a growing demand
• You are quite right in your statement
• You cannot regret more than I the necessity
• You undoubtedly are aware
• You will find interest, we believe, in this advance announcement
• You will get the benefit of this liberal offer
• You will have particular interest in the new and attractive policy
• Your early attention to this matter will oblige
• Your further orders will be esteemed
• Your inquiry has just been received, and we are glad to send to you
• Your orders and commands will always have our prompt and best attention
• Your satisfaction will dictate our course
• Your trial order is respectfully solicited
• Your usual attention will oblige

Conversational

A

• A most extraordinary idea!
• A thousand hopes for your success
• Accept my best wishes
• All that is conjecture
• Allow me to congratulate you
• An unfortunate comparison, don't you think?
• And even if it were so?
• And how am I to thank you?
• And in the end, what are you going to make of it?
• And yet the explanation does not wholly satisfy me
• Apparently I was wrong
• Are we wandering from the point?
• Are you a trifle—bored?
• Are you fully reconciled?
• Are you not complicating the question?
• Are you prepared to go to that length?
• Are you still obdurate?
  • [obdurate = Hardened in wrongdoing; stubbornly impenitent]
• As it happens, your conjecture is right
• Assuredly I do
• At first blush it may seem fantastic

B

• Banish such thoughts
• But are you not taking a slightly one-sided point of view?
• But consider for a moment
• But I look at the practical side
• But I wander from my point
• But now I'll confide something to you
• But perhaps I'm hardly fair when I say that
• But seriously speaking, what is the use of it?
• But surely that is inconsistent
• But that's a tremendous hazard
• But the thing is simply impossible
• But there's one thing you haven't said
• But, wait, you haven't heard the end
• But what do you yourself think about it?
• But who could foresee what was going to happen?
• But you are open to persuasion?
• But you do not know for certain
• But you must tell me more
• By a curious chance, I know it very well
• By no means desirable, I think

C

• Can I persuade you?
• Can you imagine anything so horrible?
• Certain circumstances make it undesirable
• Certainly not, if it displeases you
• Certainly, with the greatest pleasure
• Come, where's your sense of humor?
• Consult me when you want me—at any time

D

• Decidedly so
• Dine with me to-morrow night?—if you are free?
• Do I presume too much?
• Do I seem very ungenerous?
• Do not misunderstand me
• Do not the circumstances justify it?
• Don't be so dismal, please
• Don't delude yourself
• Don't let me encroach on your good nature
• Don't think I am unappreciative of your kindness
• Do you attach any particular meaning to that?
• Do you know, I envy you that
• Do you know what his chief interests are now?
• Do you mind my making a suggestion?
• Do you press me to tell?
• Do you really regard him as a serious antagonist?
• Do you think there is anything ominous in it?
• Does it please you so tremendously?
• Does it seem incredible?

E

• Either way is perplexing
• Eminently proper, I think
• Everyone looks at it differently
• Excuse my bluntness

F

• Fanciful, I should say
• For the simplest of reasons
• Forgive me if I seem disobliging
• Fortunate, to say the least
• Frankly, I don't see why it should
• Frugal to a degree
• Fulsome praise, I call it

G

• Give me your sympathy and counsel
• Glorious to contemplate
• Good! that is at least something
• Gratifying, I am sure

H

• Happily there are exceptions to every rule
• Has it really come to that?
• Have I incurred your displeasure?
• Have you any rooted objection to it?
• Have you anything definite in your mind?
• Have you reflected what the consequences might be to yourself?
• He does me too much honor
• He feels it acutely
• He has a queer conception of the proprieties
• He is a poor dissembler
  • [dissemble = conceal behind a false appearance]
• He is anything but obtuse
• He is so ludicrously wrong
• He is the most guileless of men
• He was so extremely susceptible
• He writes uncommonly clever letters
• Heaven forbid that I should wound your sensibility
• His sense of humor is unquenchable
• How amiable you are to say so
• How can I tell you how much I have enjoyed it all?
• How can I thank you?
• How can you be so unjust?
• How delightful to meet you
• How does the idea appeal to you?
• How droll you are!
• How extraordinary!
• How intensely interesting!
• How perfectly delightful!
• How utterly abominable
• How very agreeable this is!
• How very interesting
• How very surprising
• How well you do it!
• However, I should like to hear your views
• Human nature interests me very much indeed

I

• I admire your foresight
• I admit it most gratefully
• I agree—at least, I suppose I do
• I agree that something ought to be done
• I always welcome criticism so long as it is sincere
• I am absolutely bewildered
• I am afraid I am not familiar enough with the subject
• I am afraid I cannot suggest an alternative
• I am afraid I've allowed you to tire yourself
• I am afraid I must confess my ignorance
• I am afraid you will call me a sentimentalist
• I am always glad to do anything to please you
• I am anxious to discharge the very onerous debt I owe you
• I am appealing to your sense of humor
• I am at your service
• I am bound to secrecy
• I am compelled to, unluckily
• I am curious to learn what his motive was
• I am deeply flattered and grateful
• I am delighted to hear you say so
• I am dumb with admiration
• I am entirely at your disposal
• I am extremely glad you approve of it
• I am far from believing the maxim
• I am fortunate in being able to do you a service
• I am glad to be able to think that
• I am glad to have had this talk with you
• I am glad to say that I have entirely lost that faculty
• I am glad you can see it in that way
• I am glad you feel so deeply about it
• I am giving you well-deserved praise
• I am going to make a confession
• I am grateful for your good opinion
• I am honestly indignant
• I am, I confess, a little discouraged
• I am in a chastened mood
• I am inclined to agree with you
• I am incredulous
• I am indebted to you for the suggestion
• I am listening—I was about to propose
• I am lost in admiration
• I am luckily disengaged to-day
• I am more grieved than I can tell you
• I am naturally overjoyed
• I am not a person of prejudices
• I am not an alarmist
• I am not as unreasonable as you suppose
• I am not at all in the secret of his ambitions
• I am not capable of unraveling it
• I am not going into sordid details
• I am not going to let you evade the question
• I am not going to pay you any idle compliments
• I am not impervious to the obligations involved
• I am not in sympathy with it
• I am not in the least surprised
• I am not inquisitive
• I am not prepared to say
• I am not sure that I can manage it
• I am not vindictive
• I am overjoyed to hear you say so
• I am perfectly aware of what I am saying
• I am persuaded by your candor
• I am quite convinced of that
• I am quite discomfited
• I am quite interested to see what you will do
• I am quite ready to be convinced
• I am rather of the opinion that I was mistaken
• I am ready to make great allowances
• I am really afraid I don't know
• I am really gregarious
• I am sensible of the flattery
• I am seriously annoyed with myself about it
• I am so glad you think that
• I am so sorry—so very sorry
• I am sorry to disillusionize you
• I am sorry to interrupt this interesting discussion
• I am sorry to say it is impossible
• I am speaking plainly
• I am still a little of an idealist
• I am suppressing many of the details
• I am sure it sounds very strange to you
• I am sure you could pay me no higher compliment
• I am sure you will hear me out
• I am surprised, I confess
• I am sustained by the prospect of a good dinner
• I am vastly obliged to you
• I am vastly your debtor for the information
• I am very far from being a fanatic
• I am very glad of this opportunity
• I am very grateful—very much flattered
• I am wholly in agreement with you
• I am willing to accept all the consequences
• I am wonderfully well
• I am wondering if I may dare ask you a very personal question?
• I am your creditor unawares
• I anticipate your argument
• I appreciate your motives
• I assure you it is most painful to me
• I assure you my knowledge of it is limited
• I bear no malice about that
• I beg your indulgence
• I beg your pardon, but you take it too seriously
• I brazenly confess it
• I can easily understand your astonishment
• I can explain the apparent contradiction
• I can find no satisfaction in it
• I can hardly agree with you there
• I can never be sufficiently grateful
• I can only tell you the bare facts
• I can scarcely accept the offer
• I can scarcely boast that honor
• I can scarcely imagine anything more disagreeable
• I can sympathize with you
• I cannot altogether acquit myself of interested motives
• I cannot explain it even to myself
• I cannot find much real satisfaction in it
• I cannot forbear to press my advantage
• I cannot imagine what you mean
• I cannot precisely determine
• I can't pretend to make a jest of what I'm going to say
• I cannot say definitely at the moment
• I cannot say that in fact it is always so
• I cannot see how you draw that conclusion
• I cannot thank you enough for all your consideration
• I compliment you on your good sense
• I confess, I find it difficult
• I could ask for nothing better
• I could never forgive myself for that
• I dare say your intuition is quite right
• I decline to commit myself beforehand
• I detest exaggeration
• I didn't mean that—exactly
• I do not comprehend your meaning
• I don't deny that it is interesting
• I don't doubt it for a moment
• I do not doubt the sincerity of your arguments
• I do not exactly understand you
• I do not feel sure that I entirely share your views
• I don't feel that it is my business
• I do not find it an unpleasant subject
• I don't insist on your believing me
• I don't justify my presumption
• I don't know quite why you should say that
• I don't know that I can do that
• I don't know when I have heard anything so lamentable
• I don't know why you should be displeased
• I don't make myself clear, I see
• I don't pretend to explain
• I don't see anything particularly wonderful in it
• I don't underrate his kindness
• I don't want to disguise that from you
• I don't want to exaggerate
• I don't want to seem critical
• I doubt the truth of that saying
• I endorse it, every word
• I entirely approve of your plan
• I fancy it's just that
• I fear I cannot help you
• I fear that's too technical for me
• I feel a certain apprehension
• I feel an unwonted sense of gaiety
  • [unwonted = unusual]
• I feel it my duty to be frank with you
• I feel myself scarcely competent to judge
• I feel very grateful to you for your kind offer
• I find it absorbing
• I find it rather monotonous
• I find this agreeable mental exhilaration
• I frankly confess that
• I generally trust my first impressions
• I give my word gladly
• I give you my most sacred word of honor
• I had better begin at the beginning
• I had no intention of being offensive
• I hadn't thought of it in that light
• I hardly think that could be so
• I have a hundred reasons for thinking so
• I have a peculiar affection for it
• I have an immense faith in him
• I have been constrained by circumstances
• I have been decidedly impressed
• I have been longing to see more of you
• I have been puzzling over a dilemma
• I have every reason to think so
• I have given you the best proof of it
• I have gone back to my first impressions
• I have known striking instances of the kind
• I have never heard it put so well
• I have no delusions on that score
• I have not succeeded in convincing myself of that
• I have not the influence you think
• I have not the least doubt of it
• I haven't the remotest idea
• I have often a difficulty in deciding
• I have often marveled at your courage
• I have quite changed my opinion about that
• I have something of great importance to say to you
• I have sometimes vaguely felt it
• I have the strongest possible prejudice against it
• I heartily congratulate you
• I hope it will not seem unreasonable to you
• I hope we may meet again
• I hope you will forgive an intruder
• I hope you will not think me irreverent
• I hope you will pardon my seeming carelessness
• I indulge the modest hope
• I know it is very presumptuous
• I know my request will appear singular
• I like it immensely
• I like your frankness
• I make no reflection whatever
• I mean it literally
• I might question all that
• I mistrust these wild impulses
• I most certainly agree with you
• I most humbly ask pardon
• I must add my congratulations on your taste
• I must apologize for intruding upon you
• I must ask you one more question, if I may
• I must confess I have never thought of that
• I must refrain from any comment
• I must respectfully decline to tell you
• I must take this opportunity to tell you
• I need not remind you that you have a grave responsibility
• I never heard anything so absurd
• I offer my humblest apologies
• I owe the idea wholly to you
• I partly agree with you
• I personally owe you a great debt of thankfulness
• I place myself entirely at your service
• I place the most implicit reliance on your good sense
• I prefer to reserve my judgment
• I purposely evaded the question
• I quite appreciate the very clever way you put it
• I quite see what the advantages are
• I really am curious to know how you guessed that
• I realize how painful it must be to you
• I recollect it clearly
• I rely on your good sense
• I remember the occasion perfectly
• I resent that kind of thing
• I respect you for that
• I respect your critical faculty
• I say it in all modesty
• I see disapproval in your face
• I see it from a different angle
• I see you are an enthusiast
• I see your point of view
• I seem to have heard that sentiment before
• I shall at once proceed to forget it
• I shall await your pleasure
• I shall be glad if you will join me
• I shall be interested to watch it develop
• I shall be most proud and pleased
• I shall certainly take you at your word
• I shall feel highly honored
• I shall make a point of thinking so
• I shall never forget your kindness
• I shall respect your confidence
• I should appreciate your confidence greatly
• I should be very ungrateful were I not satisfied with it
• I should feel unhappy if I did otherwise
• I should like your opinion of it
• I should not dream of asking you to do so
• I should think it very unlikely
• I simply cannot endure it
• I spoke only in jest
• I stand corrected
• I suppose I ought to feel flattered
• I surmised as much
• I sympathize deeply with you
• I take that for granted
• I think extremely well of it
• I think he has very noble ideals
• I think I can answer that for you
• I think I know what you are going to say
• I think it has its charm
• I think it is superb!
• I think it quite admirable
• I think its tone is remarkably temperate
• I think that is rather a brilliant idea
• I think what you say is reasonable
• I think you are quibbling
• I think you are rather severe in your opinions
• I think you have great appreciation of values
• I think you have summed it up perfectly
• I think your candor is charming
• I thoroughly agree with you
• I thought it most amusing
• I thought you were seriously indisposed
• I trust you will not consider it an impertinence
• I understand exactly how you feel about it
• I understand your delicacy of feeling
• I venture to propose another plan
• I very rarely allow myself that pleasure
• I want to have a frank understanding with you
• I was at a loss to understand the reason for it
• I was hoping that I could persuade you
• I was on the point of asking you
• I was speaking generally
• I watched you with admiration
• I will answer you frankly
• I will listen to no protestations
• I will take it only under compulsion
• I will tell you what puzzles me
• I will think of it, since you wish it
• I will, with great pleasure
• I wish I could explain my point more fully
• I wish I knew what you meant by that
• I wish to be perfectly fair
• I wish to put things as plainly as possible
• I wonder how much truth there is in it?
• I wonder if you have the smallest recollection of me?
• I would agree if I understood
• I wouldn't put it just that way
• If ever I can repay it, command me
• If I mistake not you were there once?
• If I speak strongly, it is because I feel strongly
• If I were disposed to offer counsel
• If I were sure you would not misunderstand my meaning
• If you don't mind my saying so
• If you insist upon it
• If you will pardon me the frankness
• In a manner that sometimes terrifies me
• In one respect you are quite right
• In that case let me rob you of a few minutes
• In what case, for example?
• Incredible as it sounds, I had for a moment forgotten
• Indeed, but it is quite possible
• Indeed! How?
• Indeed, you are wholly wrong
• Indifferently so, I am afraid
• Irony was ten thousand leagues from my intention
• Is it sane—is it reasonable?
• Isn't it amazing?
• Isn't it extraordinarily funny?
• Isn't it preposterous?
• Isn't that a trifle unreasonable?
• Isn't that rather a hasty conclusion?
• Is that a fair question?
• It always seemed to me impossible
• It amuses you, doesn't it?
• It blunts the sensibilities
• It could never conceivably be anything but popular
• It depends on how you look at it
• It depends upon circumstances
• It doesn't sound plausible to me
• It has a lovely situation as I remember it
• It has amused me hugely
• It has been a relief to talk to you
• It has been an immense privilege to see you
• It has never occurred to me
• It is a curious fact
• It is a great pleasure to meet you
• It is a huge undertaking
• It is a most unfortunate affair
• It is a perfectly plain proposition
• It is a rather melancholy thought
• It is a truth universally acknowledged
• It is all very inexcusable
• It is all very well for you to be philosophical
• It is altogether probable
• It is an admirable way of putting it
• It is an error of taste
• It is an extreme case, but the principle is sound
• It is an ingenious theory
• It is an uncommonly fine description
• It is extremely interesting, I can assure you
• It is for you to decide
• It is historically true
• It is I who should ask forgiveness
• It is incredible!
• It is indeed generous of you to suggest it
• It is inexplicable
• It is interesting, as a theory
• It is literally impossible
• It is merely a mood
• It is most unfortunate
• It is my deliberately formed opinion
• It is my opinion you are too conscientious
• It is nevertheless true
• It is not a matter of the slightest consequence
• It is not always fair to judge by appearances
• It is not so unreasonable as you think
• It is often very misleading
• It is one of the grave problems of the day
• It is only a fancy of mine
• It is perfectly defensible
• It is perfectly trite
• It is permissible to gratify such an impulse
• It is possible, but I rather doubt it
• It is quite an easy matter
• It is quite conceivable
• It is quite too absurd
• It is rather startling
• It is really impressive
• It is really most callous of you to laugh
• It is sheer madness
• It is sickening and so insufferably arrogant
• It is simply a coincidence
• It is the most incomprehensible thing in the world
• It is to you that I am indebted for all this
• It is true, I am grieved to say
• It is true none the less
• It is very amusing
• It is very far from being a fiction
• It is very good of you to do this for my pleasure
• It is very ingenious
• It is very splendid of you
• It is wanton capriciousness
• It is your privilege to think so
• It's a difficult and delicate matter to discuss
• It's a matter of immediate urgency
• It's absolute folly
• It's absurd—it's impossible
• It's all nonsense
• It's as logical as it can be under the circumstances
• It's been a strange experience for you
• It's deliciously honest
• It's going to be rather troublesome
• It's inconceivable that it should ever be necessary
• It's mere pride of opinion
• It's my chief form of recreation
• It's not a matter of vast importance
• It's past my comprehension
• It's quite wonderful how logical and simple you make it
• It's really very perplexing
• It's so charming of you to say that
• It's so kind of you to come
• It's such a bore having to talk about it
• It's the natural sequence
• It's too melancholy
• It's very wonderful
• It makes it all quite interesting
• It may sound strange to you
• It must be a trifle dull at times
• It must be fascinating
• It must be very gratifying to you
• It must have been rather embarrassing
• It seems an age since we've last seen you
• It seems entirely wonderful to me
• It seems incredible
• It seems like a distracting dream
• It seems preposterous
• It seems the height of absurdity
• It seems to me that you have a perfect right to do so
• It seems unspeakably funny to me
• It seems very ridiculous
• It shall be as you wish
• It should not be objectionable
• It sounds plausible
• It sounds profoundly interesting
• It sounds rather appalling
• It sounds very alluring
• It strikes me as rather pathetic
• It was an unpardonable liberty
• It was inevitable that you should say that
• It was most stupid of me to have forgotten it
• It was not unkindly meant
• It was peculiarly unfortunate
• It was really an extraordinary experience
• It was so incredible
• It was the most amazing thing I ever heard
• It was very good of you to come out and join us
• It will create a considerable sensation
• It will divert your thoughts from a mournful subject
• It will give me pleasure to do it
• It will not alter my determination
• It would be ill-advised
• It would interest me very much
• It would seem to be a wise decision
• It would take too long to formulate my thought-

J

• Join us, please, when you have time
• Just trust to the inspiration of the moment
• Justify it if you can

L

• Let me persuade you
• Let me say how deeply indebted I feel for your kindness
• Let me speak frankly
• Let us grant that for the sake of the argument
• Let us take a concrete instance

M

• Many thanks—how kind and good you are!
• May I ask to whom you allude?
• May I be privileged to hear it?
• May I speak freely?
• May I venture to ask what inference you would draw from that?
• Might I suggest an alternative?
• Most dangerous!
• My attitude would be one of disapproval
• My confidence in you is absolute
• My idea of it is quite the reverse
• My information is rather scanty
• My meaning is quite the contrary
• My point of view is different, but I shall not insist upon it
• My views are altered in many respects

N

• No, I am speaking seriously
• No, I don't understand it
• Not at all
• Not to my knowledge
• Nothing could be more delightful
• Now is it very plain to you?
• Now you are flippant

O

• Obviously the matter is settled
• Of course, but that again isn't the point
• Of course I am delighted
• Of course I don't want to press you against your will
• Of course you will do what you think best
• Oh, certainly, if you wish it
• Oh, do not form an erroneous impression
• Oh, I appreciate that in you!
• Oh, that's mere quibbling
• Oh, that's splendid of you!
• Oh, that was a manner of speaking
• Oh, yes, I quite admit that
• Oh, yes, you may take that for granted
• Oh, you are very bitter
• Oh, you may be as scornful as you like
• On the contrary, I agree with you thoroughly
• On the face of it, it sounds reasonable
• One assumption you make I should like to contest
• One has no choice to endure it
• One must be indulgent under the circumstances
• One thing I beg of you

P

• Pardon me, but I don't think so
• Pardon me, I meant something different
• Perhaps I am indiscreet
• Perhaps not in the strictest sense
• Perhaps you do not feel at liberty to do so
• Perhaps you think me ungrateful
• Personally I confess to an objection
• Please continue to be frank
• Please do not think I am asking out of mere curiosity
• Please forgive my thoughtlessness
• Please make yourself at home
• Pray don't apologize
• Pray forgive me for intruding on you so unceremoniously
• Pray go on!
• Precisely, that is just what I meant
• Put in that way it certainly sounds very well

Q

• Question me, if you wish
• Quibbling, I call it
• Quite so
• Quite the wisest thing you can do

R

• Rather loquacious, I think
  • [loquacious = very talkative]
• Reading between the lines
• Really? I should have thought otherwise
• Really—you must go?
• Reassure me, if you can
• Reflect upon the possible consequences
• Relatively speaking
• Reluctantly I admit it
• Reverting to another matter

S

• Shall we have a compact?
• She has an extraordinary gift of conversation
• She is easily prejudiced
• She seems uncommonly appreciative
• She will be immensely surprised
• Show me that the two cases are analogous
• So far so good
• So I inferred
• So much the better for me
• So you observe the transformation?
• Something amuses you
• Sometimes the absurdity of it occurs to me
• Speaking with all due respect
• Still, you might make an exception
• Strangely it's true
• Such conduct seems to me unjustifiable
• Surely there can be no question about that
• Surely we can speak frankly
• Surely you sound too harsh a note
• Surely you would not countenance that

T

• Tell me in what way you want me to help you
• Thank you for telling me that
• Thank you for your good intentions
• That, at least, you will agree to
• That depends on one's point of view
• That doesn't sound very logical
• That is a counsel of perfection
• That is a fair question, perhaps
• That is a question I have often proposed to myself
• That is a stroke of good fortune
• That is a superb piece of work
• That is a very practical explanation
• That is admirably clear
• That is certainly ideal
• That is eminently proper
• That is hardly consistent
• That is inconceivable
• That is just like you, if you will forgive me for saying so
• That is most fortunate
• That is most kind of you
• That is most unexpected and distressing
• That is not fair—to me
• That is not to be lightly spoken of
• That is precisely what I mean
• That is quite true, theoretically
• That is rather a difficult question to answer
• That is rather a strange request to make
• That is rather awkward
• That is really good of you
• That is the prevailing idea
• That is tragic
• That is true and I think you are right
• That is very amiable in you
• That is very curious
• That is very felicitous
• That is very gracious
• That is what I call intelligent criticism
• That is what I meant to tell you
• That is a humiliating thought
• That is a most interesting idea
• That is such a hideous idea
• That is the most incredible part of it
• That might involve you in life-long self-reproach
• That must be exceedingly tiresome
• That ought to make you a little lenient
• That reassures me
• That shows the infirmity of his judgment
• That theory isn't tenable
• That was exceedingly generous
• That was intended ironically
• That was very thoughtful of you
• That was very well reasoned
• That will blast your chances, I am afraid
• That will suit me excellently
• That would be somewhat serious
• That would be very discreditable
• The agreement seems to be ideal
• The idea is monstrous
• The inference is obvious
• The notion is rather new to me
• The pleasure is certainly not all on your side
• The reason is not so far to seek
• The same problem has perplexed me
• The sentiment is worthy of you
• The simplest thing in the world
• The situation is uncommonly delicate
• The story seems to me incredible
• The subject is extremely interesting
• The tone of it was certainly hostile
• The very obvious moral is this
• The whole thing is an idle fancy
• Then I have your permission?
• Then you're really not disinclined?
• Then you merely want to ask my advice?
• There are endless difficulties
• There are reasons which make such a course impossible
• There is a good deal of sense in that
• There is a grain of truth in that, I admit
• There is food for reflection in that
• There is my hand on it
• There is no resisting you
• There is nothing I should like so much
• There is one inevitable condition
• There is something almost terrifying about it
• There must be extenuating circumstances
• They amuse me immensely
• This is a most unexpected pleasure
• This is charmingly new to me
• This is indeed good fortune
• This is really appalling
• This is really not a laughing matter
• Those are my own private feelings
• Those things are not forgotten at once
• To me it's simply outrageous
• To speak frankly, I do not like it
• True, I forgot!

U

• Undeniably true
• Unfortunately I must decline the proposal
• Unlikely to be so
• Unquestionably superior
• Unwholesome influence, I would say

V

• Very good, I'll do so
• Very well, I will consent
• Vivacity is her greatest charm
• Virtually accomplished, I believe
• Vouch for its truth

W

• We are all more or less susceptible
• We are drifting away from our point
• We are impervious to certain rules
• We are merely wasting energy in this duel
• We can safely take it for granted
• We couldn't have a better topic
• We had better agree to differ
• We have had some conclusions in common
• We must judge it leniently
• We must not expose ourselves to misinterpretation
• We owe you a debt of gratitude
• We shall be glad to see you, if you care to come
• We will devoutly hope not
• Well, as a matter of fact, I have forgotten
• Well done! I congratulate you
• Well, I'm not going to argue that
• Well, I call it scandalous
• Well, I confess they don't appeal to me
• Well, more's the pity
• Well, perhaps it is none of my affair
• Well, that is certainly ideal!
• Well, this is good fortune
• Well, yes—in a way
• Well, you are a dreamer!
• What a beautiful idea
• What a charming place you have here
• What a curious coincidence!
• What a pretty compliment!
• What a tempting prospect!
• What an extraordinary idea!
• What are your misgivings?
• What can you possibly mean?
• What conceivable reason is there for it?
• What do you imagine my course should be?
• What do you propose?
• What is the next step in your argument?
• What is there so strange about that?
• What, may I ask, is your immediate object?
• What unseemly levity on his part
• What very kind things you say to me
• What would you expect me to do?
• What you have just said is even truer than you realize
• What you propose is utterly impossible
• Who is your sagacious adviser?
  • [sagacious = sound judgment, wise]
• Why ask such embarrassing questions?
• Why did you desert us so entirely?
• Why do you take it so seriously?
• Will you allow me to ask you a question?
• Will you be more explicit?
• Will you have the kindness to explain?
• Will you pardon my curiosity?
• Will you permit me a brief explanation?
• Would you apply that to everyone?
• Would you mind telling me your opinion?

Y

• Yes and no
• Yes, but that is just what I fail to comprehend
• Yes, I dare say
• Yes, if you will be so good
• Yes, it was extraordinarily fine
• Yes, that is my earnest wish
• Yes, that's undeniable
• Yes? You were saying?
• You agree with me, I know
• You are a profound philosopher
• You are a severe critic
• You are delightfully frank
• You are greatly to be envied
• You are heartily welcome
• You are incomprehensible
• You are incorrigible
• You are kind and comforting
• You are most kind
• You are not consistent
• You are not serious, I hope
• You are not seriously displeased with me?
• You are quite delightful
• You are rather puzzling to-day
• You are right to remind me of that
• You are unduly distressing yourself
• You are very complimentary
• You are very gracious
• You're so tremendously kind about it
• You're succeeding admirably
• You're taking it all much too seriously
• You're talking nonsense!
• You're very good, I'm sure
• You ask me—but I shouldn't wonder if you knew better than I do
• You astonish me greatly
• You behaved with great forbearance
• You can hardly be serious
• You cannot regret it more than I do
• You could not pay me a higher compliment
• You did it excellently
• You did not clearly understand what I meant
• You don't seem very enthusiastic
• You excite my curiosity
• You flatter my judgment
• You have a genius for saying the right thing
• You have asked me a riddle
• You have asked the impossible
• You have been wrongly informed
• You have done me a great service
• You have had a pleasant time, I hope
• You have my deepest sympathy
• You have my unbounded confidence
• You have received a false impression
• You have such an interesting way of putting things
• You interest me deeply
• You judge yourself too severely
• You know I'm in an agony of curiosity
• You know I'm not given to sentimentality
• You know the familiar axiom
• You leave no alternative
• You look incredulous
• You may be sure of my confidence
• You may rely on me absolutely
• You might make an exception
• You must have misunderstood me
• You must not fail to command me
• You overwhelm me with your kindness
• You really insist upon it?
• You rebuke me very fairly
• You say that as though you were surprised
• You see how widely we differ
• You see, it's all very vague
• You see things rose-colored
• You seem to be in a happy mood
• You seem to take a very mild interest in what I propose
• You shock me more than I can say
• You speak in enigmas
• You speak with authority
• You surely understand my position
• You take a great deal for granted
• You take a pessimistic view of things
• You take me quite by surprise
• You will admit I have some provocation
• You will become morbid if you are not careful
• You will have ample opportunity
• You will, of course, remember the incident
• You will please not be flippant
• You will understand my anxiety
• Your argument is facile and superficial
• Your consideration is entirely misplaced
• Your judgments are very sound
• Your logic is as clever as possible
• Your opinion will be invaluable to me
• Your request is granted before it is made
• Your statement is somewhat startling

Felicitous

A

• ability, humor, and perspicacity
  • [perspicacity = perceptive]
• abrupt, rough, and immoderate
• abstruse, metaphysical, and idealistic
• abundant, varied, and vigorous
• accessible, knowable, and demonstrable
• accomplished, inventive, and deft-fingered
• accuracy, ease, and grace
• acquire, classify, and arrange
• action, incident, and interest
• active, learned, and liberal
• acts, activities, and aims
• actual, stern, and pathetic
• acuteness, honesty, and, fearlessness
• addition, correction, and amplification
• adventurous, eager, and afraid
• affected, pedantic, and vain
  • [pedantic = attention to detail or rules]
• affluent, genial, and frank
• aggressive, envious, and arrogant
• agreeable, engaging, and delightful
• air, woodland, and water
• alarmed, anxious, and uneasy
• alert, hopeful, and practical
• amazement, resentment, and indignation
• ambiguous, strange, and sinister
• amiable, genial, and charitable
• amusing, sympathetic, and interesting
• ancient, subtle, and treacherous
• annoyances, shifts, and inconveniences
• anxious, fearful, and anticipative
• appearance, conversation, and bearing
• approbation, wealth, and power
  • [approbation = warm approval; praise]
• apt, explicit, and communicative
• ardent, undisciplined, and undirected
• arrogance, conceit, and disdain
• artificial, rhetorical, and mundane
• artistic, progressive, and popular
• aspirations, dreams, and devotions
• assured, stern, and judicial
• astonishment, apprehension, and horror
• attainments, possessions, and character
• attention, forbearance, and patience
• attract, interest, and persuade
• augmenting, furthering, and reenforcing
• austere, calm, and somber
• authority, leadership, and command
• avarice, pride, and revenge
• awakened, girded, and active
• awe, reverence, and adoration
• awkwardness, narrowness, and self-consciousness

B

• barbarous, shapeless, and irregular
• beautiful, graceful, and accomplished
• beggar, thief, and impostor
• belittling, personal, and selfish
• birth, rank, and fortune
• bitter, baleful, and venomous
• bland, patient, and methodical
• blessing, bestowing, and welcoming
• blind, partial, and prejudiced
• blithe, innocent, and free
• bluster, swagger, and might
• body, soul, and mind
• boisterous, undignified, and vulgar
• bold, original, and ingenious
• bombastic, incongruous, and unsymmetrical
• bountiful, exuberant, and luxurious
• brain, energy, and enterprise
• brave, authoritative, and confident
• breadth, richness, and freshness
• breathless, confused, and exhilarated
• brief, isolated, and fragmentary
• brilliancy, energy, and zeal
• broad, spare, and athletic
• broken, apologetic, and confused
• brotherhood, humanity, and chivalry
• brusqueness, rudeness, and self-assertion
• brutish, repulsive, and terrible
• busy, active, and toiling

C

• calculated, logical, and dispassionate
• calm, earnest, and genial
• candor, integrity, and straightforwardness
• capricious, perverse, and prejudiced
• careful, reasoned, and courteous
• cautious, prudent, and decisive
• caviling, petulance, and discontent
  • [caviling = finding trivial objections]
• censured, slighted, and despised
• certain, swift, and final
• chance, doubt, and mutability
• character, life, and aims
• charitable, just, and true
• charm, grace, and glory
• cheerful, modest, and delicate
• childish, discordant, and superfluous
• chill, harden, and repel
• circumstances, properties, and characteristics
• civilized, mild, and humane
• clear, cloudless, and serene
• cleverness, independence, and originality
• coarseness, violence, and cunning
• coherent, interdependent, and logical
• cold, cynical, and relentless
• color, intensity, and vivacity
• comfort, virtue, and happiness
• comments, criticisms, and judgments
• common, dull, and threadbare
• compact, determinate, and engaging
• conceited, commonplace, and uninspiring
• conception, direction, and organization
• confident, inflexible, and uncontrollable
• conflict, confusion, and disintegration
• confused, broken, and fragmentary
• conscience, heart, and life
• conscientious, clear-headed, and accurate
• consistent, thoughtful, and steadfast
• consoling, pacifying, and benign
• constant, wise, and sympathetic
• constitution, temperament, and habits
• convince, convert, and reconstruct
• copious, redundant, and involved
• corroding, venomous, and malignant
• corrupt, self-seeking, and dishonest
• countenance, voice, and manner
• country, lake, and mountain
• courage, patience, and honesty
• courteous, patient, and indefatigable
• covetousness, selfishness, and ignorance
• credulous, weak, and superstitious
• crimes, follies, and misfortunes
• crisp, emphatic, and powerful
• crude, warped, and barren
• cruelty, violence, and injustice
• culture, growth, and progress
• cunning, cruelty, and treachery
• curious, fantastic, and charming

D

• danger, difficulty, and hardship
• darkness, doubt, and difficulty
• dazzle, amaze, and overpower
• deadly, silent, and inaccessible
• deceitful, lazy, and dishonest
• decent, respectable, and sensible
• decisions, affirmations, and denials
• deep, flexible, and melodious
• defeated, discredited, and despised
• deferential, conciliatory, and courteous
• definite, tangible, and practicable
• deftness, delicacy, and veracity
• degraded, defeated, and emasculated
• dejected, discouraged, and disappointed
• deliberately, coolly, and methodically
• delicate, mobile, and complex
• delightful, witty, and sensible
• denounced, persecuted, and reviled
• dependent, subsidiary, and allied
• depth, tenderness, and sublimity
• desolated, impoverished, and embittered
• despair, finality, and hopelessness
• detailed, described, and explained
• devastating, horrible, and irremediable
• devout, gentle, and kindly
• difficult, painful, and slow
• digestion, circulation, and assimilation
• dignity, solemnity, and responsibility
• diligent, cautious, and painstaking
• dingy, cumbersome, and depressing
• directness, spontaneity, and simplicity
• disciplined, drilled, and trained
• discontent, revolt, and despair
• discordant, coarse, and unpleasing
• discourses, lectures, and harangues
• disheveled, wild, and distracted
• disinterested, patient, and exact
• dislikes, jealousies, and ambitions
• dismal, cold, and dead
• dismay, remorse, and anguish
• disordered, wild, and incoherent
• dispassionate, wise, and intelligent
• disposition, taste, and temperament
• dissension, discord, and rebellion
• distracted, hopeless, and bankrupt
• disturbed, shaken, and distressed
• diversified, animated, and rapid
• division, prejudice, and antagonism
• doctrine, life, and destiny
• dogmatic, scientific, and philosophic
• doubt, cynicism, and indifference
• draggled, dirty, and slouching
• dramatic, picturesque, and vigorous
• dream, speculate, and philosophize
• drunkenness, licentiousness, and profanity
• dry, inane, and droll
• dull, hideous, and arid
• dullards, hypocrites, and cowards
• dust, turmoil, and smoke
• duties, labors, and anxieties
• dwarfed, scant, and wretched

E

• eagerness, heartiness, and vehemence
• earnestness, zeal, and intelligence
• ease, power, and self-confidence
• easy, natural, and unembarrassed
• effluent, radiating, and fructifying
  • [fructifying = Make fruitful or productive]
• egotistic, disdainful, and proud
• elegant, convincing, and irresistible
• emotion, affection, and desire
• empty, noisy, and blundering
• end, aim, and purpose
• energies, capacities, and opportunities
• enlighten, uplift, and strengthen
• enmity, suspicion, and hatred
• enrich, discipline, and embellish
• enthusiasm, vehemence, and spirit
• envy, jealousy, and malice
• equable, animated, and alert
• erect, elastic, and graceful
• error, ignorance, and strife
• essence, existence, and identity
• esteem, confidence, and affection
• evil, disease, and death
• exact, logical, and convincing
• examine, compare, and decide
• excessive, inaccurate, and unliterary
• excitements, interests, and responsibilities
• experience, knowledge, and conduct
• exposure, ruin, and flight
• exterior, formal, and imposing

F

• faded, dusty, and unread
• failures, experiences, and ambitions
• fair, proud, and handsome
• fairies, sprites, and angels
• faith, hope, and love
• false, wicked, and disloyal
• fantastic, absurd, and impossible
• fear, dread, and apprehension
• features, form, and height
• feeble, illogical, and vicious
• feelings, motives, and desires
• fertility, ingenuity, and resource
• fervently, patiently, and persistently
• fibs, myths, and fables
• fierce, dogmatic, and bigoted
• figure, face, and attitude
• fire, force, and passion
• flit, change, and vary
• flushed, trembling, and unstrung
• foibles, tricks, and fads
• foliage, color, and symmetry
• follies, fashions, and infatuations
• foolish, ignorant, and unscrupulous
• force, grace, and symmetry
• forcible, extraordinary, and sublime
• foremost, preeminent, and incomparable
• foresight, prudence, and economy
• form, color, and distance
• formless, silent, and awful
• forward, onward, and upward
• frank, kindly, and unfaltering
• free, equal, and just
• freedom, honor, and dignity
• fresh, vigorous, and telling
• fretfulness, irritability, and petulance
• friendly, amiable, and sincere
• frigid, austere, and splendid
• fruitful, luminous, and progressive
• full, animated, and varied
• fullness, force, and precision
• furious, sanguinary, and disorganizing
  • [sanguinary = Accompanied by bloodshed]
• fustian, padding, and irrelevancy
  • [fustian = pompous, bombastic, and ranting]

G

• gaunt, desolate, and despoiled
• gay, easy, and cordial
• generous, large-hearted, and magnanimous
• genial, frank, and confiding
• genius, learning, and virtue
• gentle, firm, and loving
• genuineness, disinterestedness, and strength
• germinate, develop, and radiate
• gesture, accent, and attitude
• ghastly, hateful, and ugly
• gibes, sneers, and anger
• gifts, graces, and accomplishments
• gladness, exaltation, and triumph
• glean, gather, and digest
• gloomy, silent, and tranquil
• glow, grace, and pleasantness
• good, gentle, and affectionate
• gorgeous, still, and warm
• grace, simplicity, and sweetness
• gracious, mild, and good
• gradual, cautious, and well-reasoned
• gratitude, happiness, and affection
• grave, disastrous, and wanton
• gravity, sweetness, and patience
• gray, monotonous, and uninteresting
• great, grand, and mighty
• greed, lust, and cruelty
• grim, lean, and hungry
• gross, ignorant, and impudent
• growth, progress, and extension
• guide, philosopher, and friend

H

• habits, tastes, and opinions
• hard, stern, and inexorable
• harmony, peace, and happiness
• harsh, intolerant, and austere
• health, character, and efficiency
• helpful, suggestive, and inspiring
• helpless, hopeless, and downtrodden
• high, lofty, and noble
• high-spirited, confident, and genial
• history, philosophy, and eloquence
• homage, ability, and culture
• honesty, probity, and justice
  • [probity = integrity; uprightness]
• honors, riches, and power
• hopes, aspirations, and longings
• hot, swift, and impatient
• humanity, freedom, and justice
• humble, submissive, and serviceable
• humor, fancy, and susceptibility

I

• idle, profuse, and profligate
• ignorance, fear, and selfishness
• illuminating, chastening, and transforming
• images, events, and incidents
• imagination, judgment, and reason
• immediate, sure, and easy
• immethodical, irregular, and inconsecutive
• impatient, inconsiderate, and self-willed
• impetuous, fierce, and irresistible
• impracticable, chimerical, and contemptible
• impulse, energy, and activity
• inclinations, habits, and interests
• incoherent, loud, and confusing
• incomparable, matchless, and immortal
• inconsiderate, irritable, and insolent
• indignation, surprise, and reproach
• indirect, obscure, and ambiguous
• indolent, dreamy, and frolicsome
• inert, torpid, and lethargic
• ingenuity, force, and originality
• innocence, intelligence, and youth
• inordinate, excessive, and extravagant
• insight, knowledge, and capacity
• insincere, partial, and arbitrary
• insipid, commonplace, and chattering
• insolence, injustice, and imposture
• intelligence, taste, and manners
• intense, weighty, and philosophical
• inventions, sciences, and discoveries
• irksome, painful, and depressing
• irresolute, procrastinating, and unenterprising
• irritable, sulky, and furious
• issues, hopes, and interests

J

• jangle, wrangle, squabble, and quarrel
• jealousy, suspicion, envy, and watchfulness
• joyful, lively, happy, and hilarious
• judgment, discrimination, penetration, and sagacity
  • [sagacity = farsighted; wise]
• just, impartial, equitable, and unbiased
• juvenile, childish, trifling, and puerile
  • [puerile = immature; childish]

K

• keen, intelligent, penetrating, and severe
• keep, protect, support, and sustain
• kind, sympathetic, ready, and appreciative
• kingly, noble, imperial, and august
• knowledge, learning, enlightenment, and understanding

L

• lapses, makeshifts, delays, and irregularities
• lawful, legitimate, allowable, and just
• lazy, listless, drowsy, and indifferent
• lightly, freely, unscrupulously, and irresponsibly
• lively, vivacious, vigorous, and forcible
• loss, deprivation, forfeiture, and waste
• loud, noisy, showy, and clamorous
• loutish, prankish, selfish, and cunning
• love, depth, loyalty, and faithfulness
• lucidity, impressiveness, incisiveness, and pungency
  • [pungency = to the point]

M

• malice, anger, uncharitableness, and indignation
• malignity, brutality, malevolence, and inhumanity
• manners, morals, habits, and behavior
• marvelous, wonderful, extraordinary, and incredible
• massive, ponderous, solid, and substantial
• mastery, proficiency, dexterity, and superiority
• matchless, unrivaled, inimitable, and incomparable
• maxim, proverb, truism, and apothegm
  • [apothegm = terse, witty, instructive saying]
• medley, mixture, jumble, and hodge-podge
• meekness, inwardness, patience, and self-denial
• merciless, remorseless, relentless, and ruthless
• mild, gentle, humble, and submissive
• mismanagement, indecision, obstinacy, and hardihood
• mixture, medley, variety, and diversification
• modesty, fineness, sensitiveness, and fastidiousness
• money, position, power, and consequence
• mood, temper, humor, and caprice
• motive, impulse, incentive, and intimation
• mysterious, dark, secret, and enigmatical

N

• narrow, limited, selfish, and bigoted
• necessary, expedient, indispensable, and unavoidable
• necessity, emergency, exigency, and crisis
  • [exigency = urgent situation]
• neglect, overlook, disregard, and contemn
  • [contemn = despise]
• nice, finical, effeminate, and silly
  • [finical = Finicky]
• niggardly, close, miserly, and parsimonious
  • [parsimonious = Excessively frugal]
• noble, pure, exalted, and worthy
• nonsense, trash, twaddle, and rubbish
• novel, recent, rare, and unusual
• noxious, unwholesome, mischievous, and destructive

O

• obdurate, unfeeling, callous, and obstinate
• obedient, respectful, dutiful, and submissive
• object, propose, protest, and decline
• obliging, kind, helpful, and courteous
• obscure, shadowy, intricate, and mysterious
• obsequious, cringing, fawning, and servile
  • [obsequious = fawning.]
• observations, sentiments, ideas, and theories
• obstinacy, pertinacity, stubbornness, and inflexibility
  • [pertinacity = persistent]
• offensive, disagreeable, distasteful, and obnoxious
• officious, impertinent, insolent, and meddlesome

P

• particular, precise, formal, and punctilious
  • [punctilious = scrupulous]
• passions, weaknesses, uglinesses, and deformities
• patient, loyal, hard-working, and true
• peace, quiet, tranquillity, and harmony
• peculiar, individual, specific, and appropriate
• perplex, embarrass, confuse, and mystify
• phrases, figures, metaphors, and quotations
• piteous, woebegone, dismal, and dolorous
• placid, meek, gentle, and moderate
• plain, transparent, simple, and obvious
• play, diversion, pastime, and amusement
• pleasant, jocular, witty, and facetious
• pliable, ductile, supple, and yielding
• poetry, sentiment, morality, and religion
• polished, deft, superficial, and conventional
• polite, polished, cultured, and refined
• positive, direct, explicit, and dogmatic
• powerful, efficient, vivid, and forcible
• precise, delicate, discriminating, and fastidious
• prejudicial, injurious, noxious, and pernicious
• preposterous, irrational, unreasonable, and nonsensical
• pretense, subterfuge, simulation, and disguise
• prevent, restrain, dissuade, and dishearten
• primary, foremost, leading, and principal
• probity, directness, simplicity, and sincerity
  • [probity = integrity]
• profession, business, trade, and vocation
• profit, advantage, benefit, and emolument
  • [emolument = compensation]
• profuse, excessive, copious, and extravagant
• progress, prosperity, peace, and happiness
• prolix, prosaic, prolonged, and wordy
  • [prolix = excessive length]
• property, comforts, habits, and conveniences
• prudence, judgment, wisdom, and discretion
• pulsing, coursing, throbbing, and beating
• pure, kind, sweet-tempered, and unselfish
• purified, exalted, fortified, and illumined
• purpose, meaning, scope, and tendency

Q

• quack, imposture, charlatan, and mountebank
  • [mountebank = flamboyant charlatan]
• qualified, powerful, vigorous, and effective
• quality, property, attribute, and character
• quarrels, misunderstandings, enmities, and disapprovals
• queries, echoes, reactions, and after-thoughts
• quick, impetuous, sweeping, and expeditious
• quiet, peaceful, sane, and normal

R

• racy, smart, spicy, and pungent
• rational, sane, sound, and sensible
• ravenous, greedy, voracious, and grasping
• recreation, sport, pastime, and amusement
• relation, work, duty, and pleasure
• reliable, accurate, truthful, and duty-loving
• reports, stories, rumors, and suspicions
• reproach, dishonor, disgrace, and ignominy
• restrained, calm, quiet, and placid
• reverential, disciplined, self-controlling, and devoted
• rigid, inelastic, stiff, and unbending
• rough, rude, gruff, and surly
• rude, curt, insolent, and unpleasant

S

• sad, despondent, melancholy, and depressed
• sane, sober, sound, and rational
• scandalize, vilify, traduce, and offend
  • [traduce = humiliate with false statements]
• scanty, pinched, slender, and insufficient
• science, art, religion, and philosophy
• scope, design, purpose, and judgment
• sensual, cruel, selfish, and unscrupulous
• sentence, judgment, verdict, and doom
• serene, composed, conservative, and orderly
• several, sundry, many, and various
• severe, stern, stiff, and stringent
• shameless, corrupt, depraved, and vicious
• shock, surprise, terror, and forlornness
• simple, hearty, joyous, and affectionate
• sin, injustice, grievance, and crime
• skill, courage, prowess, and attractiveness
• sleepy, soporific, sluggish, and dull
  • [soporific = induces sleep]
• slim, slender, slight, and scraggy
• slow, dilatory, slack, and procrastinating
  • [dilatory = postpone]
• solemn, profound, serious, and difficult
• solicit, urge, implore, and importune
  • [importune = insistent requests]
• sorrow, disaster, unhappiness, and bereavement
• spontaneity, freedom, ease, and adequacy
• stately, stern, august, and implacable
• steady, reliable, dependable, and well-balanced
• stern, severe, abrupt, and unreasonable
• stories, pictures, shows and representations
• strength, agility, violence, and activity
• strong, inventive, daring, and resourceful
• sublime, consoling, inspiring, and beautiful
• substantial, solid, strong, and durable
• suffering, regret, bitterness, and fatigue
• superficial, shallow, flimsy, and untrustworthy
• superfluous, excessive, unnecessary, and redundant
• suspicious, cynical, crafty, and timid
• symmetry, proportion, harmony, and regularity

T

• tact, courtesy, adroitness, and skill
• talents, opportunities, influence, and power
• talkative, selfish, superstitious, and inquisitive
• tastes, appetites, passions, and desires
• tease, tantalize, worry, and provoke
• tenacious, stubborn, pertinacious, and obstinate
  • [pertinacious = perversely persistent]
• tendency, drift, scope, and disposition
• tests, trials, temptations, and toils
• theatrical, ceremonious, meretricious, and ostentatious
  • [meretricious = plausible but insincere]
• theory, assumption, speculation, and conjecture
• think, reflect, weigh, and ponder
• tortuous, twisted, sinuous, and circuitous
• tractable, gentle, pliant, and submissive
• traditional, uncertain, legendary, and unverified
• traffic, trade, commerce, and intercourse
• tricky, insincere, wily, and shifty
• trite, ordinary, commonplace, and hackneyed
• trivial, petty, frivolous, and insignificant
• true, upright, real, and authentic
• tumultuous, riotous, disorderly, and turbulent

U

• ugly, evil, hateful, and base
• uncertain, questionable, erroneous, and mistaken
• unctuous, shrill, brisk, and demonstrative
  • [unctuous = exaggerated, insincere]
• unhappy, unfortunate, distressed, and disastrous
• uninteresting, lifeless, obscure, and commonplace
• unity, aggressiveness, efficiency, and force
• unkind, severe, oppressive, and callous
• unpractical, childish, slipshod, and silly
• unreasonable, foolish, excessive, and absurd
• unrivaled, unequaled, incomparable, and matchless
• upright, high-minded, brave, and liberal
• urgent, important, immediate, and imperative
• usage, custom, habit, and practise

V

• vain, useless, unproductive, and unavailing
• vanities, envies, devices, and jealousies
• vast, scattered, various, and incalculable
• versatile, eloquent, sagacious, and talented
  • [sagacious = wise]
• vigorous, upright, dignified, and imperative
• vile, mean, debased, and sordid
• violent, impetuous, intense, and ungovernable
• virtuous, upright, honest, and moral
• visionary, dreamy, pensive, and sensitive
• vulgar, heavy, narrow, and obtuse

W

• want, lack, poverty, and paucity
• warm, soft, clear, and serene
• waste, devastate, pillage, and destroy
• watched, tendered, fostered, and pruned
• weak, inefficient, stupid, and futile
• wealth, position, influence, and reputation
• well-being, happiness, prosperity, and distress
• wild, restless, aimless, and erring
• wisdom, judgment, understanding, and far-sightedness
• wit, purity, energy, and simplicity
• wonderful, interesting, active, and delightful
• works, sorrows, visions, and experiences
• worry, annoyance, awkwardness, and difficulty

Impressive

A

• able, skilful, thorough, and genuine
• absolute, complete, unqualified, and final
• accurate, precise, exact, and truthful
• active, alert, vigorous, and industrious
• actual, positive, certain, and genuine
• adequate, uniform, proportionate, and equitable
• adventurous, fine, active, and gossipy
• adverse, antagonistic, unfriendly, and hostile
• advisable, advantageous, acceptable, and expedient
• affable, diffident, humble, and mild
• affectionate, tender, loving, and attached
• affluent, opulent, abundant, and ample
• allurements, pits, snares, and torments
• anger, indignation, resentment, and rage
• animate, impel, instigate, and embolden
• animosity, malice, enmity, and hatred
• annul, frustrate, reverse, and destroy
• anxiety, caution, watchfulness, and solicitude
• apparent, ostensible, plausible, and specious
• appropriate, use, arrogate, and usurp
  • [arrogate = claim without right; appropriate]
• approval, enthusiasm, sympathy, and applause
• aptitude, capacity, efficiency, and power
• arbitrary, dictatorial, domineering, and imperious
  • [imperious = arrogantly domineering or overbearing]
• architecture, sculpture, painting, and poetry
• ardent, impatient, keen, and vehement
• argue, discuss, dispute, and prove
• arrangement, place, time, and circumstance
• art, science, knowledge, and culture
• artful, wily, insincere, and disingenuous
• artificial, soulless, hectic, and unreal
• assemble, amass, accumulate, and acquire
• assiduity, tenderness, industry, and vigilance
  • [assiduity = persistent application]
• assurance, persuasion, fidelity, and loyalty
• attention, effort, diligence, and assiduity
  • [assiduity = persistent application]
• august, magnanimous, important, and distinguished
• authoritative, independent, arbitrary, and supreme
• avaricious, grasping, miserly, and parsimonious
  • [parsimonious = excessively frugal]
• aversion, dislike, hatred, and repugnance

B

• bad, vicious, unwholesome, and distressing
• babble, prate, chatter, and prattle
• barbarous, brutal, inhuman, and cruel
• base, cowardly, abject, and hideous
• battle, defeat, frustrate, and ruin
• bearing, deportment, manner, and behavior
• beg, entreat, implore, and supplicate
• beliefs, doctrines, ceremonies, and practices
• boorish, clownish, rude, and uncultivated
• boundless, immeasurable, unlimited, and infinite
• bravery, courage, fearlessness, and confidence
• breadth, knowledge, vision, and power
• brilliant, beautiful, elegant, and faithful
• broaden, enlarge, extend, and augment
• business, profession, occupation, and vocation
• candid, sincere, familiar, and ingenuous

C

• captious, petulant, peevish, and splenetic
  • [captious = point out trivial faults]
• cautious, discreet, considerate, and provident
• certain, confident, positive, and unquestionable
• chagrin, vexation, irritation, and mortification
• character, disposition, temperament, and reputation
• charm, fascinate, bewitch, and captivate
• cheap, inexpensive, inferior, and common
• cheer, animate, vivify, and exhilarate
  • [vivify = bring life to]
• chiefly, particularly, principally, and especially
• childhood, youth, manhood, and age
• circumstance, condition, environment, and surroundings
• claim, grab, trick, and compel
• clean, fastidious, frugal, and refined
• clear, distinct, obvious, and intelligible
• clumsy, crawling, snobbish, and comfort-loving
• coarse, gross, offensive, and nauseous
• coax, flatter, wheedle, and persuade
• cogitate, contemplate, meditate, and ponder
• cold, frigid, unfeeling, and stoical
• commanding, authoritative, imperative, and peremptory
  • [peremptory = ending all debate or action]
• compassion, goodwill, admiration, and enthusiasm
• confirm, establish, sustain, and strengthen
• conform, submit, obey, and satisfy
• confuse, distort, involve, and misinterpret
• consistent, congruous, firm, and harmonious
• cool, collected, calm, and self-possessed
• copious, commanding, sonorous, and emotional
• cowardly, timid, shrinking, and timorous
• crazy, absurd, nonsensical, and preposterous
• crude, rough, jagged, and pitiless

D

• daring, cordial, discerning, and optimistic
• darkness, dimness, dulness, and blackness
• deadly, destructive, fatal, and implacable
• deceit, delusion, treachery, and sham
• deep, abstruse, learned, and profound
• deficient, inadequate, scanty, and incomplete
• define, explain, determine, and circumscribe
• degrade, defame, humble, and debase
• delicacy, daintiness, tact, and refinement
• delicious, sweet, palatable, and delightful
• democracy, equality, justice, and freedom
• deny, dismiss, exclude, and repudiate
• deprive, dispossess, divest, and despoil
• describe, delineate, depict, and characterize
• designed, contrived, planned, and executed
• desperate, extreme, wreckless, and irremediable
• despicable, abject, servile, and worthless
• destructive, detrimental, deleterious, and subversive
• desultory, discursive, loose, and unmethodical
  • [desultory = disconnected: haphazard]
• detestable, abominable, horrible, and hideous
• developed, revealed, measured, and tested
• difference, disagreement, discord, and estrangement
• difficult, arduous, intricate, and perplexing
• diffuse, discursive, rambling, and wordy
• diligence, attention, industry, and assiduity
  • [assiduity = persistent application]
• disagreement, discrepancy, difference, and divergence
• disconsolate, desolate, pessimistic, and impossible
• discrimination, acuteness, insight, and judgment
• disgust, distaste, loathing, and abhorrence
• dissatisfied, rebellious, unsettled, and satirical
• distinct, definite, clear, and obvious
• distinguished, glorious, illustrious, and eminent
• disturbed, shaken, distressed, and bewildered
• docile, tractable, compliant, and teachable
• dogmatic, bigoted, libelous, and unsympathizing
• doubt, indecision, suspense, and perplexity
• dread, disgust, repugnance, and dreariness
• dreary, dispirited, unhappy, and peevish
• dry, lifeless, tiresome, and uninteresting
• dubious, equivocal, fluctuating, and uncertain
• dull, heavy, painstaking, and conscientious

E

• earth, air, stars, and sea
• efficient, forcible, adequate, and potent
• emaciated, scraggy, meager, and attenuated
• endless, ceaseless, immutable, and imperishable
• energy, eagerness, earnestness, and enthusiasm
• enhance, exalt, elevate, and intensify
• enormous, base, prodigious, and colossal
• enrage, incense, infuriate, and exasperate
• enthusiasm, devotion, intensity, and zeal
• envy, discontent, deception, and ignorance
• equitable, reasonable, just, and honest
• equivocal, uncertain, cloudy, and ambiguous
• eradicate, extirpate, exterminate, and annihilate
  • [extirpate = pull up by the roots]
• erroneous, faulty, inaccurate, and inexact
• eternal, unchangeable, unerring, and intelligent
• evil, misfortune, corruption, and disaster
• exacting, suspicious, irritable, and wayward
• exalt, dignify, elevate, and extol
• examination, inquiry, scrutiny, and research
• exceed, outdo, surpass, and transcend
• exceptional, uncommon, abnormal, and extraordinary
• excitement, distraction, diversion, and stimulation
• exhaustive, thorough, radical, and complete
• expend, dissipate, waste, and squander

F

• facile, showy, cheap, and superficial
• faithful, truthful, loyal, and trustworthy
• fame, distinction, dignity, and honor
• fanatic, enthusiast, visionary, and zealot
• fanciful, unreal, fantastic, and grotesque
• fancy, humor, vagary, and caprice
  • [vagary = extravagant or erratic notion or action]
• fashion, practise, habit, and usage
• fastidious, proud, gracious, and poised
• fate, fortune, contingency, and opportunity
• fatuous, dreamy, moony, and impracticable
• fear, timidity, cowardice, and pusillanimity
• feeble, languid, timid, and irresolute
• ferocious, restive, savage, and uncultivated
• fervent, enthusiastic, anxious, and zealous
• fiction, fancy, falsehood, and fabrication
• fine, fragile, delicate, and dainty
• firmness, steadfastness, stability, and tenacity
• flash, flame, flare, and glare
• flat, insipid, tame, and monotonous
• fluctuating, hesitating, vacillating, and oscillating
• folly, foolishness, imbecility, and fatuity
• foolhardy, hasty, adventurous, and reckless
• fop, coxcomb, puppy, and jackanapes
  • [jackanapes = conceited person]
• force, vigor, power, and energy
• formal, precise, stiff, and methodical
• fortunate, happy, prosperous, and successful
• fragile, frail, brittle, and delicate
• freedom, familiarity, liberty, and independence
• frightful, fearful, direful, and dreadful
• frivolous, trifling, petty, and childish
• fruitful, fertile, prolific, and productive
• fruitless, vain, trivial, and foolish
• frustrate, defeat, disappoint, and thwart
• fully, completely, abundantly, and perfectly
• furious, impetuous, boisterous, and vehement

G

• gaiety, merriment, joy, and hilarity
• gallant, ardent, fearless, and self-sacrificing
• garnish, embellish, beautify, and decorate
• generous, candid, easy, and independent
• genius, intellect, aptitude, and capacity
• genteel, refined, polished, and well-bred
• gentle, persuasive, affective, and simple
• genuine, true, unaffected, and sincere
• ghastly, grim, shocking, and hideous
• gibe, mock, taunt, and jeer
• giddy, fickle, flighty, and thoughtless
• gleam, glimmer, glance, and glitter
• gloomy, dismal, dark, and dejected
• glorious, noble, exalted, and resplendent
• glut, gorge, cloy, and satiate
  • [cloy = too filling, rich, or sweet]
• good, safe, venerable, and solid
• government, law, order, and organization
• grand, stately, dignified, and pompous
• grave, contemplative, reserved, and profound
• great, joyous, strong, and triumphant
• greed, avarice, covetousness, and cupidity
• gross, academic, vulgar, and indiscriminate

H

• habit, custom, method, and fashion
• handsome, exquisite, brilliant, and accomplished
• harmless, innocent, innocuous, and inoffensive
• harmony, order, sublimity, and beauty
• harsh, discordant, disagreeable, and ungracious
• hasty, superficial, impatient, and desultory
  • [desultory = disconnected: haphazard]
• healed, soothed, consoled, and assuaged
• healthy, hale, sound, and wholesome
• heavy, sluggish, dejected, and crushing
• high-minded, truthful, honest, and courageous
• holy, hallowed, sacred, and consecrated
• homely, hideous, horrid, and unsightly
• honor, obedience, virtue, and loyalty
• hopefulness, peace, sweetness, and strength
• hopes, dreams, programs, and ideals
• hospitable, generous, tolerant, and kindly
• hot, hasty, fervent, and fiery
• humane, gentle, kind, and generous
• humble, simple, submissive, and unostentatious

I

• idea, imagination, conception, and ideal
• idleness, recreation, repose, and rest
• ignominious, infamous, despicable, and contemptible
• illumine, instruct, enlighten, and inform
• imaginative, sensitive, nervous, and highly-strung
• impatience, indolence, wastefulness, and inconclusiveness
• impel, stimulate, animate, and inspirit
• imperious, wayward, empirical, and impatient
  • [imperious = arrogantly domineering or overbearing]
• improvident, incautious, prodigal, and thriftless
• impudent, insolent, irrelevant, and officious
• inadvertency, carelessness, negligence, and oversight
• indecision, doubt, fear, and lassitude
• indifference, caution, coldness, and weariness
• indolent, passive, sluggish, and slothful
• ineffectual, powerless, useless, and unavailing
• infamy, shame, dishonor, and disgrace
• infantile, childish, boyish, and dutiful
• informal, natural, unconventional, and careless
• insolent, impudent, impertinent, and flippant
• integrity, frankness, sincerity, and truthfulness
• intellectual, moral, emotional, and esthetic
• intense, earnest, violent, and extreme
• invent, discover, design, and contrive
• inveterate, confirmed, chronic, and obstinate
• invidious, envious, odious, and offensive
• invincible, unconquerable, insurmountable, and insuperable
• irksome, tiresome, tedious, and annoying
• irregular, uncertain, devious, and unsystematic
• irritable, choleric, petulant, and susceptible

J

• jangle, wrangle, squabble, and quarrel
• jealousy, suspicion, envy, and watchfulness
• joyful, lively, happy, and hilarious
• judgment, discrimination, penetration, and sagacity
  • [sagacity = farsighted; wise]
• just, impartial, equitable, and unbiased
• juvenile, childish, trifling, and puerile
  • [puerile = immature; childish]

K

• keen, intelligent, penetrating, and severe
• keep, protect, support, and sustain
• kind, sympathetic, ready, and appreciative
• kingly, noble, imperial, and august
• knowledge, learning, enlightenment, and understanding

L

• lapses, makeshifts, delays, and irregularities
• lawful, legitimate, allowable, and just
• lazy, listless, drowsy, and indifferent
• lightly, freely, unscrupulously, and irresponsibly
• lively, vivacious, vigorous, and forcible
• loss, deprivation, forfeiture, and waste
• loud, noisy, showy, and clamorous
• loutish, prankish, selfish, and cunning
• love, depth, loyalty, and faithfulness
• lucidity, impressiveness, incisiveness, and pungency
  • [pungency = to the point]

M

• malice, anger, uncharitableness, and indignation
• malignity, brutality, malevolence, and inhumanity
• manners, morals, habits, and behavior
• marvelous, wonderful, extraordinary, and incredible
• massive, ponderous, solid, and substantial
• mastery, proficiency, dexterity, and superiority
• matchless, unrivaled, inimitable, and incomparable
• maxim, proverb, truism, and apothegm
  • [apothegm = terse, witty, instructive saying]
• medley, mixture, jumble, and hodge-podge
• meekness, inwardness, patience, and self-denial
• merciless, remorseless, relentless, and ruthless
• mild, gentle, humble, and submissive
• mismanagement, indecision, obstinacy, and hardihood
• mixture, medley, variety, and diversification
• modesty, fineness, sensitiveness, and fastidiousness
• money, position, power, and consequence
• mood, temper, humor, and caprice
• motive, impulse, incentive, and intimation
• mysterious, dark, secret, and enigmatical

N

• narrow, limited, selfish, and bigoted
• necessary, expedient, indispensable, and unavoidable
• necessity, emergency, exigency, and crisis
  • [exigency = urgent situation]
• neglect, overlook, disregard, and contemn
  • [contemn = despise]
• nice, finical, effeminate, and silly
  • [finical = Finicky]
• niggardly, close, miserly, and parsimonious
  • [parsimonious = Excessively frugal]
• noble, pure, exalted, and worthy
• nonsense, trash, twaddle, and rubbish
• novel, recent, rare, and unusual
• noxious, unwholesome, mischievous, and destructive

O

• obdurate, unfeeling, callous, and obstinate
• obedient, respectful, dutiful, and submissive
• object, propose, protest, and decline
• obliging, kind, helpful, and courteous
• obscure, shadowy, intricate, and mysterious
• obsequious, cringing, fawning, and servile
  • [obsequious = fawning.]
• observations, sentiments, ideas, and theories
• obstinacy, pertinacity, stubbornness, and inflexibility
  • [pertinacity = persistent]
• offensive, disagreeable, distasteful, and obnoxious
• officious, impertinent, insolent, and meddlesome

P

• particular, precise, formal, and punctilious
  • [punctilious = scrupulous]
• passions, weaknesses, uglinesses, and deformities
• patient, loyal, hard-working, and true
• peace, quiet, tranquillity, and harmony
• peculiar, individual, specific, and appropriate
• perplex, embarrass, confuse, and mystify
• phrases, figures, metaphors, and quotations
• piteous, woebegone, dismal, and dolorous
• placid, meek, gentle, and moderate
• plain, transparent, simple, and obvious
• play, diversion, pastime, and amusement
• pleasant, jocular, witty, and facetious
• pliable, ductile, supple, and yielding
• poetry, sentiment, morality, and religion
• polished, deft, superficial, and conventional
• polite, polished, cultured, and refined
• positive, direct, explicit, and dogmatic
• powerful, efficient, vivid, and forcible
• precise, delicate, discriminating, and fastidious
• prejudicial, injurious, noxious, and pernicious
• preposterous, irrational, unreasonable, and nonsensical
• pretense, subterfuge, simulation, and disguise
• prevent, restrain, dissuade, and dishearten
• primary, foremost, leading, and principal
• probity, directness, simplicity, and sincerity
  • [probity = integrity]
• profession, business, trade, and vocation
• profit, advantage, benefit, and emolument
  • [emolument = compensation]
• profuse, excessive, copious, and extravagant
• progress, prosperity, peace, and happiness
• prolix, prosaic, prolonged, and wordy
  • [prolix = excessive length]
• property, comforts, habits, and conveniences
• prudence, judgment, wisdom, and discretion
• pulsing, coursing, throbbing, and beating
• pure, kind, sweet-tempered, and unselfish
• purified, exalted, fortified, and illumined
• purpose, meaning, scope, and tendency

Q

• quack, imposture, charlatan, and mountebank
  • [mountebank = flamboyant charlatan]
• qualified, powerful, vigorous, and effective
• quality, property, attribute, and character
• quarrels, misunderstandings, enmities, and disapprovals
• queries, echoes, reactions, and after-thoughts
• quick, impetuous, sweeping, and expeditious
• quiet, peaceful, sane, and normal

R

• racy, smart, spicy, and pungent
• rational, sane, sound, and sensible
• ravenous, greedy, voracious, and grasping
• recreation, sport, pastime, and amusement
• relation, work, duty, and pleasure
• reliable, accurate, truthful, and duty-loving
• reports, stories, rumors, and suspicions
• reproach, dishonor, disgrace, and ignominy
• restrained, calm, quiet, and placid
• reverential, disciplined, self-controlling, and devoted
• rigid, inelastic, stiff, and unbending
• rough, rude, gruff, and surly
• rude, curt, insolent, and unpleasant

S

• sad, despondent, melancholy, and depressed
• sane, sober, sound, and rational
• scandalize, vilify, traduce, and offend
  • [traduce = humiliate with false statements]
• scanty, pinched, slender, and insufficient
• science, art, religion, and philosophy
• scope, design, purpose, and judgment
• sensual, cruel, selfish, and unscrupulous
• sentence, judgment, verdict, and doom
• serene, composed, conservative, and orderly
• several, sundry, many, and various
• severe, stern, stiff, and stringent
• shameless, corrupt, depraved, and vicious
• shock, surprise, terror, and forlornness
• simple, hearty, joyous, and affectionate
• sin, injustice, grievance, and crime
• skill, courage, prowess, and attractiveness
• sleepy, soporific, sluggish, and dull
  • [soporific = induces sleep]
• slim, slender, slight, and scraggy
• slow, dilatory, slack, and procrastinating
  • [dilatory = postpone]
• solemn, profound, serious, and difficult
• solicit, urge, implore, and importune
  • [importune = insistent requests]
• sorrow, disaster, unhappiness, and bereavement
• spontaneity, freedom, ease, and adequacy
• stately, stern, august, and implacable
• steady, reliable, dependable, and well-balanced
• stern, severe, abrupt, and unreasonable
• stories, pictures, shows and representations
• strength, agility, violence, and activity
• strong, inventive, daring, and resourceful
• sublime, consoling, inspiring, and beautiful
• substantial, solid, strong, and durable
• suffering, regret, bitterness, and fatigue
• superficial, shallow, flimsy, and untrustworthy
• superfluous, excessive, unnecessary, and redundant
• suspicious, cynical, crafty, and timid
• symmetry, proportion, harmony, and regularity

T

• tact, courtesy, adroitness, and skill
• talents, opportunities, influence, and power
• talkative, selfish, superstitious, and inquisitive
• tastes, appetites, passions, and desires
• tease, tantalize, worry, and provoke
• tenacious, stubborn, pertinacious, and obstinate
  • [pertinacious = perversely persistent]
• tendency, drift, scope, and disposition
• tests, trials, temptations, and toils
• theatrical, ceremonious, meretricious, and ostentatious
  • [meretricious = plausible but insincere]
• theory, assumption, speculation, and conjecture
• think, reflect, weigh, and ponder
• tortuous, twisted, sinuous, and circuitous
• tractable, gentle, pliant, and submissive
• traditional, uncertain, legendary, and unverified
• traffic, trade, commerce, and intercourse
• tricky, insincere, wily, and shifty
• trite, ordinary, commonplace, and hackneyed
• trivial, petty, frivolous, and insignificant
• true, upright, real, and authentic
• tumultuous, riotous, disorderly, and turbulent

U

• ugly, evil, hateful, and base
• uncertain, questionable, erroneous, and mistaken
• unctuous, shrill, brisk, and demonstrative
  • [unctuous = exaggerated, insincere]
• unhappy, unfortunate, distressed, and disastrous
• uninteresting, lifeless, obscure, and commonplace
• unity, aggressiveness, efficiency, and force
• unkind, severe, oppressive, and callous
• unpractical, childish, slipshod, and silly
• unreasonable, foolish, excessive, and absurd
• unrivaled, unequaled, incomparable, and matchless
• upright, high-minded, brave, and liberal
• urgent, important, immediate, and imperative
• usage, custom, habit, and practise

V

• vain, useless, unproductive, and unavailing
• vanities, envies, devices, and jealousies
• vast, scattered, various, and incalculable
• versatile, eloquent, sagacious, and talented
  • [sagacious = wise]
• vigorous, upright, dignified, and imperative
• vile, mean, debased, and sordid
• violent, impetuous, intense, and ungovernable
• virtuous, upright, honest, and moral
• visionary, dreamy, pensive, and sensitive
• vulgar, heavy, narrow, and obtuse

W

• want, lack, poverty, and paucity
• warm, soft, clear, and serene
• waste, devastate, pillage, and destroy
• watched, tendered, fostered, and pruned
• weak, inefficient, stupid, and futile
• wealth, position, influence, and reputation
• well-being, happiness, prosperity, and distress
• wild, restless, aimless, and erring
• wisdom, judgment, understanding, and far-sightedness
• wit, purity, energy, and simplicity
• wonderful, interesting, active, and delightful
• works, sorrows, visions, and experiences
• worry, annoyance, awkwardness, and difficulty

Literary expressions

A

• A bitterness crept into her face
• A blazing blue sky poured down torrents of light
• A book to beguile the tedious hours
• A brave but turbulent aristocracy
• A broad, complacent, admiring imbecility breathed from his nose and lips
• A burlesque feint of evading a blow
• A callous and conscienceless brute
• A calm and premeditated prudence
• A calmness settled on his spirit
• A campaign of unbridled ferocity
• A carefully appraising eye
• A ceaselessly fleeting sky
• A certain implication of admiring confidence
• A charming air of vigor and vitality
• A childish belief in his own impeccability
• A cold, hard, frosty penuriousness was his prevalent characteristic
  • [penuriousness = stingy; barren; poverty-stricken]
• A compassion perfectly angelic
• A constant stream of rhythmic memories
• A covertly triumphant voice
• A creature of the most delicate and rapid responses
• A crop of disappointments
• A cunning intellect patiently diverting every circumstance to its design
• A curious and inexplicable uneasiness
• A curious vexation fretted her
• A daily avalanche of vituperation
  • [vituperation = harshly abusive language]
• A dandified, pretty-boy-looking sort of figure
• A dark and relentless fate
• A day monotonous and colorless
• A dazzling completeness of beauty
• A deep and brooding resentment
• A delicious throng of sensations
• A deliciously tantalizing sense
• A detached segment of life
• A dire monotony of bookish idiom
• A disheveled and distraught figure
• A face singularly acute and intelligent
• A faint accent of reproach
• A faint sense of compunction moved her
• A faint, transient, wistful smile lightened her brooding face
• A faint tremor of amusement was on his lips
• A faintly quizzical look came into his incisive stare
• A fawn-colored sea streaked here and there with tints of deepest orange
• A fever of enthusiasm
• A few tears came to soften her seared vision
• A fiery exclamation of wrath and disdain
• A figure full of decision and dignity
• A firm and balanced manhood
• A first faint trace of irritation
• A fitful boy full of dreams and hopes
• A flame of scarlet crept in a swift diagonal across his cheeks
• A fleeting and furtive air of triumph
• A flood of pride rose in him
• A foreboding of some destined change
• A fortuitous series of happy thoughts
• A frigid touch of the hand
• A fugitive intangible charm
• A gay exuberance of ambition
• A generation of men lavishly endowed with genius
• A gentle sarcasm ruffled her anger
• A ghastly whiteness overspread the cheek
• A glance of extraordinary meaning
• A glassy expression of inattention
• A glassy stare of deprecating horror
• A glittering infectious smile
• A gloom overcame him
• A golden haze of pensive light
• A golden summer of marvelous fertility
• A graceful readiness and vigor
• A grave man of pretending exterior
• A great pang gripped her heart
• A great process of searching and shifting
• A great sickness of heart smote him
• A great soul smitten and scourged, but still invested with the dignity of immortality
• A grim and shuddering fascination
• A gush of entrancing melody
• A gusty breeze blew her hair about unheeded
• A half-breathless murmur of amazement and incredulity
• A half-uneasy, half-laughing compunction
• A harassing anxiety of sorrow
• A harvest of barren regrets
• A haunting and horrible sense of insecurity
• A heavy oppression seemed to brood upon the air
• A helpless anger simmered in him
• A hint of death in the icy breath of the gale
• A hot and virulent skirmish
• A hot uprush of hatred and loathing
• A kind of ineffable splendor crowns the day
• A lapse from the well-ordered decencies of civilization
• A large, rich, copious human endowment
• A late star lingered, remotely burning
• A laugh of jovial significance
• A light of unwonted pleasure in her eyes
  • [unwonted = unusual]
• A little jaded by gastronomical exertions
• A lukewarm and selfish love
• A man of imperious will
  • [imperious = arrogantly domineering]
• A man of matchless modesty and refinement
• A manner bright with interest and interrogation
• A manner nervously anxious to please
• A melancholy monotone beat on one's heart
• A mere exhibition of fussy diffuseness
• A mere figment of a poet's fancy
• A mien and aspect singularly majestic
  • [mien = bearing or manner]
• A mild and deprecating air
• A mind singularly practical and sagacious
  • [sagacious = wise]
• A mouth of inflexible decision
• A murmur of complacency
• A mystery everlastingly impenetrable
• A nameless sadness which is always born of moonlight
• A new and overmastering impulse
• A new doubt assailed her
• A new marvel of the sky
• A new trouble was dawning on his thickening mental horizon
• A nimble-witted opponent
• A painful thought was flooding his mind
• A pang of jealousy not unmingled with scorn
• A patience worthy of admiration
• A perfect carnival of fun
• A perfect crime of clumsiness
• A piteous aspect of woe
• A portent full of possible danger
• A potion to be delicately supped at leisure
• A powerful agitation oppressed him
• A prevailing sentiment of uneasy discontent
• A prey to listless uneasiness
• A profound and absorbing interest
• A profound and eager hopefulness
• A profound and rather irritating egotist by nature
• A prop for my faint heart
• A propitious sky, marbled with pearly white
  • [propitious = favorable; kindly; gracious]
• A protest wavered on her lip
• A puissant and brilliant family
  • [puissant = powerful; mighty]
• A queer, uncomfortable perplexity began to invade her
• A quick flame leaped in his eyes
• A quick shiver ruffled the brooding stillness of the water
• A quiver of resistance ran through her
• A remarkable fusion of morality and art
• A random gleam of light
• A rare and dazzling order of beauty
• A rhythmical torrent of eloquent prophecy
• A river of shame swept over him
• A sad inquiry seemed to dwell in her gaze
• A satisfied sense of completeness
• A secret sweeter than the sea or sky can whisper
• A sensation of golden sweetness and delight
• A sense of desolation and disillusionment overwhelmed me
• A sense of infinite peace brooded over the place
• A sense of meditative content
• A sense of repression was upon her
• A sentiment of distrust in its worth had crept into her thoughts
• A sheaf of letters
• A shimmer of golden sun shaking through the trees
• A shiver of apprehension crisped her skin
• A shuffling compromise between defiance and prostration
• A sigh of large contentment
• A sight for the angels to weep over
• A skepticism which prompted rebellion
• A slight movement of incredulous dissent
• A smile full of subtle charm
• A smile of exquisite urbanity
• A soft insidious plea
• A soft intonation of profound sorrow
• A soft suspicion of ulterior motives
• A solemn glee possessed my mind
• A solemn gray expanse that lost itself far away in the gray of the sea
• A solemn utterance of destiny
• A somber and breathless calm hung over the deepening eve
• A somewhat melancholy indolence
• A somewhat sharp and incisive voice
• A sonorous voice bade me enter
• A soothing and quieting touch was gently laid upon her soul
• A sort of eager, almost appealing amiability
• A sort of stolid despairing acquiescence
• A sort of stunned incredulity
• A soundless breeze that was little more than a whisper
• A spacious sense of the amplitude of life's possibilities
• A staccato cough interrupted the flow of speech
• A state of sullen self-absorption
• A steady babble of talk and laughter
• A step was at her heels
• A stifling sensation of pain and suspense
• A stinging wind swept the woods
• A strange compound of contradictory elements
• A stream of easy talk
• A strong convulsion shook the vague indefinite form
• A strong susceptibility to the ridiculous
• A subtle emphasis of scorn
• A sudden and stinging delight
• A sudden gleam of insight
• A sudden uncontrollable outburst of feeling
• A super-abundance of boisterous animal spirits
• A supercilious scorn and pity
  • [supercilious = haughty disdain]
• A super-refinement of taste
• A swaggering air of braggadocio
  • [braggadocio = pretentious bragging]
• A sweet bewilderment of tremulous apprehension
  • [tremulous = fearful]
• A sweet, quiet, sacred, stately seclusion
• A swift knowledge came to her
• A swift unformulated fear
• A swiftly unrolling panorama of dreams
• A tangle of ugly words
• A thousand evanescent memories of happy days
  • [evanescent = vanishing like vapor]
• A thousand unutterable fears bore irresistible despotism over her thoughts
• A time of disillusion followed
• A tiny stream meandering amiably
• A tone of arduous admiration
• A torn and tumultuous sky
• A total impression ineffable and indescribable
• A tragic futility
• A treacherous throb of her voice
• A true similitude of what befalls many men and women
• A tumult of vehement feeling
• A tumultuous rush of sensations
• A twinge of embarrassment
• A vague and wistful melancholy
• A vast sweet silence crept through the trees
• A veritable spring-cleaning of the soul
• A very practised and somewhat fastidious critic
• A violent and mendacious tongue
  • [mendacious = false; untrue]
• A vivid and arresting presentation
• A waking dream overshadowed her
• A weird world of morbid horrors
• A well-bred mixture of boldness and courtesy
• A wild vivacity was in her face and manner
• A wile of the devil's
  • [wile = trick intended to deceive or ensnare]
• A wind strayed through the gardens
• A withering sensation of ineffable boredom
• A wordless farewell
• Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting
• Absorbed in a stream of thoughts and reminiscences
• Absorbed in the scent and murmur of the night
• Accidents which perpetually deflect our vagrant attention
• Across the gulf of years
• Administering a little deft though veiled castigation
• Affected an ironic incredulity
• Affecting a tone of gayety
• After a first moment of reluctance
• After an eternity of resolutions, doubts, and indecisions
• Aghast at his own helplessness
• Agitated and enthralled by day-dreams
• Agitated with violent and contending emotions
• Alien paths and irrelevant junketings
• All embrowned and mossed with age
• All her gift of serene immobility brought into play
• All hope of discreet reticence was ripped to shreds
• All the lesser lights paled into insignificance
• All the magic of youth and joy of life was there
• All the place is peopled with sweet airs
• All the sky was mother-of-pearl and tender
• All the unknown of the night and of the universe was pressing upon him
• All the world was flooded with a soft golden light
• All was a vague jumble of chaotic impressions
• All was incomprehensible
• All was instinctive and spontaneous
• Aloof from the motley throng
• Ambition shivered into fragments
• Amid distress and humiliation
• Amid the direful calamities of the time
• An acute note of distress in her voice
• An agreeably grave vacuity
• An air half quizzical and half deferential
• An air of affected civility
• An air of being meticulously explicit
• An air of inimitable, scrutinizing, superb impertinence
• An air of stern, deep, and irredeemable gloom hung over and pervaded all
• An air of uncanny familiarity
• An air which was distinctly critical
• An almost pathetic appearance of ephemeral fragility
  • [ephemeral = markedly short-lived]
• An almost riotous prodigality of energy
• An answering glow of gratitude
• An antagonist worth her steel
• An artful stroke of policy
• An assumption of hostile intent
• An assurance of good-nature that forestalled hostility
• An atmosphere of extraordinary languor
  • [languor = dreamy, lazy mood ]
• An atmosphere thick with flattery and toadyism
• An attack of peculiar virulence and malevolence
• An audacious challenge of ridicule
• An avidity that bespoke at once the restlessness,
  • [avidity = eagerness] and the genius of her mind
• An awe crept over me
• An eager and thirsty ear
• An easy prey to the powers of folly
• An effusive air of welcome
• An equal degree of well-bred worldly cynicism
• An erect, martial, majestic, and imposing personage
• An eternity of silence oppressed him
• An expression of mildly humorous surprise
• An expression of rare and inexplicable personal energy
• An exquisite perception of things beautiful and rare
• An iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart
• An ignoring eye
• An impenetrable screen of foliage
• An impersonal and slightly ironic interest
• An impervious beckoning motion
• An inarticulate echo of his longing
• An increased gentleness of aspect
• An incursion of the loud, the vulgar and meretricious
  • [meretricious = plausible but false]
• An inexplicable and uselessly cruel caprice of fate
• An inexpressible fervor of serenity
• An ingratiating, awkward and, wistful grace
• An inspired ray was in his eyes
• An instant she stared unbelievingly
• An intense and insatiable hunger for light and truth
• An intense travail of mind
• An obscure thrill of alarm
• An odd little air of penitent self-depreciation
• An open wit and recklessness of bearing
• An oppressive sense of strange sweet odor
• An optimistic after-dinner mood
• An overburdening sense of the inexpressible
• An uncomfortable premonition of fear
• An unfailing sweetness and unerring perception
• An unpleasant and heavy sensation sat at his heart
• An unredeemed dreariness of thought
• An unsuspected moral obtuseness
• An utter depression of soul
• And day peers forth with her blank eyes
• And what is all this pother about?
  • [pother = commotion; disturbance]
• Animated by noble pride
• Anticipation painted the world in rose
• Appalled in speechless disgust
• Appealing to the urgent temper of youth
• Apprehensive solicitude about the future
• Ardent words of admiration
• Armed all over with subtle antagonisms
• Artless and unquestioning devotion
• As if smitten by a sudden spasm
• As the long train sweeps away into the golden distance
• August and imperial names in the kingdom of thought
• Awaiting his summons to the eternal silence

B

• Bandied about from mouth to mouth
• Barricade the road to truth
• Bartering the higher aspirations of life
• Beaming with pleasurable anticipation
• Before was the open malignant sea
• Beguiled the weary soul of man
• Beneath the cold glare of the desolate night
• Bent on the lofty ends of her destiny
• Beset by agreeable hallucinations
• Beset with smiling hills
• Beside himself in an ecstasy of pleasure
• Betokening an impulsive character
• Beyond the farthest edge of night
• Birds were fluting in the tulip-trees
• Biting sentences flew about
• Black inky night
• Blithe with the bliss of the morning
• Blown about by every wind of doctrine
• Bookish precision and professional peculiarity
• Borne from lip to lip
• Borne onward by slow-footed time
• Borne with a faculty of willing compromise
• Bowed with a certain frigid and deferential surprise
• Broke in a stupendous roar upon the shuddering air
• Browsing at will on all the uplands of knowledge and thought
• Buffeted by all the winds of passion
• Buried hopes rose from their sepulchers
• Buried in the quicksands of ignorance
• But none the less peremptorily
  • [peremptorily = ending all debate or action]
• By a curious irony of fate
• By a happy turn of thinking
• By virtue of his impassioned curiosity

C

• Carried the holiday in his eye
• Chafed at the restraints imposed on him
• Cheeks furrowed by strong purpose and feeling
• Childlike contour of the body
• Cleansed of prejudice and self-interest
• Cloaked in prim pretense
• Clothed with the witchery of fiction
• Clutch at the very heart of the usurping mediocrity
• Cold gaze of curiosity
• Collapse into a dreary and hysterical depression
• Comment of rare and delightful flavor
• Conjuring up scenes of incredible beauty and terror
• Conscious of unchallenged supremacy
• Constant indulgence of wily stratagem and ambitious craft
• Contemptuously indifferent to the tyranny of public opinion
• Covered with vegetation in wild luxuriance
• Crisp sparkle of the sea
• Crystallize about a common nucleus
• Cultivated with a commensurate zeal
• Current play of light gossip
• Curtains of opaque rain

D

• Dallying in maudlin regret over the past
  • [maudlin = tearfully sentimental]
• Dark with unutterable sorrows
• Darkness oozed out from between the trees
• Dawn had broken
• Day stood distinct in the sky
• Days of vague and fantastic melancholy
• Days that are brief and shadowed
• Deep shame and rankling remorse
• Deficient in affectionate or tender impulses
• Delicately emerging stars
• Delicious throng of sensations
• Despite her pretty insolence
• Dignity and sweet patience were in her look
• Dim opalescence of the moon
• Dimly foreshadowed on the horizon
• Dimmed by the cold touch of unjust suspicion
• Disfigured by passages of solemn and pompous monotony.
• Disguised itself as chill critical impartiality
• Dismal march of death
• Distinguished by hereditary rank or social position
• Distract and beguile the soul
• Distressing in their fatuous ugliness
• Diverted into alien channels
• Diverting her eyes, she pondered
• Dogs the footsteps
• Doled out in miserly measure
• Doubt tortured him
• Doubts beset her lonely and daring soul
• Down the steep of disenchantment
• Dreams and visions were surpassed
• Dreams that fade and die in the dim west
• Drear twilight of realities
• Drift along the stream of fancy
• Drowned in the deep reticence of the sea
• Drowsiness coiled insidiously about him
• Dull black eyes under their precipice of brows

E

• Earth danced under a heat haze
• Easily moved to gaiety and pleasure
• Either way her fate was cruel
• Embrace with ardor the prospect of serene leisure
• Endearing sweetness and manner
• Endeavoring to smile away his chagrin
• Endlessly shifting moods
• Endowed with all those faculties that can make the world a garden of enchantment
• Endowed with life and emphasis
• Enduring with smiling composure the near presence of people who are distasteful
• Enjoyed with astonishing unscrupulousness
• Enticed irresistibly by the freedom of an open horizon
• Essay a flight of folly
• Evanescent shades of feeling
  • [evanescent = vanishing like vapor]
• Events took an unexpected sinister turn
• Every curve of her features seemed to express a fine arrogant acrimony and harsh truculence
• Everywhere the fragrance of a bountiful earth
• Exasperated by what seemed a wilful pretense of ignorance
• Exhibits itself in fastidious crotchets
• Expectation darkened into anxiety
• Experience and instinct warred within her
• Exquisite graciousness of manner
• Exquisitely stung by the thought

F

• Familiar and endearing intimacy
• Fatally and indissolubly united
• Fathomless depths of suffering
• Fear held him in a vice
• Feeding his scholarly curiosity
• Feeling humiliated by the avowal
• Felicitousness in the choice and exquisiteness in the collocation of words
• Fettered by poverty and toil
• Feverish tide of life
• Fine precision of intent
• Fitful tumults of noble passion
• Fleeting touches of something alien and intrusive
• Floating in the clouds of reverie
• Fluctuations of prosperity and adversity
• Flushed with a suffusion that crimsoned her whole countenance
• Forebodings possessed her
• Foreshadowing summer's end
• Forever echo in the heart
• Forever sings itself in memory
• Formless verbosity and a passionate rhetoric
• Fragments of most touching melody
• Free from rigid or traditional fetters
• Freedom and integrity of soul
• Freighted with strange, vague longings
• Frosty thraldom of winter
  • [thraldom = servitude; bondage]
• Fugitive felicities of thought and sensation
• Full of dreams and refinements and intense abstractions
• Full of majestic tenderness

G

• Gathering all her scattered impulses into a passionate act of courage
• Gaze dimly through a maze of traditions
• Generosity pushed to prudence
• Gleams of sunlight, bewildered like ourselves, struggled, surprised, through the mist and disappeared
• Glowing with haste and happiness
• Go straight, as if by magic, to the inner meaning
• Goaded on by his sense of strange importance
• Graceful length of limb and fall of shoulders
• Great shuddering seized on her
• Green hills pile themselves upon each other's shoulders
• Grim and sullen after the flush of the morning
• Guilty of girlish sentimentality

H

• Half choked by a rising paroxysm of rage
• Half-suffocated by his triumph
• Hardened into convictions and resolves
• Haughtiness and arrogance were largely attributed to him
• Haunt the recesses of the memory
• Haunted with a chill and unearthly foreboding
• He accosted me with trepidation
• He adroitly shifted his ground
• He airily lampooned their most cherished prejudices
• He bowed submission
• He braced himself to the exquisite burden of life
• He condescended to intimate speech with her
• He conversed with a colorless fluency
• He could detect the hollow ring of fundamental nothingness
• He could do absolutely naught
• He drank of the spirit of the universe
• He drew near to a desperate resolve
• He evinced his displeasure by a contemptuous sneer or a grim scowl
• He felt an unaccountable loathing
• He felt the ironic rebound of her words
• He flung diffidence to the winds
• He flushed crimson
• He found the silence intolerably irksome
• He frowned perplexedly
• He gave her a baffled stare
• He gave himself to a sudden day-dream
• He gave his ear to this demon of false glory
• He grew wanton with success
• He had acted with chivalrous delicacy of honor
• He had the eye of an eagle in his trade
• He had the gift of deep, dark silences
• He held his breath in admiring silence
• He laughed away my protestations
• He lent no countenance to the insensate prattle
• He listened greedily and gazed intent
• He made a loathsome object
• He made the politest of monosyllabic replies
• He murmured a civil rejoinder
• He murmured a vague acceptance
• He mused a little while in grave thought
• He never wears an argument to tatters
• He only smiled with fatuous superiority
• He paused, stunned and comprehending
• He perceived the iron hand within the velvet glove
• He raised a silencing hand
• He ruled autocratically
• He sacrificed the vulgar prizes of life
• He sat on thorns
• He set his imagination adrift
• He shambled away with speed
• He sighed deeply, from a kind of mental depletion
• He smote her quickening sensibilities
• He submitted in brooding silence
• He suppressed every sign of surprise
• He surrendered himself to gloomy thought
• He threaded a labyrinth of obscure streets
• He threw a ton's weight of resolve upon his muscles
• He threw out phrases of ill-humor
• He threw round a measuring eye
• He treads the primrose path of dalliance
• He used an unguarded adjective
• He was a tall, dark, saturnine youth, sparing of speech
  • [saturnine = melancholy; sullen]
• He was aware of emotion
• He was born to a lively and intelligent patriotism
• He was dimly mistrustful of it
• He was discreetly silent
• He was empty of thought
• He was entangled in a paradox
• He was giving his youth away by handfuls
• He was haunted and begirt by presences
• He was measured and urbane
• He was most profoundly skeptical
• He was nothing if not grandiloquent
• He was quaking on the precipice of a bad bilious attack
• He was utterly detached from life
• He went hot and cold
• He would fall into the blackest melancholies
• He writhed in the grip of a definite apprehension
• He writhed with impotent humiliation
• Her blank gaze chilled you
• Her bright eyes were triumphant
• Her eyes danced with malice
• Her eyes dilated with pain and fear
• Her eyes were full of wondering interest
• Her eyes were limpid and her beauty was softened by an air of indolence and languor
  • [languor = dreamy, lazy mood]
• Her face stiffened anew into a gray obstinacy
• Her face was lit up by a glow of inspiration and resolve
• Her haughty step waxed timorous and vigilant
• Her head throbbed dangerously
• Her heart appeared to abdicate its duties
• Her heart fluttered with a vague terror
• Her heart pounded in her throat
• Her heart was full of speechless sorrow
• Her hurrying thoughts clamored for utterance
• Her imagination recoiled
• Her interest flagged
• Her life had dwarfed her ambitions
• Her limbs ran to marble
• Her lips hardened
• Her lips parted in a keen expectancy
• Her mind was a store-house of innocuous anecdote
• Her mind was beaten to the ground by the catastrophe
• Her mood was unaccountably chilled
• Her musings took a sudden and arbitrary twist
• Her scarlet lip curled cruelly
• Her smile was faintly depreciatory
• Her smile was linked with a sigh
• Her solicitude thrilled him
• Her stare dissolved
• Her step seemed to pity the grass it prest
• Her strength was scattered in fits of agitation
• Her stumbling ignorance which sought the road of wisdom
• Her thoughts outstripped her erring feet
• Her tone was gathering remonstrance
• Her tongue on the subject was sharpness itself
• Her tongue stumbled and was silent
• Her voice had the coaxing inflections of a child
• Her voice trailed off vaguely
• Her voice was full of temper, hard-held
• Her voice, with a tentative question in it, rested in air
• Her wariness seemed put to rout
• His accents breathed profound relief
• His agitation increased
• His brow grew knit and gloomy
• His brow was in his hand
• His conscience leapt to the light
• His constraint was excruciating
• His curiosity is quenched
• His dignity counseled him to be silent
• His ears sang with the vibrating intensity of his secret existence
• His eyes had a twinkle of reminiscent pleasantry
• His eyes literally blazed with savage fire
• His eyes shone with the pure fire of a great purpose
• His eyes stared unseeingly
• His face caught the full strength of the rising wind
• His face dismissed its shadow
• His face fell abruptly into stern lines
• His face lit with a fire of decision
• His face showed a pleased bewilderment
• His face torn with conflict
• His face was gravely authoritative
• His gaze faltered and fell
• His gaze searched her face
• His gaze seemed full of unconquerable hopefulness
• His hand supported his chin
• His hands were small and prehensible
  • [prehensible = capable of being seized]
• His heart asserted itself again, thunderously beating
• His heart rebuked him
• His heart was full of enterprise
• His impatient scorn expired
• His last illusions crumbled
• His lips loosened in a furtively exultant smile
• His lips seemed to be permanently parted in a good-humored smile
• His mind echoed with words
• His mind leaped gladly to meet new issues and fresh tides of thought
• His mind was dazed and wandering in a mist of memories
• His mood yielded
• His mouth quivered with pleasure
• His passions vented themselves with sneers
• His pulses leaped anew
• His reputation had withered
• His sensibilities were offended
• His shrewd gaze fixed appraisingly upon her
• His soul full of fire and eagle-winged
• His soul was compressed into a single agony of prayer
• His soul was wrung with a sudden wild homesickness
• His speech faltered
• His swift and caustic satire
• His temper was dark and explosive
• His thoughts galloped
• His thoughts were in clamoring confusion
• His tone assumed a certain asperity
  • [asperity = roughness; harshness]
• His torpid ideas awoke again
• His troubled spirit shifted its load
• His vagrant thoughts were in full career
• His voice insensibly grew inquisitorial
• His voice was thick with resentment and futile protest
• His whole face was lighted with a fierce enthusiasm
• His whole frame seemed collapsed and shrinking
• His whole tone was flippant and bumptious
• His words trailed off brokenly
• His youthful zeal was contagious
• Hope was far and dim
• How sweet and reasonable the pale shadows of those who smile from some dim corner of our memories
• Humiliating paltriness of revenge

I

• I capitulated by inadvertence
• I cut my reflections adrift
• I felt a qualm of apprehension
• I suffered agonies of shyness
• I took the good day from the hands of God as a perfect gift
• I was in a somber mood
• I was overshadowed by a deep boding
• I was piqued
  • [piqued = resentment; indignation]
• I yielded to the ingratiating mood of the day
• Ill-bred insolence was his only weapon
• Ill-dissimulated fits of ambition
• Imbued with a vernal freshness
  • [vernal = resembling spring; fresh]
• Immense and careless prodigality
• Immense objects which dwarf us
• Immersed in secret schemes
• Immured in a trivial round of duty
  • [immured = confine within]
• Impassioned and earnest language
• Impatient and authoritative tones
• Impervious to the lessons of experience
• Implying an immense melancholy
• Imprisoned within an enchanted circle
• In a deprecating tone of apology
• In a flash of revelation
• In a gale of teasing merriment
• In a misery of annoyance and mortification
• In a musing ecstasy of contemplation
• In a sky stained with purple, the moon slowly rose
• In a spirit of indulgent irony
• In a strain of exaggerated gallantry
• In a tone of after-dinner perfunctoriness
  • [perfunctoriness = with little interest]
• In a tone of musing surprise
• In a tumult of self-approval and towering exultation
• In a vague and fragmentary way
• In a wise, superior, slightly scornful manner
• In accents of menace and wrath
• In its whole unwieldy compass
• In moments of swift and momentous decision
• In quest of something to amuse
• In requital for various acts of rudeness
• In the air was the tang of spring
• In the dusky path of a dream
• In the face of smarting disillusions
• In the flush and heyday of youth and gaiety and loveliness
• In the heyday of friendship
• In the mild and mellow maturity of age
• In the perpetual presence of everlasting verities
• In this breathless chase of pleasure
• In this chastened mood I left him
• Incapable of initiative or boldness
• Inconceivable perversion of reasoning
• Indolently handsome eyes
• Indulge in pleasing discursiveness
• Ineffable sensation of irritability
• Infantile insensibility to the solemnity of his bereavement
• Infantine simplicity and lavish waste
• Innumerable starlings clove the air
  • [clove = split]
• Insensible to its subtle influence
• Inspired by the immortal flame of youth
• Intangible and indescribable essence
• Intense love of excitement and adventure
• Intimations of unpenetrated mysteries
• Into her eyes had come a hostile challenge
• Into the purple sea the orange hues of heaven sunk silently
• Into the very vestibule of death
• Involuntarily she sighed
• Involuntary awkwardness and reserve
• Involved in a labyrinth of perplexities
• It came to him with a stab of enlightenment
• It elicited a remarkably clear and coherent statement
• It is a flight beyond the reach of human magnanimity
• It is a thing infinitely subtle
• It is not every wind that can blow you from your anchorage
• It lends no dazzling tints to fancy
• It moved me to a strange exhilaration
• It parted to a liquid horizon and showed the gray rim of the sea
• It proved a bitter disillusion
• It seemed intolerably tragic
• It seemed to exhale a silent and calm authority
• It was a breathless night of suspense
• It was a desolating vision
• It was a night of little ease to his toiling mind
• It was a night of stupefying surprises
• It was all infinitely soft and refreshing to the eye
• It was an evening of great silences and spaces, wholly tranquil
• It was sheer, exuberant, instinctive, unreasoning, careless joy
• It was the ecstasy and festival of summer
• It was torture of the most exquisite kind

J

• Jealousies and animosities which pricked their sluggish blood to tingling
• Joy rioted in his large dark eyes
• Judging without waiting to ponder over bulky tomes

K

• Kind of unscrupulous contempt for gravity
• Kiss-provoking lips

L

• Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle
• Language of excessive flattery and adulation
• Lapped in soft music of adulation
• Lapse into pathos and absurdity
• Large, dark, luminous eyes that behold everything about them
• Latent vein of whimsical humor
• Lead to the strangest aberrations
• Leaping from lambent flame into eager and passionate fire
  • [lambent = effortlessly brilliant]
• Leave to the imagination the endless vista of possibilities
• Life flowed in its accustomed stream
• Lights and shadows of reviving memory crossed her face
• Lionized by fashionable society
• Long intertangled lines of silver streamlets
• Lost in a delirious wonder
• Lost in irritable reflection
• Love hovered in her gaze
• Ludicrous attempts of clumsy playfulness and tawdry eloquence
• Luke-warm assurance of continued love
• Lulled by dreamy musings
• Luminous with great thoughts

M

• Magnanimous indifference to meticulous niceties
• Making the ear greedy to remark offense
• Marching down to posterity with divine honors
• Marked out for some strange and preternatural doom
• Mawkishly effeminate sentiment
• Memories plucked from wood and field
• Memory was busy at his heart
• Merged in a sentiment of unutterable sadness and compassion
• Microscopic minuteness of eye
• Misgivings of grave kinds
• Mockery crept into her tone
• Molded by the austere hand of adversity
• Moments of utter idleness and insipidity
• Moods of malicious reaction and vindictive recoil
• Morn, in yellow and white, came broadening out of the mountains
• Mumble only jargon of dotage
• My body is too frail for its moods

N

• Nature seemed to revel in unwonted contrasts
  • [unwonted = unusual]
• New ambitions pressed upon his fancy
• New dreams began to take wing in his imagination
• Night after night the skies were wine-blue and bubbling with stars
• Night passes lightly in the open world, with its stars and dews and perfumes
• Nights of fathomless blackness
• No mark of trick or artifice
• Noble and sublime patience
• Nursed by brooding thought

O

• Obsessed with the modishness of the hour
• Occasional flashes of tenderness and love
• Oddly disappointing and fickle
• One gracious fact emerges here
• One long torture of soul
• One of the golden twilights which transfigure the world
• Oppressed and disheartened by an all-pervading desolation
• Oppressed with a confused sense of cumbrous material
  • [cumbrous = cumbersome]
• Outweighing years of sorrow and bitterness
• Over and over the paroxysms of grief and longing submerged her
• Overhung and overspread with ivy
• Overshadowed by a vague depression

P

• Pale and vague desolation
• Pallor of reflected glories
• Palpitating with rage and wounded sensibility
• Panting after distinction
• Peace brooded over all
• Pelted with an interminable torrent of words
• Penetrate beneath the surface to the core
• Peopled the night with thoughts
• Perpetual gloom and seclusion of life
• Pertinent to the thread of the discussion
• Pervasive silence which wraps us in a mantle of content
• Piles of golden clouds just peering above the horizon
• Platitudinous and pompously sentimental
• Plaudits of the unlettered mob
• Pleasant and flower-strewn vistas of airy fancy
• Pledged with enthusiastic fervor
• Plumbing the depth of my own fears
• Poignant doubts and misgivings
• Power of intellectual metamorphosis
• Power to assuage the thirst of the soul
• Precipitated into mysterious depths of nothingness
• Preening its wings for a skyward flight
• Pressing cares absorbed him
• Pride working busily within her
• Proclaimed with joyous defiance
• Prodigal of discriminating epithets
• Prodigious boldness and energy of intellect
• Products of dreaming indolence
• Profound and chilling solitude of the spot
• Proof of his imperturbability and indifference
• Provocative of bitter hostility
• Pulling the strings of many enterprises
• Purge the soul of nonsense

Q

• Quickened and enriched by new contacts with life and truth
• Quivering with restrained grief

R

• Radiant with the beautiful glamor of youth
• Ransack the vocabulary
• Red tape of officialdom
• Redolent of the night lamp
• Reflecting the solemn and unfathomable stars
• Regarded with an exulting pride
• Rehabilitated and restored to dignity
• Remorselessly swept into oblivion
• Resounding generalities and conventional rhetoric
• Respect forbade downright contradiction
• Restless and sore and haughty feelings were busy within
• Retort leaped to his lips
• Rigid adherence to conventionalities
• Rudely disconcerting in her behavior
• Rudely reminded of life's serious issues

S

• Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill
• Sadness prevailed among her moods
• Scorched with the lightning of momentary indignation
• Scorning such paltry devices
• Scotched but not slain
• Scrupulous morality of conduct
• Seem to swim in a sort of blurred mist before the eyes
• Seething with suppressed wrath
• Seize on greedily
• Sensuous enjoyment of the outward show of life
• Serenity beamed from his look
• Serenity of paralysis and death
• Seriousness lurked in the depths of her eyes
• Served to recruit his own jaded ideas
• Set anew in some fresh and appealing form
• Setting all the sane traditions at defiance
• Shadowy vistas of sylvan beauty
• She affected disdain
• She assented in precisely the right terms
• She bandies adjectives with the best
• She challenged his dissent
• She cherished no petty resentments
• She curled her fastidious lip
• She curled her lip with defiant scorn
• She did her best to mask her agitation
• She disarmed anger and softened asperity
  • [asperity = harshness]
• She disclaimed fatigue
• She fell into a dreamy silence
• She fell into abstracted reverie
• She felt herself carried off her feet by the rush of incoherent impressions
• She flushed an agitated pink
• She forced a faint quivering smile
• She frowned incomprehension
• She had an air of restrained fury
• She had an undercurrent of acidity
• She hugged the thought of her own unknown and unapplauded integrity
• She lingered a few leisurely seconds
• She nodded mutely
• She nourished a dream of ambition
• She permitted herself a delicate little smile
• She poured out on him the full opulence of a proud recognition
• She questioned inimically
  • [inimically = unfriendly; hostile]
• She recaptured herself with difficulty
• She regarded him stonily out of flint-blue eyes
• She sat eyeing him with frosty calm
• She seemed the embodiment of dauntless resolution
• She seemed wrapped in a veil of lassitude
• She shook hands grudgingly
• She softened her frown to a quivering smile
• She spoke with hurried eagerness
• She spoke with sweet severity
• She stilled and trampled on the inward protest
• She stood her ground with the most perfect dignity
• She strangled a fierce tide of feeling that welled up within her
• She swept away all opposing opinion with the swift rush of her enthusiasm
• She thrived on insincerity
• She twitted him merrily
• She was both weary and placated
• She was conscious of a tumultuous rush of sensations
• She was demure and dimly appealing
• She was exquisitely simple
• She was gripped with a sense of suffocation and panic
• She was in an anguish of sharp and penetrating remorse
• She was oppressed by a dead melancholy
• She was stricken to the soul
• She wore an air of wistful questioning
• Sheer superfluity of happiness
• Sickening contrasts and diabolic ironies of life
• Silence fell
• Singing lustily as if to exorcise the demon of gloom
• Skirmishes and retreats of conscience
• Slender experience of the facts of life
• Slope towards extinction
• Slow the movement was and tortuous
• Slowly disengaging its significance from the thicket of words
• So innocent in her exuberant happiness
• Soar into a rosy zone of contemplation
• Softened by the solicitude of untiring and anxious love
• Solitary and sorely smitten souls
• Some dim-remembered and dream-like images
• Some exquisite refinement in the architecture of the brain
• Some flash of witty irrelevance
• Something curiously suggestive and engaging
• Something eminently human beaconed from his eyes
• Something full of urgent haste
• Something indescribably reckless and desperate in such a picture
• Something that seizes tyrannously upon the soul
• Sore beset by the pressure of temptation
• Specious show of impeccability
• Spectacular display of wrath
• Spur and whip the tired mind into action
• Stale and facile platitudes
• Stamped with unutterable and solemn woe
• Startled into perilous activity
• Startling leaps over vast gulfs of time
• Stem the tide of opinion
• Stern emptying of the soul
• Stimulated to an ever deepening subtlety
• Stirred into a true access of enthusiasm
• Stony insensibility to the small pricks and frictions of daily life
• Strange capacities and suggestions both of vehemence and pride
• Strange laughings and glitterings of silver streamlets
• Stripped to its bare skeleton
• Strode forth imperiously
  • [imperious = arrogantly overbearing]
• Struck by a sudden curiosity
• Struck dumb with strange surprise
• Stung by his thoughts, and impatient of rest
• Stung by the splendor of the prospect
• Subdued passages of unobtrusive majesty
• Sublime indifference to contemporary usage and taste
• Submission to an implied rebuke
• Subtle indications of great mental agitation
• Subtle suggestions of remoteness
• Such things as the eye of history sees
• Such was the petty chronicle
• Suddenly a thought shook him
• Suddenly overawed by a strange, delicious shyness
• Suddenly smitten with unreality
• Suddenly snuffed out in the middle of ambitious schemes
• Suffered to languish in obscurity
• Sugared remonstrances and cajoleries
• Suggestions of veiled and vibrant feeling
• Summer clouds floating feathery overhead
• Sunk in a phraseological quagmire
• Sunk into a gloomy reverie
• Sunny silence broods over the realm of little cottages
• Supreme arbiter of conduct
• Susceptibility to fleeting impressions
• Sweet smoke of burning twigs hovered in the autumn day
• Swift summer into the autumn flowed

T

• Taking the larger sweeps in the march of mind
• Tears of outraged vanity blurred her vision
• Teased with impertinent questions
• Tenderness breathed from her
• Tense with the anguish of spiritual struggle
• Terror filled the more remote chambers of his brain with riot
• Tethered to earth
• That which flutters the brain for a moment
• The accelerated beat of his thoughts
• The affluent splendor of the summer day
• The afternoon was filled with sound and sunshine
• The afternoon was waning
• The air and sky belonged to midsummer
• The air darkened swiftly
• The air is touched with a lazy fragrance, as of hidden flowers
• The air was caressed with song
• The air was full of fugitive strains of old songs
• The air was raw and pointed
• The allurements of a coquette
• The ambition and rivalship of men
• The angry blood burned in his face
• The anguish of a spiritual conflict tore his heart
• The artificial smile of languor
• The awful and implacable approach of doom
• The babble of brooks grown audible
• The babbledom that dogs the heels of fame
• The bait proved incredibly successful
• The balm of solitary musing
• The beauty straightway vanished
• The beckonings of alien appeals
• The benign look of a father
• The blandishments of pleasure and pomp of power
• The blinding mist came down and hid the land
• The blue bowl of the sky, all glorious with the blaze of a million worlds
• The bound of the pulse of spring
• The buzz of idolizing admiration
• The caressing peace of bright soft sunshine
• The chaotic sound of the sea
• The chill of forlorn old age
• The chill of night crept in from the street
• The chivalric sentiment of honor
• The chivalrous homage of respect
• The clamorous agitation of rebellious passions
• The clouded, restless, jaded mood
• The constant iteration of the sea's wail
• The contagion of extravagant luxury
• The conversation became desultory
  • [desultory = haphazardly; random]
• The crowning touch of pathos
• The current of his ideas flowed full and strong
• The dance whizzed on with cumulative fury
• The dawn is singing at the door
• The day sang itself into evening
• The day was at once redolent and vociferous
  • [redolent = emitting fragrance; aromatic; suggestive; reminiscent] [vociferous = conspicuously and offensively loud]
• The day was blind with fog
• The day was gracious
• The days passed in a stately procession
• The days when you dared to dream
• The debilitating fears of alluring fate
• The deep and solemn purple of the summer night
• The deep flush ebbed out of his face
• The deep tranquillity of the shaded solitude
• The deepening twilight filled with shadowy visions
• The deepest wants and aspirations of his soul
• The delicatest reproof of imagined distrust
• The demerit of an unworthy alliance
• The desire of the moth for the star
• The dimness of the sealed eye and soul
• The dreamy solicitations of indescribable afterthoughts
• The dying day lies beautiful in the tender glow of the evening
• The early morning of the Indian summer day was tinged with blue mistiness
• The earth looked despoiled
• The east alone frowned with clouds
• The easy grace of an unpremeditated agreeable talker
• The easy-going indolence of a sedentary life
• The echo of its wrathful roar surged and boomed among the hills
• The empurpled hills standing up, solemn and sharp, out of the green-gold air
• The enchanting days of youth
• The eternal questioning of inscrutable fate
• The evening comes with slow steps
• The evening star silvery and solitary on the girdle of the early night
• The exaggerations of morbid hallucinations
• The excitement of rival issues
• The extraordinary wistful look of innocence and simplicity
• The eye of a scrutinizing observer
• The eyes burnt with an amazing fire
• The eyes filled with playfulness and vivacity
• The father's vigil of questioning sorrow
• The fine flower of culture
• The first recoil from her disillusionment
• The flawless triumph of art
• The flight of the autumnal days
• The flower of courtesy
• The fluttering of untried wings
• The foreground was incredibly shabby
• The fragrance of a dear and honored name
• The freshening breeze struck his brow with a cooling hand
• The freshness of some pulse of air from an invisible sea
• The fruit of vast and heroic labors
• The general effect was of extraordinary lavish profusion
• The give and take was delicious
• The gloom of the afternoon deepened
• The gloom of winter dwelt on everything
• The gloomy insolence of self-conceit
• The glow of the ambitious fire
• The golden gloom of the past and the bright-hued hope of the future
• The golden riot of the autumn leaves
• The golden sunlight of a great summer day
• The gray air rang and rippled with lark music
• The grimaces and caperings of buffoonery
• The grotesque nightmare of a haunting fear
• The hand of time sweeps them into oblivion
• The haunting melody of some familiar line of verse
• The haunting phrase leaped to my brain
• The headlong vigor of sheer improvisation
• The heights of magnanimity and love
• The high-bred pride of an oriental
• The hills were clad in rose and amethyst
• The hill-tops gleam in morning's spring
• The hinted sweetness of the challenge aroused him
• The hot humiliation of it overwhelmed her
• The hungry curiosity of the mind
• The idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought
• The idle chatter of the crowd
• The immediate tyranny of a present emotion
• The inaccessible solitude of the sky
• The incarnation of all loveliness
• The incoherent loquacity of a nervous patient
  • [loquacity = very talkative]
• The indefinable air of good-breeding
• The indefinable yearning for days that were dead
• The indefinite atmosphere of an opulent nature
• The intercepted glances of wondering eyes
• The intrusive question faded
• The invidious stigma of selfishness
  • [invidious = rousing ill will]
• The iron hand of oppression
• The irresistible and ceaseless onflow of time
• The irrevocable past and the uncertain future
• The landscape ran, laughing, downhill to the sea
• The leaden sky rests heavily on the earth
• The leaves of time drop stealthily
• The leaves syllabled her name in cautious whispers
• The lights winked
• The little incident seemed to throb with significance
• The lofty grace of a prince
• The loud and urgent pageantry of the day
• The low hills on the horizon wore a haze of living blue
• The machinations of a relentless mountebank
  • [mountebank = flamboyant charlatan]
• The machinations of an unscrupulous enemy
• The magical lights of the horizon
• The majestic solemnity of the moment yielded to the persuasive warmth of day
• The marvelous beauty of her womanhood
• The maximum of attainable and communicable truth
• The melancholy day weeps in monotonous despair
• The melodies of birds and bees
• The memory of the night grew fantastic and remote
• The meticulous observation of facts
• The mind freezes at the thought
• The mind was filled with a formless dread
• The mocking echoes of long-departed youth
• The moment marked an epoch
• The moon is waning below the horizon
• The more's the pity
• The morning beckons
• The morning droned along peacefully
• The most servile acquiescence
• The multiplicity of odors competing for your attention
• The murmur of soft winds in the tree-tops
• The murmur of the surf boomed in melancholy mockery
• The murmuring of summer seas
• The music and mystery of the sea
• The music of her delicious voice
• The music of her presence was singing a swift melody in his blood
• The music of unforgotten years sounded again in his soul
• The mute melancholy landscape
• The mystery obsessed him
• The naked fact of death
• The nameless and inexpressible fascination of midnight music
• The narrow glen was full of the brooding power of one universal spirit
• The nascent spirit of chivalry
• The night was drowned in stars
• The old ruddy conviction deserted me
• The onrush and vividness of life
• The opulent sunset
• The orange pomp of the setting sun
• The oscillations of human genius
• The outpourings of a tenderness reawakened by remorse
• The pageantry of sea and sky
• The palest abstractions of thought
• The palpitating silence lengthened
• The panorama of life was unrolled before him
• The paraphernalia of power and prosperity
• The parting crimson glory of the ripening summer sun
• The past slowly drifted out of his thought
• The pendulous eyelids of old age
• The penetrating odors assailed his memory as something unforgettable
• The pent-up intolerance of years of repression
• The perfume of the mounting sea saturated the night with wild fragrance
• The piquancy of the pageant of life
  • [piquancy = tart spiciness]
• The pith and sinew of mature manhood
• The plenitude of her piquant ways
  • [piquant = engagingly stimulating]
• The presage of disaster was in the air
• The pressure of accumulated misgivings
• The preternatural pomposities of the pulpit
• The pristine freshness of spring
• The pull of soul on body
• The pulse of the rebounding sea
• The purging sunlight of clear poetry
• The purple vaulted night
• The question drummed in head and heart day and night
• The question irresistibly emerged
• The quick pulse of gain
• The radiant serenity of the sky
• The radiant stars brooded over the stainless fields, white with freshly fallen snow
• The restlessness of offended vanity
• The retreating splendor of autumn
• The rising storm of words
• The river ran darkly, mysteriously by
• The river sang with its lips to the pebbles
• The roar of the traffic rose to thunder
• The romantic ardor of a generous mind
• The room had caught a solemn and awful quietude
• The rosy-hued sky went widening off into the distance
• The rosy twilight of boyhood
• The royal arrogance of youth
• The sadness in him deepened inexplicably
• The scars of rancor and remorse
• The scent of roses stole in with every breath of air
• The sea heaved silvery, far into the night
• The sea slept under a haze of golden winter sun
• The sea-sweep enfolds you, satisfying eye and mind
• The sea-wind buffeted their faces
• The secret and subduing charm of the woods
• The see-saw of a wavering courage
• The sentimental tourist will be tempted to tarry
• The shadows of the night seemed to retreat
• The shadows rested quietly under the breezeless sky
• The shafts of ridicule
• The sheer weight of unbearable loneliness
• The shiver of the dusk passed fragrantly down the valley
• The silence grew stolid
• The silence was uncomfortable and ominous
• The silent day perfumed with the hidden flowers
• The silver silence of the night
• The sinking sun made mellow gold of all the air
• The sky grew brighter with the imminent day
• The sky grew ensaffroned with the indescribable hue that heralds day
• The sky put on the panoply of evening
• The sky was a relentless, changeless blue
• The sky was dull and brooding
• The sky was heavily sprinkled with stars
• The sky was turning to the pearly gray of dawn
• The smiling incarnation of loveliness
• The song of hurrying rivers
• The sound of the sea waxed
• The spacious leisure of the forest
• The spell of a deathless dream was upon them
• The star-strewn spaces of the night
• The stars looked down in their silent splendor
• The stars seemed attentive
• The steadfast mind kept its hope
• The steady thunder of the sea accented the silence
• The still voice of the poet
• The stillness of a forced composure
• The stillness of the star-hung night
• The strangest thought shimmered through her
• The stream forgot to smile
• The streams laughed to themselves
• The strident discord seemed to mock his mood
• The stunning crash of the ocean saluted her
• The subtle emanation of other influences seemed to arrest and chill him
• The sudden rush of the awakened mind
• The summit of human attainment
• The sun blazed torridly
• The sun goes down in flame on the far horizon
• The sun lay golden-soft over the huddled hills
• The sunlight spread at a gallop along the hillside
• The sunset was rushing to its height through every possible phase of violence and splendor
• The suspicion of secret malevolence
• The swelling tide of memory
• The swing of the pendulum through an arch of centuries
• The tempered daylight of an olive garden
• The tender grace of a day that is fled
• The tension of struggling tears which strove for an outlet
• The thought leaped
• The timely effusion of tearful sentiment
• The tone betrayed a curious irritation
• The torture of his love and terror crushed him
• The trees rustled and whispered to the streams
• The tumult in her heart subsided
• The tumult in her mind found sudden speech
• The tumult of pride and pleasure
• The tune of moving feet in the lamplit city
• The tyranny of nipping winds and early frosts
• The unmasked batteries of her glorious gray eyes
• The vacant fields looked blankly irresponsive
• The vast and shadowy stream of time
• The vast cathedral of the world
• The vast unexplored land of dreams
• The velvet of the cloudless sky grew darker, and the stars more luminous
• The veneer of a spurious civilization
• The very pulsation and throbbing of his intellect
• The very silence of the place appeared a source of peril
• The vision fled him
• The vivifying touch of humor
• The web of lies is rent in pieces
• The wheel of her thought turned in the same desolate groove
• The whispering rumble of the ocean
• The white seething surf fell exhausted along the shore
• The whole exquisite night was his
• The whole sea of foliage is shaken and broken up with little momentary shiverings and shadows
• The wide horizon forever flames with summer
• The wild whirl of nameless regret and passionate sorrow
• The wild winds flew round, sobbing in their dismay
• The wind charged furiously through it, panting towards the downs
• The wind piped drearily
• The wind was in high frolic with the rain
• The winnowed tastes of the ages
• The woods were silent with adoration
• The youth of the soul
• The zenith turned shell pink
• Their ephemeral but enchanting beauty had expired forever
  • [ephemeral = markedly short-lived]
• Their eyes met glancingly
• Their troth had been plighted
• There was a kind of exhilaration in this subtle baiting
• There was a mild triumph in her tone
• There was a mournful and dim haze around the moon
• There was a strange massing and curving of the clouds
• There was a thrill in the air
• There was a time I might have trod the sunlit heights
• There was no glint of hope anywhere
• There was no menace in the night's silvern calmness
• There was something so kindly in its easy candor
• There was spendthrift grandeur
• These qualities were raised to the white heat of enthusiasm
• They became increasingly turbid and phantasmagorical
  • [phantasmagorical = fantastic imagery]
• They escaped the baffled eye
• They sit heavy on the soul
• They were vastly dissimilar
• This exquisite conjunction and balance
• This little independent thread of inquiry ran through the texture of his mind and died away
• This shadowy and chilling sentiment unaccountably creeps over me
• Thought shook through her in poignant pictures
• Thoughts came thronging in panic haste
• Thrilled by fresh and indescribable odors
• Thrilled with a sense of strange adventure
• Through a cycle of many ages
• Through endless and labyrinthine sentences
• Thrilled to the depths of her being
• Time had passed unseen
• Tinsel glitter of empty titles
• Tired with a dull listless fatigue
• To all intents and purposes
• To speak with entire candor
• To stay his tottering constancy
• To the scourging he submitted with a good grace
• Tossed disdainfully off from young and ardent lips
• Touched every moment with shifting and enchanting beauty
• Touched with a bewildering and elusive beauty
• Transcendental contempt for money
• Transformed with an overmastering passion
• Trouble gathered on his brow
• Turning the world topsy-turvey
• Twilight creeps upon the darkening mind

U

• Unapproachable grandeur and simplicity
• Unaware of her bitter taunt
• Under the vivifying touch of genius
• Unearthly in its malignant glee
• Unfathomed depths and impossibilities
• Unforced and unstudied depth of feeling
• Unspoiled by praise or blame
• Unspoken messages from some vaster world
• Unstable moral equilibrium of boyhood
• Until sleep overtakes us at a stride
• Untouched by the ruthless spirit of improvement
• Upon the mountain-tops of meditation
• Urbanely plastic and versatile
• Uttering grandiose puerilities
  • [puerilities = childishness, silly]

V

• Vain allurements of folly and fashion
• Variously ramified and delicately minute channels of expression
• Varnished over with a cold repellent cynicism
• Vast sweep of mellow distances
• Veiled by some equivocation
• Vibrant with the surge of human passions
• Vicissitudes of wind and weather
  • [vicissitudes = sudden or unexpected changes]
• Vigor and richness of resource
• Visible and palpable pains and penalties
• Voices that charm the ear and echo with a subtle resonance in the soul
• Volcanic upheavings of imprisoned passions

W

• Wantonly and detestably unkind
• Waylay Destiny and bid him stand and deliver
• Wayward and strangely playful responses
• Wearing the white flower of a blameless life
• What sorry and pitiful quibbling
• When a pleasant countryside tunes the spirit to a serene harmony of mood
• When music is allied to words
• When the frame and the mind alike seem unstrung and listless
• When the profane voices are hushed
• When the waves show their teeth in the flying breeze
• Whilst the morn kissed the sleep from her eyes
• Whistled life away in perfect contentment
• Wholly alien to his spirit
• With a vanquished and weary sigh
• Womanly fickleness and caprice
• Words and acts easily wrenched from their true significance
• Worn to shreds by anxiety
• Wrapped in a sudden intensity of reflection
• Wrapped in an inaccessible mood
• Wrapped in scudding rain
• Wrapt in his odorous and many-colored robe
• Wrapt in inward contemplation
• Wrought of an emotion infectious and splendidly dangerous
• Wrought out of intense and tragic experience

Y

• Yielding to a wave of pity
• Your mind enthroned in the seventh circle of content

Miscellaneous

A

• 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
  • [catholicity = universality]
• A cheap and coarse cynicism
• A civilizing agency of conspicuous value
• A cleanness and probity of life
  • [probity = integrity; uprightness]
• 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 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
  • [rapacity = plundering]
• A graceful nonentity
• 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 riding 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 homelike and festive aspect
• A hopeless enigma
• A hotbed of disturbance
• A hushed rustle of applause testified to a widespread approbation
  • [approbation = warm approval; praise]
• 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
  • [limpidity = transparent clearity; easily intelligible]
• 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
  • [peremptory = ending all debate or action]
• 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
  • [puissant = with power, might]
• 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
• 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 puerile illusion
  • [puerile = immature; childish]
• 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
  • [recrudescence = recurrence of a pathological symptoms after a period of improvement]
• 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 signal 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
  • [abstruse = difficult to understand]
• 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 calumniator
  • [calumniator = makes malicious or knowingly false statements]
• 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
• Abounding 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
  • [adventitious = Not inherent; added extrinsically]
• 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
  • [imperious = arrogantly overbearing]
• Almost incredible obtuseness
• Altogether monstrous and unnatural
• Always observant and discriminating
• Amaze and confound 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
• 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 alarmed sense of strange responsibilities
• An almost excessive exactness
• An almost sepulchral regularity and seclusion
• An ample and imposing structure
• An apostle of unworldly ardor
• An appreciable menace
• An ardent and gifted youth
• An arid dictum
• An artful and malignant enemy
• An assumption entirely gratuitous
• An assumption which proved erroneous
• An atmosphere of sunny gaiety
• An attitude of passive impartiality
• An authoritative and conclusive inquiry
• An egregious assumption
  • [egregious = outrageously reprehensible]
• An elaborate assumption of indifference
• An endless field for discussion
• An enervating and emasculating form of indulgence
• An ennobling and invigorating influence
• An entirely negligible quantity
• An essentially grotesque and commonplace thing
• An eternal and imperishable example
• An exalted and chimerical sense of honor
  • [chimerical = highly improbable]
• An excess of unadulterated praise
• An excessive refinement of feeling
• An expression at once confident and appealing
• An extensive and populous country
• An habitual steadiness and coolness of reflection
• An honest and unquestioning pride
• An icy indifference
• An idle and unworthy action
• An ill-assorted vocabulary
• An immeasurable advantage
• An imminent and overmastering peril
• An imperturbable demeanor and steadiness of mind
• An implacable foe
• An inborn and irresistible impulse
• An incongruous spectacle
• An incredible mental agility
• An indefinable taint of priggishness
  • [priggishness = exaggerated propriety]
• An indescribable frankness and simplicity of character
• An indolent surrender to mere sensuous experience
• An indomitable and unselfish soul
• An ineradicable love of fun and mystification
• An inevitable factor of human conduct
• An inexhaustible copiousness and readiness of speec
• An insatiable appetite for trifles
• An insatiable voracity
• An inscrutable mystery
• An intentional breach of politeness
• An interchange of civilities
• An intolerable deal of guesswork
• An involuntary gesture of remonstrance
• An irrelevant bit of magniloquence
  • [magniloquence = extravagant in speech]
• An irrepressible and impassioned hopefulness
• An irritating and dangerous treatment
• An itching propensity for argument
• An object of indestructible interest
• An obnoxious member of society
• An ominous lull and silence
• An open and violent rupture
• An outburst of impassioned eloquence
• An unaccountable feeling of antipathy
• An unbecoming vehemence
• An undisciplined state of feeling
• An unerring sense of humor
• An unparalleled and almost miraculous growth
• An unparalleled atrocity
• An unpatriotic and ignoble act
• An unreasoning form of coercion
• An utterly vile and detestable spirit
• And now I address myself to my task
• And the like
• Announced in a tone of pious satisfaction
• Another thought importuned him
  • [importuned = insistent or repeated requests]
• Anticipated with lively expectation
• Apparent rather than real
• Appeal to a tardy justice
• Appreciably above the level of mediocrity
• Arbitrary assumption of power
• Ardently and enthusiastically convinced
• Argued with immense force and feeling
• Arrayed with scrupulous neatness
• Arrogance and untutored haughtiness
• As an impartial 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 poignant doubts
• Assume a menacing attitude
• Assumed almost heroic proportions
• At once epigrammatic and arresting
  • [epigrammatic = terse and witty]
• At once misleading and infelicitous
• At the mercy of small prejudices
• Attained by rigorous self-restraint
• Attended by insuperable difficulties
• Averted by some happy stroke of fortune
• Await the sentence of impartial posterity
• Awaited with feverish anxiety

B

• Bandied to and fro
• Based on a fundamental error
• Beguile the tedium of the journey
• Bemoaning and bewailing his sad fortune
• Beset with external dangers
• Betrayed into deplorable error
• Bewildering multiplication of details
• Beyond the dreams of avarice
• Blended with courage and devotion
• Blind leaders of the blind
• Blunt the finer sensibilities
• Blustering desire for publicity
• Bound up with impossibilities and absurdities
• Breathed an almost exaggerated humility
• Bred in the tepid 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
• Bursts of unpremeditated frankness
• But delusions and phantasmagoria
• But that is beside the mark
• But this is a digression
• By a curious perversity of fate
• 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 sheer 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
• Capacity for urbanity and moderation
• Carried into port by fair winds
• Caught unawares by a base impulse
• Ceaseless tramp of humanity
• Censured for his negligence
• Championing the cause of religious education
• Chastened and refined by experience
• Checked by the voice of authority
• Cherished the amiable illusion
• Cherishing a huge fallacy
• Childishly inaccurate and absurd
• Chivalrous loyalty and high forbearance
• Clever and captivating eloquence
• Coarse and glittering ostentation
• Coherent 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 feigned devotion
• Credulous and emotionally extravagant
• Creed of incredulity and derision
• Criticized with unsparing vigor
• Crude undigested masses of suggestion
• Cruel and baseless calumnies
  • [calumnies = maliciously false statements; slander]
• 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 grandeur
• 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 and debasing curiosity
• Deliberate and cautious reflection
• Delicacy of perception and quick tact
• Delude many minds into acquiescence
• Dense to the point of stupidity
• Descanting on them cursorily
  • [descanting = discussion or discourse]
• Devices generally held to be discreditable
• Devious and perilous ways
• Devoid of hysteria and extravagance
• Dexterous modes of concealment
• Dictated by an overweening partiality
• Differ in degree only and not in kind
• Difficult and abstruse questions
  • [abstruse = incomprehensible ]
• Diffidence overwhelmed him
• Diffusing beneficent results
• Dignified by deliberation and privacy
• Dimly implying some sort of jest
• Discreditable and insincere support
• Disdaining the guidance of reason
• Disenchanting effect of time and experience
• Disfigured by glaring faults
• Disguised in sentimental frippery
• Dispel all anxious concern
• Displayed enormous power and splendor
• Distinguish themselves by their eccentricities
• 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
• Draw back in distrust and misgiving
• Dreaded and detested rival
• Driven towards disaffection and violence
• Due to historical perspective
• Dull and trite commonplaces
• Dwindled to alarmingly small dimensions

E

• Easy-going to the point of lethargy
• Elementary principles of right and wrong
• Embittered and fanatical agitation
• Encrusted with pedantry and prejudice
  • [pedantry = attention to detail]
• 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 ardor
• 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

F

• Facile and fertile literary brains
• Faithfully and religiously eschewed
  • [eschew = avoid; shun]
• Fallen into the convenient oblivion of the waste-basket
• Fanatical and dangerous excesses
• Far off and incredibly remote
• Fastidious correctness of form
• Fate had turned and twisted a thousand ways
• Fed by many currents 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 pettifogging
  • [pettifogging = quibbling over insignificant details]
• Freighted with the most precious cargoes
• Frequently recurring forms of awkwardness
• Fresh and unsuspected loveliness
• From the standpoint of expediency 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 incapacity

G

• Gain the applause of future ages
• Generous to a pathetic and touching degree
• Give vent to his indignation
• Giving an ear to a little neighborly gossip
• Glances and smiles of tacit contempt
• Gnawing at the vitals of society
• Grace and gentleness of manner
• Graceful succession of sentences
• Gratuitous and arbitrary meddling
• Greeted with unalloyed satisfaction
• Grooves of intellectual habit
• Growing sense of bewilderment and dismay
• Guilty and baffled antagonists

H

• Habits of unintelligent routine
• Habitual self-possession and self-respect
• Happy and gracious willingness
• Hard-souled and joyously joyous
• Haunted by blank misgivings
• He affected neither pomp nor grandeur
• He became more blandly garrulous
  • [garrulous = excessive and trivial talk]
• He declined the proffered hospitality
• He dropped into an eloquent 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 discomfited 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 disheveled and untidy
• He was inexhaustibly voluble
• Heavily freighted with erudition
  • [erudition = extensive learning]
• Heights of serene contemplation
• Her voice had a wooden resonance and a ghost of a lisp
• Hidebound in official pedantry
  • [pedantry = attention to detail]
• High and undiscouraged hope
• High-handed indifference to all restraint
• His chin had too vanishing an aspect
• His first zeal was flagging
• His general attitude suggested an idea that he had an oration for you
• His gestures and his gait were untidy
• His mood was one of pure exaltation
• His plea was irresistible
• His tone verged on the ironical
• His work was ludicrously perfunctory
• Hopelessly belated in its appearance

I

• I adjured him
  • [adjured = command or enjoin solemnly, as under oath]
• I am not without a lurking suspicion
• I bemoaned 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 fain believe
  • [fain = happily; gladly]
• Illuminate with sinister effect
• Immediate and effectual steps
• Immense capacity for ceaseless progress
• Immunity from criticism and control
• Impartial and exacting judgment
• Impatience of despotic influence
• Impelled by strong conviction
• Imperiled in a restless age
• Imperious in its demands
  • [imperious = arrogantly domineering]
• 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
  • [surreptitious = done by clandestine or stealthy means]
• In a spirit of friendliness and conciliation
• In a state of mulish reluctance
  • [mulish = stubborn and intractable]
• 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 eminent and unique sense
• In an eminent degree
• In deference to a unanimous sentiment
• In extenuation of the past
• In high good humor
• In his customary sententious fashion
  • [sententious = terse and energetic; pithy]
• 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 twinkling of an eye
• In the world of letters
• In tones of genuine admiration
• Incapable of flashy make-believe
• Incited by a lust for gain
• Incomparable lucidity and penetrativeness
• Inconceivable 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
• Inimical to true and determined principle
  • [Inimical = harmful; adverse]
• Inimitable grace and felicity
  • [inimitable = defying imitation; matchless]
• Injudicious 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
• Inveigh against established customs
  • [inveigh = angry disapproval; protest vehemently]
• Invested with a partial authority
• Inveterate 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 desultory education
  • [desultory = haphazard; random]
• 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 occasions 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
• Its dominating and inspiring influence

J

• Jealous and formidable foes
• Justifiable in certain exigencies
  • [exigencies = urgent situations]

K

• Keen power of calculation and unhesitating audacity
• Kindle the flames of genuine oratory
• Knotty and subtle disquisitions
  • [disquisitions = formal discourse]

L

• Labored and far-fetched elocution
• Laid down in a most unflinching and vigorous fashion
• Lamentable instances of extravagance
• Lash themselves into fury
• Lax theories and corresponding practises
• Lay hold of the affections
• Leaden mood of dulness
• Lend a critical ear
• Lest the requirements of courtesy be disregarded
• Links 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 view
• Loose and otiose statement
  • [otiose = lazy; indolent; of no use]
• Lost in indolent content
• Lovely beyond all words
• Lucidity and argumentative vigor
• Lulled into a sense of false satisfaction

M

• Maddened by a jealous hate
• Maintained with ingenuity and vigor
• Manifestly harsh and barbarous
• Marvelous copiousness of illustration
• Marvelously suggestive and inspiring
• Men of profound erudition
  • [erudition = extensive learning]
• Mere effects of negligence
• Microscopic analysis of character
• Mingled 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

N

• Naked vigor of resolution
• Naturally prone to believe
• Necessity thus imposed by prudence
• Nerveless and faithless folly
• No more than brief palliatives or mitigations
• Noisy torrent of talk
• Not averse to a little gossip
• Not so much polished as varnished
• Noted for their quixotic love of adventure
• Nothing could be more captious or unfair
  • [captious = disposition to find and point out trivial faults]
• Nothing remained but a graceful acquiescence
• Notoriously distracted by internecine jealousies

O

• Objects of general censure
• Obscured beneath the rubbish of the age
• Obsessed with an overweening pride
• Obstacles that are difficult but not insuperable
• Obviously at variance with facts
• Occasioned by direct moral turpitude
  • [turpitude = depravity; baseness]
• 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 a dilemma
• One of life's ironical adjustments
• One of the foreseen and inevitable results
• One tissue of rashness, folly, ingratitude, and injustice
• Openly flouted and 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
  • [obeisance = attitude of deference]
• Overcome by an access of misery
• Overshadowed by a fretful anxiety
• Overwhelmed with reproach and popular indignation

P

• Painful and lamentable indifference
• Palpably 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 and pitiful compromises
• Pelting one another with catchwords
• 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
  • [exigencies = urgent situations]
• 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
  • [unction = exaggerated earnestness]
• Precipitate and arbitrary changes
• Predict the gloomiest consequences
• Pregnant with a lesson of the deepest import
• Presented with matchless vigor and courage
• Princely generosity of praise
• Prodigious and portentous events
• Protracted to a vexatious length
• Proud schemes for aggrandizement
• Pruned of their excrescences and grotesque extremes
  • [excrescences = abnormal growth, such as a wart]
• Purged of glaringly offensive features
• Pursued to a vicious extent

Q

• Questioned and tested in the crucible of experience
• Quickened into a stabbing suspicion
• Quickness to conceive and courage to execute
• Quite destitute of resources
• Quixotically generous about money

R

• Radiantly and transparently happy
• Railed at the world
• Rare candor and flexibility of mind
• Rare fidelity of purpose and achievement
• Rarely brought to pass
• Reeling headlong in luxury and sensuality
• Regarded with sincere abhorrence
• Regulated by the fixed rules of good-breeding
• Religious rights and ceremonies
• Reluctant to appear in so equivocal a character
• Render null and void
• Rent by internal contentions
• Repugnant alike to reason and conscience
• Resigned to growing infirmities
• Resist a common adversary
• Resting on some collateral circumstance
• Rhetorical and ambitious diction
• Rich and exuberant complexities
• Rigid and exact boundaries
• Rooted in immeasurable error and falsity
• Roused to tumultuous activity
• Rude and blind criticism

S

• Sadly counterbalanced by numerous faults
• Said with epigrammatic point
  • [epigrammatic = terse and witty]
• Salutary in the extreme
• Salutary tonic of a free current of public criticism
• Sanity and quietness of soul
• Scorned as an impracticable theory
• Scornful of petty calculations
• Screen themselves from punishment
• Scrupulous and chivalrous loyalty
• See with eagle glance through conventionalisms
• Seem to savor of paradox
• Seize the auspicious moment
• Self-centered anxiety and preoccupation
• Self-command born of varied intercourse
• Self-interest of the most compelling character
• Selfish and uselessly recondite
  • [recondite = not easily understood]
• Selfishness pampered by abundance
• Senses of marvelous acuteness
• Sensible diminution of our comfort
• Sensitive and apprehensive temperament
• Sentimental wailings for the past
• Serve the innocent purposes of life
• Set down with meticulous care
• Shames us out of our nonsense
• Sharp outbursts of hatred and bitterness
• Sharp restrictions of duty and opportunity
• Sharply and definitely conceived
• She had lost her way in a labyrinth of conjecture
• She took refuge in a passionate exaggeration of her own insufficiency
• Sheer midsummer madness
• Silly displays of cheap animosity
• Simple and obvious to a plain understanding
• Sinister and fatal augury
  • [augury = sign of something coming; omen]
• Skulking beneath a high-sounding benevolence
• Slack-minded skimming of newspapers
• Slavish doctrines of sectarianism
• Slow and resistless forces of conviction
• Smug respectability and self-content
• Snatch some advantage
• Socialized and exacting studies
• Some very undignified disclosures
• Something essentially inexpressible
• Something stifling and over-perfumed
• Spinning a network of falsehoods
• Spiritual and moral significance
• Staring in helpless bewilderment
• Stealthily escaping observation
• Stern determination to inflict summary justice
• Stigmatized as moral cowards
• Stimulated to profitable industry
• Stopped as if on the verge of profundities
• Strange frankness of cynical brutality
• Strange streak of melancholy
• Strangled by a snare of words
• Strenuous and conscientious endeavor
• Stretched out in dreary monotony
• Strict and unalloyed veracity
• Struck incessantly and remorselessly
• Stupendous and awe-inspiring spectacle
• Subject to the vicissitudes of fortune
  • [vicissitudes = sudden or unexpected changes]
• Subjected to the grossest cruelties
• Subordination to the common weal
• Subservient to the ends of religion
• Sudden and inexplicable changes of mood
• Suddenly and imperatively summoned
• Suddenly swelled to unprecedented magnitude
• Sufficient to repel vulgar curiosity
• Suggestive sagacity and penetration
  • [sagacity = farsighted; wise]
• Suit the means to the end
• Sullen and widespread discontent
• Superior in strength and prowess
• Supported by a splendid fearlessness
• Supremely and undeniably great
• Susceptible to every impulse and stimulus
• Sustained dignity and mellifluous precision
  • [mellifluous = flowing with honey; smooth and sweet]
• Swamping every aspiration and ambition
• Swift and vehement outbursts of feeling

T

• Take root in the heart
• Take vengeance upon arrogant self-assertion
• Taken in their totality
• Tamed and wonted to a settled existence
• Tempered by the emotional warmth of high moral ideals
• That way madness lies
• The abysmal depths of despair
• The accumulated bitterness of failure
• The agonies of conscious failure
• The air was full of the cry and clamor
• The animadversions of critics
  • [animadversions = Strong criticism]
• The applause was unbounded
• The best proof of its timeliness and salutariness
  • [salutariness = favorable]
• The bewildered and tumultuous world
• The blackest abyss of despair
• The blemishes of an extraordinary reputation
• The bluntness of a provincial
• The bogey of bad luck
  • [bogey = evil or mischievous spirit; hobgoblin]
• The bounding pulse of youth
• The brunt of life
• The capacity for refined pursuits
• The charming omniscience of youth
• The cloak of cowardice
• The collective life of humanity
• The combined dictates of reason and experience
• The companion of a noble and elevated spirit
• The complaining gate swung open
• The complex phenomena of life
• The consequence of an agitated mind
• The consequence of ignorance and childish assumption
• The constant pressure of anxieties
• The creature and tool of a party
• The critical eyes of posterity
• The dead and dusty past
• The delimitation is sufficiently definite
• The dictates of plain reason
• The disjointed babble of the chronicler
• The dull derision of the world
• The dullest and most vacant minds
• The dumb forces of brute nature
• The dupe of some imposture
• The eager pretentiousness of youth
• The ebb and flow of events
• The everlasting deluge of books
• The evil was irremediable
• The exchange of harmless amenities
• The exertion of an inherent power
• The expression was keenly intellectual
• The facile conjectures of ignorant onlookers
• The facts took him by the throat
• The fitful swerving of passion
• The flabbiness of our culture
• The flaccid moods of prose
• The flame of discord raged with redoubled fury
• The flattest and most obvious truisms
• The flippant insolence of a decadent skepticism
• The foe of excess and immoderation
• The fog of prejudice and ill-feeling
• The frustration of their dearest hopes
• The garb of civilization
• The general infusion of wit
• The gift of prophecy
• The golden years of youth and maturity
• The gratification of ambition
• The grim reality of defeat
• The hall-mark of a healthy humanity
• The handmaid of tyranny
• The hint of tranquillity and self-poise
• The hints of an imaginable alliance
• The hobgoblin of little minds
• The holiest and most ennobling sensations of the soul
• The hollowest of hollow shams
• The homely virtue of practical utility
• The hubbub and turmoil of the great world
• The huge and thoughtful night
• The hurly-burly of events
• The idea was utterly hateful and repugnant
• The idle of all hobbledehoys
  • [hobbledehoys = gawky adolescent boy]
• The ignoble exploitation of public interests
• The imminent fatality awaiting him
• The impulse of prejudice or caprice
• The incorrigibility of perverse human nature
• The incursions of a venomous rabble
• The indulgence of an overweening self-conceit
• The inevitable climax and culmination
• The inference is inescapable
• The infirmity and fallibility of human nature
• The inflexible serenity of the wheeling sun
• The ingenuities of legal verbiage
• The inmost recesses of the human heart
• The insipidity of indifference
• The insolence of power
• The irony of circumstances
• The jaded weariness of overstrained living
• The jargon of well-handled and voice-worn phrases
• The jostling and ugliness of life
• The lawyer's habit of circumspection and delay
• The long-delayed hour of retribution
• The lowest grade of precarious mendacity
  • [mendacity = untruthfulness]
• The makeshifts of mediocrity
• The malarious air of after-dinner gossip
• The mazes of conflicting testimony
• The mean and frivolous affections of the idle
• The menacing shadow of want
• The mere fruit of his distempered imagination
• The mere reversal of the wheel of fortune
• The merest smattering of knowledge
• The meticulous preciosity of the lawyer and the logician
  • [preciosity = extreme overrefinement]
• The most absurd elementary questions
• The most amazing impudence
• The most exacting and exciting business
• The most fallacious of all fallacies
• The most implacable logic
• The most preposterous pride
• The multitudinous tongue of the people
• The outcome of unerring observation
• The outraged conscience of mankind
• The overpowering force of circumstances and necessity
• The overweening exercise of power
• The panacea for the evils of society
• The panorama of history
• The pernicious doctrines of skeptics
• The perpetrator of clumsy witticisms
• The precarious tenure of fame
• The precursor of violence
• The pretty and delicate game of talk
• The primitive instinct of self-preservation
• The property of little minds
• The prophecies of visionaries and enthusiasts
• The proprieties of etiquette
• The purse-proud inflation of the moneyed man
• The question was disconcertingly frank
• The ravening wolves of brute instinct
• The remark was sternly uncompromising
• The result of caprice
• The rigor of the law
• The sanction and authority of a great name
• The severest shocks of adverse fate
• The sharp and vehement assertion of authority
• The sinister influence of unprincipled men
• The speaker drew an indignant breath
• The springs of human action
• The staple of conversation
• The stillness of finality
• The stings of self-reproach
• The straightforward path of inexorable logic
• The strong hand of executive authority
• The sum and fruit of experience
• The sum total of her impressions was negative
• The summit of excellence
• The supernatural prescience of prophecy
• The sweet indulgence of good-nature
• The sycophants of the rich
  • [sycophant = servile self-seeker attempting to win favor by flattery]
• The taint of fretful ingratitude
• The talk flowed
• The target for ill-informed criticism
• The tears welled up and flowed abundantly
• The tediousness of inactivity
• The tendency to evade implicit obligations
• The ties of a common cause
• The tranquil aspects of society
• The tribute of affectionate applause
• The ultimate verdict of mankind
• The unbroken habit of a lifetime
• The unimpeachable correctness of his demeanor
• The unlicensed indulgence of curiosity
• The unsophisticated period of youth
• The utmost excitement and agitation
• The vanishing thoughtlessness of youth
• The vanity and conceit of insular self-satisfaction
• The very texture of man's soul and life
• The victim of an increasing irritability
• The victorious assertion of personality
• The virtue of taciturnity
  • [taciturnity = habitually untalkative]
• The voice was sharp and peremptory
  • [peremptory = ending all debate or action]
• The want of serious and sustained thinking
• The widest compass of human life
• The wonderful pageant of consciousness
• The words stabbed him
• Their authenticity may be greatly questioned
• Their indignation waxed fast and furious
• Themes of perennial interest
• There was a blank silence
• There was no sense of diminution
• They affected the tone of an impartial observer
• They rent the air with shouts and acclamations
• Thoughts which mock at human life
• Through ever-widening circles of devastation
• Through the distortions of prejudice
• Thwarted by seeming insuperable obstacles
• Time was dissolving the circle of his friends
• Times of unexampled difficulty
• Tinseled over with a gaudy embellishment of words
• To a practised eye
• To be sedulously avoided
  • [sedulously = persevering]
• To prosecute a scheme of personal ambition
• To state the case is to prove it
• Too preposterous for belief
• Too puerile to notice
• Too sanguine a forecast
  • [sanguine = cheerfully confident; optimistic]
• Torn asunder by eternal strife
• Totally detached from all factions
• Touched with a sort of reverential gratitude
• Transcend the bounds of human credulity
• Transitory in its nature
• Transparent and ridiculous self-importance
• Treasured up with a timid and niggardly thrift
• Treated the idea with lofty scorn
• Tremendous exploits and thrilling escapades
• True incentives to knowledge

U

• Unamiable and envious attributes
• Unbounded devotion and indulgence
• Uncharted oceans of thought
• Unconquerable fidelity to duty
• Under all conceivable circumstances
• Under the sway of arbitrary opinions
• Undertaken under propitious circumstances
  • [propitious = auspicious, favorable; kindly]
• Uneasy sense of impending change
• Unequaled simplicity and directness of purpose
• Unexceptional in point of breeding
• Unexpected obstacles and inextricable difficulties
• Unfailing and miraculous foresight
• Unfeigned astonishment and indignation
• Unfounded and incredible calumnies
  • [calumnies = maliciously false statements]
• Unhampered by binding alliances
• Universal in their signification
• Unjust and unrighteous persecution
• Unreasoning and unquestioning attachment
• Unrivaled beauty and excellence
• Unrivaled gift of succinct and trenchant speech
  • [trenchant = forceful, effective, vigorous; incisive; distinct]
• Unsparing industry and attention
• Unspeakably alluring and satisfying
• Unsurpassed in force and fitness
• Unswerving and unselfish fidelity
• Untiring enunciation of platitudes and fallacies
• Unutterably trivial and paltry
• Unwavering and unquestioning approbation
  • [approbation = warm approval; praise]
• Unworthy and ungenerous treatment
• Upbraid ourselves with folly
• Urgent warning and admonition
• Utterly and essentially irreverent

V

• Vast and vague aspirations
• Vastly complex and far-reaching problems
• Vehemently and indignantly repudiated
• Venerable and dignified conservatism
• Versatile and essentially original
• Versed in the arts of exciting tumult and sedition
  • [sedition = insurrection; rebellion]
• Viewed in its general tenor and substance
• Vigorous and well compacted
• Violating all decency
• Violent and unforeseen vicissitudes
  • [vicissitudes = sudden or unexpected changes]
• Vitiated by intolerance and shortsightedness
  • [vitiated = reduce the value; corrupt morally; debase]
• Vivid even to oppressiveness
• Voracious and insatiable appetite
• Vulgar eagerness for place

W

• Warnings too pregnant to be disregarded
• Warped by personal pretensions and self-consequence
• We may parenthetically note
• We must profoundly revere it
• Weigh the merits and demerits
• Welcomed at first with skeptical contempt
• Well-concerted and well-timed stratagems
• Whirled into rapid and ceaseless motion
• Wholesale friction and discontent
• Wholly devoid of public interest
• Widely divergent social traits
• Wield an unequaled and paramount authority
• Wiser counsels prevailed
• Withal decidedly handsome
• Written in indelible characters upon his heart

Y

Yield to urgent representations

Z

Zealous in the cause he affected to serve

Prepositional by

A

• affected by externals
• allayed by sympathy
• animated by victory
• appraised by fashion
• assailed by conscience
• attained by effort
• avert by prayer

B

• ballasted by brains
• beset by difficulties
• bound by opinion
• branded by defeat

C

• characterized by discretion
• chastened by sorrow
• cheek by jowl
• circulated by malice
• clogged by insincerity
• colored by environment
• condemned by posterity
• confirmed by habit
• consoled by prayer
• convinced by argument
• convulsed by divisions

D

• darkened by shadows
• dazzled by fame
• depraved by pain
• devoured by curiosity
• disgusted by servility
• driven by remorse

E

• embarrassed by timidity
• encouraged by success
• enfeebled by age
• enforced by action
• enjoined by religion
• enriched by gifts
• established by convention
• evoked by shame

F

• fascinated, by mystery
• favored by fortune
• fettered by systems
• fired by wrath
• forbid by authority
• fortified by faith

G

• governed by precedent
• guided by instinct

H

• haunted by visions
• hushed by denial

I

• impelled by duty
• inculcated by practise
• induced by misrepresentation
• influenced by caution
• inspired by love

L

• learned by rote

M

• marked by acuteness
• measured by years

N

• narrowed by custom

O

• occasioned by irritation
• oppressed by destiny

P

• parched by disuse
• persuaded by appeal
• portray by words
• prescribed by custom
• prevented by chance
• prompted by coquetry
• purged by sorrow

R

• racked by suffering
• refuted by reason
• repelled by censure
• restrained by violence
• rising by industry

S

• sanctioned by experience
• shaped by tradition
• soured by misfortune
• stung by derision
• supplanted by others
• supported by evidence

T

• thwarted by fortune
• tempered by charity
• tormented by jealousy
• tortured by doubt

U

• unadorned by artifice
• undaunted by failure
• undetermined by sorrow
• undone by treachery
• unfettered by fear
• urged by curiosity

V

• vitalized by thought

W

• won by aggression
• worn by time
• wrenched by emotions

Prepositional in

A

• absorbed in meditation
• affable in manner
  • [affable = gentle and gracious]
• atone in measure

B

• barren in intellect
• basking in sunshine
• buried in solitude

C

• call in question
• clothed in truth
• cloying in sweetness
  • [cloying = too filling, rich, or sweet]
• confident in opinion
• confute in argument
• contemplative in aspect
• cumbrous in style
  • [cumbrous = cumbersome; difficult to use]

D

• deficient in insight
• delight in learning
• deterioration in quality
• difference in detail
• diligent in application
• diminish in respect
• dwarfed in numbers

E

• end in smoke
• enumerate in detail
• experienced in duplicity

F

• feeble in influence
• fertile in consequence
• flourish in luxuriance
• founded in truth

G

• gaze in astonishment
• go in pursuit
• graceful in proportion
• grievously in error

H

• hold in bondage

I

• immersed in thought
• indulge in reverie
• inferior in character
• influential in society
• ingenuity in planning
• instance in point
• involved in obscurity

K

• kept in abeyance

L

• landmarks in memory
• languish in obscurity
• lie in wait
• limited in scope
• linger in expectation
• listen in amazement
• lost in awe
• lower in estimation
• luxuriant in fancy

M

• monstrous in dulness
• mysterious in origin

N

• noble in amplitude
• nursed in luxury

O

• organized in thought

P

• petulant in expression
• plead in vain
• pleasing in outline
• plunged in darkness
• positive in judgment
• practical in application
• pride in success
• protest in vain
• pursued in leisure

Q

• quick in suggestion

R

• ready in resource
• recoiling in terror
• remote in character
• revel in danger
• rich in variety
• rooted in prejudice

S

• schooled in self-restraint
• scrupulous in conduct
• set in motion
• skilled in controversy
• sound in theory
• stammer in confusion
• stricken in years
• strides in civilization
• striking in character
• stunted in growth

T

• tender in sentiment

U

• unique in literature
• unity in diversity
• unprecedented in kind

V

• versed in knowledge

W

• wallow in idolatry
• wanting in dignity
• waver in purpose
• weak in conception

Prepositional into

A

• abashed into silence

B

• beguile into reading
• betray into speech
• blending into harmony
• bring into disrepute
• bullied into silence
• burn into memory
• burst into view

C

• call into question
• carry into conflict
• chill into apathy
• coming into vogue
• cringe into favor
• crumbled into dust
• crystallized into action

D

• dash into fragments
• deepen into confusion
• degenerate into monotony
• deluded into believing
• descent into death
• dissolve into nothingness
• dragged into pursuit
• drawn into controversy
• dribbling into words
• driven into servitude
• dulled into acquiescence

E

• electrify into activity
• elevated into importance
• enquire into precedents
• enter into controversy
• expand into weakness

F

• fade into insignificance
• fall into decay
• fashion into festoons
• flame into war
• flower into sympathy
• forced into action
• frozen into form
• fuse into unity

G

• galvanize into life
• go into raptures
• goaded into action

H

• hushed into silence

I

• incursions into controversy
• insight into truth
• inveigled into dispute
  • [inveigled = convince by coaxing, flattery]

K

• kindle into action

L

• lapse into pedantry
  • [pedantries = attention to detail or rules]
• lash into silence
• launch into disapproval
• lead into captivity
• leap into currency
• lulled into indifference

M

• melt into space
• merge into character

P

• pass into oblivion
• plunge into despair
• pour into print

Q

• quicken into life

R

• relapse into savagery
• rendered into music
• resolve into nothingness
• retreat into silence
• ripened into love
• rush into print

S

• shocked into attention
• sink into insignificance
• smitten into ice
• snubbed into quiescence
• stricken into silence
• summoned into being
• swollen into torrents

T

• take into account
• thrown into disorder
• transform into beauty
• translated into fact

U

• usher into society

V

• vanish into mystery

W

• wander into digression
• wheedled into acquiescence
• withdraw into solitude

Prepositional of

A

• abandon of spontaneity
• abatement of misery
• aberrations of judgment
• abhorrence of meanness
• absence of vainglory
• abyss of ignominy
• accent of conviction
• accretions of time
• accumulation of ages
• accuracy of aim
• acquisition of knowledge
• activity of attention
• acuteness of sensibility
• admixture of fear
• affectation of content
• affinity of events
• age of ignorance
• agility of brain
• agony of despair
• air of assumption
• ambitious of success
• amiability of disposition
• amplitude of space
• anachronisms of thought
• anchor of moderation
• angle of vision
• annulment of influence
• aping of manners
• apostle of culture
• ardor of life
• arrogance of opinion
• aspect of grandeur
• assumption of sternness
• atmosphere of obscurity
• attitude of mind
• attribute of weakness
• austerities of fanaticism
• authority of manner
• avalanche of scorn
• avenues of dissemination

B

• babel of tongues
• ban of exclusion
• barren of enthusiasm
• barriers of reticence
• bars of sunlight
• basis of fact
• beam of moonlight
• beast of prey
• beauty of imagery
• beggared of faith
• bent of mind
• betrayal of trust
• bevy of maidens
• bewilderment of feeling
• birds of prey
• bit of portraiture
• bitterness of anguish
• blackness of spirit
• blandishments of society
• blast of adversity
• blaze of fury
• blend of dignity
• bliss of solitude
• bloom of earth
• blow of fate
• boldness of conception
• bond of alliance
• bone of contention
• bouts of civility
• breach of law
• breath of life
• breeze of anxiety
• brilliancy of wit
• brimful of fun
• broil of politics
• brood of emotions
• brow of expectation
• brunt of disgrace
• bulk of mankind
• bundle of conceptions
• buoyancy of youth
• burden of proof
• burst of confidence
• business of life

C

• cadences of delirium
• calmness of manner
• calumny of passion
  • [calumny = maliciously lying to injure a reputation]
• caprice of inclination
• careless of opinion
• catholicity of spirit
  • [catholicity = universality]
• cause of solicitude
• celerity of movement
  • [celerity = swiftness; speed]
• chain of evidence
• change of habitude
• chaos of confusion
• chill of indifference
• chimera of superstition
  • [chimera = fanciful illusion]
• chorus of approbation
  • [approbation = warm approval; praise]
• circle of hills
• clamor of envy
• clap of thunder
• clarity of thinking
• clash of arms
• cloak of ecclesiasticism
• code of morals
• cogency of argument
• combination of calamities
• command of wit
• community of interest
• compass of imagination
• complexity of life
• confidence of genius
• conflict of will
• conquest of difficulty
• consciousness of peril
• constellation of luminaries
• contagion of conflict
• continuity of life
• contradiction of terms
• contrariety of opinion
• convulsion of laughter
• copiousness of diction
• cord of sympathy
• countenance of authority
• courage of conviction
• course of existence
• courtliness of manner
• cover of hospitality
• crash of thunder
• creature of circumstance
• criteria of feeling
• crown of civilization
• crudity of thought
• cry of despair
• curl of contempt
• current of thought

D

• darkness of calamity
• dash of eccentricity
• dawning of recognition
• day of reckoning
• daylight of faith
• decay of authority
• declaration of indifference
• deeds of prowess
• defects of temper
• degree of hostility
• delicacy of thought
• delirium of wonder
• depth of despair
• dereliction of duty
• derogation of character
• despoiled of riches
• destitute of power
• desultoriness of detail
  • [desultoriness = haphazard; random]
• device of secrecy
• devoid of merit
• devoutness of faith
• dexterity of phrase
• diapason of motives
  • [diapason = full, rich, harmonious sound]
• dictates of conscience
• difference of opinion
• difficult of attainment
• dignity of thought
• dilapidations of time
• diminution of brutality
• disabilities of age
• display of prowess
• distinctness of vision
• distortion of symmetry
• diversity of aspect
• divinity of tradition
• domain of imagination
• drama of action
• dream of vengeance
• drop of comfort
• ductility of expression
• dull of comprehension
• duplicities of might
• dust of defeat

E

• earnestness of enthusiasm
• easy of access
• ebullitions of anger
  • [ebullitions = sudden, violent outpouring; boiling]
• eccentricity of judgment
• ecstasy of despair
• effect of loveliness
• efficacy of change
• effusion of sentiment
• elasticity of mind
• element of compulsion
• elevation of sentiment
• eloquence of passion
• emotions of joy
• emulous of truth
  • [emulous = prompted by a spirit of rivalry]
• encroachments of time
• encumbrance of mystery
• energy of youth
• enigma of life
• equanimity of mind
• era of fads
• error of judgment
• essence of eloquence
• excellence of vision
• excess of candor
• excitation of purpose
• excursiveness of thought
• exhibition of joy
• exhilaration of spirits
• expenditure of energy
• explosion of rage
• expression of sternness
• extension of experience
• extravagance of eulogy
• extremity of fortune
• exuberance of wit

F

• fabric of fact
• facility of expression
• faculty of perception
• failure of coordination
• feast of reason
• feats of strength
• feebleness of purpose
• feeling of uneasiness
• felicities of expression
• fertility of invention
• fervor of devotion
• fickleness of fortune
• field of activity
• fierceness of jealousy
• fineness of vision
• fire of imagination
• firmament of literature
• firmness of purpose
• fit of laughter
• fitness of circumstance
• fixity of purpose
• flag of truce
• flash of humor
• flashlight of introspection
• fleetness of foot
• flexibility of spirit
• flicker of recognition
• flight of fancy
• flood of hatred
• flourish of manner
• flower of life
• fluctuation of fortune
• flush of youth
• flutter of expectation
• fog of sentimentalism
• force of conviction
• forest of faces
• form of captiousness
  • [captiousness = point out trivial faults]
• fountain of learning
• fragment of conversation
• frame of mind
• frankness of manner
• freak of fancy
• freedom of enterprise
• frenzy of pursuit
• freshness of feeling
• frigidity of address
• frivolity of tone
• frown of meditation
• fulfilment of purpose
• fulness of time
• fury of resentment
• futility of pride

G

• gaiety of spirit
• gales of laughter
• garb of thought
• garlands of roses
• gateway of fancy
• gem of truth
• genuineness of sentiment
• gesture of despair
• gift of repartee
• glamor of sensationalism
• glare of scrutiny
• gleam of light
• glib of speech
• glimmer of suspicion
• glory of salvation
• glow of enthusiasm
• gorgeousness of coloring
• grace of simplicity
• gradations of outrage
• grandeur of outline
• grasp of comprehension
• gravity of manner
• greatness of nature
• greed of office
• grimace of disappointment
• grimness of spirit
• grip of attention
• groundwork of melancholy
• growth of experience
• guide of aspiration
• gulf of incongruity
• gust of laughter

H

• harbor of refuge
• harvest of regrets
• haven of rest
• haze of distance
• heat of enthusiasm
• height of absurdity
• hint of bitterness
• hopeful of success
• horizon of life
• horror of solitude
• hubbub of talk
• hue of divinity
• hum of pleasure
• hush of suspense

I

• ideals of excellence
• idol of society
• illusion of youth
• immensity of extent
• immolation of genius
• impatient of restraint
• impetuosity of youth
• implacability of resentment
• impotent of ideas
• impress of individuality
• impulse of enthusiasm
• imputation of eccentricity
• incapable of veracity
• independence of mind
• index of character
• indolence of temperament
• indulgence of vanity
• inequality of treatment
• infinity of height
• infirmity of temper
• infusion of hatred
• inheritance of honor
• insensibility of danger
• insolence of office
• inspiration of genius
• instability of purpose
• instrument of expression
• integrity of mind
• intensity of faith
• interchange of ideas
• interval of leisure
• intoxication of vanity
• intrepidity of youth
• intuition of immortality
• invasion of thought
• irony of life

J

• jangle of sounds
• jargon of philosophy
• jumble of facts
• justness of decision

K

• keenness of intellect
• kernel of truth
• key of knowledge
• keynote of success
• king of finance
• kinship of humanity

L

• lack of restraint
• languor of nature
  • [languor = dreamy, lazy mood ]
• lapse of time
• laws of decorum
• laxity of mind
• legacy of thought
• liberty of conscience
• light of experience
• limit of endurance
• link of sequence
• loftiness of spirit
• look of dominance
• loophole of escape
• love of approbation
  • [approbation = warm approval; praise]
• lust of conquest
• lustihood of youth
• luxuriance of expression

M

• magnanimity of mind
• majesty of despair
• man of iron
• mantle of verdure
  • [verdure = lush greenness of flourishing vegetation]
• martyrdom of ambition
• marvel of competency
• mask of flippancy
• mass of mediocrity
• master of phrasing
• maze of words
• measure of absurdity
• minister of vengeance
• minuteness of description
• miracle of miracles
• mists of criticism
• modesty of reserve
• moment of lassitude
• monster of ingratitude
• monstrosities of character
• mood of tranquillity
• muddle of motives
• multitude of details
• mummery of words
  • [mummery = meaningless ceremonies and flattery]
• murmur of satisfaction
• mutations of time
• myriads of stars
• mysteries of taste

N

• narrowness of range
• nebulae of romance
• nectar of enjoyment
• neglect of duty
• niceties of difference
• nightingale of affection
• nobility of purpose
• note of triumph

O

• obduracy of mind
  • [obduracy = intractable; hardened]
• object of contempt
• obligation of loyalty
• obliquity of vision
  • obliquity = mental deviation or aberration]
• obscurity of twilight
• ocean of eloquence
• omission of fact
• onrush of life
• onsets of temptation
• openness of mind
• opulence of detail
• orgy of lying
• ornaments of eloquence
• outbreak of hostilities
• outburst of tears
• outflow of sympathy
• outposts of morality
• overflow of vitality

P

• page of desolation
• pageant of life
• pang of regret
• parade of erudition
  • [erudition = extensive learning]
• passion of patriotism
• passivity of mind
• pattern of virtue
• peals of laughter
• pendulum of opinion
• pensiveness of feeling
• perils of fortune
• period of lassitude
• perturbation of mind
• perversity of chance
• pests of society
• petrifaction of egoism
  • [petrifaction = fossilization; paralyzed with fear]
• phantom of delight
• phase of belief
• physiognomy of nature
• piece of pedantry
  • [pedantry = attention to detail]
• pinions of eloquence
  • [pinions = primary feather of a bird]
• pinnacle of favor
• pit of oblivion
• plainness of speech
• play of fancy
• plea of urgency
• plenitude of power
• point of view
• poise of mind
• policy of severity
• portent of danger
• power of imagination
• precipice of stupefaction
• precision of phrase
• prerogative of age
• presence of mind
• pressure of expediency
• presumption of doubt
• prey of fancy
• pride of life
• process of effacement
• profundity of thought
• profusion of argument
• progress of events
• promptings of reason
• propriety of action
• provocative of scorn
• puff of applause
• pulse of life
• purity of diction
• pursuit of knowledge
• puzzledom of life

Q

• quagmire of distrust
• qualities of leadership
• qualm of conscience
• question of honor
• quickness of apprehension
• quivering of pain

R

• radiance of morning
• range of experience
• rashness of intention
• ravages of time
• ray of hope
• reaches of achievement
• realities of life
• realm of peace
• rebound of fascination
• rectitude of soul
• redress of grievances
• redundance of words
• refinement of style
• reins of life
• relish of beauty
• remorse of guilt
• residue of truth
• resoluteness of conviction
• resource of expression
• restraint of speech
• revel of imagination
• revulsion of feeling
• richness of outline
• riddle of existence
• ridicule of ignorance
• riot of words
• ripeness of wisdom
• roars of exultation
• robe of humility
• robustness of mind
• root of individuality
• round of platitudes
• rush of agony
• rust of neglect
• ruts of conventionality

S

• sadness of soul
• sanguine of success
  • [sanguine = cheerfully confident; optimistic]
• sanity of judgment
• savoring of quackery
• scantiness of resources
• scarves of smoke
• school of adversity
• scrap of knowledge
• scruple of conscience
• searchlight of truth
• semblance of composure
• sensation of pity
• sense of urgency
• sentiment of disapprobation
  • [approbation = warm approval; praise]
• sequence of events
• serenity of mind
• severity of style
• shackles of civilization
• shade of doubt
• shadow of truth
• shallowness of thought
• shock of apprehension
• shouts of approval
• shower of abuse
• shriek of wrath
• shuttle of life
• sigh of wind
• singleness of purpose
• slave of malice
• slough of ignorance
• slumber of death
• smile of raillery
  • [raillery = good-natured teasing; banter]
• solace of adversity
• soul of generosity
• source of renown
• spark of perception
• species of despotism
• spell of emotion
• sphere of influence
• spice of caricature
• splendor of imagination
• spur of necessity
• start of uneasiness
• stateliness of movement
• sting of satire
• stolidity of sensation
• storehouse of facts
• storm of criticism
• stream of humanity
• stress of life
• string of episodes
• stroke of fate
• substratum of belief
• subtlety of intellect
• succession of events
• suggestion of fancy
• sum of happiness
• summit of misery
• sunshine of life
• supremacy of good
• surface of events
• surfeit of verbiage
  • [surfeit = supply to excess]
• surge of pathos
• suspense of judgment
• suspicion of flattery
• sweep of landscape
• symbol of admiration
• system of aspersion

T

• taint of megalomania
• tardiness of speech
• task of conciliation
• tempest of passion
• tenacity of execution
• tenderness of sentiment
• term of reproach
• threshold of consciousness
• thrift of time
• thrill of delight
• throb of compunction
• throng of sensations
• tide of humanitarianism
• timid of innovation
• tincture of depreciation
• tinge of mockery
• tissue of misrepresentations
• tolerant of folly
• tone of severity
• top of ambition
• torrent of fervor
• totality of effect
• touch of severity
• touchstone of genius
• trace of bitterness
• tradition of mankind
• train of disasters
• trait of cynicism
• trance of delight
• transport of enthusiasm
• trappings of wisdom
• trend of consciousness
• tribute of admiration
• trick of fancy
• tumult of applause
• turmoil of controversy
• turn of events
• twilight of elderliness
• twinge of envy

U

• unity of purpose
• universality of experience

V

• vagrancy of thought
• valley of misfortune
• vanguard of progress
• vehemence of manner
• vehicle of intercourse
• veil of futurity
• vein of snobbishness
• velocity of movement
• vestige of regard
• vicissitudes of life
  • [vicissitudes = sudden or unexpected changes]
• vision of splendor
• vividness of memory
• voice of ambition
• void of authority
• volume of trade
• vow of allegiance

W

• warmth of temperament
• waste of opportunity
• wave of depression
• wealth of meaning
• weariness of sorrow
• web of villainy
• weight of argument
• whiff of irritation
• whirl of delight
• whirligig of life
• whirlwind of words
• wilderness of perplexities
• wiles of innocence
• word of opprobrium
  • [opprobrium = disgrace from shameful conduct]
• work of supererogation
  • [supererogation = to do more than is required]
• world of fantasy
• worthy of mention

Prepositional to

A

• addicted to flattery
• adherence to principle
• affect to believe
• akin to truth
• alive to opportunity
• allied to virtue
• amenable to reason
• aspire to rule
• attempt to suppress
• aversion to publicity

B

• blind to demonstration
• brought to repentance

C

• claim to perpetuity
• come to nothing
• committed to righteousness
• common to humanity
• conducive to happiness
• conformable to fact
• consigned to oblivion
• constrained to speak
• contribution to knowledge

D

• deaf to entreaty
• dedicated to friendship
• deference to custom
• devoted to ideals
• disposed to cavil
  • [cavil = raise trivial objections]
• doomed to destruction
• driven to despair
• dwarf to unimportance

E

• empowered to act
• endeared to all
• excite to pity
• exposed to derision

F

• fly to platitudes
• foredoomed to failure

G

• given to extravagance
• ground to atoms

H

• harassed to death
• hostile to progress

I

• impervious to suggestion
• impossible to reconcile
• impotent to save
• incentive to devotion
• incitement to anger
• inclined to vascillate
• indifference to truth
• intent to deceive
• intolerable to society
• inured to fatigue
  • [inured = habituate to something undesirable]
• invocation to sleep

L

• laugh to scorn
• left to conjecture
• lost to remembrance

O

• obedience to conscience
• oblivious to criticism
• offensive to modesty
• open to reason
• opposed to innovation

P

• pander to prejudice
• pertaining to fashion
• prone to melancholy
• propose to undertake
• provoke to laughter
• put to confusion

R

• recourse to falsehood
• reduced to impotence
• related to eternity
• repeat to satiety
• repugnant to justice
• requisite to success
• resort to violence
• run to seed

S

• seek to overawe
• serve to embitter
• spur to action
• stimulus to ambition
• stirred to remonstrance
• subject to scrutiny
• succumb to fascination
• superior to circumstances
• susceptible to argument

T

• temptation to doubt
• tend to frustrate
• trust to chance

U

• utilize to advantage

V

• venture to say
• vital to success

W

• wedded to antiquity

Y

• yield to reason

Prepositional with

A

• abounding with plenty
• accord with nature
• act with deliberation
• adorn with beauty
• afflict with ugliness
• aflame with life
• allied with economy
• anticipate with delight
• ascertain with exactness
• attended with danger

B

• beam with self-approval
• behave with servility
• big with fate
• blinded with tears
• blush with shame
• branded with cowardice
• bubbling with laughter
• burn with indignation

C

• cling with tenacity
• clothe with authority
• compatible with freedom
• comply with tradition
• conceal with difficulty
• consistent with facts
• covered with ignominy
• crush with sorrow

D

• deny with emphasis
• depressed with fear
• dispense with formality
• distort with passion

E

• echo with merriment
• endow with intelligence
• endued with faith
  • [endued = provide with a quality; put on]
• endure with fortitude
• examine with curiosity

F

• face with indifference
• flushed with pride
• fraught with peril
• furious with indignation

G

• glowing with delight

I

• imbued with courage
• incompatible with reason
• inconsistent with beauty
• inflamed with rage
• inspired with patriotism
• intoxicated with joy

K

• kindle with enthusiasm

L

• laugh with glee

M

• meet with rebuke
• mingled with curiosity
• move with alacrity

O

• oppressed with hardship
• overcome with shyness
• overflowing with love
• overhung with gloom

P

• performed with regularity
• pervaded with grandeur
• proceed with alertness
• punish with severity

Q

• quicken with pride
• quiver with anxiety

R

• radiant with victory
• regard with loathing
• relate with zest
• epel with indignation

S

• saddle with responsibility
• scream with terror
• scrutinize with care
• seething with sedition
  • [sedition = conduct or language inciting rebellion]
• sick with dread
• sob with anguish
• squirm with delight
• suffuse with spirituality

T

• tainted with fraud
• teeming with life
• tense with expectancy
• thrill with excitement
• throb with vitality
• tinged with romance
• touched with feeling
• treat with contempt
• tremble with fear

U

• unmixed with emotion
• utter with sarcasm

V

• vibrant with feeling
• view with awe

W

• wield with power
• work with zeal

Public speaking

A

• A-fact of vast moment
• A few words will suffice to answer
• A further objection is
• A great many people have said
• A little indulgence may be due to those
• A majority of us believe
• A man in my situation has
• A more plausible objection is found
• A proof of this is
• A servile mind can never know
• A short time since
• A specific answer can be given
• A thought occurred to me
• Able men have reasoned out
• Above all things, let us not forget
• Absolutely true it is
• Abundant reason is there
• Accordingly by reason of this circumstance
• Add this instance to
• After a careful study of all the evidence
• After full deliberation
• After reminding the hearer
• After this it remains only to say
• Again, can we doubt
• Again, I ask the gentleman
• Again, in this view
• Again, it is quite clear that
• Again, it is urged
• Again, let us compare
• Again, very numerous are the cases
• Again, we have abundant instances
• Against all this concurring testimony
• All confess this to be true
• All I ask is
• All of us know
• All that I will say now
• All the facts which support this
• All the signs of the time indicate
• All these things you know
• All this being considered
• All this is historical fact
• All this is very well
• All this suggests
• All this we take for granted
• Allow me for a moment to turn to
• Allow me to tell a story
• Altho I say it to myself
• Amazing as it may seem
• Am I mistaken in this
• Among many examples
• Among the distinguished guests who honor
• Among the problems that confront us
• An answer to this is now ready
• An argument has often been put forward
• An example or two will illustrate
• An indescribably touching incident
• An opinion has now become established
• And again, it is said
• And again, it is to be presumed
• And coming nearer to our own day
• And did a man try to persuade me
• And do you really think
• And everybody here knows
• And for myself, as I said
• And further, all that I have said
• And hence the well-known doctrine
• And here again, when I speak
• And here allow me to call your attention
• And here I am led to observe
• And here I come to the closing evidence
• And here I have an opportunity
• And here I reproach
• And here I wish you to observe
• And here let me define my position
• And here let me give my explanation
• And here let us recall to mind
• And how is it possible to imagine
• And I am bound to say
• And I beg of you
• And I call on you
• And I might say this
• And I refuse assent
• And I rejoice to know
• And I say, it were better for you
• And I should in like manner repudiate
• And I speak with reverence
• And I submit to you
• And I trust that you will consider
• And I will make a practical suggestion
• And I will tell you why
• And I would, moreover submit
• And if a man could anywhere be found
• And if any of you should question
• And if I know anything of my countrymen
• And if I may presume to speak
• And if I take another instance
• And if this be true
• And if you come to a decision
• And if you think it your duty
• And in conclusion
• And in like manner
• And in order to see this
• And in thus speaking, I am not denying
• And is not this lamentable
• And is there not a presumption
• And it happens
• And it is certainly true
• And it is doubtful if
• And it is not difficult to see
• And it is not plain
• And it is one of the evidences
• And it is precisely in this
• And it is strikingly suggested to us
• And it is undeniable, I say
• And it is well that this should be so
• And last of all
• And lest anyone should marvel
• And let it be observed
• And lo! and behold
• And more than this
• And next I would ask
• And now allow me to call attention
• And now behold a mystery
• And now consider
• And now having discussed
• And now I beg that I may be permitted
• And now I go back to the statement
• And now I have completed my review
• And now I have said enough to explain
• And now I must touch upon one point
• And now if I may take for granted
• And now it would be very pleasant for me
• And now observe how
• And now, sir, what I had first to say
• And now supposing this point to be settled
• And now that I have mentioned
• And now the chief points of it
• And now the question is asked me
• And now, to close, let me give you
• And now, to what purpose do I mention
• And, of course, you are aware
• And of this I am perfectly certain
• And quite as difficult is it to create
• And right here lies the cause
• And, sir, a word
• And so, again, as regard
• And so I am reminded of a story
• And so I leave these words with you
• And so I may point out
• And so I might recount to you
• And so, in the other cases, I have named
• And so in the present case
• And so on
• And so through all phases
• And so, upon every hand
• And sometimes it will be difficult
• And that gave another distorted view
• And the reason is very obvious
• And the same holds good
• And then again
• And then hastily to conclude
• And then I may be reminded
• And then there is another thought
• And then when it is said
• And there are reasons why
• And there is also this view
• And therefore am I truly glad
• And therefore it is not unfrequently quoted
• And therefore it is not without regret
• And this brings me to the last thing
• And this is really the sense
• And this leads me to say a word
• And thus consistently
• And thus it is conceivable
• And thus it seems to me
• And thus we are led on then to further question
• And to all this must be added
• And to return to the topic
• And to this conclusion you must come
• And unquestionably
• And we are brought to the same conclusion
• And what do you suppose will be
• And when I have shown to you
• And when I recall that event
• And when we pass beyond the bounds of
• And where, let me ask
• And why should I insist
• And will you still insist
• And with these thoughts come others
• And yet I can not but reflect
• And yet I feel justified in believing
• And yet I think we all feel
• And yet let me say to you
• And yet one more quotation
• And yet this notion is, I conceive
• And yet though this be true
• And yet we ought, if we are wise
• And you may also remember this
• Another circumstance that adds to the difficulty
• Another consideration which I shall adduce
  • [adduce = cite as an example]
• Another instance of signal success
• Another of these presumptions
• Another point is made as clear as crystal
• Another reason of a kindred nature
• Another reflection which occurs to me
• Another sign of our times
• Another signal advantage
• Another striking instance
• Answers doubtless may be given
• Are there not many of us
• Are we content to believe
• Are we forever to deprive ourselves
• Are we not startled into astonishment
• Are we satisfied to assume
• As a general rule I hold
• As a last illustration
• As a matter of fact
• As a proof of this
• As an illustration of this truth
• As briefly as I may
• As far as my limits allow
• As far as this is true
• As far as this objection relates
• As far as we know
• As for the rest
• As I have now replied to
• As I look around on this assembly
• As I rise to respond to the sentiment
• As I understand this matter
• As memory scans the past
• As society is now constituted
• As some one has well said
• As the foregoing instances have shown
• As to the particular instance before us
• As well might we compare
• As we shall see in a few moments
• Assuredly it is this
• At the outset of this inquiry
• At the risk of digression
• At the same time, I candidly state
• At the utmost we can say
• At this juncture
• At this solemn moment
• Away then with the notion

B

• Be assured, then
• Be confident, therefore
• Be it so
• Be not deceived
• Be sure that in spite of
• Be these things as they may
• Be your interests what they may be
• Bear with me for a few moments
• Bearing on this point
• Before attempting to answer this question
• Before going further
• Before I close I will particularly remark
• Before I come to the special matter
• Before I proceed to compare
• Being fully of the opinion
• Being persuaded then
• Believing, as I do
• Beyond all question we
• Bidden by your invitation to a discussion
• Broadly speaking
• But, above all things, let us
• But after all, I think no one can say
• But again, when we carefully consider
• But am I wrong in saying
• But apart from the fact
• But besides these special facts
• But can this question
• But depend upon it
• But despite all this
• But do not let us depend
• But do you imagine
• But doubts here arise
• But even admitting these possibilities
• But everyone who deserves
• But first of all, remark, I beg you
• But, further, I shall now demonstrate
• But, gentlemen, I must be done
• But grave problems confront us
• But here I am discussing
• But here let me say
• But how can we pass over
• But how shall I describe my emotions
• But however that may be
• But I am bound to say
• But I am certain from my own experience
• But I am very sorry to say
• But I am willing enough to admit
• But I can at least say
• But I can not conceive
• But I can promise
• But I cherish the hope
• But I confess that I should be glad
• But I digress
• But I do not propose all these things
• But I do say this
• But I have been insisting simply
• But I have heard it argued
• But I have no fear of the future
• But I leave this train of thought
• But I may be permitted to speak
• But I may say in conclusion
• But I need hardly assert
• But I pass that over
• But I propose to speak to you
• But I repeat
• But I resist the temptation
• But I return to the question
• But I shall go still further
• But I simply ask
• But I submit the whole subject
• But I trust that you will all admit
• But I venture to assure you
• But I will allude
• But I will not further impress any idea
• But I would earnestly impress upon you
• But if I may even flatter myself
• But if I seek for illustrations
• But if you want more evidence
• But if you wish to know
• But in making this assertion
• But in my opinion there is no need
• But in the course of time
• But is it quite possible to hold
• But is this any reason why
• But it does not follow from this
• But it happens very fortunately
• But it has been suggested to me
• But it is a fact
• But it is impossible for one
• But it is necessary to explain
• But it is no use protesting
• But it is not fair to assert
• But it is not my intention
• But it is not necessary to suppose
• But it is not possible to believe
• But it is not really so
• But it is otherwise with
• But it is sometimes said
• But it may be doubted whether
• But it may happen that I forgot
• But it will be a misfortune
• But it will naturally be asked
• But it will perhaps be argued
• But it would be vain to attempt
• But let me ask you to glance
• But let me before closing refer
• But let none of you think
• But let us also keep ever in mind
• But let us look a little further
• But lo! all of a sudden
• But mark this
• But more than all things else
• But my allotted time is running away
• But my answer to this objection
• But, my friends, pause for a moment
• But never was a grosser wrong
• But not for one moment
• But notwithstanding all this
• But now look at the effect
• But now take notice of
• But on the other hand
• But on what ground are we
• But passing these by
• But perhaps I ought to speak distinctly
• But perhaps you are not yet weary
• But putting these questions aside
• But quite contrary to this, you will find
• But recollect, I pray you, how
• But, sir, it is manifest
• But some other things are to be noted
• But some will ask me
• But sooner or later
• But still, I repeat
• But suppose the fact
• But surely, you can not say
• But that I may not divert you from
• But that is not all
• But that must be always the impression
• But the fact is
• But the final value
• But the greatest proof of all
• But the most formidable problem
• But the necessity of the case
• But the question may arise
• But, then, let us ask ourselves
• But there is another duty imposed
• But there is much more than this
• But this I do not hesitate to say
• But this I fearlessly affirm
• But this I know
• But this is a circuitous argument
• But this is no place for controversy
• But this is not all
• But this is what I mean
• But this much I affirm as true
• But this warns me
• But this we may put aside
• But to go still further
• But to say the truth
• But we are met with the assertion
• But we are to recollect
• But we ask, perhaps
• But we may depend upon it
• But we think it is not wise
• But we want something more for explanation
• But what a blunder would be yours
• But what is the fact
• But what we must needs guard against
• But when it is declared
• But when we look a little deeper
• But while it may be admitted
• But who has not seen
• But why do I numerate these details
• But with these exceptions
• But yet nothing can be more splendid
• But you should know
• By no means
• By the way, I have not mentioned
• By this time it will be suspected

C

• Can it be supposed
• Can the long records of humanity teach us
• Can there be a better illustration
• Can we pretend
• Can you lightly contemplate
• Can you yield yourselves
• Cautious and practical thinkers ask
• Certain it is
• Certainly I am not blind to the faults
• Certainly, one can conceive
• Clearly enough
• Coming back to the main subject
• Coming down to modern times
• Coming to present circumstances
• Common sense indicates
• Consequently, I am not discussing this matter
• Consider, I beg you, what
• Contemplating these marvelous changes

D

• Delude not yourselves with the belief
• Depend upon it
• Did it ever occur to you
• Difficult then as the question may be
• Do I need to describe
• Do me the honor of believing
• Do not imagine
• Do not let us conceal from ourselves
• Do not suppose for a moment
• Do not talk to me of
• Do not think me guilty of
• Do we not know
• Do what you will
• Do you ask how that can be
• Do you believe this can be truthfully said
• Do you not know I am speaking of
• Do you remember a concrete instance
• Do you think, then
• Does any man say
• Does it ever occur to you
• Does it not seem something like idiocy to
• Does it not shock you to think
• Does not the event show
• Does not the nature of every man revolt
• Doubtless the end is sought

E

• Every now and then you will find
• Every one has asked himself
• Every one therefore ought to look to
• Every reader of history can recall

F

• Far from it
• Few indeed there are
• Few subjects are more fruitful
• Few things impress the imagination more
• Finally, it is my most fervent prayer
• First in my thoughts are
• First of all I ask
• For, be assured of this
• For behold
• For I must tell you
• For if any one thinks that there is
• For, in truth, if you please to recollect
• For instance, I can fancy
• For is it not true
• For it is not right to
• For let it be observed first
• For mark you
• For my own part, I believe
• For myself, certainly I think
• For observe what the real fact is
• For one I deny
• For, perhaps, after all
• For, perhaps, some one may say
• For so it generally happens
• For the sake of my argument
• For this is what I say
• For this reason, indeed, it is
• For we all know
• Fortunately for us
• Fortunately I am not obliged
• From one point of view we are
• From the circumstances already explained
• From the standpoint of
• From this statement you will perceive

G

• Generally speaking
• God be praised
• Grant this true
• Granting all this

H

• Had I time for all that might be said
• Had my limits allowed it
• Happily for us
• Hardly less marvelous
• Hardly will anyone venture to say
• Have I exaggerated
• Have you ever noticed
• Having taken a view of
• Having thus described what appears to me
• He is the best prophet who
• He seems at times to confuse
• He was an eminent instance of
• He who is insensible to
• Hence arises a grave mischief
• Hence, as I have said
• Hence it follows
• Here again the testimony corroborates
• Here arises the eternal question
• Here comes the practical matter
• Here for a moment I seem
• Here, however, it may be objected
• Here I am considering
• Here I end my illustrations
• Here I must pause for a moment
• Here I only insist upon
• Here I ought to stop
• Here is another strange thing
• Here is good hope for us
• Here is no question
• Here let me meet one other question
• Here, then, I am brought to the consideration
• Here then I take up the subject
• Here then is the key
• Here, then, it is natural at last
• Here then, we are brought to the question
• Here, then, we are involved
• Here undoubtedly it is
• Here we can not but pause to contemplate
• Here we come into direct antagonism with
• Here we come to the very crux of
• Here we have it on high authority
• History is replete with predictions
• Hitherto I have spoken only of
• Holding this view, I am concerned
• How can we help believing
• How do you account for
• How does it happen
• How human language staggers when
• How infinitely difficult it is
• How infinitely superior must it appear
• How is this to be explained
• How many a time
• How momentous, then
• How much better, I say, if
• How much more rational it would be
• How shall I attempt to enumerate
• How shall I describe to you
• However, I am viewing the matter
• However, I will not in any way admit
• However, it is to me a very refreshing thing

I

• I-abide by my statement
• I add a few suggestions
• I adduce these facts
  • [adduce = cite as an example]
• I admire the main drift of
• I admit, of course, at once
• I admit the extreme complexity
• I again ask
• I allude to
• I always delight to think
• I always will assert the right to
• I am a great admirer
• I am a little at a loss to know
• I am about to supplement
• I am agitated by conflicting emotions
• I am alarmed, indeed, when I see
• I am also bound to say
• I am also satisfied
• I am apprehensive
• I am asked to-night to propose
• I am assured and fully believe
• I am at a loss for adequate terms
• I am bold to say
• I am but saying
• I am by no means certain
• I am certain that you will give me credit
• I am certainly in earnest sympathy
• I am confronted by the hope
• I am conscious of the fact
• I am convinced by what I have seen
• I am deeply imbued with the conviction
• I am deeply insensible of the compliment
• I am determined
• I am even bold enough to hazard
• I am exceeding my necessary limits
• I am exceedingly glad of this opportunity
• I am extremely obliged to you
• I am familiar with
• I am far from asserting
• I am filled with admiration
• I am firmly convinced
• I am free to admit
• I am fully convinced
• I am giving voice to what you all feel
• I am glad of this public opportunity
• I am glad to answer to the toast
• I am glad to express the belief
• I am glad to notice
• I am going to spare you and myself
• I am grateful to you for this honor
• I am greatly alarmed
• I am greatly indebted to you
• I am happy to be with you
• I am here by the favor of your invitation
• I am here the advocate of
• I am here to introduce
• I am in favor of
• I am in sympathy with
• I am inclined sometimes to believe
• I am inclined to suspect
• I am indebted for the honor
• I am, indeed, most solicitous
• I am informed
• I am led on by these reflections
• I am led to believe
• I am mainly concerned
• I am most deeply sensible of the welcome
• I am most grateful for the opportunity
• I am myself greatly indebted
• I am nevertheless too sensible
• I am not a stranger to
• I am not at liberty to discuss
• I am not at present concerned
• I am not about to defend
• I am not advocating
• I am not altogether clear
• I am not aware of a single instance
• I am not blind to the faults of
• I am not bold enough to
• I am not catching at sharp arguments
• I am not concerned to argue
• I am not defending myself
• I am not dreaming of denying
• I am not going into vexed questions
• I am not going to reproach
• I am not here to defend
• I am not insensible
• I am not of those who pretend
• I am not prepared to dispute the word
• I am not presumptuous to assert
• I am not proposing to set forth
• I am not ripe to pass sentence
• I am not so unreasonable as to tell you
• I am not surprised
• I am not taking into account
• I am not unaware
• I am not undertaking to deliver
• I am now going to attempt
• I am obliged to add
• I am obliged to go still further
• I am often reminded
• I am old enough to remember
• I am one of those who believe
• I am only too sensible of the fact
• I am perfectly willing to admit
• I am persuaded
• I am prepared to back that opinion by
• I am privileged to speak to
• I am quite conscious that
• I am rather disposed to think
• I am ready to do battle
• I am reassured by the presence here
• I am reluctantly but forcibly reminded
• I am resolved not to permit
• I am sensible, sir
• I am simply endeavoring to show
• I am so surrounded on every hand
• I am sometimes inclined to think
• I am somewhat relieved to know
• I am sorry to say
• I am suggesting the reason why
• I am sure, at any rate
• I am sure every impartial man will agree
• I am sure I feel no hostility
• I am sure that I echo the sentiment
• I am sure this generous audience will pardon me
• I am sure you all hope
• I am sure you feel the truth
• I am sure you will acquit me
• I am sure you will be kind enough
• I am sure you will do me the justice
• I am sure you will not be surprised
• I am surely not here to assert
• I am tempted further to offer to you
• I am thankful for the privilege
• I am thoroughly convinced
• I am to speak to you this evening
• I am to urge the interest of
• I am told occasionally
• I am told on authority
• I am too well aware of the difficulties
• I am totally at a loss to conceive
• I am trespassing too long on your time
• I am unable to understand
• I am unconscious of intentional error
• I am under a very great obligation
• I am under the deepest feeling of gratitude
• I am under the impression
• I am unwillingly bound to add
• I am uttering no paradox when I say
• I am very far from thinking.
• I am very glad to have the honor
• I am very happy to be here
• I am very much in the condition of
• I am very sure that if you ponder
• I am very sure you will believe
• I am well aware
• I am willing to know
• I anticipate with pleasing expectation
• I appeal in the first place
• I appeal to any man to say
• I appeal to the better judgment
• I appreciate the significance
• I argue this cause
• I ask again
• I ask no greater blessing
• I ask permission to speak to you
• I ask the attention
• I ask the audience
• I ask the audience to return with me
• I ask this of you
• I ask you calmly and dispassionately
• I ask you gentlemen, do you think
• I ask you if it is possible
• I ask you, if you please, to rise and give the toast
• I ask you in all candor
• I ask you now to follow me
• I ask you to consider
• I ask you to join me in drinking a toast
• I ask you to pledge with me
• I ask your attention
• I ask your indulgence
• I assert, sir, that it is
• I assure myself
• I assure you, of my own personal knowledge
• I attribute it to
• I avail myself of the opportunity
• I beg again to thank you for the honor
• I beg all to remember
• I beg and implore of you
• I beg emphatically to say
• I beg leave to make some observations
• I beg of you to remember
• I beg to tender my most fervent wishes
• I beg you not to mistake my meaning
• I beg you to accept my grateful expression
• I begin by observing
• I begin with expressing a sentiment
• I believe from my own personal experience
• I believe I can speak for all
• I believe I shall make it clear to you
• I believe I voice the sentiment
• I believe it to be the simple truth
• I believe most profoundly
• I believe that I am within the mark
• I believe that in this instance
• I bid you a most cordial and hearty welcome
• I bow with you in reverent commemoration
• I call on you to answer
• I call to mind how
• I can by no calculation justify
• I call hardly conceive
• I can make allowance for
• I can most truthfully assure you
• I call never sufficiently express my gratitude
• I can not allow myself to believe
• I can not avoid confessing
• I can not be content with
• I can not believe, I will not believe
• I can not better illustrate this argument
• I can not better sum up
• I can not boast of
• I can not bound my vision
• I can not but reflect
• I can not but see what mischief
• I can not charge myself with
• I can not close without giving expression
• I can not conceive a greater honor
• I can not feel any doubt myself
• I can not forbear from offering
• I can not give you a better illustration
• I can not help expressing a wish
• I can not help speaking urgently
• I can not here go into details
• I can not hesitate to say
• I can not hope adequately to respond
• I can not justly be responsible because
• I can not let this opportunity pass
• I can not persuade myself
• I can not prevail on myself
• I can not refrain from saying for myself
• I can not resist the train of thought
• I can not say how glad I am
• I can not say with confidence
• I can not stop to give in detail
• I can not sufficiently thank you
• I can not take back my word
• I can not take it for granted
• I can not thank you enough
• I can not well avoid saying
• I can only congratulate you
• I can only hope for indulgence
• I can readily understand
• I can scarcely concede anything more important
• I can scarcely find fitting words
• I can strongly recommend
• I can understand, moreover
• I can with propriety speak here
• I certainly have not so good an opinion
• I challenge any man
• I cheerfully own
• I cheerfully submit myself
• I claim a share also for
• I class them altogether under the head
• I close with the words
• I close with this sentiment
• I come at length to
• I come next to the question of
• I come to the other assumption
• I conceive this to be
• I confess I feel not the least alarmed
• I confess I have had my doubts
• I confess I have little sympathy
• I confess it affects me very deeply to
• I confess it is very difficult to
• I confess that I do not entirely approve
• I confess that it is a comfort to me
• I confess that my notions are widely different
• I confess to a little embarrassment
• I confess to you that I have no fear
• I confine myself to saying
• I congratulate you upon the auspicious character
• I consider I have said enough in proof
• I consider it amply explains
• I contend
• I content myself with pursuing
• I could do no less than
• I could easily mention
• I could enlarge upon it
• I could never understand
• I could wish that this belief
• I dare say you know
• I dare venture the remark
• I declare to you
• I deem it both necessary and just
• I deem it proper here to remind
• I deem myself honored
• I deny, once and for all
• I deny the inference
• I desire to be brief
• I desire to bear my testimony
• I desire to call attention
• I desire to know
• I desire to lay emphatic stress
• I dissent from the opinion
• I distrust all general theories of
• I do again and again urge upon you
• I do, indeed, recollect
• I do not absolutely assert
• I do not advocate
• I do not argue
• I do not ask you to
• I do not at this moment remember
• I do not believe it possible
• I do not belong to those who
• I do not choose to consume
• I do not complain of
• I do not consider it necessary
• I do not contend
• I do not countenance for a moment
• I do not deem it incumbent upon me
• I do not depreciate for a moment
• I do not desire to call in question
• I do not desire to put too much emphasis
• I do not despair of surmounting
• I do not disguise the fact
• I do not enter into the question
• I do not fail to admire
• I do not fear a contradiction
• I do not feel at liberty
• I do not forget the practical necessity
• I do not hesitate to say
• I do not imagine
• I do not in the least degree
• I do not indeed deny
• I do not indulge in the delusion
• I do not know how anyone can believe
• I do not know whether you are aware of it
• I do not know why
• I do not know with what correctness
• I do not mean anything so absurd
• I do not mean now to go further than
• I do not mean to impute
• I do not merely urge
• I do not mistrust
• I do not myself pretend to be
• I do not need to remind you
• I do not, of course, deny
• I do not pretend to argue
• I do not propose to take up your time
• I do not question for a moment
• I do not recount all
• I do not say anything about the future
• I do not say this with any affectation
• I do not see how it is possible
• I do not see much difference between
• I do not seek to palliate
• I do not speak exclusively
• I do not stop to discuss
• I do not, therefore, wonder
• I do not think it necessary to warn you
• I do not think it possible
• I do not think it unfair reasoning
• I do not think myself obliged to dwell
• I do not think that I need further discuss
• I do not think this at all an exaggeration
• I do not think we can go far wrong
• I do not think you will often hear
• I do not understand how it can apply
• I do not vouch for
• I do not want to discourage you
• I do not wish to be considered egotistic
• I do not wish to be misrepresented
• I do not wonder
• I doubt very much whether
• I dwell with pleasure on the considerations
• I earnestly maintain
• I embrace with peculiar satisfaction
• I end as I began
• I entertain great apprehension for
• I entertain no such chimerical hopes
  • [chimerical = highly improbable]
• I entertain the hope and opinion
• I entirely dissent from the view
• I especially hail with approval
• I even add this
• I even venture to deny
• I fancy I hear you say
• I fear I may seem trifling
• I fear lest I may
• I fearlessly appeal
• I fearlessly challenge
• I feel a great necessity to
• I feel bound to add my expression
• I feel constrained to declare
• I feel entirely satisfied
• I feel I have a right to say
• I feel it a proud privilege
• I feel keenly myself impelled by every duty
• I feel only a great emotion of gratitude
• I feel respect and admiration
• I feel some explanation is due
• I feel sure
• I feel tempted to introduce here
• I feel that I have a special right to
• I feel that it is not true
• I feel the greatest satisfaction
• I feel the task is far beyond my power
• I fervently trust
• I find it difficult to utter in words
• I find it more easy
• I find my reference to this
• I find myself called upon to say something
• I find myself in the position of
• I find no better example than
• I find no fault with
• I find numberless cases
• I flatter myself
• I, for my part, would rather
• I, for one, greatly doubt
• I forbear to inquire
• I foresaw the consequence
• I fully recognize
• I gave notice just now
• I give you, in conclusion, this sentence
• I go further
• I grant all this
• I grant with my warmest admiration
• I gratefully accept
• I greatly deplore
• I had a kind of hope
• I had almost said
• I had in common with others
• I had occasion to criticize
• I happen to differ
• I hardly dare to dwell longer
• I hardly know anything more strange
• I hasten to concede
• I have a dark suspicion
• I have a great admiration for
• I have a pleasing and personal duty
• I have a profound pity for those
• I have a right to consider
• I have a strong belief
• I have a very high respect for
• I have abstained from
• I have acquired some useful experience
• I have all along implied
• I have all but finished
• I have already alluded to
• I have already shown the ground of my hope
• I have already stated, and now repeat
• I have always been under the impression
• I have always listened with the greatest satisfaction
• I have always maintained
• I have another objection
• I have another observation to add
• I have anticipated the objection
• I have assumed throughout
• I have attempted thus hastily
• I have barely touched some of the points
• I have been allowed the privilege
• I have been asked several times
• I have been extremely anxious
• I have been given to understand
• I have been glad to observe
• I have been heretofore treating
• I have been insisting then on this
• I have been interested in hearing
• I have been pointing out how
• I have been profoundly moved
• I have been requested to say a word
• I have been told by an eminent authority
• I have been too long accustomed to hear
• I have been touched by the large generosity
• I have been trying to show
• I have before me the statistics
• I have but one more word to add
• I have demonstrated to you
• I have depicted
• I have endeavored to emphasize
• I have enlarged on this subject
• I have felt it almost a duty to
• I have found great cause for wonder
• I have frequently been surprised at
• I have gazed with admiration
• I have generally observed
• I have gone so far as to suggest
• I have good reason for
• I have had steadily in mind
• I have had the honor
• I have had to take a long sweep
• I have heard it objected
• I have heard with relief and pleasure
• I have hitherto been adducing instances
  • [adduce = cite as an example]
• I have hitherto been engaged in showing
• I have in a measure anticipated
• I have in my possession
• I have incidentally dwelt on
• I have introduced it to suggest
• I have labored to maintain
• I have laid much stress upon
• I have lately observed many strong indications
• I have listened with the utmost interest
• I have little hope that I can add anything
• I have lived to see
• I have long ago insisted
• I have long been of the conviction
• I have never heard it suggested
• I have never whispered a syllable
• I have no acquaintance with
• I have no doubt whatever
• I have no excuse for intruding
• I have no fear of myself
• I have no fears for the success
• I have no hesitation in asserting
• I have no intention to moralize
• I have no particular inclination
• I have no prejudice on the subject
• I have no pretention to be regarded
• I have no reason to think
• I have no scruple in saying
• I have no such gloomy forebodings
• I have no sympathy with the men
• I have no thought of venturing to say
• I have no wish at all to preach
• I have not accustomed myself
• I have not allowed myself
• I have not been able to deny
• I have not particularly referred to
• I have not said anything yet
• I have not the means of forming a judgment
• I have not the right to reproach
• I have not time to present
• I have nothing more to say
• I have noticed of late years
• I have now explained to you
• I have now made bold to touch upon
• I have now rather more than kept my word
• I have now said all that occurs to me
• I have often been impressed with
• I have often been struck with the resemblance
• I have often lingered in fancy
• I have one step farther to go
• I have only partially examined
• I have partly anticipated
• I have pleasant memories of
• I have pointed out
• I have pride and pleasure in quoting
• I have racked this brain of mine
• I have read with great regret
• I have said and I repeat
• I have said over and over again
• I have said what I solemnly believe
• I have scant patience
• I have seen for myself
• I have seen it stated in a recent journal
• I have seen some signs of encouragement
• I have shown
• I have some sort of fear
• I have sometimes asked myself
• I have sometimes fancied
• I have sometimes wondered whether
• I have still two comments to make
• I have taken pains to know
• I have the confident hope
• I have the greatest possible confidence
• I have the honor to propose
• I have then to investigate
• I have thought it incumbent on me
• I have thought it right on this day
• I have thought it well to suggest
• I have throughout highly appreciated
• I have thus been led by my feelings
• I have thus stated the reason
• I have to confess with a feeling of melancholy
• I have to force my imagination
• I have touched very cursorily
• I have tried to convey to you
• I have undertaken to speak
• I have very much less feeling of
• I have watched with some attention
• I have witnessed the extraordinary
• I have yet a more cogent reason
• I have yet to learn
• I hazard nothing in saying
• I hear it sometimes said
• I hear you say to yourselves
• I heartily feel the singular claims
• I hesitate to take an instance
• I hold it to be clearly expedient
• I hold myself obliged to
• I hold the maxim no less applicable
• I hold this to be a truth
• I hold to the principle
• I hope by this time we are all convinced
• I hope for our own sakes
• I hope I have expressed myself explicitly
• I hope I may be allowed to intimate
• I hope I shall not be told
• I hope it is no disparagement
• I hope most sincerely and truly
• I hope none who hear me
• I hope not to occupy more than a few minutes
• I hope that I shall not be so unfortunate
• I hope the day may be far distant
• I hope the time may come again
• I hope to be excused if
• I hope to be forgiven if
• I hope we may forget
• I hope you will not accuse me
• I imagine that no one will be disposed
• I insist upon it
• I intend to propose
• I know from experience how
• I know full well
• I know I am treading on thin ice
• I know it has been questioned
• I know it is said
• I know it will be said
• I know many reasons why
• I know not how else to express
• I know not in what direction to look
• I know not of my own knowledge
• I know not where else to find
• I know perfectly well
• I know that it is impossible for me to
• I know that this is the feeling
• I know that what I may say is true
• I know there are some who think
• I know there is a theory among us
• I know too well
• I know very well the difference between
• I know well it is not for me
• I know well the sentiments
• I know you are all impatient to hear
• I know you will do all in your power
• I know you will interpret what I say
• I labor under a degree of prejudice
• I lately heard it affirmed
• I lay it down as a principle
• I leave history to judge
• I leave it to you
• I leave the arduous task
• I leave to others to speak
• I long to speak a word or two
• I look hopefully to
• I look in vain
• I look with encouragement
• I look with inexpressible dread
• I look with mingled hope and terror
• I make my appeal to
• I make no extravagant claim
• I make this abrupt acknowledgment
• I marvel that
• I may add, speaking for my own part
• I may be allowed to make one remark
• I may be permitted to add
• I may confess to you
• I may safely appeal
• I may say to you calmly
• I may seem to have been diffuse
• I may take as an instance
• I may venture upon a review
• I mean by this
• I mean, moreover
• I mean something more than that
• I mention it to you to justify
• I mention these facts because
• I mention this, not by way of complaint
• I might bring you another such case
• I might deny that
• I might enter into such detail
• I might go further
• I might go on indefinitely
• I might go on to illustrate
• I might of course point first
• I might reasonably question the justice
• I might try to explain
• I might venture to claim
• I might well have desired
• I might well think
• I must ask an abrupt question
• I must be careful about what I say
• I must be contented with
• I must be excused if I say
• I must bow in reverence
• I must call your attention for a moment
• I must conclude abruptly
• I must confess that I became rather alarmed
• I must consider this as
• I must crave your indulgence
• I must express to you again
• I must fairly tell you
• I must find some fault with
• I must for want of time omit
• I must here admit
• I must lament
• I must leave any detailed development
• I must mention with praise
• I must not allow myself to indulge
• I must not for an instant be supposed
• I must not overlook
• I must now beg to ask
• I must pause a moment to
• I must proceed
• I must qualify the statement
• I must remind my hearers of
• I must reply to some observations
• I must return to the subject
• I must say that I am one of those
• I must speak plainly
• I must suppose, however
• I must take occasion to say
• I must thank you once more
• I must try to describe to you
• I myself have boundless faith
• I need not assure this brilliant company
• I need not dwell
• I need not enter into
• I need not follow out the application
• I need not, I am certain, assure you
• I need not say how much I thank you
• I need not show how inconsistent
• I need not specially recommend to you
• I need not wander far in search
• I need only to observe
• I need say nothing in praise
• I need scarcely observe
• I need to guard myself right here
• I neither affirm nor deny
• I next come to the implicit assumption
• I note with particular pleasure
• I notice it as affording an instance
• I noticed incidentally the fact
• I now address you on a question
• I now come, sir, to the second head
• I now have the pleasure of presenting to you
• I now pass to the question of
• I now proceed to inquire
• I now reiterate
• I object strongly to the use
• I observe, then, in the first place
• I only ask a favorable construction of
• I only marvel
• I only wish you to recognize
• I open the all-important question
• I ought to give an illustration
• I own I can not help feeling
• I particularly allude to
• I pass on from that
• I pass then to our second division
• I pause for a moment to say
• I pause to confess once more
• I pay tribute to
• I personally know that it is so
• I pray God I may never
• I predict that you will
• I prefer a practical view
• I presume I shall have to admit
• I presume that I shall not be disbelieved
• I proceed to another important phase
• I profess
• I propose briefly to glance at
• I propose, therefore to consider
• I protest I never had any doubt
• I purposely have avoided
• I question whether
• I quite endorse what has been said
• I rather look forward to a time
• I readily grant
• I really can not think it necessary to
• I really do not know
• I really thought that you would excuse me
• I recall another historical fact
• I recognize the high compliment conveyed
• I recollect hearing a sagacious remark
  • [sagacious = sound judgment]
• I refer especially
• I refuse to believe
• I regard as an erroneous view
• I regard it as a tribute
• I regard it as a very great honor
• I regret that I am not able to remember
• I regret that it is not possible for me
• I regret the time limits me
• I regret this the less
• I rejoice in an occasion like this
• I rejoice that events have occurred
• I rejoice to think I remark here
• I remember a reference made
• I remember an intimation
• I remember full well
• I remember the enjoyment with which
• I remember to have heard
• I repeat, I am not speaking
• I repeat my statement in another form
• I respectfully counsel
• I respectfully submit
• I rest my opinion on
• I rise in behalf
• I rise to express my disapprobation
  • [approbation = warm approval; praise]
• I rise to thank you
• I rise with some trepidation
• I return, in conclusion, to
• I return you my most grateful thanks
• I said a little way back
• I said it would be well
• I said that I thought
• I salute with profound reverence
• I sanction with all my heart
• I saw an ingenious argument the other day
• I say frankly
• I say in moderation
• I say it is extremely important
• I say it most confidently
• I say no more of these things
• I say not one syllable against
• I say, then, my first point is
• I say this is no disparagement of
• I say this the more gladly
• I say without fear of contradiction
• I see around me
• I see as clearly as any man possibly can
• I see little hope of
• I see no exception
• I see no possibility of
• I see no reason for doubting
• I seem to hear you say
• I seize upon this opportunity
• I seriously desire
• I set out with saying
• I shall add a few words
• I shall address myself to a single point
• I shall ask you to look very closely
• I shall be told
• I shall best attain my object
• I shall bestow a little attention upon
• I shall certainly admit
• I shall consider myself privileged
• I shall desist from
• I shall endeavor to be guided
• I shall give it in the words of
• I shall here briefly recite the
• I shall here use the word to denote
• I shall hope to interest you
• I shall invite you to follow me
• I shall just give the summary of
• I shall never believe
• I shall never cease to be grateful
• I shall not acknowledge
• I shall not attempt a detailed narrative
• I shall not end without appealing
• I shall not enlarge upon
• I shall not force into the discussion
• I shall not go so far as to say
• I shall not hesitate to say something
• I shall not tax your patience
• I shall not undertake to prophesy
• I shall not weary your patience
• I shall now give you some instances
• I shall now proceed to show
• I shall often have to advert to
• I shall pass by all this
• I shall presently show
• I shall proceed without further preface
• I shall recur to certain questions
• I shall say all this without entering into
• I shall show that I am not
• I shall speak first about
• I shall speak with becoming frankness
• I shall take a broader view of the subject
• I shall take it for granted here
• I shall therefore endeavor
• I shall touch upon one or two questions
• I shall waste no time in refuting
• I shall with your sanction
• I should be false to my own manhood
• I should be surprised if
• I should be the last man to deny
• I should fail in my duty if
• I should find it hard to discover
• I should have forfeited my own self-respect
• I should like at least to mention
• I should like to emphasize
• I should like to go a step farther
• I should like to refer to two events
• I should like to see that view answered
• I should like to-day to examine briefly
• I should much prefer
• I should not be satisfied with myself
• I should think it too absurd
• I shrink from the contemplation
• I shudder at the doctrine
• I simply lay my finger on a fact
• I simply pause here to ask
• I sincerely regret the absence
• I sincerely wish it were in my power
• I solemnly declare
• I sometimes hear a wish expressed
• I sorrowfully call to mind
• I speak forth my sentiment
• I speak from no little personal observation
• I speak of this to show
• I speak the fact when I tell you
• I speak the secret feeling of this company
• I speak what I know when I say
• I speak wholly without authority
• I speak with feeling upon this point
• I speak with some degree of encouragement
• I speak with the utmost sincerity
• I speak within the hearing of
• I stand in awed amazement before
• I stand in the midst of men
• I still view with respect
• I submit it to every candid mind
• I submit that in such a case
• I submit that it is high time
• I submit this proposition
• I summon you to do your share
• I suppose it is right to answer
• I suppose it to be entirely true
• I suppose most men will recollect
• I suppose that everyone who listens to me
• I suppose there is no one here
• I suppose we are all of one opinion
• I suspect that is why we so often
• I sympathize most heartily
• I take a broader and bolder position
• I take it for granted
• I take leave to say
• I take one picture as an illustration
• I take pleasure in saying
• I take the liberty of observing
• I take this instance at random
• I take two views of
• I tell him in reply
• I tell you, gentlemen
• I tender my thanks to you
• I thank you for having allowed me
• I thank you for the appreciative tone
• I thank you for the honor
• I thank you for your most generous greeting
• I thank you for your thoughtful courtesy
• I thank you from the bottom of my heart
• I thank you very gratefully
• I thank you very sincerely for the honor
• I think I am correct in saying
• I think I am not the first to utter
• I think I can claim a purpose
• I think I can sincerely declare
• I think I have a right to look upon
• I think I have rightly spoken
• I think I might safely say
• I think I need not say more
• I think it is not too much to say
• I think it is quite right
• I think it may be necessary to consider
• I think it might be said with safety
• I think it my duty to
• I think it observable
• I think it probable
• I think it will astonish you
• I think it will be granted
• I think no Wise man can be indifferent
• I think, on the contrary
• I think something may be said in favor of
• I think that all will agree
• I think that I can explain
• I think that I can venture to say
• I think that, in these last years
• I think that none of us will deny
• I think there is no better evidence
• I think there is no call on me to listen
• I think we are justified
• I think we can hardly hope
• I think we may all easily see
• I think we may ask in reply
• I think we may safely conclude
• I think we may say, therefore
• I think we may well be proud of
• I think we may well congratulate each other
• I think we must draw a distinction
• I think we need neither doubt nor fear
• I think we ought to recur a moment to
• I think we shall all recognize
• I think we should do well to call to mind
• I think we take too narrow a view
• I think when we look back upon
• I think you may well rejoice in
• I think you will all agree
• I think you will pardon my saying
• I think you will see
• I thus explicitly reply
• I tremble at the task
• I tremble to think
• I trust I may be indulged
• I trust it is not presumptuous
• I trust that as the years roll on
• I trust that I shall have the indulgence
• I trust that this will not be regarded as
• I turn, gentlemen, to the case
• I use the word advisedly
• I use the word in the sense
• I use very plain language
• I utter this word with the deepest affection
• I value very much the honor
• I venture to ask permission
• I venture to say
• I verily believe
• I very confidently submit
• I view that prospect with the greatest misgiving
• I want to bespeak your attention
• I want to know the character
• I want to make some simple applications
• I want to say just a few words
• I want to say one word more
• I want to say to you seriously
• I want to think with you
• I warn and exhort you
• I was astonished to learn
• I was constantly watchful to
• I was exceedingly interested
• I was honored with the acquaintance
• I was lost in admiration
• I was not slow to accept and believe
• I was not without some anxiety
• I was overwhelmed
• I was sincerely astonished
• I was very much interested
• I was very much thrilled
• I well recollect the time
• I well remember an occasion
• I will accept the general proposition
• I will add the memorable words
• I will ask the indulgence
• I will ask you to accompany me
• I will ask you to bear witness
• I will dwell a little longer
• I will endeavor in a brief way
• I will endeavor to illustrate
• I will endeavor to show you
• I will enlarge no further
• I will even express a hope at the outset
• I will even go further and say
• I will first call your attention to
• I will give one more illustration
• I will illustrate this point by
• I will merely mention
• I will neither affirm nor deny
• I will not allude
• I will not argue this
• I will not attempt to note
• I will not be content until
• I will not condescend to
• I will not enumerate at present
• I will not pause to maintain
• I will not positively say
• I will not pretend to inquire into
• I will not quarrel with
• I will not relinquish the confidence
• I will not repeat the arguments here
• I will not try to gauge
• I will now consider with you
• I will now leave this question
• I will now take an instance
• I will only speak to one point
• I will only sum up my evidence
• I will only take an occasion to express
• I will only venture to remind you
• I will point out to your attention
• I will say at once
• I will speak but a word or two more
• I will speak plainly
• I will state with perfect distinctness
• I will suppose the objection to be
• I will take one more instance
• I will take the precaution to add
• I will tell you what I think of
• I will try to make the thing intelligible
• I will venture a single remark
• I will venture to add
• I will venture to express the hope
• I will yield the whole question
• I willingly admit
• I wish also to declare positively
• I wish at the outset
• I wish emphatically to reaffirm
• I wish I had the time and the power
• I wish it first observed
• I wish rather to call your attention
• I wish, sir, that justice might be done
• I wish to ask if you honestly and candidly believe
• I wish to be allowed to enforce in detail
• I wish to begin my statement
• I wish to confine what I have to say
• I wish to do full justice to
• I wish to draw your attention
• I wish to express my profound gratification
• I wish to give these arguments their full weight
• I wish to know whether
• I wish to offer a few words relative to
• I wish to remind you in how large a degree
• I wish to say a word or two
• I wish to state all this as a matter of fact
• I wish you success and happiness
• I wish you to observe
• I would also gratefully acknowledge
• I would as soon believe
• I would desire to speak simply and directly
• I would enter a protest
• I would further point out to you
• I would have you understand
• I would infinitely rather
• I would like to say one word just here
• I would not be understood as belittling
• I would not dwell upon that matter if
• I would not push the suggestion so far
• I would now gladly lay before you
• I would rather a thousand times
• I would recommend to your consideration
• I would suggest first of all
• I would that my voice could reach the ear
• I would urge and entreat you
• I would urge upon you
• I would venture to point out
• I yielded to the earnest solicitations
• If any man be so persuaded
• If anyone could conceive
• If anyone is so dim of vision
• If any other answer be made
• If at first view this should seem
• If, however, you determine to
• If I am asked for the proof
• If I am wrong
• If I can carry you with me
• If I can succeed in describing
• If I could find words
• If I have done no more than view the facts
• If I have in any way deserved
• If I may be allowed a little criticism
• If I may be allowed modestly to suggest
• If I may be allowed to refer
• If I may reverently say so
• If I may say so without presumption
• If I may so speak
• If I may take for granted
• If I may venture to say anything
• If I mistake not the sentiment
• If I recollect aright
• If I understand the matter at all
• If I venture a few remarks
• If I were asked
• If I were to act upon my conviction
• If I were to recapitulate
• If I wished to prove my contention
• If, in consequence we find it necessary
• If in the glow of conscious pride
• If in the years of the future
• If it be difficult to appreciate
• If it be so
• If it be true
• If it is contended
• If it means anything, it means this
• If more were needed to illustrate.
• If my opinions are true
• If on the contrary, we all foresee
• If, on the other hand, I say
• If one seeks to measure
• If only we go deep enough
• If still you have further doubt
• If the bare facts were studied
• If the experience of the world is worth anything
• If, then, I am asked
• If, then, I should here rest my cause
• If there be any among us
• If there be one lesson more than another
• If this be so
• If this seems doubtful to anyone
• If, unhappily, the day should ever come
• If we accept at all the argument
• If we are not blind to
• If we are rightly informed
• If we are to reason on the fact
• If we cast our glance back
• If we embark upon a career
• If we had the whole case before us
• If we isolate ourselves
• If we may trust to experience
• If we pursue a different course
• If we pursue our inquiries through
• If we sincerely desire
• If we survey
• If we would not be beguiled
• If what has been said is true
• If you remain silent
• If you seek the real meaning of
• If you think for a moment
• If you want to look
• If you were asked to point out
• If you will allow me to prophesy
• If you will forgive me the expression
• If you wish for a more interesting example
• If you wish to get at the bottom of facts
• If you would see the most conclusive proof
• If your view is right
• In a significant paragraph
• In a wider sense
• In a word, gentlemen
• In a word, I conceive
• In actual life, I suspect
• In addition to these arguments
• In addressing myself to the question
• In addressing you I feel
• In agreement with this obvious conclusion
• In all ages of the world
• In all or any of these views
• In all times and places
• In an unguarded moment
• In answering the inquiry
• In any view of the case
• In closing my speech, I ask each of you
• In conclusion, let me say
• In conclusion, may I repeat
• In consequence it becomes a necessity
• In contemplating the causes
• In days to come
• In examining this part of the subject
• In fine, it is no extravagance to say
• In former ages and generations
• In further illustration
• In further proof of my assertion
• In illustration of what I have said
• In like manner are to be explained
• In like manner I would advise
• In listening to the kind words
• In looking about me
• In many instances
• In meeting this difficulty, I will not urge
• In most cases I hold
• In my estimation
• In my humble opinion
• In my view
• In offering to you these counsels
• In one other respect
• In one point I wish no one to mistake me
• In one sense this is undoubtedly true
• In order to appreciate the force of
• In order to complete the proof
• In order to do justice to the question
• In order to prove plainly and intelligibly
• In order to realize adequately
• In other words
• In our estimate of the past
• In point of fact
• In precisely the same way
• In pursuance of these views
• In pursuing the great objects
• In regard to
• In rising to return my sincere thanks
• In saying all of this, I do not forget
• In saying this, I am not disposed to deny
• In short, I say
• In solving this difficulty
• In something of a parallel way
• In spite of the fact
• In such cases, strictly speaking
• In support of this assertion
• In that matchless epitome
• In that mood of high hope
• In the anomalies of fortune
• In the course of these remarks
• In the existing circumstances
• In the first place, therefore, I consider
• In the first place we see
• In the first place, we should be all agreed
• In the fullest sense
• In the fullness of time
• In the last suggestion
• In the meantime I will commend to you
• In the next place, be assured
• In the presence of this vast assembly
• In the present situation
• In the progress of events
• In the remarks I have made
• In the same manner I rely
• In the second place it is quite clear
• In the suggestion I have made
• In the very brief space at our disposal
• In these extraordinary circumstances
• In these sentiments I agree
• In this brief survey
• In this connection, I may be permitted to refer
• In this connection I remind myself
• In this necessarily brief and imperfect review
• In this rapid and slight enumeration
• In this respect
• In this sense only
• In this there is no contradiction
• In very many instances
• In very truth
• In view of these reflections
• In what has now been said
• In what I have now further to say
• In widening our view
• Indeed, can anyone tell me
• Indeed, I am not convinced
• Indeed, I can not do better
• Indeed, I have heard it whispered
• Indeed, I may fairly say
• Indeed, it will generally be found
• Indeed we know
• Instances abound
• Is it logically consistent
• Is it not legitimate to recognize
• Is it not marvelous
• Is it not obvious
• Is it not quite possible
• Is it not, then, preposterous
• Is it not universally recognized
• Is it not wise to argue
• Is it possible, can it be believed
• Is it, then, any wonder
• Is not that the common sentiment
• Is there any evidence here
• Is there any language of reproach
• Is there any possibility of mistaking
• Is there any reason in the world
• It affords me gratification
• It also pleases me very much
• It amounts to this
• It appears from what has been said
• It appears to me, on the contrary
• It can rightly be said
• It certainly follows, then
• It comes to this
• It could not be otherwise
• It does not necessarily follow
• It exhibits a state of mind
• It follows as a matter of course
• It follows inevitably
• It gives us an exalted conception
• It grieves me to relate
• It hardly fits the character
• It has at all times been a just reproach
• It has been a very great pleasure for me
• It has been generally assumed
• It has been justly objected
• It has been my privilege
• It has been suggested fancifully
• It has been well said
• It has ever been my ambition
• It has struck me very forcibly
• It is a circumstance of happy augury
  • [augury = sign of something coming; omen]
• It is a common error
• It is a curious trait
• It is a fact well known
• It is a falsehood to say
• It is a familiar charge against
• It is a good augury of success
  • [augury = sign of something coming; omen]
• It is a great pleasure to me
• It is a living truth
• It is a matter of absorbing interest
• It is a matter of amusement
• It is a matter of fact
• It is a matter of just pride
• It is a melancholy story
• It is a memory I cherish
• It is a mischievous notion
• It is a mistake to suppose
• It is a most extraordinary thing
• It is a most pertinent question
• It is a noble thing
• It is a peculiar pleasure to me
• It is a perversion of terms
• It is a pleasing peculiarity
• It is a popular idea
• It is a rare privilege
• It is a recognized principle
• It is a remarkable and striking fact
• It is a strange fact
• It is a sure sign
• It is a theme too familiar
• It is a thing commonly said
• It is a touching reflection
• It is a true saying
• It is a very significant fact
• It is a vision which still inspires us
• It is a wholesome symptom
• It is, all things considered, a fact
• It is all very fine to think
• It is all very well to say
• It is almost proverbial
• It is also possible
• It is also probably true
• It is always pleasant to respond
• It is amazing how little
• It is an easy matter
• It is an egregious mistake
  • [egregious = conspicuously and outrageously reprehensible]
• It is an established rule
• It is an incredible thing
• It is an interesting fact
• It is an unforgivable offense
• It is an unquestionable truth
• It is appropriate that we should celebrate
• It is asserted
• It is assumed as an axiom
• It is at once inconsistent
• It is but fair to say
• It is but too true
• It is by no means my design
• It is certainly especially pleasant
• It is certainly remarkable
• It is common in these days to lament
• It is commonly assumed
• It is comparatively easy
• It is curious sophistry
• It is curious to observe
• It is desirable for us
• It is difficult for me to respond fitly
• It is difficult to avoid saying
• It is difficult to describe
• It is difficult to overstate
• It is difficult to put a limit
• It is difficult to surmise
• It is doubtful whether
• It is easy enough to add
• It is easy to instance cases
• It is easy to understand
• It is eminently proper
• It is every man's duty to think
• It is evident that the answer to this
• It is evidently supposed by many people
• It is exceedingly gratifying to hear
• It is exceedingly unfortunate
• It is fair that you should hear
• It is fair to suppose
• It is far from me to desire
• It is fatal to suppose
• It is fitting
• It is for me to relate
• It is for others to illustrate
• It is for this reason
• It is for us to ask
• It is greatly assumed
• It is gratifying to have the honor
• It is hardly for me
• It is hardly necessary to pass judgment
• It is idle to think of
• It is immaterial whether
• It is impossible to avoid saying
• It is in every way appropriate
• It is in the highest degree worthy
• It is in this characteristic
• It is in vain
• It is in your power to give
• It is indeed a strange doctrine
• It is indeed not a little remarkable
• It is indeed true
• It is indeed very clear
• It is indispensable to have
• It is interesting and suggestive
• It is interesting to know
• It is just so far true
• It is likewise necessary
• It is made evident
• It is manifest
• It is manifestly absurd to say
• It is merely common sense to say
• It is more than probable
• It is my agreeable duty
• It is my belief
• It is my earnest wish
• It is my grateful duty to address you
• It is my hope
• It is my present purpose
• It is natural to ask the question
• It is necessary to refer
• It is necessary to take some notice
• It is needful to a complete understanding
• It is needless before this audience to repeat
• It is no doubt true
• It is no exaggeration to say
• It is no part of my business
• It is no significant thing
• It is no small indication
• It is no wonder
• It is not a practical question
• It is not altogether satisfactory
• It is not an unknown occurrence
• It is not by any means
• It is not difficult to comprehend
• It is not difficult to discern
• It is not easy for me to find words
• It is not enough to say
• It is not entirely clear to me
• It is not evident
• It is not for me on this occasion
• It is not given to many men
• It is not likely that any of you
• It is not logical to say
• It is not my intention to enter into
• It is not my purpose to discuss
• It is not necessarily true
• It is not necessary for me even to sketch
• It is not necessary for our purpose
• It is not often in these modern days
• It is not ours to pronounce
• It is not out of place to remind you
• It is not possible to recount
• It is not quite clear
• It is not to me so very surprising
• It is not too much to say
• It is not unknown to you
• It is not within the scope of this address
• It is now high time for me
• It is now perfectly plain
• It is observable enough
• It is obvious
• It is of course difficult
• It is of great importance to show
• It is of no moment
• It is of very little importance
• It is often remarked
• It is on these grounds
• It is one of the burning questions of the day
• It is one of the most natural visions
• It is one of the most significant things
• It is one of the queerest freaks of fate
• It is only a few short years since
• It is only just to say
• It is our duty to examine
• It is ours to bear witness
• It is owing to this truth
• It is peculiarly befitting at this time
• It is perfectly apparent
• It is pitiable to reflect
• It is pleasant to meet this brilliant company
• It is rather a pleasant coincidence
• It is rather an arduous task
• It is related
• It is ridiculous to say
• It is said, and I think said truly
• It is said to be impossible
• It is satisfactory to notice
• It is scarcely necessary to insist
• It is scarcely questioned
• It is self-evident
• It is sometimes hard to determine
• It is still an open question
• It is still more surprising
• It is substantially true
• It is surely necessary for me
• It is the clear duty of
• It is the doctrine of
• It is the fashion to extol
• It is the universal testimony
• It is therefore evident
• It is therefore necessary
• It is this which lies at the foundation
• It is to be expected
• It is to be remembered
• It is to me a very sincere satisfaction
• It is told traditionally
• It is too plain to be argued
• It is true
• It is unnecessary for me to remind you
• It is upon this line of reasoning
• It is very common to confuse
• It is very doubtful whether
• It is very interesting and pleasant
• It is well known
• It is with great pleasure
• It is with pity unspeakable
• It is within the memory of men now living
• It is worth while to notice
• It may appear absurd
• It may at first sight seem strange
• It may be added
• It may be conjectured
• It may be imagined
• It may be plausibly objected
• It may be rightly said
• It may be useful to trace
• It may be worth your while to keep in view
• It may indeed be unavoidable
• It may not be altogether certain
• It may not be uninteresting to any of you
• It may or may not be true
• It may, perhaps, seem wonderful
• It may seem a little strange
• It may still more probably be said
• It must be a cause of delight
• It must be borne in mind
• It must be the verdict of history
• It must create astonishment
• It must doubtless be admitted
• It must ever be recollected
• It must never be forgotten
• It must not be supposed
• It must seem to every thoughtful man
• It needs scarcely be said
• It now becomes my pride and privilege
• It only remains now to speak
• It ought to animate us
• It proves a great deal
• It remains only to speak briefly
• It remains that I inform you of
• It remains that I should say a few words
• It reminds me of an anecdote
• It reminds one of the compliment
• It requires no effort of imagination
• It scarcely seems to be in keeping
• It seems almost desperate to think of
• It seems almost incredible
• It seems now to be generally admitted
• It seems strange to be told
• It seems then that on the whole
• It seems to me a striking circumstance
• It seems to me idle to ask
• It seems to me singularly appropriate
• It seems to me the primary foundation
• It seems to me unphilosophical
• It should always be borne in mind
• It should be remembered
• It so happens
• It sometimes seems to me
• It still remains to be observed
• It strikes me with wonder
• It suggests at the outset
• It summons our imagination
• It surely is not too much to expect
• It therefore astonishes me
• It used to be a reproach
• It was a brilliant answer
• It was a fine and delicate rebuke
• It was a fit and beautiful circumstance
• It was a propitious circumstance
  • [propitious = auspicious, favorable]
• It was certainly a gracious act
• It was in the full understanding
• It was my good fortune
• It was not to be expected
• It was said by one who ought to know
• It was, therefore, inevitable
• It was under these circumstances
• It will appeal to
• It will appear from what has been said
• It will be asked me how
• It will be easy to say too much
• It will be easy to trace the influence
• It will be evident to you
• It will be idle to imply
• It will be interesting to trace
• It will be just as reasonable to say
• It will be rather to our advantage
• It will be recollected
• It will be seen at a glance
• It will be well and wise
• It will carry out my meaning more fully
• It will, I suppose, be denied
• It will not be expected from me
• It will not be safe
• It will not do for a man to say
• It will not, I trust, be concluded
• It will not surely be objected
• It will not take many words to sum up
• It will thus be seen
• It would be a misfortune
• It would be a proud distinction
• It would be a very remarkable fact
• It would be absurd to pretend
• It would be an inexcusable omission
• It would be idle for me
• It would be imprudent in me
• It would be invidious for me
  • [invidious = rousing ill will, animosity]
• It would be natural on such an occasion
• It would be no less impracticable
• It would be out of place here
• It would be preposterous to say
• It would be presumptuous in me
• It would be the height of absurdity
• It would be unfair to praise
• It would be unjust to deny
• It would be well for us to reflect
• It would indeed be unworthy
• It would seem perhaps most fitting

J

• Just the reverse is true

L

• Language is inadequate to voice my appreciation
• Lastly, I do not understand
• Lastly, it can not 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
  • [impute = relate to a particular cause or source]
• 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 temperately 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

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 justly be 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 only so
• Not that I quarrel with
• Nothing but the deepest sense
• Nothing can be further from the truth
• Nothing could be clearer
• 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 unquestioned
• Now, let me speak with the greatest care
• Now, let me stop 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

O

• Observe again
• Occasionally you ought to read
• Of course I am aware
• Of course I am putting an impossible case
• Of course I can not 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 can not 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 nearer home
• Or to take but one other example
• Ordinarily speaking, such deductions
• Others may hold other opinions
• Ought we not to think
• Our thoughts wander 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 aright
• 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
• Shall I tell you
• Shall we complain
• Should there be 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
• Some one 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 can not 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
• Strange as it may seem
• 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

T

• 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 that 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 broad principle which I would lay down
• The circumstances under which we meet
• The climax of my purpose in this address
• The common consent of civilized mankind
• The conclusion is irresistible
• The confusing assertion is sometimes made
• 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 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 scene 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
• 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 most 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 eternal 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
• Therein lies your responsibility
• These alone would not be sufficient
• These are enough to refute the opinion
• These are general counsels
• These are generalizations
• These are my reasons for
• These are points for consideration
• These considerations have great weight with me
• These exceptions do not hold in the case of
• These ideas naturally present themselves
• These instances are far from 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
• This absurdity arises
• This appeal to the common sense
• This argument is especially cogent
  • [cogent = powerfully persuasive]
• 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 prove
• This fact was soon made manifest
• This from the nature of the case
• This I conceive 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 the truth
• This is especially the case
• This is essentially an age of
• This is in the main just
• This is like saying
• This is not all
• This is not the main point of objection
• This is not the occasion or the place
• This is obvious
• This is on the whole reasonable
• This is only another illustration of
• This is owing in great measure to
• 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 can not deny
• Those who have watched the tendencies
• Thus a great deal may be done
• Thus analogy suggests
• Thus far, I willingly admit
• Thus I am led on 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 nearer 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 persons
• To these general considerations
• To this I answer
• To this it will be replied
• To what other cause can you ascribe
• To-day, 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

U

• 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

V

• Very strange is this indeed

W

• We all 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 to-day
• 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 to-night
• 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 sincere belief
• We can but pause to contemplate
• We can imagine the amazement of
• We can not but be struck with
• We can not escape the truth
• We can not have this too deeply fixed
• We can not too highly honor the temper of
• We can not 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 to-night
• We have great reason to be thankful
• We have heard lately
• We have here 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 to-night
• 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
• Weighty 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
• 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 was 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 difference 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 contrast
• 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 my saying a word more

Y

• 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 worth while
• 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 honor
• You can never forget
• You can not assert
• You do not need to be told
• You have all read the story
• You have been gracious enough to assign to me
• You have been mindful
• You have been pleased to confer upon me
• You have but to observe
• You have done me great honor
• 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

Significant

A

• abashed and ashamed
• abhorrence and repulsion
• abilities and attainments
• abject and hopeless
• ably and vigorously
• abrupt and perilous
• absolute and eternal
• absorbed and occupied
• abstinence and self-denial
• abstract and metaphysical
• absurd and impertinent
• abundant and sustained
• abuse and slander
• accentual and rhythmic
• accidental and temporary
• accomplished and popular
• accurate and illuminating
• achievement and character
• acquisition and possession
• active and aggressive
• actual and immediate
• acute and painful
• admirable and accomplished
• adorned and amplified
• adroitness and judgment
• adventurous and prodigal
• advice and assistance
• affable and courteous
• affectation and coquetry
• affectionate and warm-hearted
• affluent and exuberant
• affright and abhorrence
• agencies and influences
• ages and generations
• aggrandizement and plunder
• agreeable and ingenuous
• aggressive and sullen
• aghast and incredulous
• agility and briskness
• agitate and control
• agony and despair
• aids and auxiliaries
• aim and purpose
• airy and frivolous
• alarm and uneasiness
• alert and unsparing
• all and sundry
• allegiance and fidelity
• alone and undistracted
• alterations and additions
• amazement and admiration
• ambiguity and disagreement
• ambition and determination
• amiable and unpretending
• ample and admirable
• amusing and clever
• analytical and critical
• anarchy and chaos
• ancient and venerable
• anecdote and reminiscence
• anger and fury
• anguish and hopelessness
• animated and effective
• anomalies and absurdities
• antagonism and opposition
• antipathies and distastes
• antiquated and obsolete
• anxiety and trepidation
• apathy and torpor
• apologetic and uneasy
• appalling and devastating
• apparent and palpable
• appearance and surroundings
• apprehensive and anxious
• appropriate and eloquent
• approve and admire
• apt and novel
• archness and vivacity
  • [archness = inappropriate playfulness]
• ardent and aspiring
• argument and inference
• arid and unprofitable
• arrangement and combination
• arrogant and overbearing
• artificial and elaborate
• artistic and literary
• artlessness and urbanity
• ashamed and speechless
• aspects and phases
• aspiring and triumphal
• assiduity and success
• assimilated and combined
• assuaged and pacified
• astonished and curious
• astound and perplex
• athletic and nimble
• atonement and forgiveness
• atrocious and abominable
• attacks and intrigues
• attention and respect
• attitudes and expressions
• attractiveness and ability
• audacity and skill
• august and splendid
• austere and icy
• available and capable
• avarice and cruelty
• avidity and earnestness
  • [avidity = desire; craving]
• awake and active
• awe and reverence
• awkwardness and crudity

B

• babel and confusion
• backbone and sinew
• baffled and disappointed
• balanced and forceful
• barbarity and wickedness
• bards and sages
• base and unworthy
• beam and blaze
• bearing and address
• beautiful and majestic
• bedraggled and disappointed
• befogged and stupefied
• beliefs and practises
• bellowing and shouting
• benevolence and candor
• benign and hopeful
• bent and disposition
• benumbed and powerless
• bewildered and stupefied
• bigots and blockheads
• billing and cooing
• birth and breeding
• bite and sting
• bits and scraps
• bitter and disdainful
• black and solitary
• bland and ingenious
• blasphemous and profane
• bleak and unrelenting
• blend and harmonize
• blessing and benediction
• blind and unreasoning
• blundering and plundering
• blurred and confused
• bluster and vulgarity
• boast and assertion
• bold and haughty
• bombast and egotism
• bone and sinew
• boundless and unlimited
• bourgeois and snobbish
• brag and chatter
• bravado and cowardice
• brave and chivalrous
• breathless and reverential
• brevity and condensation
• bribery and corruption
• brief and pithy
• bright and vivacious
• brilliancy and grace
• brisk and enlivening
• broad and deep
• brooding and solemn
• brutal and degrading
• bulks and masses
• bungling and trifling
• businesslike and practicable
• bustle and business

C

• cajoled and bullied
• calamity and sorrow
• callous and impervious
• calmness and composure
• calumny and exaggeration
  • [calumny = maliciously lying to injure a reputation]
• candor and kindness
• cant and hypocrisy
  • [cant = hypocritically pious language]
• capable and efficient
• capacity and ability
• capricious and unreasonable
• career and occupation
• cares and anxieties
• carping and ungenerous
• casual and transient
• causes and circumstances
• cautious and reticent
• celebrated and praised
• celerity and violence
  • [celerity = swiftness of action]
• ceremony and splendor
• certain and verifiable
• chafe and exasperate
• chagrin and despondency
• chance and opportunity
• change and variety
• chaos and confusion
• character and temperament
• characteristic and complete
• charges and insinuations
• charm and perfection
• chaste and refined
• cheap and convenient
• checked and thwarted
• cheerfulness and gaiety
• cherish and guard
• chief and paramount
• chilled and stiffened
• choleric and sanguine
  • [choleric = easily angered; bad-tempered] [sanguine = cheerfully confident; optimistic]
• churlishness and violence
  • [churlish = boorish or vulgar]
• citation and allusion
• civility and communicativeness
• civilized and cultured
• clamorous and wild
• claptrap and platitude
• clarity and straightforwardness
• classical and perspicuous
  • [perspicuous = easy to understand]
• clatter and clang
• clear and decisive
• cleverness and acuteness
• clogged and dulled
• clumsy and smudgy
• coarse and grotesque
• coaxed and threatened
• coexistent and correlative
• cogent and conclusive
• cohesion and sequence
• cold and unemotional
• comely and vivacious
• comfort and security
• command and threaten
• common and familiar
• commotion and annoyance
• compact and complete
• comparison and discrimination
• compass and power
• competent and experienced
• complaints and imprecations
  • [imprecation = a curse]
• complaisance and readiness
• complete and permanent
• complex and various
• composure and gracefulness
• comprehensive and accurate
• compression and pregnancy
• conceal and deny
• conceit and impertinence
• conceived and consummated
• concentrated and intensified
• conception and treatment
• concern and wonder
• concise and emphatic
• concrete and definite
• condemned and upbraided
• conditions and limitations
• confession and doubt
• confidence and loyalty
• confusion and dismay
• congratulations and welcomings
• connection and interdependence
• conquered and transformed
• conquest and acquisition
• consciously and purposely
• consistent and harmonious
• conspicuous and impressive
• conspired and contrived
• constant and intimate
• constructive and vital
• contemn and decry
  • [contemn = despise]
• contempt and indignation
• contentment and serenity
• continuous and undeviating
• contorted and fantastic
• contradictions and inconsistencies
• contrast and comparison
• contrivance and disguise
• conventional and limited
• cool and indifferent
• copiousness and vivacity
• cordial and cheerful
• corruption and decay
• costly and gorgeous
• counselor and guide
• countless and indescribable
• courage and endurance
• courted and feted
• courteous and sympathetic
• coveted and deserved
• coy and furtive
• cramped and distorted
• creative and inventive
• credulity and ignorance
• creeds and dogmas
• crime and misdemeanor
• crippled and maimed
• crises and struggles
• crisp and sparkling
• critical and skeptical
• crowded and jostled
• crowned and sceptered
• crude and primitive
• cruel and rapacious
• crumbling and shapeless
• crushed and bewildered
• cultured and refined
• cumbrous and diffuse
  • [cumbrous = cumbersome]
• cunning and cruelty
• curious and inexpressible
• curved and channeled
• customs and manners
• cynical and contemptuous

D

• dangers and pitfalls
• daring and resolute
• dark and starless
• dart and quiver
• dashing and careless
• dates and details
• dazzled and confounded
• debased and demoralized
• debilitating and futile
• decencies and restraints
• deception and cruelty
• decided and definite
• declamation and delivery
• decline and decay
• deductions and inferences
• deep and subtle
• deface and injure
• defame and tarnish
• deference and concession
• defiant and antagonistic
• deficient and unskilled
• definite and memorable
• deft and offensive
• degraded and dishonored
• deliberate and effective
• delicate and lambent
  • [lambent = effortlessly brilliant]
• delight and consolation
• delusion and trickery
• demands and expectations
• demeanor and conduct
• demoralizing and enfeebling
• denial and defense
• dense and luminous
• denunciations and censures
• deplorable and baneful
• depravity and frivolity
• depressing and discouraging
• depth and richness
• derision and skepticism
• described and classified
• desecration and decay
• designs and activities
• desires and motives
• desolation and wretchedness
• despatch and resolution
• desperation and defiance
• despise and satirize
• despoiled and destroyed
• despondency and melancholy
• despotism and coercion
• destitution and misery
• desultory and slipshod
  • [desultory = haphazardly; random]
• detached and isolated
• determined and courageous
• detestable and intolerable
• development and culture
• devoted and unwavering
• dictatorial and insolent
• diction and pronunciation
• differences and disputes
• difficult and arduous
• diffidence and constraint
• diffuseness and warmth
• dignified and austere
• digressive and wanton
• dilatory and hesitating
  • [dilatory = postpone or delay]
• diligent and sedulous
  • [sedulous = persevering ]
• dim and distant
• din and traffic
• directed and controlled
• disagreeable and painful
• disappointed and abashed
• disapprobation and condemnation
  • [approbation = warm approval; praise]
• disapproval and apprehension
• discipline and development
• discomfiture and degradation
• disconcerted and dismayed
• discontent and disquiet
• discords and differences
• discouraging and distressing
• discovery and invention
• discretion and moderation
• disdain and mockery
• disfigured and shapeless
• disgrace and ruin
• disgust and dismay
• dishonor and ruin
• disillusioned and ironical
• disintegration and decay
• disinterested and gracious
• disjointed and voluble
  • [voluble = fluent]
• dislike and disdain
• dislocation and chaos
• dismay and apprehension
• dispirit and discourage
• disposition and power
• disquietude and uneasiness
• dissolute and hateful
• dissolve and disappear
• distant and diverse
• distended and distorted
• distinctive and appropriate
• distinguishing and differentiating
• distress and humiliation
• distrust and aversion
• disturbed and anxious
• diverging and contracting
• docile and obedient
• dogma and ritual
• dominant and permanent
• dormant and subdued
• doubt and trepidation
• dramatic and sensational
• drastic and revolutionary
• dread and terror
• dreams and ambitions
• dreariness and desolation
• dregs and sediments
• drill and discipline
• driveling and childish
• drollery and ridicule
• drooping and disconsolate
• dubious and dangerous
• dull and spiritless
• dumb and nerveless
• dupe and victim
• duplicity and equivocation
• dust and oblivion
• duties and difficulties
• dwarfed and obscured
• dwindle and disappear

E

• eagerness and ecstasy
• earnestness and animation
• ease and lightness
• ebb and flow
• eclectic and assimilated
• edifying and enchanting
• education and skill
• effective and competent
• efficiency and success
• egotism and bigotry
• elaboration and display
• elation and delight
• elegance and gentility
• elementary and simple
• elevate and ennoble
• eligibility and suitableness
• elongated and narrow
• eloquent and expressive
• elusive and exquisite
• embarrassed and concerned
• embittered and despairing
• embodiment and actualization
• emerged and flowered
• eminent and remarkable
• emoluments and honors
  • [emoluments = compensation]
• emotion and passion
• emphasize and magnify
• employment and profession
• encouragement and stimulus
• energy and activity
• enfeebled and exhausted
• enfold and enwrap
• engulfed and buried
• enjoyment and satisfaction
• enlightenment and progress
• enraptured and amazed
• enriched and ennobled
• enslave and dominate
• enterprising and intelligent
• entertaining and diverting
• enthusiasm and zeal
• enticing and alluring
• entire and complete
• environment and training
• envy and despair
• ephemeral and feeble
  • [ephemeral = markedly short-lived]
• episodes and interludes
• epithet and description
• equality and solidarity
• equity and justice
• erratic and confused
• errors and infirmities
• essential and predominating
• estimable and agreeable
• eternal and sublime
• ethical and religious
• ever and anon
• evident and manifest
• exactitude and completeness
• exaggerate and distort
• exaltation and enthusiasm
• examination and comparison
• examples and models
• exasperations and paroxysms
  • [paroxysms = outbursts of emotion or action]
• excellent and worthy
• exceptional and remarkable
• excessive and unreasonable
• excitable and irritable
• exclusive and limited
• excusable and justifiable
• execration and defiance
  • [execration = curse]
• exertion and excitement
• exhaustion and fatigue
• exhibition and display
• exhilarating and beneficial
• exigency and requirement
  • [exigency = urgent situation]
• expansive and digressive
• expediency and utility
• expensive and unprofitable
• experience and skill
• experiment and explorations
• expert and vigorous
• explanation and elucidation
• explore and examine
• expressions and exclamations
• expressive and effective
• exquisite and powerful
• extent and importance
• extraordinary and unexpected
• extravagant and grotesque
• extreme and morbid
• exuberant and infectious

F

• fabulous and fabricated
• facile and brilliant
• facts and traditions
• faculties and powers
• faded and withered
• failures and misadventures
• faint and obscure
• fair and impartial
• faith and reverence
• fallacy and danger
• false and fugitive
• fame and fortune
• familiar and gracious
• famous and foremost
• fancies and sentiments
• fanciful and chimerical
  • [chimerical = highly improbable]
• fantastic and meretricious
  • [meretricious = plausible but false]
• fascination and awe
• fashion and frivolity
• fastidious and exacting
• fatigued and careworn
• faults and delusions
• favors and kindnesses
• fear and bewilderment
• feasible and practical
• feebleness and folly
• feeling and passion
• felicitous and exquisite
• ferocious and mercenary
• fertility and vigor
• fervor and simplicity
• feverishly and furiously
• fickle and uncertain
• fidelity and zeal
• fierce and menacing
• fiery and controversial
• final and irreversible
• finish and completeness
• firm and decisive
• first and foremost
• fitful and capricious
• fitting and appropriate
• fixity and finality
• flaming and mendacious
  • [mendacious = lying; untruthful]
• flare and flicker
• flatness and insipidity
• flattery and toadyism
• flexible and spontaneous
• flickering and ambiguous
• flighty and impetuous
• flippant and contemptuous
• florid and healthy
  • [florid = ornate; flowery]
• flotsam and jetsam
• flow and fullness
• flowery and figurative
• fluctuating and transitory
• fluency and flippancy
• fluttering and restless
• focus and concentrate
• fogs and complications
• foibles and follies
• foiled and defeated
• folly and indecorum
• fools and underlings
• force and effectiveness
• formal and cold
• formidable and profound
• formlessness and exaggeration
• fortitude and perseverance
• foul and ominous
• fragile and pale
• fragments and morsels
• fragrance and beauty
• frailties and absurdities
• frank and genial
• free and independent
• frequent and poignant
• freshness and fragrance
• fretful and timorous
• friend and benefactor
• frigid and pompous
• frivolous and empty
• froth and effervescence
• frustrated and confounded
• fuddled and contradictory
• full and sonorous
• fumbling and blundering
• fuming and bustling
• fun and satire
• function and aim
• fundamental and necessary
• furrowed and ragged
• furtive and illusive
• fury and madness
• fussing and fuming
• futile and untrustworthy

G

• gaiety and grace
• gallant and proud
• galling and humiliating
• gaunt and ghastly
• gay and genial
• general and universal
• generosity and prodigality
• generous and humane
• genial and refreshing
• genius and reputation
• gentle and amiable
• genuine and infectious
• germ and root
• gesticulation and emphasis
  • [gesticulation = deliberate, vigorous motion or gesture]
• ghastly and inconceivable
• gifts and graces
• gigantic and portentous
• glamour and fascination
• glare and pretension
• glib and loquacious
  • [loquacious = very talkative]
• glitter and glamour
• gloomy and morose
• glorious and gorgeous
• glowing and exaggerated
• glum and grim
• goodness and rectitude
• goodwill and merriment
• gorgeousness and splendor
• gossiping and grumbling
• govern and overrule
• grace and dignity
• gracious and generous
• gradual and progressive
• graft and dishonesty
• grand and sublime
• grandeur and massiveness
• grandiose and oracular
  • [oracular = solemnly prophetic; obscure]
• graphic and gorgeous
• gratification and enjoyment
• gratitude and generosity
• gratuitous and ungracious
• grave and stately
• graveyards and solitudes
• greatness and stability
• greed and covetousness
• grief and remorse
• grim and sullen
• grimaces and gesticulations
• grope and fumble
• grossness and brutality
• grotesque and monstrous
• grouped and combined
• growth and development
• guesses and fancies
• guidance and inspiration
• gush and hysteria
• gusto and effect

H

• habits and humors
• habitual and intuitive
• hackneyed and tawdry
• haggard and pale
• handsome and amiable
• haphazard and dangerous
• happiness and pleasantness
• harass and pursue
• hard and unsparing
• hardships and indignities
• harmony and beauty
• harsh and austere
• hasty and unwarranted
• hateful and loathsome
• haughtiness and arrogance
• hauteur and disdain
  • [hauteur = arrogance]
• hazard and peril
• hazy and indefinite
• headstrong and foolish
• healthy and vigorous
• hearth and shrine
• heartless and hypocritical
• heat and impatience
• heaviness and weariness
• hecklings and interruptions
• hectic and pitiful
• heretics and schismatics
• heritage and privilege
• heroism and wisdom
• hesitation and irresolution
• hideous and grotesque
• high and conscientious
• hilarity and mirth
• hints and suggestions
• history and tradition
• hither and thither
• hoarse and rumbling
• hobbies and eccentricities
• hollowness and unreality
• holy and prayerful
• homeliness and simplicity
• honestly and confessedly
• honors and emoluments
  • [emoluments = compensation]
• hooted and mobbed
• hopes and prospects
• horror and ghastliness
• hospitality and magnificence
• hubbub and confusion
• huge and unwieldy
• humane and sympathetic
• humility and devoutness
• humors and singularities
• hurry and bustle
• hushed and still
• husks and phantoms
• hypocrisy and impudence

I

• ideas and achievements
• idle and presumptuous
• ignoble and shabby
• ignominy and misfortune
• ignorance and superstition
• illiterate and unfit
• ill-tempered and unjust
• illuminative and suggestive
• illustrative and typical
• images and impressions
• imagination and memory
• imbitter and exasperate
• imitators and disciples
• immature and unpromising
• immediate and instantaneous
• immensity and intricacy
• imminent and terrible
• immovable and unchangeable
• impalpable and spiritual
• impassioned and energetic
• impatient and restless
• imperfection and fallibility
• imperil and destroy
• imperious and ruthless
  • [imperious = arrogantly domineering]
• impertinent and personal
• impinging and inexorable
• implacable and destructive
• important and formidable
• imposed and enforced
• impossibilities and absurdities
• impressible and plastic
• improvement and progress
• imprudent and thoughtless
• impulse and indignation
• inaccessible and audacious
• inactive and supine
• inadequate and misleading
• inapplicable and alien
• inarticulate and confused
• inborn and native
• incensed and alarmed
• inchoate and tentative
  • [inchoate = imperfectly formed]
• incoherent and inconclusive
• incompetence and ignorance
• incomplete and erroneous
• incongruity and absurdity
• inconvenient and troublesome
• incorrigible and irrepressible
• incredulous and mortified
• indefatigable and irresistible
• indefinite and vague
• independent and democratic
• indifference and brevity
• indigence and obscurity
• indignation and chagrin
• indirectly and unconsciously
• indispensable and irreplaceable
• indistinct and misty
• indolence and indifference
• indomitable and dogged
• indorsed and applauded
• indulge and cherish
• industrious and vigilant
• ineffective and bungling
• inert and uncertain
• inevitable and assured
• inexhaustible and indomitable
• inexperienced and timid
• infallible and disdainful
• inference and suggestion
• infinite and eternal
• inflexible and unchanging
• influence and authority
• informed and competent
• ingenious and eloquent
• ingratitude and cruelty
• inharmonious and irregular
• injustice and inhumanity
• innocence and fidelity
• innuendo and suggestion
• inopportune and futile
• insanely and blindly
• inscrutable and perplexing
• insecurity and precariousness
• insensibly and graciously
• insignificant and transitory
• insincere and worthless
• insipid and silly
• insistent and incongruous
• insolence and absurdity
• inspiring and animating
• instant and momentous
• instinctive and rational
• insulted and thwarted
• intangible and indefinable
• integral and indestructible
• integrity and honor
• intelligence and insight
• intense and overpowering
• intentness and interest
• interesting and engrossing
• intimate and familiar
• intolerant and bumptious
  • [bumptious = loudly assertive; pushy]
• intractable and untameable
• intricate and endless
• intrusive and unmannerly
• intuitive and axiomatic
• invasion and aggression
• invective and innuendo
  • [invective = abusive language]
• investigation and research
• invidious and painful
  • [invidious = rousing ill will, animosity]
• inviolate and unscathed
• invisible and silent
• involuntary and automatic
• irksome and distasteful
• irrational and excessive
• irregular and intermittent
• irreligious and immoral
• irremediable and eternal
• irrepressible and insistent
• irreverence and ingratitude
• irritable and churlish
  • [churlish = boorish or vulgar]
• isolated and detached

J

• jabber and chatter
• jagged and multifarious
• jargon and absurdity
• jaundiced and jealous
• jeer and scoff
• jeopardy and instability
• jests and sarcasms
• jocular and vivacious
• jostle and stumble
• joy and felicity
• jubilant and boastful
• judgment and discretion
• judicious and acute
• juggled and manipulated
• jumble and confuse
• juncture and circumstance
• jurisdiction and authority
• justice and virtue
• juvenile and budding

K

• keen and pertinacious
  • [pertinacious = stubbornly persistent]
• kind and forbearing
• kindle and intensify
• kindred and analogous
• kingly and autocratic
• knavish and tyrannical
• knowledge and conviction
• known and recognized

L

• labor and drudgery
• lame and impotent
• lamentable and depressing
• languid and indifferent
• large and opulent
• lassitude and languor
  • [languor = dreamy, lazy mood]
• latent and lifeless
• latitude and scope
• laudable and deserving
• laughable and grotesque
• lavish and wasteful
• lawlessness and violence
• laxity and forbearance
• laziness and profligacy
• leafage and fruitage
• learning and austerity
• legends and traditions
• legitimate and logical
• leisure and tranquillity
• lengthy and diffuse
• lenient and sympathetic
• lethargy and sloth
• levity and gaiety
• liberal and ample
• liberty and freedom
• license and laxity
• likely and plausible
• limited and abbreviated
• listless and inert
• literal and exact
• literary and artistic
• lithe and sinewy
• lively and poignant
• loathsome and abject
• lofty and sonorous
  • [sonorous = producing a full, rich sound; impressive speech]
• logical and consistent
• loquacity and exuberance
  • [loquacity = very talkative.]
• loss and deterioration
• loud and passionate
• loving and reverential
• low and groveling
• loyal and devoted
• lucidity and vividness
• lucky and propitious
  • [propitious = auspicious, favorable; kindly]
• lucrative and advantageous
• ludicrous and detestable
• lugubrious and unfortunate
  • [lugubrious = dismal, gloomy]
• lukewarm and indifferent
• lull and silence
• luminous and keen
• lure and captivate
• lurid and fiery
• luscious and lasting
• luster and resplendence
• lusty and big-sounding
• luxury and pomp

M

• madness and folly
• magical and secret
• magnificent and luxurious
• majestic and imposing
• malice and revenge
• malignity and spitefulness
• manifold and complex
• manly and powerful
• manner and conduct
• marvels and mysteries
• massive and compact
• masterly and convincing
• materialistic and sordid
• maternal and filial
• maudlin and grotesque
  • [maudlin = tearfully sentimental]
• maxims and morals
• meager and bare
• mean and debasing
• meaning and significance
• means and materials
• mechanical and monotonous
• meddling and muddling
• meditative and sympathetic
• meek and manageable
• melody and softness
• memorable and glorious
• menace and superciliousness
  • [superciliousness = haughty disdain]
• merciful and chivalrous
• merciless and unpitying
• merit and virtue
• mighty and majestic
• mild and virtuous
• mince and temporize
• minds and memories
• minuteness and fidelity
• mirth and joviality
• misdemeanors and improprieties
• misery and degradation
• misrepresented and reviled
• misty and indefinite
• mobile and expressive
• mockery and imposture
• moderate and cautious
• modes and methods
• modest and retiring
• molding and upbuilding
• momentary and languid
  • [languid = lacking energy; weak]
• momentous and appalling
• monopoly and injustice
• monotony and indecorum
• monstrous and insupportable
• moody and brooding
• moral and religious
• morbid and irritable
• motionless and commanding
• motives and aims
• mud and mire
• muddled and incoherent
• murmurs and reproaches
• muscularity and morality
• mutable and fleeting
• mute and insensate
• mutilated and disfigured
• muttering and murmuring
• mutual and friendly
• mysterious and incomprehensible
• mystic and wonderful

N

• nagging and squabbling
• nameless and obscure
• narrow and timorous
• natural and spontaneous
• nauseous and disgusting
• neatness and propriety
• necessarily and essentially
• needs and demands
• nefarious and malevolent
• negations and contradictions
• neglect and evade
• negotiate and bargain
• nerve and fiber
• neutral and colorless
• nicety and precision
• nimble and airy
• noble and powerful
• nodding and blinking
• noisy and scurrilous
  • [scurrilous = vulgar, coarse, abusive language]
• nonsense and absurdity
• nooks and corners
• notable and conspicuous
• noted and distinguished
• noteworthy and intelligible
• notoriety and prominence
• nourish and foster
• novelty and freshness
• novice and ignoramus
• nucleus and beginning
• nugatory and ineffectual
  • [nugatory = no importance; trifling]
• nullify and destroy
• number and variety
• numerous and important

O

• oaths and revilings
• obdurate and impenitent
  • [obdurate = hardened in wrongdoing ] [impenitent = without remorse for sins]
• obedient and dutious
• obeisance and submission
• objectionable and inexpedient
• obligation and dependence
• obliquity and hypocrisy
• oblivious and insensible
• obloquy and detraction
  • [obloquy = abusive language]
• obnoxious and odious
• obscure and enigmatical
• obsequies and panegyrics
  • [obsequies = funeral rite] [panegyrics = elaborate praise]
• obsequious and conciliating
  • [obsequious = servile compliance; fawning]
• observations and reflections
• obstacles and disasters
• obstinate and stupid
• obstreperous and noisy
  • [obstreperous = stubbornly defiant]
• obtrusive and vulgar
• obtuse and imbecile
• obvious and palpable
• occasional and contingent
• occult and hidden
• occupations and habits
• odd and dismal
• odious and oppressive
• offensive and aggressive
• official and authoritative
• oily and servile
• old and decrepit
• ominous and untrustworthy
• omnivorous and sordid
• oneness and unity
• onerous and perplexing
• open and inviting
• opinions and hypotheses
• opportunism and inconsistency
• opposite and discordant
• oppressed and sullen
• optimistic and reassuring
• opulence and magnitude
• oracular and occult
  • [oracular = solemnly prophetic; obscure]
• order and uniformity
• organic and rational
• organization and system
• origin and discovery
• original and attractive
• ornate and variegated
• ostensible and explicit
• ostentatiousness and gaiety
• outlines and appearances
• outrageous and scandalous
• overburdened and confused
• overcome and vanquish
• overstep and contravene
• overt and unmistakable
• overwearied and outworn
• overworked and fagged
  • [fagged = worked to exhaustion]

P

• pains and penalties
• painstaking and cumbersome
• pale and anxious
• palpable and plain
• paltry and inglorious
• pampered and petted
• parade and display
• parched and dry
• partial and provisional
• particularly and individually
• parties and sects
• passion and prejudice
• passive and indifferent
• pastimes and diversions
• patent and pertinent
• pathos and terror
• patience and perseverance
• patriotism and reverence
• pattern and exemplar
  • [exemplar = worthy of imitation]
• peaks and pinnacles
• pedagogue and pedant
  • [pedant = exhibits learning or scholarship ostentatiously]
• pedantries and affectations
• pedigree and genealogy
• peevishness and spleen
• pellucid and crystal
  • [pellucid = transparently clear]
• penetrating and insidious
• penned and planned
• peppery and impetuous
• perception and recognition
• peremptorily and irrevocably
  • [peremptorily = not allowing contradiction]
• perilous and shifting
• permanent and unchangeable
• permeate and purify
• pernicious and malign
• perplexity and confusion
• persistent and reiterated
• personal and specific
• perspicuous and flowing
  • [perspicuous = clearly expressed]
• perturbed and restless
• perverted and prejudicial
• pessimistic and disenchanted
• pestilence and famine
• petted and indulged
• pettiness and prudence
• petulance and acrimony
• pharisaical and bitter
  • [pharisaical = hypocritically self-righteous and condemnatory]
• pictorial and dramatic
• picturesque and illustrative
• pilgrim and crusader
• pillage and demolish
• piquant and palatable
  • [piquant = agreeable pungent taste]
• pith and brevity
• pitiful and destitute
• place and power
• plagued and persecuted
• plainness and severity
• plaintive and mournful
• plans and projects
• plastic and ductile
• plausibility and humbug
• pleasant and pungent
• pleasurable and wholesome
• pliant and submissive
• plot and verisimilitude
• plunder and sacrilege
• poetical and pastoral
• pointless and ineffective
• polite and elegant
• political and sociological
• pomp and pageantry
• ponderous and unwieldy
• poor and barren
• possession and dominion
• potent and prevailing
• power and luxury
• praise and commend
• precedence and usage
• precision and efficiency
• preference and prejudice
• pregnant and suggestive
• prejudice and predilection
  • [predilection = preference]
• presence and address
• present and tangible
• prestige and authority
• presumptuous and futile
• pretentious and inept
• pretty and enchanting
• pride and indignation
• primary and essential
• priority and predominance
• probity and candor
  • [probity = integrity; uprightness]
• prodigal and careless
• profile and outline
• profound and philosophical
• profuse and tearful
• prolix and tedious
  • [prolix = prolonged; wordy]
• prominence and importance
• promise and performance
• promptitude and dispatch
• proneness and readiness
• pronounced and diversified
• proof and illustration
• propensity and desire
• proportion and consistency
• propriety and delicacy
• prostration and loss
• protection and safety
• protesting and repelling
• protracted and fruitless
• provincialism and vulgarity
• prudent and sagacious
  • [sagacious = keenly discerning]
• puerile and sickly
  • [puerile = immature; childish]
• puffy and dissipated
• puissant and vigorous
  • [puissant = with power, might]
• punctilious and severe
  • [punctilious = precise; scrupulous]
• purity and simplicity
• purpose and intention
• pusillanimous and petty
  • [pusillanimous = cowardly]
• puzzled and affected

Q

• quackery and incompetence
• quaintness and oddity
• qualities and gifts
• quarrel and wrangle
• queer and affected
• querulous and plaintive
  • [querulous = complaining; peevish]
• quibble and fabricate
• quickness and agility
• quiet and unobtrusive
• quintessential and nuclear
  • [quintessential = perfect example]
• quips and cranks
• quirks and graces
• quivering and fearful
• quizzical and whimsical

R

• racked and oppressed
• racy and incisive
• rage and apprehension
• rank and learning
• rant and gush
• rapacity and villainy
  • [rapacity = plundering]
• rapidity and precision
• rapt and silent
• rapture and enthusiasm
• rare and exquisite
• rashness and heedlessness
• ready and spontaneous
• real and positive
• realistic and effective
• reasonable and practical
• rebellion and disloyalty
• rebuffs and anxieties
• receptive and responsive
• recognized and honored
• recoil and reaction
• reconciliation and peace
• recondite and abstruse
  • [recondite = concealed; hidden] [abstruse = difficult to understand]
• reconnoiter and explore
• recreation and amusement
• rectitude and delicacy
• redeeming and transforming
• refined and dignified
• refreshing and invigorating
• regard and esteem
• regret and remorse
• regular and symmetrical
• rejection and scorn
• reliable and trustworthy
• relief and redress
  • [redress = set right; remedy]
• remarkable and interesting
• remorseful and sullen
• remote and distant
• rend and devastate
• repellent and ungracious
• repetition and reiteration
• repress and silence
• repugnance and aversion
• repulsive and loathsome
• resentment and indignation
• reserve and coyness
• resistless and implacable
• resolution and effort
• resonant and tuneful
• resourceful and unscrupulous
• respected and obeyed
• responsibilities and burdens
• restive and bored
• restless and impatient
• retaliation and revenge
• reticence and repose
• revered and cherished
• reverses and disasters
• revised and corrected
• revolution and sedition
  • [sedition = insurrection; rebellion]
• rhapsodies and panegyrics
  • [panegyrics = elaborate praise]
• richness and fertility
• ridicule and censure
• right and praiseworthy
• rigid and inexpressive
• ripeness and plenitude
• rivals and antagonists
• roar and ring
• robust and rugged
• rococo and affected
  • [rococo = elaborate ornamentation]
• romantic and pathetic
• rough and barren
• roundabout and complicated
• roused and stimulated
• rude and fiery
• rugged and inaccessible
• rumors and impressions
• rushing and gurgling
• rust and disuse

S

• sad and melancholy
• sagacity and virtue
  • [sagacity = farsighted; wise]
• sane and simple
• sarcastic and cruel
• sayings and quibbles
• scant and incidental
• scattered and desultory
  • [desultory = haphazard; random]
• scenes and associations
• scholastic and erudite
  • [erudite = learned]
• scientific and exact
• scintillating and brilliant
• scoffing and unbelief
• scope and significance
• scorched and shriveled
• scorn and loathing
• scrupulous and anxious
• scrutiny and investigation
• searching and irresistible
• seared and scorched
• secondary and subsidiary
• secretive and furtive
• sedate and serious
• selfish and overbearing
• sensational and trivial
• senseless and unreasoning
• sensibilities and emotions
• sensitive and capricious
• sententious and tiresome
  • [sententious = pompous moralizing; terse and energetic]
• sentiment and passion
• serene and quiet
• serious and studious
• severe and saturnine
  • [saturnine = melancholy or sullen]
• shabbiness and vulgarity
• shadowy and confused
• shame and mortification
• shams and hypocrisies
• shaped and sculptured
• sharp and vigorous
• shelter and safeguard
• shifts and compromises
• shivering and chattering
• shocked and astonished
• short and precarious
• shreds and tatters
• shrewd and diligent
• shrill and piercing
• shrinking and nervous
• shy and subdued
• significant and sinister
• signs and tokens
• silence and obscurity
• similarities and resemblances
• simple and straightforward
• simpletons and nincompoops
• sincerity and frankness
• sinewy and active
• skill and coolness
• skulk and shirk
• sleek and languid
  • [languid = lacking energy or vitality; weak]
• slight and precarious
• slipshod and untidy
• slothfulness and perversity
• slow and sluggish
• slumbering and unsuspected
• small and hampered
• smirched and tarnished
• smoothness and artifice
• sneering and sentimental
• soberly and truthfully
• softness and effeminacy
• solemn and dramatic
• solitary and idle
• solitude and depression
• sonorous and musical
• sons and scions
  • [scions = descendant or heir]
• soporific and sodden
  • [soporific = inducing sleep]
• sordid and stupid
• sorrow and lamentation
• soulless and mindless
• sovereign and independent
• spacious and lofty
• sparkling and spontaneous
• spasmodic and hysterical
• speedy and inevitable
• spicy and pungent
• spiritual and invisible
• spiteful and sordid
• splash and dash
• splendor and glory
• spontaneity and intensity
• sportive and playful
• sprightly and vigorous
• spur and impulse
• spurious and misleading
• squalid and dismal
  • [squalid = wretched, dirty, repulsive]
• stare and gasp
• stately and ponderous
• statesmanship and character
• staunch and influential
• stay and solace
• steadfast and resolute
• steadily and patiently
• stealthy and hostile
• stern and unbending
• stiff and cumbersome
• stifling and venomous
• still and translucent
• stimulating and wholesome
• stings and stimulants
• stir and tumult
• stolid and soulless
• strain and struggle
• strange and incomprehensible
• stratagems and plots
• strenuous and energetic
• strictly and absolutely
• strife and contention
• striking and picturesque
• strong and youthful
• structure and organization
• struggles and misgivings
• studied and artificial
• stunned and insensible
• stupor and despair
• sturdy and manly
• style and temperament
• suave and winning
• sublime and aspiring
• submission and patience
• subordinate and dependent
• substance and basis
• subtle and elusive
• suddenness and vehemence
• suffering and desperation
• suffused and transfigured
• suggestions and stimulations
• sullen and fierce
• summarize and epitomize
• sumptuous and aromatic
• sunshine and smiles
• superb and showy
• supercilious and obstinate
  • [supercilious = haughty disdain]
• superficial and obvious
• superfluous and impertinent
• suppressed and restrained
• surmises and suggestions
• surprise and wonder
• susceptibility and vulnerability
• suspense and excitement
• suspicion and innuendo
  • [innuendo = indirect derogatory implication]
• sustained and measured
• sweet and wholesome
• swelled and bloated
• swift and stealthy
• swoop and range
• symbolism and imagery
• sympathetic and consoling

T

• taciturn and laconic
  • [taciturn = untalkative] [laconic = terse]
• tactful and conciliatory
• talkative and effusive
• tame and insipid
• tangible and sufficient
• tangled and shapeless
• tardy and belated
• tartness and contradiction
• taste and elegance
• tattle and babble
• taunt and reproach
• tawdry and penurious
  • [tawdry = gaudy, cheap] [penurious = stingy]
• tears and lamentations
• tedious and trivial
• temperament and taste
• temperately and judiciously
• tempest and violence
• temporal and evanescent
  • [evanescent = vanishing like vapor]
• tenacity and coherence
• tender and emotional
• tense and straining
• tentative and experimental
• terrible and satanical
• testiness and crabbedness
• thankfulness and acknowledgment
• theories and speculations
• thorough and effective
• threatening and formidable
• thriftless and unenterprising
• thrilling and vitalizing
• ties and associations
• time and opportunity
• timid and vacillating
• tiresome and laborious
• tolerant and kindly
• tone and treatment
• topics and instances
• tormented and tantalized
• tortuous and twisted
• tottering and hopeless
• touched and thrilled
• tractable and gracious
• traditions and practises
• training and temperament
• tranquillity and benevolence
• transfuse and irradiate
• transitory and temporary
• transparent and comprehensible
• treacherous and cowardly
• tremble and oscillate
• trenchant and straightforward
  • [trenchant = effective, and vigorous]
• trials and tribulations
• tricks and stratagems
• trifling and doubtful
• trite and commonplace
• trivial and ridiculous
• troublous and menacing
• truisms and trivialities
• trust and confidence
• truth and righteousness
• turbid and noise some
• turgid and bombastic
  • [turgid = excessively complex] [bombastic = pompous]
• turmoil and shouting
• twisted and perverted
• type and forerunner
• tyrant and oppressor

U

• unaccountable and grotesque
• unaffected and undaunted
• unapproached and unapproachable
• unassuming and unpretending
• unchangeable and enduring
• unconsciously and innocently
• uncouth and barbarous
• unctuous and irresistible
  • [trenchant = insincere earnestness]
• undeveloped and ignorant
• undignified and futile
• uneasiness and apprehension
• uneducated and inexperienced
• unfamiliar and distant
• unfettered and vigorous
• unforced and unchecked
• unfortunate and unparalleled
• unfounded and incredible
• ungracious and reluctant
• unhappiness and discomfort
• unique and original
• unity and completeness
• unjust and ungrateful
• unlimited and absolute
• unnatural and harmful
• unobserved and unsuspected
• unobtrusive and tactful
• unparalleled and inexhaustible
• unpleasant and bewildering
• unpopular and unimpressive
• unprecedented and objectionable
• unpremeditated and heartfelt
• unpromising and scanty
• unprotected and friendless
• unreal and unsubstantial
• unreasoning and uncompromising
• unrecognized and unrewarded
• unseemly and insufferable
• unseen and unsuspected
• unsmiling and critical
• unswerving and unfaltering
• unthinking and careless
• untutored and infantine
• unusual and unexpected
• unuttered and unutterable
• unwholesome and vile
• upright and credible
• uproar and confusion
• upstart and braggart
• urbanity and unction
  • [unction = exaggerated earnestness]
• utter and disastrous

V

• vacillation and uncertainty
• vague and indistinct
• vain and profitless
• validity and value
• vanities and vices
• vapory and chaotic
• varied and animated
• varnish and falsehood
• vassals and inferiors
• vast and superlative
• vehement and clamorous
• veiled and unreadable
• venality and corruption
• venerable and interesting
• veracity and fidelity
• verbally and literally
• versatility and sympathy
• vexation and anxiety
• vibrating and sonorous
• views and experiences
• vigilant and inflexible
• vigorous and graphic
• violent and ill-balanced
• virtuous and wise
• virulence and invective
  • [invective = abusive language]
• visible and apparent
• visionary and obscure
• vistas and backgrounds
• vital and vigorous
• vitiate and poison
  • [vitiate = reduce the value]
• vituperation and abuse
  • [vituperation = abusive language]
• vivacious and agreeable
• vivid and varied
• void and nothingness
• volatile and fiery
• volubly and exuberantly
  • [volubly = ready flow of speech]
• volume and impetus
• voluminous and varied
• voluntarily and habitually
• vulgar and artificial

W

• wandering and erratic
• wanton and unnecessary
• war and revelry
• warp and woof
  • [warp = lengthwise threads] [woof = crosswise threads]
• wasteful and circuitous
• waxing and waning
• weak and perfidious
• wealth and distinction
• wearisome and dull
• weighed and winnowed
• weighty and dominant
• weird and fantastic
• wheezing and puffing
• whims and inconsistencies
• wholesome and beautiful
• wholly and solely
• wicked and malicious
• widened and amplified
• wild and irregular
• wily and observant
• winking and blinking
• winning and unforced
• wise and beneficent
• wistful and dreamy
• wit and jocularity
  • [jocularity = given to joking]
• withered and wan
• woe and lamentation
• wonder and delight
• work and utility
• worldly and ambitious
• worth and excellence
• wrath and menace
• wretched and suppliant

Y

• yearning and eagerness
• yielding and obedience
• yoke and bondage
• young and fragile
• youthful and callow
  • [callow = immature]

Z

• zeal and vehemence
• zenith and climax
• zest and freshness
• zigzag and deviating

Striking similies

A

• A blind rage like a fire swept over him
• A book that rends and tears like a broken saw
• A breath of melancholy made itself felt like a chill and sudden gust from some unknown sea
• A cloud in the west like a pall creeps upward
• A cloud like a flag from the sky
• A cluster of stars hangs like fruit in the tree
• A confused mass of impressions, like an old rubbish-heap
• A cry as of a sea-bird in the wind
• A dead leaf might as reasonably demand to return to the tree
• A drowsy murmur floats into the air like thistledown
• A face as imperturbable as fate
• A face as pale as wax
• A face tempered like steel
• A fatigued, faded, lusterless air, as of a caged creature
• A few pens parched by long disuse
• A figure like a carving on a spire
• A fluttering as of blind bewildered moths
• A giant galleon overhead, looked like some misty monster of the deep
• A glacial pang of pain like the stab of a dagger of ice frozen from a poisoned well
• A glance that flitted like a bird
• A great moon like a red lamp in the sycamore
• A grim face like a carved mask
• A hand icily cold and clammy as death
• A heart from which noble sentiments sprang like sparks from an anvil
• A jeweler that glittered like his shop
• A lady that lean'd on his arm like a queen in a fable of old fairy days
• A life, a Presence, like the air
• A life as common and brown and bare as the box of earth in the window there
• A light wind outside the lattice swayed a branch of roses to and fro,
• shaking out their perfume as from a swung censer
• A lightning-phrase, as if shot from the quiver of infallible wisdom
• A list of our unread books torments some of us like a list of murders
• A little breeze ran through the corn like a swift serpent
• A little weed-clogged ship, gray as a ghost
• A long slit of daylight like a pointing finger
• A memory like a well-ordered cupboard
• A mighty wind, like a leviathan, plowed the brine
• A mind very like a bookcase
• A mystery, soft, soothing and gentle, like the whisper of a child murmuring its happiness in its sleep
• A name which sounds even now like the call of a trumpet
• A note of despairing appeal which fell like a cold hand upon one's living soul
• A purpose as the steady flame
• A question deep almost as the mystery of life
• A quibbling mouth that snapped at verbal errors like a lizard catching flies
• A radiant look came over her face, like a sudden burst of sunshine on a cloudy day
• A reputation that swelled like a sponge
• A ruby like a drop of blood
• A shadow of melancholy touched her lithe fancies, as a cloud dims the waving of golden grain
• A silver moon, like a new-stamped coin, rode triumphant in the sky
• A slow thought that crept like a cold worm through all his brain
• A smile flashed over her face, like sunshine over a flower
• A soft and purple mist like a vaporous amethyst
• A soft haze, like a fairy dream, is floating over wood and stream
• A soul as white as heaven
• A sound like the throb of a bell
• A stooping girl as pale as a pearl
• A sudden sense of fear ran through her nerves like the chill of an icy wind
• A sweet voice caroling like a gold-caged nightingale
• A thin shrill voice like the cry of an expiring mouse
• A thing of as frail enchantment as the gleam of stars upon snow
• A vague thought, as elusive as the smell of a primrose
• A vanishing loveliness as tender as the flush of the rose leaf and as ethereal as the light of a solitary star
• A voice as low as the sea
• A voice soft and sweet as a tune that one knows
• A white bird floats there, like a drifting leaf
• Against a sky as clear as sapphire
• Age, like winter weather
• Agile as a leopard
• Agitated like a storm-tossed ship
• Air like wine
• All around them like a forest swept the deep and empurpled masses of her tangled hair
• All like an icicle it seemed, so tapering and cold
• All my life broke up, like some great river's ice at touch of spring
• All silent as the sheeted dead
• All sounds were lost in the whistle of air humming by like the flight of a million arrows
• All that's beautiful drifts away like the waters
• All the world lay stretched before him like the open palm of his hand
• All unconscious as a flower
• Alone, like a storm-tossed wreck, on this night of the glad New Year
• An anxiety hung like a dark impenetrable cloud
• An ardent face out-looking like a star
• An ecstasy which suddenly overwhelms your mind like an unexpected and exquisite thought
• An envious wind crept by like an unwelcome thought
• An ideal as sublime and comprehensive as the horizon
• An immortal spirit dwelt in that frail body, like a bird in an outworn cage
• An impudent trick as hackneyed as conjuring rabbits out of a hat
• An indefinable resemblance to a goat
• An isle of Paradise, fair as a gem
• An old nodding negress whose sable head shined in the sun like a polished cocoanut
• An omnibus across the bridge crawls like a yellow butterfly
• An undefined sadness seemed to have fallen about her like a cloud
• An unknown world, wild as primeval chaos
• An unpleasing strain, like the vibration of a rope drawn out too fast
• And a pinnace like a flutter'd bird came flying from afar
• And a tear like silver, glistened in the corner of her eye
• And all our thoughts ran into tears like sunshine into rain
• And at first the road comes moving toward me, like a bride waving palms
• And Dusk, with breast as of a dove, brooded
• And eyes as bright as the day
• And fell as cold as a lump of clay
• And her cheek was like a rose
• And here were forests ancient as the hills
• And many a fountain, rivulet, and pond, as clear as elemental diamond, or serene morning air
• And melting like the stars in June
• And night, as welcome as a friend
• And silence like a poultice comes to heal the blows of sound
• And spangled o'er with twinkling points, like stars
• And the smile she softly uses fills the silence like a speech
• As a child in play scatters the heaps of sand that he has piled on the seashore
• As a cloud that gathers her robe like drifted snow
• As a flower after a drought drinks in the steady plunging rain
• As a leaf that beats on a mountain
• As a lion grieves at the loss of her whelps
• As a man plowing all day longs for supper and welcomes sunset
• As a sea disturbed by opposing winds
• As amusing as a litter of likely young pigs
• As arbitrary as a cyclone and as killing as a pestilence
• As austere as a Roman matron
• As beautiful as the purple flush of dawn
• As blind as a mole
• As brief as sunset clouds in heaven
• As bright as sunlight on a stream
• As busy as a bee
• As cattle driven by a gadfly
• As chimney sweepers come to dust
• As clear as a whistle
• As clear as the parts of a tree in the morning sun
• As close as oak and ivy stand
• As delicate and as fair as a lily
• As delightful to the mind as cool well-water to thirsty lip
• As diamond cuts diamond
• As direct and unvarying as the course of a homing bird
• As distinct as night and morning
• As dry as desert dust
• As dumb as a fish
• As easily as the sun shines
• As easy as a turn of the hand
• As elastic as a steel spring
• As extinct as the dodo
• As faint as the memory of a sound
• As familiar to him as his alphabet
• As fatal as the fang of the most venomous snake
• As fleeting and elusive as our dreams
• As foam from a ship's swiftness
• As fresh and invigorating as a sea-breeze
• As full of eager vigor as a mountain stream
• As full of spirit as a gray squirrel
• As gay and busy as a brook
• As gently as the flower gives forth its perfume
• As gently as withered leaves float from a tree
• As graceful as a bough
• As grave as a judge
• As great as the first day of creation
• As high as heaven
• As I dropped like a bolt from the blue
• As I dwelt like a sparrow among the spires
• As if a door were suddenly left ajar into some world unseen before
• As impossible as to count the stars in illimitable space
• As in the footsteps of a god
• As inaccessible to his feet as the clefts and gorges of the clouds
• As inexorable as the flight of time
• As innocent as a new laid egg
• As iridescent as a soap bubble
• As locusts gather to a stream before a fire
• As mellow and deep as a psalm
• As men strip for a race, so must an author strip for the race with time
• As merry as bees in clover
• As nimble as water
• As one who has climbed above the earth's eternal snowline and sees only white peaks and pinnacles
• As pale as any ghost
• As patient as the trees
• As quick as the movement of some wild animal
• As quiet as a nun breathless with adoration
• As radiant as the rose
• As readily and naturally as ducklings take to water
• As reticent as a well-bred stockbroker
• As ruthlessly as the hoof of a horse tramples on a rose
• As shallow streams run dimpling all the way
• As simple as the intercourse of a child with its mother
• As sleep falls upon the eyes of a child tired with a long summer day of eager pleasure and delight
• As some vast river of unfailing source
• As stars that shoot along the sky
• As still as a stone
• As stupid as a sheep
• As sudden as a dislocated joint slipping back into place
• As summer winds that creep from flower to flower
• As supple as a step-ladder
• As swaggering and sentimental as a penny novellete
  • [novellete = short novel]
• As swift as thought
• As the accumulation of snowflakes makes the avalanche
• As the bubble is extinguished in the ocean
• As the dew upon the roses warms and melts the morning light
• As the fair cedar, fallen before the breeze, lies self-embalmed amidst the moldering trees
• As the light straw flies in dark'ning whirlwinds
• As the lightning cleaves the night
• As the loud blast that tears the skies
• As the slow shadows of the pointed grass mark the eternal periods
• As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance
• As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again
• As though Pharaoh should set the Israelites to make a pin instead of a pyramid
• As unapproachable as a star
• As weird as the elfin lights
• As well try to photograph the other side of the moon
• At extreme tension, like a drawn bow
• Away he rushed like a cyclone
• Awkward as a cart-horse

B

• Babbling like a child
• Balmy in manner as a bland southern morning
• Be like the granite of thy rock-ribbed land
• Beauteous she looks as a water-lily
• Beautiful as the dawn, dominant as the sun
• Beauty maddens the soul like wine
• Beheld great Babel, wrathful, beautiful, burn like a blood-red cloud upon the plain
• Beneath a sky as fair as summer flowers
• Bent like a wand of willow
• Black as a foam-swept rock
• Black his hair as the wintry night
• Blithe as a bird
  • [blithe = carefree and lighthearted]
• Bounded by the narrow fences of life
• Bowed like a mountain
• Breaking his oath and resolution like a twist of rotten silk
• Breathed like a sea at rest
• Bright as a diamond in the sun
• Bright as a fallen fragment of the sky
• Bright as the coming forth of the morning, in the cloud of an early shower
• Bright as the sunbeams
• Bright as the tear of an angel, glittered a lonely star
• Brilliant and gay as a Greek
• Brisk as a wasp in the sunshine
• Brittle and bent like a bow
• Bronze-green beetles tumbled over stones, and lay helpless on their backs with the air of an elderly clergyman knocked down by an omnibus
• Brown as the sweet smelling loam
• Brute terrors like the scurrying of rats in a deserted attic
• Buried in his library like a mouse in a cheese
• Burns like a living coal in the soul
• But across it, like a mob's menace, fell the thunder
• But thou art fled, like some frail exhalation
• Butterflies like gems

C

• Calm as the night
• Calm like a flowing river
• Calm like a mountain brooding o'er the sea
• Calmly dropping care like a mantle from her shoulders
• Cast thy voice abroad like thunder
• Charm upon charm in her was packed, like rose-leaves in a costly vase
• Chaste as the icicle
• Cheeks as soft as July peaches
• Chill breath of winter
• Choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity
• Cities scattered over the world like ant-hills
• Cities that rise and sink like bubbles
• Clear and definite like the glance of a child or the voice of a girl
• Clear as a forest pool
• Clear as crystal
• Clenched little hands like rumpled roses, dimpled and dear
• Cloud-like that island hung afar
• Clouds like the petals of a rose
• Cloudy mirror of opinion
• Cold and hard as steel
• Cold as the white rose waking at daybreak
• Cold, glittering monotony like frosting around a cake
• Collapsed like a concertina
• Colored like a fairy tale
• Companionless as the last cloud of an expiring storm whose thunder is its knell
• Consecration that like a golden thread runs through the warp and woof of one's life
  • [warp = lengthwise threads] [woof = crosswise threads]
• Constant as gliding waters
• Contending like ants for little molehill realms
• Continuous as the stars that shine
• Cowslips, like chance-found gold
• Creeds like robes are laid aside
• Creeping like a snail, unwillingly to school
• Cruel as death
• Curious as a lynx
• Cuts into the matter as with a pen of fire

D

• Dainty as flowers
• Dance like a wave of the sea
• Dark and deep as night
• Dark as pitch
• Dark trees bending together as though whispering secrets
• Dazzling white as snow in sunshine
• Deafening and implacable as some elemental force
• Dear as remembered kisses after death
• Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes
• Dearer than night to the thief
• Debasing fancies gather like foul birds
• Deep as the fathomless sea
• Deep dark well of sorrow
• Delicate as nymphs
• Delicate as the flush on a rose or the sculptured line on a Grecian urn
• Denominational lines like stone walls
• Dependency had dropped from her like a cast-off cloak
• Despondency clung to him like a garment that is wet
• Destructive as the lightning flash
• Die like flies
• Dip and surge lightly to and fro, like the red harbor-buoy
• Disappearing into distance like a hazy sea
• Dissatisfaction had settled on his mind like a shadow
• Dissolve like some unsubstantial vision faded
• Do make a music like to rustling satin
• Dogging them like their own shadow
• Dost thou not hear the murmuring nightingale like water bubbling from a silver jar?
• Drop like a feather, softly to the ground
• Drowned like rats
• Dull as champagne

E

• Each like a corpse within its grave
• Each moment was an iridescent bubble fresh-blown from the lips of fancy
• Eager-hearted as a boy
• Eager with the headlong zest of a hunter for the game
• Ears that seemed as deaf as dead man's ears
• Easy as a poet's dream
• Emotions flashed across her face like the sweep of sun-rent clouds over a quiet landscape
• Eternal as the skies
• Evanescent as bubbles
  • [evanescent = vanishing like vapor]
• Every flake that fell from heaven was like an angel's kiss
• Every lineament was clear as in the sculptor's thought
  • [lineament = characteristic feature]
• Everyone on the watch, like a falcon on its nest
• Every phrase is like the flash of a scimitar
• Exploded like a penny squib
• Eyes as deeply dark as are the desert skies
• Eyes as luminous and bright and brown as waters of a woodland river
• Eyes half veiled by slumberous tears, like bluest water seen through mists of rain
• Eyes like a very dark topaz
• Eyes like deep wells of compassionate gloom
• Eyes like limpid pools in shadow
• Eyes like mountain water that o'erflowing on a rock

F

• Faces pale with bliss, like evening stars
• Fade away like a cloud in the horizon
• Faint and distant as the light of a sun that has long set
• Faintly, like a falling dew
• Fair and fleet as a fawn
• Fair as a star when only one is shining in the sky
• Fallen like dead leaves on the highway
• Falling away like a speck in space
• Fanciful and extravagant as a caliph's dream
• Fawning like dumb neglected lap-dogs
• Felt her breath upon his cheek like a perfumed air
• Fields of young grain and verdured pastures like crushed velvet
• Fierce as a bear in defeat
• Fierce as the flames
• Fills life up like a cup with bubbling and sparkling liquor
• Fit closely together as the close-set stones of a building
• Fix'd like a beacon-tower above the waves of a tempest
• Flame like a flag unfurled
• Flap loose and slack like a drooping sail
• Flashed with the brilliancy of a well-cut jewel
• Fled like sweet dreams
• Fleet as an arrow
• Flitted like a sylph on wings
• Flowers as soft as thoughts of budding love
• Fluent as a rill, that wanders silver-footed down a hill
• Fluid as thought
• Fluttered like gilded butterflies in giddy mazes
• Fragile as a spider's web
• Free as the air, from zone to zone I flew
• Free as the winds that caress
• Fresh and unworn as the sea that breaks languidly beside them
• Fresh as a jewel found but yesterday
• Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail
• Frightened like a child in the dark
• Full-throated as the sea
• Furious as eagles

G

• Gazed like a star into the morning light
• Glaring like noontide
• Gleam like a diamond on a dancing girl
• Glistening like threads of gold
• Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid
• Glittering like an aigrette of stars
  • [aigrette = ornamental tuft of upright plumes]
• Gone astray as a sheep that is lost
• Gone like a glow on the cloud at the close of day
• Gone like tenants that quit without warning
• Gorgeous as the hues of heaven
• Grazing through a circulating library as contentedly as cattle in a fresh meadow
• Great scarlet poppies lay in drifts and heaps, like bodies fallen there in vain assault

H

• Hair as harsh as tropical grass and gray as ashes
• Hangs like a blue thread loosen'd from the sky
• Hard, sharp, and glittering as a sword
• Harnessed men, like beasts of burden, drew it to the river-side
• Haunts you like the memory of some former happiness
• He began to laugh with that sibilant laugh which resembles the hiss of a serpent
  • [sibilant = producing a hissing sound]
• He bent upon the lightning page like some rapt poet o'er his rhyme
• He bolted down the stairs like a hare
• He clatters like a windmill
• He danced like a man in a swarm of hornets
• He fell as falls some forest lion, fighting well
• He fell down on my threshold like a wounded stag
• He had acted exactly like an automaton
• He lay as straight as a mummy
• He lay like a warrior taking his rest
• He lived as modestly as a hermit
• He looked fagged and sallow, like the day
  • [fagged = worked to exhaustion]
• He looked with the bland, expressionless stare of an overgrown baby
• He played with grave questions as a cat plays with a mouse
• He radiated vigor and abundance like a happy child
• He sat down quaking like a jelly
• He saw disaster like a ghostly figure following her
• He snatched furiously at breath like a tiger snatching at meat
• He spoke with a uniformity of emphasis that made his words stand out like the raised type for the blind
• He swayed in the sudden grip of anger
• He sweeps the field of battle like a monsoon
• He that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed
• He turned on me like a thunder-cloud
• He turned white as chalk
• He wandered restlessly through the house, like a prowling animal
• He was as splendidly serious as a reformer
• He was as steady as a clock
• He was as wax in those clever hands
• He was bold as the hawk
• He was so weak now, like a shrunk cedar white with the hoar-frost
• Hearts unfold like flowers before thee
• Heavy was my heart as stone
• Heeled like an avalanche to leeward
• Her arms like slumber o'er my shoulders crept
• Her banners like a thousand sunsets glow
• Her beauty broke on him like some rare flower
• Her beauty fervent as a fiery moon
• Her breath is like a cloud
• Her cheeks are like the blushing cloud
• Her cheeks were wan and her eyes like coals
• Her dusky cheek would burn like a poppy
• Her expression changed with the rapidity of a kaleidoscope
• Her eyes as bright as a blazing star
• Her eyes as stars of twilight fair
• Her eyes, glimmering star-like in her pale face
• Her eyes were as a dove that sickeneth
• Her face changed with each turn of their talk, like a wheat-field under a summer breeze
• Her face collapsed as if it were a pricked balloon
• Her face was as solemn as a mask
• Her face was dull as lead
• Her face was like a light
• Her face was passionless, like those by sculptor graved for niches in a temple
• Her hair dropped on her pallid cheeks, like sea-weed on a clam
• Her hair hung down like summer twilight
• Her hair shone like a nimbus
• Her hair was like a coronet
• Her hands are white as the virgin rose that she wore on her wedding day
• Her hands like moonlight brush the keys
• Her head dropped into her hands like a storm-broken flower
• Her heart has grown icy as a fountain in the fall
• Her holy love that like a vestal flame had burned
• Her impulse came and went like fireflies in the dusk
• Her lashes like fans upon her cheek
• Her laugh is like a rainbow-tinted spray
• Her lips are like two budded roses
• Her lips like a lovely song that ripples as it flows
• Her lips like twilight water
• Her little lips are tremulous as brook-water is
  • [tremulous = timid or fearful]
• Her long black hair danced round her like a snake
• Her mouth as sweet as a ripe fig
• Her neck is like a stately tower
• Her pale robe clinging to the grass seemed like a snake
• Her pulses flutter'd like a dove
• Her skin was as the bark of birches
• Her sweetness halting like a tardy May
• Her two white hands like swans on a frozen lake
• Her voice cut like a knife
• Her voice like mournful bells crying on the wind
• Her voice was like the voice the stars had when they sang together
• Her voice was rich and vibrant, like the middle notes of a 'cello
• Her words sounding like wavelets on a summer shore
• Herding his thoughts as a collie dog herds sheep
• Here and there a solitary volume greeted him like a friend in a crowd of strange faces
• Here in statue-like repose, an old wrinkled mountain rose
• Hers was the loveliness of some tall white lily cut in marble, splendid but chill
• His bashfulness melted like a spring frost
• His brow bent like a cliff o'er his thoughts
• His cheeks were furrowed and writhen like rain-washed crags
  • [writhen = twisted]
• His eyes blazed like deep forests
• His eyes glowed like blue coals
• His eyes were hollows of madness, his hair like moldy hay
• His face burnt like a brand
• His face was glad as dawn to me
• His face was often lit up by a smile like pale wintry sunshine
• His fingers were knotted like a cord
• His formal kiss fell chill as a flake of snow on the cheek
• His fortune melted away like snow in a thaw
• His glorious moments were strung like pearls upon a string
• His indifference fell from him like a garment
• His invectives and vituperations bite and flay like steel whips
  • [invective = abusive language] [vituperation = abusive language]
• His mind murmurs like a harp among the trees
• His mind was like a lonely wild
• His mind was like a summer sky
• His nerves thrilled like throbbing violins
• His retort was like a knife-cut across the sinews
• His revenge descends perfect, sudden, like a curse from heaven
• His spirits sank like a stone
• His talk is like an incessant play of fireworks
• His voice is as the thin faint song when the wind wearily sighs in the grass
• His voice rose like a stream of rich distilled perfumes
• His voice was like the clap of thunder which interrupts the warbling birds among the leaves
• His whole soul wavered and shook like a wind-swept leaf
• His words gave a curious satisfaction, as when a coin, tested, rings true gold
• Hopeful as the break of day
• How like a saint she sleeps
• How like a winter hath my absence been
• How like the sky she bends over her child
• Howling in the wilderness like beasts
• Huge as a hippopotamus
• Humming-birds like lake of purple fire
• Hushed as the grave
• Hushed like a breathless lyre

I

• I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew
• I have heard the Hiddon People like the hum of swarming bees
• I have seen the ravens flying, like banners of old wars
• I saw a face bloom like a flower
• I saw a river of men marching like a tide
• I saw his senses swim dizzy as clouds
• I wander'd lonely as a cloud
• I was as sensitive as a barometer
• I was no more than a straw on the torrent of his will
• I will face thy wrath though it bite as a sword
• Ideas which spread with the speed of light
• Idle hopes, like empty shadows
• Impassive as a statue
• Impatient as the wind
• Impregnable as Gibraltar
• Impressive as a warrant of arrest for high treason
• Incredible little white teeth, like snow shut in a rose
• Infrequent carriages sped like mechanical toys guided by manikins
• In honor spotless as unfallen snow
• In that head of his a flame burnt that was like an altar-fire
• In yonder cottage shines a light, far-gleaming like a gem
• Instantly she revived like flowers in water
• Intangible as a dream
• It came and faded like a wreath of mist at eve
• It cuts like knives, this air so chill
• It drops away like water from a smooth statue
• It pealed through her brain like a muffled bell
• It poured upon her like a trembling flood
• It racked his ears like an explosion of steam-whistles
• It ran as clear as a trout-brook
• It seems as motionless and still as the zenith in the skies
• It set his memories humming like a hive of bees
• It staggered the eye, like the sight of water running up hill
• It stung like a frozen lash
• It was as futile as to oppose an earthquake with argument
• It was as if a door had been opened into a furnace, so the eyes blazed
• It would collapse as if by enchantment
• Its temples and its palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to Heaven

J

• Jealousy, fierce as the fires

K

• Kindle like an angel's wings the western skies in flame
• Kindly mornings when autumn and winter seemed to go hand in hand like a happy aged couple
• Kingdoms melt away like snow

L

• Laboring like a giant
• Languid streams that cross softly, slowly, with a sound like smothered weeping
• Laughter like a beautiful bubble from the rosebud of baby-hood
• Laughter like the sudden outburst of the glad bird in the tree-top
• Lazy merchantmen that crawled like flies over the blue enamel of the sea
• Leapt like a hunted stag
• Let his frolic fancy play, like a happy child
• Let in confusion like a whirling flood
• Let thy mouth murmur like the doves
• Life had been arrested, as the horologist, with interjected finger, arrests the beating of the clock
  • [horologist = one who repairs watches]
• Life stretched before him alluring and various as the open road
• Life sweet as perfume and pure as prayer
• Light as a snowflake
• Lights gleamed there like stars in a still sky
• Like a ball of ice it glittered in a frozen sea of sky
• Like a blade sent home to its scabbard
• Like a blast from a horn
• Like a blast from the suddenly opened door of a furnace
• Like a blossom blown before a breeze, a white moon drifts before a shimmering sky
• Like a bright window in a distant view
• Like a caged lion shaking the bars of his prison
• Like a calm flock of silver-fleeced sheep
• Like a cloud of fire
• Like a cold wind his words went through their flesh
• Like a crowd of frightened porpoises a shoal of sharks pursue
• Like a damp-handed auctioneer
• Like a deaf and dumb man wondering what it was all about
• Like a dew-drop, ill-fitted to sustain unkindly shocks
• Like a dipping swallow the stout ship dashed through the storm
• Like a distant star glimmering steadily in the darkness
• Like a dream she vanished
• Like a festooned girdle encircling the waist of a bride
• Like a flower her red lips parted
• Like a game in which the important part is to keep from laughing
• Like a glow-worm golden
• Like a golden-shielded army
• Like a great express train, roaring, flashing, dashing head-long
• Like a great fragment of the dawn it lay
• Like a great ring of pure and endless light
• Like a great tune to which the planets roll
• Like a high and radiant ocean
• Like a high-born maiden
• Like a jewel every cottage casement showed
• Like a joyless eye that finds no object worth its constancy
• Like a knight worn out by conflict
• Like a knot of daisies lay the hamlets on the hill
• Like a lily in bloom
• Like a living meteor
• Like a locomotive-engine with unsound lungs
• Like a long arrow through the dark the train is darting
• Like a mirage, vague, dimly seen at first
• Like a miser who spoils his coat with scanting a little cloth
  • [scanting = short]
• Like a mist the music drifted from the silvery strings
• Like a moral lighthouse in the midst of a dark and troubled sea
• Like a murmur of the wind came a gentle sound of stillness
• Like a noisy argument in a drawing-room
• Like a pageant of the Golden Year, in rich memorial pomp the hours go by
• Like a pale flower by some sad maiden cherished
• Like a poet hidden
• Like a river of molten amethyst
• Like a rocket discharging a shower of golden stars
• Like a rose embower'd in its own green leaves
• Like a sea of upturned faces
• Like a shadow never to be overtaken
• Like a shadow on a fair sunlit landscape
• Like a sheeted ghost
• Like a ship tossed to and fro on the waves of life's sea
• Like a slim bronze statue of Despair
• Like a snow-flake lost in the ocean
• Like a soul that wavers in the Valley of the Shadow
• Like a stalled horse that breaks loose and goes at a gallop through the plain
• Like a star, his love's pure face looked down
• Like a star that dwelt apart
• Like a star, unhasting, unresting
• Like a stone thrown at random
• Like a summer cloud, youth indeed has crept away
• Like a summer-dried fountain
• Like a swift eagle in the morning glare breasting the whirlwind with impetuous flight
• Like a thing at rest
• Like a thing read in a book or remembered out of the faraway past
• Like a tide of triumph through their veins, the red, rejoicing blood began to race
• Like a triumphing fire the news was borne
• Like a troop of boys let loose from school, the adventurers went by
• Like a vaporous amethyst
• Like a vision of the morning air
• Like a voice from the unknown regions
• Like a wandering star I fell through the deeps of desire
• Like a watch-worn and weary sentinel
• Like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed
• Like a whirlwind they went past
• Like a withered leaf the moon is blown across the bay
• Like a world of sunshine
• Like a yellow silken scarf the thick fog hangs
• Like an alien ghost I stole away
• Like an eagle clutching his prey, his arm swooped down
• Like an eagle dallying with the wind
• Like an engine of dread war, he set his shoulder to the mountain-side
• Like an enraged tiger
• Like an enthusiast leading about with him an indifferent tourist
• Like an icy wave, a swift and tragic impression swept through him
• Like an unbidden guest
• Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun
• Like an unseen star of birth
• Like an unwelcome thought
• Like apparitions seen and gone
• Like attempting to number the waves on the snore of a limitless sea
• Like bells that waste the moments with their loudness
• Like blasts of trumpets blown in wars
• Like bright Apollo
• Like bright lamps, the fabled apples glow
• Like building castles in the air
• Like bursting waves from the ocean
• Like cliffs which have been rent asunder
• Like clouds of gnats with perfect lineaments
  • [lineaments = distinctive shape]
• Like cobwebs woven round the limbs of an infant giant
• Like crystals of snow
• Like dead lovers who died true
• Like Death, who rides upon a thought, and makes his way through temple, tower, and palace
• Like dew upon a sleeping flower
• Like dining with a ghost
• Like drawing nectar in a sieve
• Like earth's decaying leaves
• Like echoes from a hidden lyre
• Like echoes from an antenatal dream
• Like fixed eyes, whence the dear light of sense and thought has fled
• Like footsteps upon wool
• Like fragrance from dead flowers
• Like ghosts, from an enchanter fleeing
• Like ghosts the sentries come and go
• Like golden boats on a sunny sea
• Like great black birds, the demons haunt the woods
• Like green waves on the sea
• Like having to taste a hundred exquisite dishes in a single meal
• Like Heaven's free breath, which he who grasps can hold not
• Like helpless birds in the warm nest
• Like iridescent bubbles floating on a foul stream
• Like kindred drops mingled into one
• Like laying a burden on the back of a moth
• Like lead his feet were
• Like leaves in wintry weather
• Like leviathans afloat
• Like lighting a candle to the sun
• Like making a mountain out of a mole-hill
• Like mariners pulling the life-boat
• Like mice that steal in and out as if they feared the light
• Like mountain over mountain huddled
• Like mountain streams we meet and part
• Like music on the water
• Like notes which die when born, but still haunt the echoes of the hill
• Like oceans of liquid silver
• Like one pale star against the dusk, a single diamond on her brow gleamed with imprisoned fire
• Like one who halts with tired wings
• Like one who talks of what he loves in dream
• Like organ music came the deep reply
• Like pageantry of mist on an autumnal stream
• Like phantoms gathered by the sick imagination
• Like planets in the sky
• Like pouring oil on troubled waters
• Like roses that in deserts bloom and die
• Like rowing upstream against a strong downward current
• Like scents from a twilight garden
• Like separated souls
• Like serpents struggling in a vulture's grasp
• Like sheep from out the fold of the sky, stars leapt
• Like ships that have gone down at sea
• Like shy elves hiding from the traveler's eye
• Like skeletons, the sycamores uplift their wasted hands
• Like some grave night thought threading a dream
• Like some new-gathered snowy hyacinth, so white and cold and delicate it was
• Like some poor nigh-related guest, that may not rudely be dismist
• Like some suppressed and hideous thought which flits athwart our musings, but can find no rest within a pure and gentle mind
• Like some unshriven churchyard thing, the friar crawled
• Like something fashioned in a dream
• Like sounds of wind and flood
• Like splendor-winged moths about a taper
• Like stepping out on summer evenings from the glaring ball-room
• upon the cool and still piazza
• Like straws in a gust of wind
• Like summer's beam and summer's stream
• Like sunlight, in and out the leaves, the robins went
• Like sweet thoughts in a dream
• Like the awful shadow of some unseen power
• Like the bellowing of bulls
• Like the boar encircled by hunters and hounds
• Like the bubbles on a river sparkling, bursting, borne away
• Like the cold breath of the grave
• Like the creaking of doors held stealthily ajar
• Like the cry of an itinerant vendor in a quiet and picturesque town
• Like the dance of some gay sunbeam
• Like the dawn of the morn
• Like the detestable and spidery araucaria
  • [araucaria = evergreen trees of South America and Australia]
• Like the dew on the mountain
• Like the dim scent in violets
• Like the drifting foam of a restless sea when the waves show their teeth in the flying breeze
• Like the embodiment of a perfect rose, complete in form and fragrance
• Like the faint cry of unassisted woe
• Like the faint exquisite music of a dream
• Like the fair flower dishevel'd in the wind
• Like the fair sun, when in his fresh array he cheers the morn, and all the earth revealeth
• Like the falling thud of the blade of a murderous ax
• Like the fierce fiend of a distempered dream
• Like the fitting of an old glove to a hand
• Like the foam on the river
• Like the great thunder sounding
• Like the jangling of all the strings of some musical instrument
• Like the jewels that gleam in baby eyes
• Like the kiss of maiden love the breeze is sweet and bland
• Like the long wandering love, the weary heart may faint for rest
• Like the moon in water seen by night
• Like the music in the patter of small feet
• Like the prodigal whom wealth softens into imbecility
• Like the quivering image of a landscape in a flowing stream
• Like the rainbow, thou didst fade
• Like the rustling of grain moved by the west-wind
• Like the sap that turns to nectar, in the velvet of the peach
• Like the sea whose waves are set in motion by the winds
• Like the sea-worm, that perforates the shell of the mussel, which straightway closes the wound with a pearl
• Like the setting of a tropical sun
• Like the shadow of a great hill that reaches far out over the plain
• Like the shadows of the stars in the upheaved sea
• Like the shudder of a doomed soul
• Like the silver gleam when the poplar trees rustle their pale leaves listlessly
• Like the soft light of an autumnal day
• Like the Spring-time, fresh and green
• Like the stern-lights of a ship at sea, illuminating only the path which has been passed over
• Like the sudden impulse of a madman
• Like the swell of Summer's ocean
• Like the tattered effigy in a cornfield
• Like the vase in which roses have once been distill'd
• Like the visits of angels, short and far between
• Like the whole sky when to the east the morning doth return
• Like thistles of the wilderness, fit neither for food nor fuel
• Like those great rivers, whose course everyone beholds, but their springs have been seen by but few
• Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality
• Like to diamonds her white teeth shone between the parted lips
• Like torrents from a mountain source, we rushed into each other's arms
• Like troops of ghosts on the dry wind past
• Like two doves with silvery wings, let our souls fly
• Like two flaming stars were his eyes
• Like vaporous shapes half seen
• Like village curs that bark when their fellows do
• Like wasted hours of youth
• Like winds that bear sweet music, when they breathe through some dim latticed chamber
• Like wine-stain to a flask the old distrust still clings
• Like winged stars the fire-flies flash and glance
• Like young lovers whom youth and love make dear
• Lingering like an unloved guest
• Lithe as a panther
• Little white hands like pearls
• Lofty as a queen
• Loneliness struck him like a blow
• Looked back with faithful eyes like a great mastiff to his master's face
• Looking as sulky as the weather itself
• Looking like a snarling beast baulked of its prey
  • [baulked = checked, thwarted]
• Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed
• Lost like the lightning in the sullen clod
• Love as clean as starlight
• Love brilliant as the morning
• Love had like the canker-worm consumed her early prime
• Love is a changing lord as the light on a turning sword
• Love like a child around the world doth run
• Love like a miser in the dark his joys would hide
• Love shakes like a windy reed your heart
• Love smiled like an unclouded sun
• Love that sings and has wings as a bird
• Lovely as starry water
• Lovely the land unknown and like a river flowing

M

• March on my soul nor like the laggard stay
• Me on whose heart as a worm she trod
• Meaningless as the syllables of an unknown tongue
• Men moved hither and thither like insects in their crevices
• Mentality as hard as bronze
• Mentally round-shouldered and decrepit
• Merge imperceptibly into one another like the hues of the prism
• Meteors that dart like screaming birds
• Milk-white pavements, clear and richly pale, like alabaster
• More variegated than the skin of a serpent
• Motion like the spirit of that wind whose soft step deepens slumber
• Motionless as a plumb line
• Mountains like frozen wrinkles on a sea
• Moving in the same dull round, like blind horses in a mill
• Mute as an iceberg
• My age is as a lusty Winter
• My body broken as a turning wheel
• My breath to Heaven like vapor goes
• My head was like a great bronze bell with one thought for the clapper
• My heart is as some famine-murdered land
• My heart is like a full sponge and must weep a little
• My heart like a bird doth hover
• My heart will be as wind fainting in hot grass
• My life floweth away like a river
• My life was white as driven snow
• My love for thee is like the sovereign moon that rules the sea
• My love's like the steadfast sun
• My lungs began to crow like chanticleer
  • [chanticleer = rooster]
• My mind swayed idly like a water-lily in a lake
• My muscles are as steel
• My skin is as sallow as gold
• My soul was as a lampless sea
• My spirit seemed to beat the void, like the bird from out the ark
• My thoughts came yapping and growling round me like a pack of curs
• My thoughts ran leaping through the green ways of my mind like fawns at play

N

• Night falls like fire
• No longer shall slander's venomed spite crawl like a snake across his perfect name
• Now every nerve in my body seemed like a strained harp-string ready to snap at a touch
• Now like a wild nymph she veils her shadowy form
• Now like a wild rose in the fields of heaven slipt forth the slender figure of the Dawn
• Now memory and emotion surged in my soul like a tempest
• Now thou seemest like a bankrupt beau, stripped of his gaudy hues

O

• Obscured with wrath as is the sun with cloud
• Odorous as all Arabia
• Often enough life tosses like a fretful stream among rocky boulders
• Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud
• Old as the evening star
• Old happy hours that have long folded their wings
• Once again, like madness, the black shapes of doubt swing through his brain
• One bleared star, faint glimmering like a bee
• One bright drop is like the gem that decks a monarch's crown
• One by one flitting like a mournful bird
• One deep roar as of a cloven world
• One winged cloud above like a spread dragon overhangs the west
• Oppressed by the indefiniteness which hung in her mind, like a thick summer haze
• Or shedding radiance like the smiles of God
• Our enemies were broken like a dam of river reeds
• Our hearts bowed down like violets after rain
• Our sail like a dew-lit blossom shone
• Overhead the intense blue of the noonday sky burst like a jewel in the sun

P

• Pale and grave as a sculptured nun
• Pale as a drifting blossom
• Passed like a phantom into the shadows
• Passive and tractable as a child
• Peaceful as a village cricket-green on Sunday
• Peevish and impatient, like some ill-trained man who is sick
• Perished utterly, like a blown-out flame
• Philosophy evolved itself, like a vast spider's loom
• Pillowed upon its alabaster arms like to a child o'erwearied with sweet toil
• Polished as the bosom of a star
• Poured his heart out like the rending sea in passionate wave on wave
• Pouting like the snowy buds o' roses in July
• Presently she hovered like a fluttering leaf or flake of snow
• Pride and self-disgust served her like first-aid surgeons on the battlefield
• Proud as the proudest of church dignitaries
• Pure as a wild-flower
• Pure as the azure above them
• Pure as the naked heavens
• Pure as the snowy leaves that fold over the flower's heart
• Purple, crimson, and scarlet, like the curtains of God's tabernacle
• Put on gravity like a robe

Q

• Quaking and quivering like a short-haired puppy after a ducking
• Questions and answers sounding like a continuous popping of corks
• Quiet as a nun's face
• Quietly as a cloud he stole
• Quietude which seemed to him beautiful as clear depths of water
• Quivering like an eager race-horse to start

R

• Rage, rage ye tears, that never more should creep like hounds about God's footstool
• Ran like a young fawn
• Rattle in the ear like a flourish of trumpets
• Rays springing from the east like golden arrows
• Red as the print of a kiss might be
• Redolent with the homely scent of old-fashioned herbs and flowers
• Reflected each in the other like stars in a lake
• Refreshed like dusty grass after a shower
• Refreshing as descending rains to sunburnt climes
• Remote as the hidden star
• Restless as a blue-bottle fly on a warm summer's day
• Revealed his doings like those of bees in a glass hive
• Rich as the dawn
• Ride like the wind through the night
• Rivers that like silver threads ran through the green and gold of pasture lands
• Roared like mountain torrents
• Rolling it under the tongue as a sweet morsel
• Round my chair the children run like little things of dancing gold
• Ruddy as sunrise
• Ruddy his face as the morning light
• Ruffling out his cravat with a crackle of starch, like a turkey when it spreads its feathers
• Running to and fro like frightened sheep
• Rushing and hurrying about like a June-bug

S

• Sanctuaries where the passions may, like wild falcons, cover their faces with their wings
• Sayings that stir the blood like the sound of a trumpet
• Scattered love as stars do light
• Sea-gulls flying like flakes of the sea
• Sentences level and straight like a hurled lance
• Shadowy faces, known in dreams, pass as petals upon a stream
• Shake like an aspen leaf
• Shaken off like a nightmare
• Shapeless as a sack of wool
• Shattered like so much glass
• She brightened like a child whose broken toy is glued together
• She could summon tears as one summons servants
• She danced like a flower in the wind
• She disclaimed the weariness that dragged upon her spirits like leaden weights
• She exuded a faint and intoxicating perfume of womanliness, like a crushed herb
• She felt like an unrepentant criminal
• She fled like a spirit from the room
• She flounders like a huge conger-eel in an ocean of dingy morality
• She gave him a surprised look, like a child catching an older person in a foolish statement
• She gave off antipathies as a liquid gives off vapor
• She has great eyes like the doe
• She heard him like one in a dream
• She let the soft waves of her deep hair fall like flowers from Paradise
• She looked like a tall golden candle
• She looked like the picture of a young rapt saint, lost in heavenly musing
• She moved like mirth incarnate
• She nestles like a dove
• She played with a hundred possibilities fitfully and discursively as a musician runs his fingers over a key-board
• She played with grave cabinets as a cat plays with a mouse
• She saw this planet like a star hung in the glistening depths of even
• She seemed as happy as a wave that dances on the sea
• She shall be sportive as the fawn
• She stood silent a moment, dropping before him like a broken branch
• She that passed had lips like pinks
• She walked like a galley-slave
• She walks in beauty like the night
• She was as brilliant, and as hard too, as electric light
• She was silent, standing before him like a little statuesque figure
• Shining like the dewy star of dawn
• Shivering pine-trees, like phantoms
• Showy as damask-rose and shy as musk
• Shrill as the loon's call
• Shrivel like paper thrust into a flame
• Shy as the squirrel
• Sights seen as a traveling swallow might see them on the wing
• Silence deep as death
• Silence now is brooding like a gentle spirit o'er the still and pulseless world
• Silence that seemed heavy and dark; like a passing cloud
• Sinks clamorous like mill-waters at wild play
• Sits like the maniac on his fancied throne
• Skies as clear as babies' eyes
• Sleek and thick and yellow as gold
• Slender and thin as a slender wire
• Slowly as a tortoise
• Slowly as the finger of a clock, her shadow came
• Slowly moved off and disappeared like shapes breathed on a mirror and melting away
• Slowly, unnoted, like the creeping rust that spreads insidious, had estrangement come
• Small as a grain of mustard seed
• Smooth as a pond
• Smooth as the pillar flashing in the sun
• Snug as a bug in a rug
• Soaring as swift as smoke from a volcano springs
• So elusive that the memory of it afterwards was wont to come and go like a flash of light
• So my spirit beat itself like a caged bird against its prison bars in vain
• Soft as a zephyr
• Soft as sleep the snow fell
• Soft as Spring
• Soft as the down of the turtle dove
• Soft as the landscape of a dream
• Soft as the south-wind
• Soft in their color as gray pearls
• Soft vibrations of verbal melody, like the sound of a golden bell rung far down under the humming waters
• Some gleams of feeling pure and warm as sunshine on a sky of storm
• Some like veiled ghosts hurrying past as though driven to their land of shadows by shuddering fear
• Some minds are like an open fire—how direct and instant our communication with them
• Something divine seemed to cling around her like some subtle vapor
• Something resistant and inert, like the obstinate rolling over of a heavy sleeper after he has been called to get up
• Something sharp and brilliant, like the glitter of a sword or a forked flash of lightning
• Sorrowful eyes like those of wearied kine spent from the plowing
  • [kine = cows]
• Spread like wildfire
• Squirrel-in-the-cage kind of movement
• Stamping like a plowman to shuffle off the snow
• Stared about like calves in a pen
• Steadfast as the soul of truth
• Steals lingering like a river smooth
• Still as death
• Stood like a wave-beaten rock
• Straight as a ray of light
• Straight as an arrow
• Streamed like a meteor through the troubled air
• Streamed o'er his memory like a forest flame
• Streaming tears, like pearl drops from a flint
• Striking with the force of an engine of destruction
• Strong as a bison
• Style comes, if at all, like the bloom upon fruit, or the glow of health upon the cheek
• Subtle as jealousy
• Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, flushing his brow
• Sudden sprays of rain, like volleys of sharp arrows, rattled gustily against the windows
• Suddenly, like death, the truth flashed on them
• Sunbeams flashing on the face of things like sudden smilings of divine delight
• Sunday mornings which seem to put on, like a Sabbath garment, an atmosphere of divine quietude
• Supple and sweet as a rose in bloom
• Sway like blown moths against the rosewhite flame
• Sweet as a summer night without a breath
• Sweet as music she spoke
• Sweet as the rain at noon
• Sweet as the smile of a fairy
• Swift as a swallow heading south
• Swift as lightning
• Swift as the panther in triumph
• Swifter than the twinkling of an eye

T

• Talking and thinking became to him like the open page of a monthly magazine
• Tall lance-like reeds wave sadly o'er his head
• That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along
• The anemone that weeps at day-break, like a silly girl before her lover
• The army blazed and glowed in the golden sunlight like a mosaic of a hundred thousand jewels
• The army like a witch's caldron seethed
• The beating of her heart was like a drum
• The beauty of her quiet life was like a rose in blowing
• The billows burst like cannon down the coast
• The birds swam the flood of air like tiny ships
• The boat cuts its swift way through little waves like molten gold and opal
• The boom of the surf grew ever less sonorous, like the thunder of a retreating storm
• The breast-plate of righteousness
• The breathless hours like phantoms stole away
• The breeze is as a pleasant tune
• The calm white brow as calm as earliest morn
• The camp fire reddens like angry skies
• The chambers of the house were haunted by an incessant echoing, like some dripping cavern
• The church swarmed like a hive
• The city is all in a turmoil; it boils like a pot of lentils
• The clouds that move like spirits o'er the welkin clear
  • [welkin = sky]
• The clustered apples burnt like flame
• The colored bulbs swung noon-like from tree and shrub
• The crimson close of day
• The curl'd moon was like a little feather
• The curling wreaths like turbans seem
• The dark hours are swept away like crumbling ashes
• The dark mass of her hair shook round her like a sea
• The dawn is rising from the sea, like a white lady from her bed
• The dawn had whitened in the mist like a dead face
• The dawn with silver-sandaled feet crept like a frightened girl.
• The day stunned me like light upon some wizard way
• The day was sweeter than honey and the honey-comb
• The day have trampled me like armed men
• The dead past flew away over the fens like a flight of wild swans
• The deep like one black maelstrom round her whirls
• The deepening east like a scarlet poppy burnt
• The desolate rocky hills rolled like a solid wave along the horizon
• The dome of heaven is like one drop of dew
• The dreams of poets come like music heard at evening from the depth of some enchanted forest
• The eagerness faded from his eyes, leaving them cold as a winter sky after sunset
• The earth was like a frying-pan, or some such hissing matter
• The eternal sea, which like a childless mother, still must croon her ancient sorrows to the cold white moon
• The evening sky was as green as jade
• The excitement had spread through the whole house, like a piquant and agreeable odor
• The excitement of the thought buoyed his high-strung temperament like a tonic
• The feathery meadows like a lilac sea
• The firm body like a slope of snow
• The first whiff of reality dissipated them like smoke
• The floor, newly waxed, gleamed in the candle-light like beaten moonbeams
• The fragrant clouds of hair, they flowed round him like a snare
• The gathering glory of life shone like the dawn
• The gesture was all strength and will, like the stretching of a sea-bird's wings
• The girl's voice rang like a bird-call through his rustling fancies
• The glimmer of tall flowers standing like pensive moon-worshipers in an ecstasy of prayerless bloom
• The guides sniffed, like chamois, the air
  • [chamois = extremely agile goat antelope]
• The heavens are like a scroll unfurled
• The hills across the valley were purple as thunder-clouds
• The hoofs of the horses rang like the dumb cadence of an old saga
• The hours crawled by like years
• The hum of the camp sounds like the sea
• The hurrying crowds of men gather like clouds
• The ideas succeeded each other like a dynasty of kings
• The impalpable presence of the new century rose like a vast empty house through which no human feet had walked
• The inexorable facts closed in on him like prison-warders hand-cuffing a convict
• The lake glimmered as still as a mirror
• The land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell
• The land was like a dream
• The level boughs, like bars of iron across the setting sun
• The light of London flaring like a dreary dawn
• The lights blazed up like day
• The lilies were drooping, white, and wan, like the head and skin of a dying man
• The mellowing hand of time
• The melody rose tenderly and lingeringly like a haunting perfume of pressed flowers
• The Milky Way lay like diamond-dust upon the robe of some great king
• The monk's face whitened like sea-foam
• The moon drowsed between the trees like a great yellow moth
• The moon on the tower slept soft as snow
• The moonbeams rest like a pale spotless shroud
• The moonlight lay like snow
• The moonlight, like a fairy mist, upon the mesa spreads
• The mortal coldness of the soul, like death itself comes down
• The mountain shadows mingling, lay like pools above the earth
• The mountains loomed up dimly, like phantoms through the mist
• The music almost died away, then it burst like a pent-up flood
• The name that cuts into my soul like a knife
• The nervous little train winding its way like a jointed reptile
• The new ferns were spread upon the earth like some lacy coverlet
• The night like a battle-broken host is driven before
• The night yawned like a foul wind
• The ocean swelled like an undulating mirror of the bowl of heaven
• The old books look somewhat pathetically from the shelves, like aged dogs wondering why no one takes them for a walk
• The old infamy will pop into daylight like a toad out of fissure in the rock
• The penalty falls like a thunderbolt from heaven
• The phrase was like a spear-thrust
• The pine trees waved as waves a woman's hair
• The place was like some enchanted town of palaces
• The plains to northward change their color like the shimmering necks of doves
• The poppy burned like a crimson ember
• The prime of man has waxed like cedars
• The public press would chatter and make odd ambiguous sounds like a shipload of monkeys in a storm
• The purple heather rolls like dumb thunder
• The rainbows flashed like fire
• The river shouted as ever its cry of joy over the vitality of life, like a spirited boy before the face of inscrutable nature
• The roofs with their gables like hoods
• The roses lie upon the grass like little shreds of crimson silk
• The satire of the word cut like a knife
• The scullion with face shining like his pans
• The sea reeled round like a wine-vat splashing
• The sea-song of the trampling waves is as muffled bells
• The sea spread out like a wrinkled marble floor
• The sea, that gleamed still, like a myriad-petaled rose
• The sea was as untroubled as the turquoise vault which it reflected
• The setting of the sun is like a word of peace
• The sharp hail rattles against the panes and melts on my cheeks like tears
• The ships, like sheeted phantoms coming and going
• The silence seemed to crush to earth like a great looking-glass and shiver into a million pieces
• The silvery morning like a tranquil vision fills the world
• The sky burned like a heated opal
• The sky gleamed with the hardness and brilliancy of blue enamel
• The sky was as a shield that caught the stain of blood and battle from the dying sun
• The sky was clear and blue, and the air as soft as milk
• The sky was like a peach
• The sky where stars like lilies white and fair shine through the mists
• The solid air around me there heaved like a roaring ocean
• The solid mountains gleamed like the unsteady sea
• The soul is like a well of water springing up into everlasting life
• The sound is like a noon-day gale
• The sound is like a silver-fountain that springeth in a golden basin
• The sound of a thousand tears, like softly pattering wings
• The sound of your running feet that like the sea-hoofs beat
• The spear-tongued lightning slipped like a snake
• The Spring breaks like a bird
• The stacks of corn in brown array, like tattered wigwams on the plain
• The stars come down and trembling glow like blossoms on the waves below
• The stars lay on the lapis-lazuli sky like white flower-petals on still deep water [lapis-lazuli = opaque to translucent blue, violet-blue, or greenish-blue gemstone]
• The stars pale and silent as a seer
• The strange cold sense of aloofness that had numbed her senses suddenly gave way like snow melting in the spring
• The sudden thought of your face is like a wound when it comes unsought
• The sun, like a great dragon, writhes in gold
• The sun on the sea-wave lies white as the moon
• The surf was like the advancing lines of an unknown enemy flinging itself upon the shore
• The terrible past lay afar, like a dream left behind in the night
• The tide was in the salt-weed, and like a knife it tore
• The time, gliding like a dream
• The torrent from the hills leaped down their rocky stairways like wild steeds
• The tree whose plumed boughs are soft as wings of birds
• The uproar and contention pierced him like arrows
• The veiled future bowed before me like a vision of promise
• The velvet grass that is like padding to earth's meager ribs
• The villa dips its foot in the lake, smiling at its reflection like a bather lingering on the brink
• The voice of Fate, crying like some old Bellman through the world
• The voice that rang in the night like a bugle call
• The warm kindling blood burned her cheeks like the breath of a hot wind
• The waves were rolling in, long and lazy, like sea-worn travelers
• The whole truth, naked, cold, and fatal as a patriot's blade
• The wind all round their ears hissed like a flight of white-winged geese
• The wind comes and it draws its length along like the genii from the earthen pot
• The wine flows like blood
• The woman seemed like a thing of stone
• The words kept ringing in my ears like the tolling of a bell
• The words of the wise fall like the tolling of sweet, grave bells upon the soul
• The world had vanished like a phantasmagoria
• The world is bitter as a tear
• The world is in a simmer, like a sea
• The world wavers within its circle like a dream
• The years stretched before her like some vast blank page out to receive the record of her toil
• The years vanished like a May snowdrift
• The yellow apples glowed like fire
• Their glances met like crossed swords
• Their joy like sunshine deep and broad falls on my heart
• Their minds rested upon the thought, as chasing butterflies might rest together on a flower
• Their music frightful as the serpent's hiss
• Their touch affrights me as a serpent's sting
• Then fall unheeded like the faded flower
• Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
• Then it swelled out to rich and glorious harmonies like a full orchestra playing under the sea
• Then the lover sighing like furnace
• Theories sprouted in his mind like mushrooms
• There is an air about you like the air that folds a star
• There, like a bird, it sits and sings
• There seemed to brood in the air a quiet benevolence of a Father watching His myriad children at play
• There she soars like a seraph
• There she stood straight as a lily on its stem
• There slowly rose to sight, a country like a dragon fast asleep
• There streamed into the air the sweet smell of crushed grass, as though many fields had been pressed between giant's fingers and so had been left
• These eyes like stars have led me
• These final words snapped like a whip-lash
• These thoughts pierced me like thorns
• They are as cruel as creeping tigers
• They are as white foam on the swept sands
• They are as white swans in the dusk, thy white hands
• They are painted sharp as death
• They broke into pieces and fell on the ground, like a silvery, shimmering shower of hail
• They dropped like panthers
• They fly like spray
• They had hands like claws
• They had slipped away like visions
• They have as many principles as a fish has bones
• They have faces like flowers
• They hurried down like plovers that have heard the call
  • [plovers = wading birds]
• They look like rose-buds filled with snow
• They seem like swarming flies, the crowd of little men
• They seemed like floating flowers
• They shine as sweet as simple doves
• They stand like solitary mountain forms on some hard, perfectly transparent day
• They vanished like the shapes that float upon a summer's dream
• Thick as wind-blown leaves innumerable
• Thickly the flakes drive past, each like a childish ghost
• Thine eyes like two twin stars shining
• This life is like a bubble blown up in the air
• This love that dwells like moonlight in your face
• This thought is as death
• This tower rose in the sunset like a prayer
• Those ancestral themes past which so many generations have slept like sea-going winds over pastures
• Those death-like eyes, unconscious of the sun
• Those eyelids folded like a white rose-leaf
• Those eyes like bridal beacons shine
• Thou art to me but as a wave of the wild sea
• Thou as heaven art fair and young
• Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea
• Thou must wither like a rose
• Thou shalt be as free as mountain winds
• Thou wouldst weep tears bitter as blood
• Though bright as silver the meridian beams shine
• Though thou be black as night
• Thoughts vague as the fitful breeze
• Three-cornered notes fly about like butterflies
• Through the forest, like a fairy dream through some dark mind, the ferns in branching beauty stream
• Through the moonlit trees, like ghosts of sounds haunting the moonlight, stole the faint tinkle of a guitar
• Through the riot of his senses, like a silver blaze, ran the legend
• Thy beauty like a beast it bites
• Thy brown benignant eyes have sudden gleams of gladness and surprise, like woodland brooks that cross a sunlit spot
• Thy carven columns must have grown by magic, like a dream in stone
• Thy favors are but like the wind that kisses everything it meets
• Thy heart is light as a leaf of a tree
• Thy name burns like a gray and flickering candle flame
• Thy name will be as honey on men's lips
• Till death like sleep might steal on me
• Till he melted like a cloud in the silent summer heaven
• Time drops in decay, like a candle burnt out
• Time like a pulse shakes fierce
• To drag life on, which like a heavy chain lengthens behind with many a link of pain
• To forsake as the trees drop their leaves in autumn
• Toys with smooth trifles like a child at play
• Transitory as clouds without substance
• Transparent like a shining sun
• Tree and shrub altered their values and became transmuted to silver sentinels
• Trees that spread their forked boughs like a stag's antlers
• Trembling like an aspen-leaf
• Truths which forever shine as fixed stars
• Turning easily and securely as on a perfect axle

U

• Unbends like a loosened bow
• Unbreakable as iron
• Unconscious as an oak-tree of its growth
• Under the willow-tree glimmered her face like a foam-flake drifting over the sea
• Unheralded, like some tornado loosed out of the brooding hills, it came to pass
• Unknown, like a seed in fallow ground, was the germ of a plan
• Unmoving as a tombstone
• Untameable as flies
• Unutterable things pressing on my soul like a pent-up storm craving for outlet
• Upcast like foam of the effacing tide
• Uplifting the soul as on dovelike wings
• Uplifting their stony peaks around us like the walls and turrets of a gigantic fortress
• Urgent as the seas
• Uttering wild cries like a creature in pain

V

• Vague as a dream
• Vague thoughts that stream shapelessly through her mind like long sad vapors through the twilight sky
• Vanish into thin air, like ghosts at the cockcrow
• Vanished like snow when comes a thaw
• Vanished like vapor before the sun
• Vibrations set quivering like harp strings struck by the hand of a master
• Vociferous praise following like a noisy wave

W

• Walking somewhat unsteadily like a blind man feeling his way
• Waves glittered and danced on all sides like millions of diamonds
• We left her and retraced our steps like faithless hounds
• Weak and frail like the vapor of a vale
• Wearing their wounds like stars
• Weary wind, who wanderest like the world's rejected guest
• When a draft might puff them out like a guttering candle
  • [guttering = To melt through the side of the hollow in a candle formed by a burning wick; to burn low and unsteadily; flicker]
• When arm in arm they both came swiftly running, like a pair of turtle-doves that could not live asunder day or night
• When cards, invitations, and three-corn'd notes fly about like white butterflies
• When she died, her breath whistled like the wind in a keyhole
• When the fever pierced me like a knife
• Where a lamp of deathless beauty shines like a beacon
• Where heroes die as leaves fall
• Where the intricate wheels of trade are grinding on, like a mill
• Where the source of the waters is fine as a thread
• Whilst the lagging hours of the day went by like windless clouds o'er a tender sky
• Whistled sharply in the air like a handful of vipers
• White as a ghost from darkness
• White as chalk
• White as dove or lily, or spirit of the light
• White as the driven snow
• White as the moon's white flame
• White as the sea-bird's wing
• White clouds like daisies
• White hands she moves like swimming swans
• White hands through her hair, like white doves going into the shadow of a wood
• White like flame
• White sails of sloops like specters
• Whose bodies are as strong as alabaster
• Whose hair was as gold raiment on a king
• Whose laugh moves like a bat through silent haunted woods
• Whose little eyes glow like the sparks of fire
• Whose music like a robe of living light reclothed each new-born age
• Windy speech which hits all around the mark like a drunken carpenter
• Winged like an arrow to its mark
• With a sting like a scorpion
• With all the complacency of a homeless cat
• With an angry broken roar, like billows on an unseen shore, their fury burst
• With hate darkling as the swift winter hail
• With music sweet as love
• With sounds like breakers
• With strength like steel
• With the whisper of leaves in one's ear
• With words like honey melting from the comb
• Wits as sharp as gimlets
  • [gimlet = small hand tool for boring holes]
• Women with tongues like polar needles
• Words as fresh as spring verdure
  • [verdure = lush greenness of flourishing vegetation]
• Words as soft as rain
• Words like the gossamer film of the summer
• Words sweet as honey from his lips distill'd
• Words were flashing like brilliant birds through the boughs overhead
• Wordsworth, thy music like a river rolls
• Worthless like the conjurer's gold
• Wrangle over details like a grasping pawnbroker
• Wrinkled and scored like a dried apple
• Writhing with an intensity that burnt like a steady flame

Y

• Yielding like melted snow
• Yonder flimsy crescent, bent like an archer's bow above the snowy summit
• You are as gloomy to-night as an undertaker out of employment
• You are as hard as stone
• You gave me such chill embraces as the snow-covered heights receive from clouds
• Your blood is red like wine
• Your charms lay like metals in a mine
• Your eyes are like fantastic moons that shiver in some stagnant lake
• Your eyes as blue as violets
• Your eyes they were green and gray like an April day
• Your frail fancies are swallowed up, like chance flowers flung upon the river's current
• Your hair was golden as tints of sunrise
• Your heart is as dry as a reed
• Your locks are like the raven
• Your love shall fall about me like sweet rain
• Your step's like the rain to summer vexed farmer
• Your thoughts are buzzing like a swarm of bees
• Your tongue is like a scarlet snake
• Your voice had a quaver in it just like the linnet
  • [linnet = small finch]
• Youth like a summer morn

Useful

A

• abandoned hope
• abated pride
• abbreviated visit
• abhorred thraldom
  • [thraldom = enslaved or in bondage]
• abiding romance
• abject submission
• abjured ambition
• able strategist
• abnormal talents
• abominably perverse
• abounding happiness
• abridged statement
• abrogated law
• abrupt transition
• absolutely irrevocable
• absorbed reverie
• abstemious diet
  • [abstemious = eating and drinking in moderation]
• abstract character
• abstruse reasoning
• absurdly dangerous
• abundant opportunity
• abusive epithet
• abysmally apologetic
• academic rigor
• accelerated progress
• accentuated playfulness
• accepted littleness
• accessible pleasures
• accessory circumstances
• accidental lapse
• accommodating temper
• accomplished ease
• accredited agent
• accumulated burden
• accurate appraisement
• accursed enemy
• accusing glance
• accustomed lucidity
• aching desire
• acknowledged authority
• acoustical effects
• acquired timidity
• acrid controversy
• acrimonious warfare
• actively zealous
• actualized ideals
• acutely conscious
• adamantine rigidity
  • [adamantine = unyielding; inflexible]
• adaptive wit
• adduced facts
  • [adduce = cite as an example]
• adequate execution
• adhesive quality
• administered rebuke
• admirable reserve
• admissible evidence
• admittedly inferior
• admonitory gesture
• adolescent youth
• adorable vanity
• adroit flatterer
• adulated stranger
• adventitious way
  • [adventitious = not inherent; added extrinsically]
• adventurous mind
• adverse experience
• affably accommodating
• affected indifference
• affectionate approval
• affianced lady
• affirmative attitude
• affluent language
• affrighted slave
• aggravated faults
• aggregate body
• aggressive selfishness
• agile mind
• agitated imagination
• agonizing appeal
• agreeable frankness
• aimless confusion
• airy splendor
• alarming rapidity
• alert acceptance
• algebraic brevity
• alien splendor
• alleged reluctance
• allegorical vein
• allied subjects
• alliterative suggestion
• all-pervading influence
• alluring idleness
• alternating opinion
• altogether dissimilar
• altruistic ideal
• amatory effusions
  • [amatory = expressive of sexual love]
• amazing artifice
• ambidextrous assistant
• ambiguous grimace
• ambitious project
• ambling pedestrian
• ambrosial essence
  • [ambrosial = fragrant or delicious; worthy of the gods; divine.]
• amiable solicitude
• amicable arrangement
• amorous youth
• ample culture
• amusing artlessness
• analogous example
• analytical survey
• ancestral creed
• ancient garb
• angelic softness
• angry protestations
• anguished entreaty
• angular features
• animated eloquence
• annoying complications
• anomalous appearance
• anonymous benefactor
• answering response
• antagonistic views
• antecedent facts
• anticipated attention
• antiquated prudery
• anxious misgiving
• apathetic greeting
• aphoristic wit
  • [aphoristic = Tersely phrased statement]
• apish agility
• apocalyptic vision
• apocryphal lodger
  • [apocryphal = questionable authenticity]
• apologetic explanation
• apostrophic dignity
• appalling difficulties
• apparent significance
• appealing picture
• appointed function
• apposite illustration
• appreciable relief
• appreciative fervor
• apprehensive dread
• apprentice touch
• appropriate designation
• approving smile
• approximately correct
• aptly suggested
• arbitrarily imposed
• arch conspirator
• arched embrasure
  • [embrasure = flared opening for a gun in a wall or parapet]
• archeological pursuits
• architectural grandeur
• ardent protest
• arduous quest
• arid formula
• aristocratic lineage
• aromatic fragrance
• arrant trifling
• arrested development
• arrogant imposition
• artful adaptation
• artificial suavity
• artistic elegance
• artless candor
• ascending supremacy
• ascetic devotion
• ascribed productiveness
• aspiring genius
• assembled arguments
• asserted activity
• assiduously cultivated
• assimilative power
• assumed humiliation
• assuredly enshrined
• astonishing facility
• astounding mistakes
• astute observer
• athletic prowess
• atmospheric vagueness
• atoning sacrifice
• atrocious expression
• atrophied view
• attending circumstances
• attentive deference
• attenuated sound
• attested loyalty
• attractive exordium
  • [exordium = introduction of a speech or treatise]
• audacious mendicant
  • [mendicant = depending on alms; beggar]
• audible intimations
• augmented force
• august tribunal
• auspicious moment
• austere charm
• authentic indications
• authoritative critic
• autobiographical pages
• autocratic power
• automatic termination
• autumnal skies
• auxiliary aids
• available data
• avaricious eyes
• avenging fate
• average excellence
• averted calamity
• avowed intention
• awakened curiosity
• awed devotion
• awful dejection
• awkward dilemma
• axiomatic truth
• azure sky

B

• babbling gossip
• bacchanalian desires
• bachelor freedom
• bad omen
• baffled sagacity
  • [sagacity = farsighted; wise]
• balanced capacity
• baldly described
• baleful glances
• balmy fragrance
• bandying talk
• baneful impression
• banished silence
• barbarous statecraft
• barefaced appeal
• barest commonplaces
• barren opportunities
• base intrigues
• baseless assumptions
• bashful modesty
• basic principles
• battered witticism
• beaming countenance
• bearish rudeness
• beatific vision
• beautiful modesty
• beckoning horizon
• becoming diffidence
• bedraggled wretch
• befitting honor
• beggarly flimsiness
• beguiling voice
• belated acknowledgment
• belittling fears
• bellicose humanity
• beneficent career
• benevolent regard
• benighted sense
• benignant pity
  • [benignant = favorable; beneficial; kind]
• beseeching gesture
• besetting heresy
• besotted fanaticism
• bestial ferocity
• bewildering maze
• bewitching airs
• beyond peradventure
  • [peradventure = perhaps]
• bibulous diversions
  • [bibulous = consumes alcoholic drink]
• bigoted contempt
• binding obligation
• bitter recrimination
• bizarre apparel
• blackening west
• blameless indolence
• blanched desolation
• bland confidence
• blank misgivings
• blasphemous hypocrisy
• blatant discourse
• blazing audacity
• blazoned shield
• bleak loneliness
• blended impression
• blessed condolence
• blighted happiness
• blind partizan
• blissful consciousness
• blistering satire
• blithe disregard
• bloated equivalent
• bloodless creature
• bloodthirsty malice
• blundering discourtesy
• blunt rusticity
  • [rusticity = rustic; awkward or tactless]
• blurred vision
• blustering assertion
• boastful positiveness
• bodily activity
• boisterous edification
• bold generalization
• bombastic prating
  • [prating = idle talk]
• bookish precision
• boon companion
• boorish abuse
• bored demeanor
• borrowed grace
• bottomless abyss
• boundless admiration
• bountiful supply
• boyish appreciation
• braggart pretense
• bravely vanquished
• braying trumpet
• brazen importunity
  • [importunity = insistent request]
• breathless eagerness
• brief tenure
• briefless barrister
• bright interlude
• brilliant embodiment
• brisk energy
• bristling temper
• brittle sarcasm
• broadening fame
• broken murmurs
• brooding peace
• brutal composure
• bubbling frivolities
• bucolic cudgeling
  • [bucolic = about shepherds or flocks; pastoral] [cudgeling = beat with a short heavy stick]
• budding joy
• bulky figure
• buoyant pluck
• burdensome business
• burly strength
• burning zeal
• bursting laugh
• busily engrossed
• business acumen
• bygone period

C

• cabalistic phrase
  • [cabalistic = secret or hidden meaning]
• cadaverous appearance
• calamitous course
• calculating admiration
• callous indifference
• calm resignation
• calumnious suspicions
  • [calumnious = harmful and often untrue; discredit]
• cantankerous enemy
• canting hypocrite
  • [canting = monotonous platitudes; hypocritically pious]
• capacious mind
• capricious allurements
• captivating speech
• cardinal merit
• careless parrying
• caressing grasp
• carping critic
• castellated towers
  • [castellated = with turrets and battlements like a castle]
• casual violation
• cataclysmic elements
• causelessly frightened
• caustic remark
• cautious skepticism
• cavernous gloom
• ceaseless vigilance
• celebrated instance
• celestial joy
• censorious critic
• centralized wealth
• ceremonious courtesy
• cerulean blue
  • [cerulean = azure; sky-blue]
• challenge admiration
• chance reflections
• changing exigencies
  • [exigencies = pressing or urgent situation]
• chaotic plans
• characteristic audacity
• charitable allowance
• charming radiance
• chary instincts
  • [chary = cautious; wary]
• chastened hope
• chatty familiarity
• cheap resentment
• cheery response
• chequered career
• cherished objects
• childlike ingenuousness
  • [ingenuous = frank; candid.]
• chilled cynicism
• chirpy familiarities
• chivalrous spirit
• choicest refinements
• choleric temperament
  • [choleric = easily angered; bad-tempered]
• choral chant
• chronic frailties
• churlish temper
  • [churlish = boorish; vulgar; rude]
• circling eddyings
• circuitous information
• circumscribed purpose
• civic consciousness
• civilizing influence
• clammy death
• clamorous vibration
• clangorous industry
• clarion tone
• class demarcations
• classical objurgation
  • [objurgation = harsh rebuke]
• clattering accents
• clear insight
• climactic revelation
• clinching proof
• cloaked nature
• cloistered virtue
• close condensation
• cloudy magnificence
• clownishly insensible
• cloying sweetness
  • [cloying = too filling, rich, or sweet]
• clumsy talk
• clustering trees
• coarse necessity
• coaxing eloquence
• coercive enactment
• cogent statement
• coherent thinking
• coined metaphor
• cold formalities
• collateral duties
• collective wisdom
• colloquial display
• colonial character
• colossal failure
• comatose state
• combative tone
• comforting reassurance
• comic infelicity
• commanding attitude
• commendable purpose
• commercial opulence
• commingled emotion
• commodiously arranged
• common substratum
• commonplace allusions
• compact fitness
• comparative scantiness
• compassionate love
• compelling force
• compendious abstract
• compensatory character
• competent authority
• competitive enterprise
• complacent platitudes
• complaining sea
• complaisant observation
• complete aloofness
• complex notions
• complicated maze
• complimentary glance
• component aspects
• composed zeal
• composite growth
• compound idea
• comprehensive design
• compressed view
• compromising rashness
• compulsory repetition
• compunctious visitings
  • [compunctious = feeling guilt]
• concatenated pedantries
  • [pedantries = attention to detail or rules]
• concealed advantage
• conceivable comparison
• concentrated vigor
• concerted action
• conciliating air
• concomitant events
• concrete realities
• concurrent testimony
• condemnable rashness
• condescending badinage
  • [badinage = frivolous banter]
• conditional approval
• confessed ardor
• confidently anticipated
• confirmed misanthrope
  • [misanthrope = one who dislikes people in general]
• conflicting influences
• confused mingling
• conjectural estimate
• conjugal felicity
• connected series
• connotative damage
• connubial love
• conquering intelligence
• conscientious objection
• conscious repugnance
• consecrated endeavor
• consequent retribution
• conservative distrust
• considerate hint
• consistent friendliness
• consoling consciousness
• conspicuous ascendency
• constant reiteration
• constitutional reserve
• constrained politeness
• constructive idealists
• consuming zeal
• consummate mastery
• contagious wit
• contaminating influence
• contemplative nature
• contemporary fame
• contemptuous disrespect
• contented indolence
• contingent reasons
• continuous endeavor
• contorted expression
• contracted view
• contradictory theories
• contrary tendencies
• contrasted types
• controversial disputant
• contumelious epithet
  • [contumelious = Rudeness or contempt arising from arrogance]
• convenient footing
• conventional verbiage
• conversational decorum
• convincing forcefulness
• convivial habits
• convulsive agony
• cool confidence
• copious materials
• coquettish advances
• cordial approval
• corporate selfishness
• corporeal constituent
• correct forecast
• corresponding variation
• corroborated truth
• corrosive effect
• corrupting tendency
• cosmical changes
• cosmopolitan position
• costly advantages
• counterbalancing power
• countless barriers
• courageous eagerness
• courteous solicitude
• courtly bearing
• covert curiosity
• coveted honors
• cowardly concession
• cowering agitation
• coy reluctance
• crackling laughter
• crafty deception
• craggy eminence
• cramped energies
• crass stolidity
• craven determination
• creative faculty
• credibly informed
• creditable performance
• credulous superstition
• creeping progress
• criminal negligence
• cringing smile
• crisp dialogue
• critical judgment
• crouching culprit
• crowning indiscretion
• crucial instance
• crucifying irony
• crude affectation
• cruel handicap
• crumbling precipice
• crunching jangle
• crushing sorrow
• cryptic saying
• crystalline sky
• crystallized conclusions
• culinary myrmidons
  • [myrmidon = one who carries out orders without question]
• culminating fascination
• culpable behavior
• cultivated ferocity
• cultured idleness
• cumbrous fragments
  • [cumbrous = cumbersome; difficult to handle or use]
• cumulative tendency
• cunningly contrived
• curbed profligacy
• curious coincidence
• current gossip
• curry favor
• cursed inactivity
• cursory acquaintance
• curt formality
• curtained embrasure
• cutting directness
• cycloramic sweep
• cynical disregard

D

• damaging admission
• damask cheek
  • [damask = rich patterned fabric; wavy pattern on Damascus steel]
• dampened ardor
• dancing sunshine
• dangerous temerity
• dappled shadows
• daring candor
• dark superstition
• dashing gallantry
• dastardly injustice
• dauntless courage
• dawning instinct
• dazed brain
• dazzling triumph
• deadly virulence
• deaf tribunal
• deathless structure
• debasing tendency
• debatable point
• debilitating features
• decadent poets
• deceiving mists
• decided superiority
• decisive manner
• declamatory treatment
  • [declamatory = pretentiously rhetorical; bombastic]
• declared brotherhood
• decorously adorned
• deepening dusk
• deep-seated curiosity
• deep-toned lamentations
• defective construction
• defenseless innocence
• defensive alliance
• deferential regard
• defiant coldness
• deficient vitality
• definite conception
• deformed visage
• deft evasion
• degrading tendencies
• delectable speculations
• delegated power
• deliberate abnegation
  • [abnegation = self-denial]
• delicate discrimination
• delicious vagueness
• delightful variation
• delirious ecstasies
• delusive charm
• demagogic style
• democratic institutions
• demoniacal force
• demonstrable conclusion
• demoralizing luxury
• demure composure
• denunciatory terms
• departed glories
• deplorable decay
• deprecatory shrug
• depressing concomitants
• depthless forest
• derisive voice
• derogatory denial
• descriptive power
• desecrated ideals
• deserted desert
• deserved approbation
  • [approbation = warm approval; praise]
• desirable distinction
• desolating dread
• despairing austerity
• desperate defiance
• despicable vices
• despondent exaggeration
• despotic rulers
• destructive radicalism
• desultory vacillation
  • [desultory = disconnected; haphazard; random]
• detailed portraiture
• detected hypocrisies
• determinate swing
• detestable purpose
• dethroned princes
• detrimental result
• devastating effect
• devilish sophistries
• deviously subtle
• devitalized personality
• devoted attachment
• devouring ambition
• devout thanksgiving
• dewy coolness
• dexterous impudence
• diabolical passion
• dialectic power
• diametrically opposite
• dictatorial manner
• dictionary significance
• didactic exposition
  • [didactic = intended to be morally instructive]
• different distortion
• difficult portraiture
• diffident civility
  • [diffident = lacking self-confidence; shy; timid]
• diffuse verbosity
• dignified austerity
• digressional adventure
• dilettante mind
  • [dilettante = dabbler in a field of knowledge]
• diligently propagated
• dim comprehension
• diminished efficacy
• diminutive stature
• diplomatic skill
• dire consummation
• direct obligation
• disappointing attitude
• disarmed criticism
• disastrous termination
• discarded reminiscences
• discerning critic
• disciplined mind
• disclosed insincerity
• discomfited opponent
• disconcerted conjecture
• disconnected fancies
• disconsolate opinions
• discordant sounds
• discredited statement
• discretional opinion
• discriminating homage
• discursive staggerings
• disdainful comment
• diseased hallucinations
• disembodied personality
• disengaged air
• disfiguring disguise
• disgraceful plight
• disgruntled pessimist
• disguised contempt
• disgusted protest
• disheartening facts
• dishonorable submission
• disillusioned youth
• disintegrating tendency
• disinterested motive
• disjoined reminiscences
• dismal seclusion
• dismantled appearance
• disordered imagination
• disparaging criticism
• dispassionate judgment
• dispelling fear
• displeasing softness
• disproportionate ideas
• disputative philosopher
• disquieting thrill
• disreputable aspect
• dissenting opinion
• dissimilar laws
• dissipated illusion
• dissolute audacity
• dissolving years
• dissonant jargon
• distant adherent
• distasteful notion
• distempered feeling
• distinct desideratum
• distorted vanity
• distracting babble
• distraught air
• distressing laxity
• disturbed equanimity
• diurnal rotation
• divergent calculations
• diversified attributes
• diverting interests
• divine potentialities
• dizzy precipice
• documentary evidence
• dogged determination
• doggerel expressions
  • [doggerel = crude, humorous verse]
• dogmatic assurance
• doleful forebodings
• domestic endearment
• dominating influence
• domineering insolence
• dormant capacities
• doubly odious
• doubtful authenticity
• downright nonsense
• downtrodden drudge
• drab apology
• dramatic liveliness
• drastic action
• dread presence
• dreaming adventurer
• dreamless rest
• dreary disrelish
• droll incongruity
• droning world
• drowsy tranquillity
• dubious success
• ductile language
• dulcet tone
• dull aversion
• dumb surprise
• dumbfounded amazement
• durable impression
• dusky obscurity
• dutiful compliance
• dynamic energy
• dynastic insolence

E

• eager animosity
• early servitude
• earnestly espoused
• earthly splendor
• easy garrulity
  • [garrulity = excessive talkativeness]
• eccentric casuists
  • [casuistry = excessively subtle reasoning intended to mislead]
• ecclesiastical rule
• echoless silence
• economic absurdity
• ecstatically happy
• edifying exhortation
• educational enterprise
• effective embellishment
• effectual stimulus
• effeminate grace
• effervescent multitude
• effete aristocracy
• efficacious power
• efficient education
• efflorescent style
  • [efflorescent = bursting into flower]
• effulgent daybeams
  • [effulgent = radiating light]
• egoistic sentiment
• egregious mistake
  • [egregious = outrageously reprehensible]
• ejaculatory prayer
• elaborate composition
• elastic ductility
• electric effluvium
  • [effluvium = invisible emanation; an aura]
• elegant mediocrity
• elemental emotions
• elephantine footsteps
• elevated enjoyment
• elfish grace
• eloquent refutation
• elusive charm
• emancipating labors
• embarrassing variety
• embellished truths
• embittered gaze
• emblazoned pinnacles
• embryo enterprise
• emerald scintillations
• eminent nonentity
• emotional warmth
• emotive power
• emphatic earnestness
• empirical corroboration
• empty phraseology
• emulative zeal
• enamored troubadour
• enchanted garden
• encircling embrace
• endearing appellation
  • [appellation = name, title; act of naming]
• endless dissertation
• enduring charm
• energetic enthusiasm
• enervating humility
  • [enervating = weaken or destroy the strength]
• enfeebled activity
• enforced silence
• engaging affability
• engendered feelings
• engrossing purpose
• engulfing waters
• enhanced reputation
• enigmatical silence
• enlightened solicitude
• enlivened monotony
• ennobling personality
• enormously outbalanced
• enraptured attention
• enriched experience
• entangled subject
• enthralling charm
• enthusiastic adherents
• enticing odors
• entire domain
• entrancing sadness
• enveloping presence
• envenomed attacks
• enviable superiority
• environing conditions
• ephemeral duration
  • [ephemeral = markedly short-lived]
• epicurean taste
• epigrammatic sallies
  • [epigrammatic = terse and witty]
• equable composure
• equally efficacious
• equitably governed
• equivocal compliment
• erotic poem
• errant thoughts
• erratic flight
• erroneous assumption
• erudite labors
  • [erudite = having or showing profound knowledge]
• eruptive violence
• esoteric doctrine
• especial pleasure
• essential prerequisite
• estimable qualities
• eternal hostility
• ethereal azure
• ethical wisdom
• euphuistic affectations
  • [euphuistic = affected elegance of language]
• evanescent glances
  • [evanescent = vanishing like vapor]
• evangelic doctrine
• evasive answer
• eventful circumstance
• eventual failure
• everlasting mysteries
• everyday reality
• evident authority
• evil necromancy
  • [necromancy = communicating with the dead to predict the future; black magic; sorcery]
• eviscerating shrieks
• exact antithesis
• exacting taskmaster
• exaggerated estimate
• exalted imagination
• exasperating coolness
• exceedingly acceptable
• excellent discernment
• exceptional magnitude
• excessive zeal
• excitable temperament
• exclusive pursuit
• excretory secretion
• excruciating accents
• excursive fancy
• execrable villainy
  • [execrable = hateful; extremely inferior; very bad]
• executive efficiency
• exemplary conduct
• exhaustless energy
• exhilarating charm
• exoteric scorn
  • [exoteric = easily comprehensible; popular; outside]
• exotic appearance
• expansive benevolence
• expectant throng
• expeditionary force
• expeditiously secreted
• experimental suggestion
• expiatory sacrifices
• explicit injunction
• explosive violence
• expressionless visage
• expressive lineaments
  • [lineaments = distinctive shape, especially of the face]
• exquisite tact
• extemporaneous effusion
• extended magnitude
• extenuating circumstance
• external cheerfulness
• extraneous ideas
• extraordinary vivacity
• extravagant caprice
• extremely picturesque
• exuberant mirth
• exultant condition

F

• facetious mood
• facile criticism
• factitious propensity
• faded magnificence
• faintly sinister
• faithfully perpetuated
• fallacious hopes
• false illusions
• faltering tongue
• familiar sacredness
• famished voracity
• fanatical admiration
• fanciful alliance
• fantastic display
• farcical expedient
• far-reaching influence
• fascinating illusiveness
• fashioned symmetrically
• fastidious taste
• fatal disclosure
• fatalistic belief
• fathomless powers
• fatiguing assertion
• fattening servitude
• fatuous pedantry
  • [pedantry = attention to detail or rules]
• faultless taste
• favorable augury
• fawning flatteries
• fearful imprecations
• fearless integrity
• feasible mode
• feeble dribble
• feigned reluctance
• felicitous expression
• feminine capriciousness
• ferocious foe
• fertile fancy
• fervent invocation
• fervid enthusiasm
• festive illuminations
• fetid dampness
• fettered tyranny
• feverish bewilderment
• fickle fancy
• fictitious pretext
• fidgety impatience
• fierce resentment
• fiery indignation
• figurative eloquence
• filial tenderness
• final enthronement
• fine sensibilities
• finished artistry
• fireside delights
• fitful desire
• fitting opportunity
• fizzing flame
• flaccid faith
• flagging popularity
• flagitious attack
  • [flagitious = extremely brutal or cruel crimes; vicious; infamous]
• flagrant boasting
• flamboyant brilliancy
• flaming zeal
• flashing wit
• flat denial
• flattering aspect
• flaunting insolence
• flawless constitution
• fleecy clouds
• fleeting intimation
• flickering conscience
• flighty obstinacy
• flimsy organization
• flippant ease
• floating blackness
• florid oratory
  • [florid = ornate; flowery]
• flowery circumlocution
• flowing imagery
• fluctuating light
• fluent sophist
• fluffy indignation
• fluid ideas
• flushed embarrassment
• fluttering laugh
• focused attention
• foggy notion
• fond enthusiast
• foolish frenzy
• forbearing silence
• forbidding air
• forceful audacity
• foregone conclusion
• foremost opponent
• forensic orator
• forest stillness
• forgotten graveyard
• forlorn desolation
• formal acquiescence
• formidable barrier
• formless jottings
• formulated conclusions
• fortified selfishness
• fortuitous circumstance
• foul calumny
  • [calumny = maliciously lying to injure a reputation]
• fragile form
• fragmentary facts
• fragrant reminiscence
• frail craft
• frank admiration
• frantic ardor
• fraternal pity
• freakish humor
• freeborn soul
• freezing disdain
• frenzied haste
• frequent digression
• fresh impetus
• freshening breeze
• fretful discontent
• friendly familiarity
• frightened sense
• frightful apparition
• frigid disdain
• frisky lightness
• frivolous expedient
• frolicsome extravagance
• frozen wonder
• fructifying thought
  • [fructifying = make fruitful or productive]
• fruitful indignation
• fruitless repining
• fugitive thoughts
• full plenitude
• fulsome praise
• fumbling endeavor
• functional disparity
• fundamental principles
• funereal gloom
• furious invective
  • [invective = abusive language]
• furrowed cheeks
• furtive glance
• fussy enthusiasms
• futile babble

G

• gabbling reminiscences
  • [gabbling = speak rapidly or incoherently; jabber]
• galling thought
• galvanic jumpings
• gaping chasm
• garbled information
• garish decorations
• garnered experience
• gathering gloom
• gaudy embellishments
• gaunt specter
• gay defiance
• general acclamation
• generative influence
• generic characteristics
• generous abundance
• genial tolerance
• genteel parlance
• gentle blandishments
  • [blandishments = coax by flattery]
• gentlemanly personage
• genuine cynicism
• geological enigma
• geometrical progression
• germinal idea
• ghastly loneliness
• ghostly apparitions
• giant height
• giddy pleasure
• gifted intelligence
• gigantic sagacity
  • [sagacity = discerning, sound in judgment; wisdom.]
• girlish sprightliness
• gladdening influence
• gladiatorial exercise
• gladsome glow
• glaring impropriety
• glassy smoothness
• gleaming escutcheon
  • [escutcheon = shield-shaped emblem bearing a coat of arms]
• gleeful spirit
• glibly condoned
• gliding measures
• glimmering idea
• glistening dewdrop
• glittering epigram
• gloomy musing
• glorious freedom
• glossed faults
• glowering countenance
• glowing anticipations
• gnawing thoughts
• godlike independence
• golden opportunity
• good-humored gibes
• gorgeous splendor
• gossiping opinion
• governing impulse
• graceful demeanor
• gracious immunity
• graduated sequence
• grandiose nomenclature
• graphic portrayal
• grasping credulity
• gratuitous rudeness
• grave reticence
• greedy grasp
• gregarious humanity
• grievously mistaken
• grim swiftness
• grinding despotism
• grinning ghosts
• griping fascination
• grizzled warrior
• gross exaggeration
• grotesque perversion
• groundless fear
• groveling servility
• growing tension
• grudging thanks
• grumbling monotone
• guileless zeal
• gullible humanity
• gurgling brooks
• gushing enthusiasm
• gusty clamor
• guttural incoherence
• gymnastic agility

H

• habitual deference
• hackneyed statement
• hairbreadth difference
• halcyon innocence
  • [halcyon = tranquil; prosperous; golden]
• hallowed stillness
• halting praise
• hampered power
• handsomely recompensed
• haphazard ostentation
• happy intuition
• harassing anxiety
• hardened indifference
• harmless mirth
• harmonious grace
• harrowing details
• harsh jarrings
• hasty generalization
• hateful malignity
• haughty composure
• haunting despair
• hazardous enterprise
• hazy recollection
• headlong vehemence
• healthful vitality
• heartfelt amity
• heartless perfidy
  • [perfidy = breach of faith; treachery]
• heartrending outcry
• hearty contempt
• heated discussion
• heathen hordes
• heavenly ecstasies
• heavy handicap
• hectic tittering
• hectoring rant
• heedless love
• heightened charm
• heinous enormity
• helpless innocence
• herculean monster
• hereditary arrogance
• heretical opinions
• hermetically sealed
• heroic fortitude
• hesitating courage
• heterogeneous mass
• hidden pitfalls
• hideous phantom
• high-flying theories
• highly meritorious
• hilarious outburst
• hillside mist
• hissing murmur
• historic edifice
• hoarded vengeance
• hoary antiquity
• hollow joys
• homebred virtues
• homeless wind
• homely pathos
• homespun play
• homicidal mania
• homogeneous whole
• honest admiration
• honeyed eloquence
• hooligan wind
• hopelessly befogged
• horrible swiftness
• horrid significance
• hortatory moonshine
• hospitable courtesy
• hostile partizan
• hot frenzy
• hovering presence
• howling chaos
• huddled faculties
• huge aspiration
• human derelict
• humanitarian impulse
• humbly propitiating
  • [propitiating = appeasing]
• humdrum inconsistencies
• humid luster
• humiliating discomfiture
• humorless variety
• humorous urbanity
• hungry satisfaction
• hurrying years
• hurtful indulgence
• hushed laughter
• husky shrillness
• hybrid emotions
• hypnotic fascination
• hypochondriacal terrors
• hypocritical pretense
• hysterical agitation

I

• iconoclastic attitude
• icy smile
• idealistic type
• identical mode
• idiomatic propriety
• idiotic obstinacy
• idle jesting
• idolatrous fervor
• idyllic nonsense
• ignoble domination
• ignominious retreat
• ill-concealed impatience
• illiberal superstition
• illimitable progression
• illiterate denizens
• illogical interruption
• illuminating insight
• illusive touch
• illustrative anecdote
• illustrious era
• imaginative warmth
• imbittered controversy
• immaterial connection
• immature dissent
• immeasurable scorn
• immediate abjuration
  • [abjuration = renounce under oath]
• immemorial bulwark
• immense complacency
• imminent perplexities
• immitigable contempt
• immoderate grief
• immortal creation
• immovably silent
• immutable law
• impaired prestige
• impalpable nothingness
• impartial justice
• impassable serenity
• impassioned impulse
• impatient yearning
• impeccable felicity
• impecunious exile
• impelling movement
• impending fate
• impenetrable calmness
• imperative necessity
• imperceptible deviation
• imperfect equipment
• imperial authority
• imperious mind
  • [imperious = arrogantly domineering or overbearing]
• imperishable renown
• impersonal compliment
• impertinent drollery
• imperturbable gravity
• impetuous zeal
• impious defiance
• impish humor
• implacable resentment
• implicit faith
• implied concealment
• implored pardon
• imponderable air
• important epoch
• importunate questions
  • [importunate = insistent request]
• imposing mien
  • [mien = manner revealing a state of mind; appearance or aspect]
• impossible contingency
• impotent desperation
• impoverished age
• impracticable obstinacy
• impregnable fortress
• impressionistic stroke
• imprisoning limitations
• improbable conjecture
• impromptu utterance
• improvising powers
• imprudent indebtedness
• impudent knowingness
• impulsive gratitude
• inaccessible dignity
• inadequate appreciation
• inadmissible expression
• inadvertent remark
• inalienable right
• inanimate existence
• inapposite blandness
  • [inapposite = inappropriate or misapplied nature]
• inaptly designated
• inarticulate lispings
• inaugural discourse
• inborn refinement
• inbred taste
• incalculable mischief
• incarnate hate
• incendiary opinions
• incessant volume
• incidental duty
• incipient fancy
• incisive critic
• incoherent loquacity
  • [loquacity = very talkative]
• incommunicable gift
• incomparable excellence
• incompletely apprehended
• inconceivable absurdity
• incongruous contrast
• inconsiderable trifle
• inconsistent conduct
• inconsolable cares
• incontestable inference
• incontrovertible proof
• incorrigible merriment
• incorruptible constancy
• increasing clamor
• incredible swiftness
• indecent saturnalia
  • [saturnalia = unrestrained revelry; an orgy]
• indecorously amused
• indefatigable diligence
  • [indefatigable = tireless]
• indefeasible title
  • [indefeasible = cannot be annulled]
• indefinable reluctance
• indefinite yearning
• indelible obligation
• indelicate impetuosity
• indented outline
• independent research
• indescribably lugubriou
  • [lugubriou = exaggerated gloom]
• indestructible atoms
• indeterminable value
• indifferent promise
• indigenous growth
• indignant denunciation
• indirect interrogation
• indiscriminate censure
• indispensable requisites
• indisputable chronicler
• indissoluble compact
• indistinct association
• individual valor
• indivisible aspects
• indolent neglect
• indomitable pride
• indubitable signs
• indulgent construction
• indwelling delight
• ineffable disdain
• ineffaceable incongruity
  • [ineffaceable = indelible]
• ineffectual blandishment
• ineradicable coquetry
• inestimable honor
• inevitable corollary
• inexcusable laughter
• inexhaustible abundance
• inexorable authority
  • [inexorable = incapable of being persuaded]
• inexplicable reluctance
• inexpressible benignity
• inextricable confusion
• infallible judgment
• infamous pretense
• infantile simplicity
• infectious hilarity
• infelicitous arrangement
• inferential method
• infernal machinations
• infinite deference
• infinitesimal gradations
• infirm purpose
• inflamed curiosity
• inflated optimism
• inflexible integrity
• influential voice
• informing feature
• infuriated demagogues
• ingenious trick
• inglorious victory
• ingrained love
• ingratiating exterior
• inharmonious prelude
• inherent dignity
• inherited anxieties
• inimitable felicity
• iniquitous fortune
• initiatory period
• injudicious yielding
• injured conceit
• inky blackness
• inmost recesses
• innate forbearance
• inner restlessness
• innocent amenities
• innocuous desuetude
  • [desuetude = state of disuse or inactivity]
• innovating spirit
• inoffensive copiousness
• inopportune condition
• inordinate ambition
• inquisitional rack
• inquisitive observer
• insatiable vanity
• inscrutable austerity
• insecure truce
• insensate barbarism
• insensibly flattered
• inseparably associated
• insidious tendency
• insignificant blot
• insincere profession
• insinuatingly pursued
• insipid tameness
• insistent babel
• insolent placidity
• insoluble riddles
• inspiring achievement
• inspiriting spectacle
• instant readiness
• instantaneous cessations
• instinctive disapproval
• insufferably dull
• insufficient appeal
• insular strength
• insulting invectives
  • [invective = abusive language]
• insuperable difficulty
• insurmountable obstacles
• intangible something
• integral element
• intellectual integrity
• intelligent adaptation
• intemperate scorn
• intense perplexity
• intensive cultivation
• intentional garbling
• interior spirit
• interlocking directorate
• intermediate link
• interminable question
• intermingled gloom
• intermittent threats
• internal dissension
• interpolated speech
• interpretative criticism
• interwoven thread
• intimately allied
• intolerably tedious
• intoxicating hum
• intractable temper
• intrenched privilege
• intrepid dexterity
• intricate interlacings
• intriguing braggart
• intrinsic fecundity
  • [fecundity = productive or creative power]
• intrusive brightness
• intuitive perception
• invaluable composition
• invariable kindness
• inveighing incessantly
  • [inveighing = angry disapproval]
• inventive jealousy
• inveterate antipathy
• invidious mention
  • [invidious = rousing ill will or resentment]
• invigorating discipline
• invincible optimism
• inviolable confidence
• involuntary yearnings
• involuted sentences
  • [involuted = intricate; complex]
• involved pomposity
• invulnerable solemnity
• inward disinclination
• irascible doggedness
• irate remonstrance
• iridescent sheen
• irksome task
• iron resolution
• ironic iciness
• irradiating spirit
• irrational awe
• irreclaimable dead
• irreconcilable parting
• irrecoverably lost
• irrefragable laws
  • [irrefragable = indisputable]
• irrefutable argument
• irregular constellations
• irrelevant suggestion
• irremediable sorrow
• irreparable injury
• irrepressible excitement
• irreproachable exterior
• irresistible will
• irresponsible gossip
• irretrievable blunder
• irreverent audacity
• irreversible facts
• irrevocable verdict
• irritable impatience
• isolated splendor

J

• jaded sensibility
• jagged outline
• jarring discord
• jaundiced opinion
• jaunty confidence
• jealous animosity
• jesting allusion
• jingling alliteration
• jocular mirth
• jocund host
  • [jocund = sprightly; lighthearted]
• jostling confusion
• jovial fancy
• joyful alacrity
• joyous stagnation
• jubilant antagonist
• judicial impartiality
• judicious candor
• just rebuke
• juvenile attempt

K

• kaleidoscopic pictures
• keen insight
• kindled enthusiasm
• kindly innocence
• kindred sympathies
• kingly generosity
• knavish conduct
• knightly achievement
• known disingenuousness
  • [ingenuous = frank; candid.]

L

• labored levity
• labyrinthian windings
• lacerated feelings
• lachrymose monotony
• lackadaisical manner
• laconic force
• lagging footsteps
• lamentable helplessness
• languid impertinence
• large receptivity
• lashing scorn
• latent conviction
• laudable zeal
• laughable absurdity
• lavish liberality
• lawless freedom
• lazy acquiescence
• leaden steps
• leaping ambition
• learned gravity
• leering smile
• legal perspicacity
  • [perspicacity = perceptive, discerning]
• legendary associations
• legislative enactment
• legitimate inference
• leisurely composure
• lengthening shadows
• leonine powers
• lethargic temperament
• lettered coxcomb
  • [coxcomb = conceited dandy; jester's cap]
• liberal contemplations
• lifeless imbecility
• lifelong adherence
• lightless eyes
• lightly disregard
• lightning glare
• limpid twilight
• lingering tenderness
• linguistic attainments
• liquid eloquence
• lisping utterance
• listening reverence
• listless apathy
• literal exactness
• literary research
• lithe contortions
• little idiosyncrasies
• lively susceptibility
• livid lightning
• living manifestation
• loathsome oppression
• local busybody
• loftiest aspirations
• logical precision
• lone magnificence
• longing fancy
• looming probabilities
• loquacious assurances
  • [loquacious = very talkative]
• lordly abhorrence
• loud vociferation
  • [vociferation = cry out loudly, especially in protest]
• lounging gait
• loutish rudeness
• lovingly quizzical
• lowering aspects
• lowest degradation
• loyal adhesion
• lucid treatment
• lucrative profession
• ludicrous incongruity
• lugubrious question
  • [lugubrious = mournful, dismal, gloomy]
• lukewarm repentance
• lumbering gaiety
• luminous interpretation
• lurid picturesqueness
• lurking suspicion
• lustrous surface
• luxuriant richness
• lying equivocations

M

• maddening monotony
• magic fascination
• magisterial emphasis
• magnanimous concessions
• magnetic fascination
• magnificent florescence
• magniloquent diction
  • [magniloquent = extravagant in speech]
• maidenly timidity
• main ramifications
• majestic dignity
• maladjusted marriages
• malevolent ingenuity
• malicious aspersions
• malign influence
• malodorous gentility
• manageable proportions
• mangled arguments
• manifest reluctance
• manifold functions
• manly reticence
• mantling smile
  • [mantling = cover with a mantle; concealing]
• manual dexterity
• manufactured melancholy
• marked individuality
• marketable commodity
• marshaled hosts
• martial footsteps
• marvelous lucidity
• masculine power
• masked expression
• massive strength
• master achievement
• matchless charm
• material misconception
• maternal solicitude
• mathematical precision
• matrimonial alliance
• matured reflection
• maudlin sentimentalism
  • [maudlin = tearfully sentimental]
• mawkish insipidity
• maximum intensity
• meager evidence
• mean trickeries
• meaningless confusion
• measured cadence
• mechanical handicraft
• meditatively silent
• meek ambition
• melancholy musing
• mellifluous eloquence
  • [mellifluous = flowing with sweetness or honey]
• mellow refinement
• melodious platitudes
• melodramatic resource
• melting mood
• memorable experience
• menacing attitude
• mendacious tongue
  • [mendacious = false; untrue]
• mendicant pilgrim
  • [mendicant = beggar]
• mental metamorphosis
• mercenary view
• merchantable literature
• merciful insensibility
• merciless censor
• mercurial temperament
• mere generalization
• meretricious allurements
  • [meretricious = plausible but false]
• meridian splendor
• merited ridicule
• merry jest
• metallic immobility
• metaphysical obscurity
• meteoric splendors
• methodical regularity
• metrical exactness
• microscopic minuteness
• mighty animosity
• mild rejoinder
• militant struggles
• military autocracy
• millennial reign
• mimic gestures
• minatory shadow
  • [minatory = menacing or threatening]
• mincing precision
• mingled decorousness
• miniature imitations
• minor impulses
• minute consideration
• miraculous profusion
• mirroring lake
• mirthful glance
• mischievous effusion
• miserable musings
• misleading notion
• misshapen oddities
• misspent strength
• mistaken assumption
• mistrustful superiority
• misty depression
• mitigating circumstances
• mobile countenance
• mock seriousness
• modest cheerfulness
• modified sentiment
• moldy doctrines
• mollifying conditions
  • [mollifying = calming; soothing]
• momentary discomfiture
• momentous pause
• monarchial institutions
• monastic austerity
• monotonous sameness
• monstrous absurdity
• monumental structure
• moody silence
• moonlight witchery
• moral obliquity
  • [obliquity = deviation or aberration]
• morbid imagination
• mordant wit
• moribund mediocrities
• mortal affront
• mortified coldness
• motley appearance
• mountainous inequalities
• mournful magnificence
• mouthing amplitude
• muddled opinion
• muddy inefficiency
• muffled detonations
• mullioned windows
  • [mullioned = vertical member dividing a window]
• multifarious activity
• multiform truth
• multiple needs
• multitudinous details
• mundane importance
• mural decorations
• murderous parody
• murky recesses
• musical diapason
  • [diapason = full, rich outpouring of harmonious sound]
• mute insensibility
• mutinous thoughts
• muttered warning
• mutual animosity
• myriad lights
• mysterious potency
• mystic meaning
• mythical kingdom

N

• naive manner
• naked eye
• nameless fear
• narcotic effect
• narrowing axioms
• nasal drone
• nascent intercourse
• national shortcomings
• native incompetence
• natural sluggishness
• nauseous dose
• nautical venture
• neat refutation
• nebulous uncertainty
• necessary adjuncts
• necromantic power
  • [necromancy = communicating with the dead to predict the future. Black magic; sorcery.]
• needless depression
• nefarious scheme
• negative approbation
  • [approbation = warm approval; praise]
• negligible quantity
• neighboring mists
• nerveless hand
• nervous solicitude
• nettled opponent
• neutral eye
• new perplexities
• nice discrimination
• niggardly allowance
• nightmare fantasy
• nimble faculty
• noble condescension
• nocturnal scene
• nodding approval
• noiseless reverie
• noisy platitudes
• nomadic life
• nominal allegiance
• nonchalant manner
• non-committal way
• nondescript garb
• nonsense rhymes
• noonday splendor
• normal characteristics
• notable circumstance
• noteworthy friendship
• noticeably begrimed
• notoriously profligate
• novel signification
• nugatory cause
  • [nugatory = little or no importance; trifling]
• numbed stillness
• numberless defeats
• numerical majority

O

• obdurate courage
  • [obdurate = hardened in wrongdoing]
• obedient compliance
• objectionably apologetic
• obligatory force
• obligingly expressed
• oblique tribute
• obscure intimation
• obsequious homage
  • [obsequious = servile compliance; fawning]
• observant eye
• obsolete phraseology
• obstinate defiance
• obstreperous summons
  • [obstreperous = noisily and stubbornly defiant]
• obtrusive neatness
• obvious boredom
• occasional flights
• occult sympathy
• ocean depth
• odd makeshifts
• odious tyranny
• odorous spring
• offensive hostility
• official asperity
  • [asperity = harshness; ill temper or irritability]
• olfactory sense
• olive grayness
• ominous rumors
• omnipotent decree
• omniscient affirmation
• oncoming horde
• onerous cares
• onflaming volume
• opalescent sea
• opaque mass
• openly disseminated
• opinionated truculence
  • [truculence = ferociously cruel behavior]
• opportunely contrived
• oppressive emptiness
• opprobrious epithet
  • [opprobrious = contemptuous reproach; scornful]
• oracular utterance
  • [oracular = solemnly prophetic; enigmatic; obscure]
• oratorical display
• ordinary delinquencies
• organic assimilation
• oriental spicery
• originally promulgated
• oscillatory movement
• ostensible occupation
• ostentatious display
• outlandish fashion
• outrageously vehement
• outspoken encouragement
• outstanding feature
• outstretching sympathies
• outward pomp
• outworn creed
• overbearing style
• overestimated importance
• overflowing sympathy
• overhanging darkness
• overmastering potency
• overpowering argument
• overshadowing dread
• overstrained enthusiasm
• overt act
• overvaulting clouds
• overweening sense
  • [overweening = presumptuously arrogant; overbearing]
• overwhelming solicitude
• overworked drudge

P

• pacific disposition
• painful obstinacy
• painstaking reticence
• palatable advice
• pallidly illumined
• palpable originality
• palpitating emotion
• paltry hypocrisies
• pampered darling
• panic fear
• panting eagerness
• parabolic obscureness
• paradoxical talker
• paralyzing sentimentalism
• paramount authority
• parasitical magnificence
• parental permission
• paroxysmal outburst
• particularly notable
• partizan prejudice
• passing panorama
• passionate insistence
• passive obedience
• patchwork manner
• patent example
• paternal tenderness
• pathetic helplessness
• patient endurance
• patriarchal visage
• patriotic enthusiasm
• peacefully propagated
• peculiar piquancy
  • [piquancy = appealingly provocative; charming]
• pecuniary privation
• pedantic ineptitude
  • [pedantic = attention to detail or rules]
• pedestrian vigor
• peerless raconteur
  • [raconteur = skilled storyteller]
• peevish ingratitude
• pending determination
• penetrating warmth
• penitential cries
• penniless wanderer
• pensive reflections
• perceptible difference
• peremptory punishment
  • [peremptory = ending all debate or action]
• perennial charm
• perfect embodiment
• perfunctory inquiries
• perilous expedient
• permanent significance
• pernicious doctrine
• perpetual oscillation
• perplexing problem
• persecuting zeal
• persistent adherence
• personal predilection
  • [predilection = a preference]
• persuasive eloquence
• pert prig
• pertinacious solemnity
  • [pertinacious = stubbornly persistent]
• pertinent question
• perusing earnestness
• pervading tendencies
• perverse quaintness
• pessimistic skepticism
• pestiferous career
  • [pestiferous = evil or deadly; pernicious]
• pet aversion
• petrified smile
• petticoat diplomacy
• pettifogging business
• petty pedantries
  • [pedantries = attention to detail or rules]
• phantom show
• philanthropic zeal
• philosophical acuteness
• phlegmatic temperament
  • [phlegmatic = calm, sluggish; unemotional]
• phosphorescent shimmer
• photographic exactitude
• physical convulsion
• pictorial embellishments
• picturesque details
• piercing clearness
• pinchbeck dignity
  • [pinchbeck = cheap imitation]
• pining melancholy
• pioneering spirit
• pious platitudes
• piquant allusions
  • [piquant = attracting or delighting]
• pitiable frenzy
• pitiless precision
• pivotal point
• placid stupidity
• plainly expedient
• plainspoken rebuke
• plaintive cadence
• plastic mind
• plausible commonplaces
• playful wit
• pleasing reveries
• pleasurable excitement
• plenary argument
• plentiful harvest
• plighted word
  • [plighted = promised by a solemn pledge]
• poignant clearness
• pointless tale
• poisonous counsels
• polished ease
• polite indifference
• political malcontent
• polluting taints
• pompous platitudes
• ponderous research
• pontifical manner
• popular resentment
• populous fertility
• portentous gulf
• positively deteriorating
• posthumous glory
• potential energy
• powerful stimulant
• practical helpfulness
• precarious path
• precautionary measure
• precipitous flight
• precise purpose
• precocious wisdom
• preconceived view
• predatory writers
• predestined spinster
• predominant habit
• pregnant hint
• preliminary assumption
• premature ripening
• premonitory symptoms
• preoccupied attention
• prepossessing appearance
• preposterous assertion
• prescient reflection
  • [prescient = perceiving the significance of events before they occur]
• prescribed conditions
• presiding genius
• pressing necessity
• pretended surprise
• pretentious dignity
• preternatural sagacity
  • [preternatural = extraordinary] [sagacity = farsighted; wise]
• pretty plaintiveness
• prevailing misconception
• priestly austerity
• primal energy
• prime factor
  • [no integer factors; irreducible; 1,2,3,5,7,11…]
• primeval silence
• primordial conditions
• princely courtesy
• prismatic blush
• pristine dignity
• private contempt
• privileged caste
• prized possession
• problematic age
• prodigally lavished
• prodigious variety
• productive discipline
• profane denunciation
• professedly imitated
• professional garrulity
  • [garrulity = excessive talkativeness]
• proffered service
• profitable adventure
• profligate expenditure
• profound conviction
• profuse generosity
• projected visit
• prolegomenous babbler
  • [prolegomenous = preliminary discussion]
• prolific outpouring
• prolix narrative
  • [prolix = wordy]
• prolonged happiness
• promiscuous multitude
• promising scions
  • [scions = descendants]
• prompt courage
• propagandist literature
• propelling impulse
• proper punctilio
  • [punctilio = fine point of etiquette]
• prophetic vision
• propitious moment
  • [propitious = auspicious, favorable]
• proportionately vigilant
• proprietary sense
• prosaic excellence
  • [prosaic = dull and lacking excitement]
• prospective success
• prosperity revival
• prostrate servility
• protoplasmic ancestors
• protracted agony
• proud destiny
• proverbial situation
• provincial prejudice
• provoked hostility
• prudential wisdom
• prurient desire
• prying criticism
• psychic processes
• public derision
• puerile fickleness
  • [puerile = immature; childish]
• pugnacious defiance
• pulsating life
• punctilious care
  • [punctilious = precise; scrupulous]
• pungent epigram
• puny dimensions
• purblind brutality
  • [purblind = partly blind; slow to understanding]
• pure coincidence
• purgatorial fires
• puritanical primness
• purplish shadows
• purposed attempt
• purposeful drama
• pursuing fancies
• pusillanimous desertion
  • [pusillanimous = cowardly]
• pyrotechnic outburst

Q

• quailing culprit
• quaint peculiarities
• qualifying service
• quavering voice
• queer tolerance
• quenchless despair
• querulous disposition
  • [querulous = habitually complaining]
• questionable data
• questioning gaze
• quibbling speech
• quick sensibility
• quiescent melancholy
• quiet cynicism
• quivering excitement
• quixotic impulse
• quizzical expression
• quondam foe
  • quondam = former]

R

• racial prejudice
• racy humor
• radiant happiness
• radical distinction
• raging billows
• rambling looseness
• rampant wickedness
• rancorous animosities
• random preconceptions
• rank luxuriance
• ranting optimism
• rapacious speculation
  • [rapacious = taking by force; plundering]
• rapid transitions
• rapturous adoration
• rare endowment
• rarefied humor
• rashly overrated
• rational discourse
• ravenous eagerness
• ravishing spectacle
• raw composition
• reactionary movement
• ready sympathy
• realistic portrayal
• reanimating ideas
• reasonably probable
• rebellious thought
• reciprocal influence
• reckless lavishness
• recognized authority
• recondite description
  • [recondite = not easily understood; abstruse]
• reconstructive era
• recovered composure
• recumbent figure
• recurring doubt
• reddening dawn
• redoubled activity
• refining influence
• reflective habits
• refractory temper
• refreshing novelty
• regal countenance
• regretful melancholy
• regular recurrence
• relatively mild
• relaxed discipline
• relentless justice
• religious scruples
• reluctant tolerance
• remarkable sagacity
  • [sagacity = wisdom]
• remedial measure
• remorseless logic
• remote epoch
• renowned achievement
• repeated falsification
• repelling vices
• repentant sense
• reprehensible action
• repressed ardor
• reproachful misgiving
• repulsive spectacle
• reputed disposition
• requisite expertness
• resentful flame
• resilient spirit
• resistless might
• resolute daring
• resonant gaiety
• resounding blare
• resourceful wickedness
• respectful condescension
• resplendent brightness
• responsive throb
• restless inquisitiveness
• restorative influence
• restricted meaning
• resultant limitation
• retaliating blows
• retarding influence
• retreating footsteps
• revengeful scowl
• reverent enthusiasm
• revolting cynicism
• revolutionary tradition
• rhapsodical eulogy
• rhetorical amplification
• rhythmical movements
• richly emblazoned
• righteous indignation
• rightful distinction
• rigid propriety
• rigorous reservation
• riotous clamor
• ripe reflection
• rising misgivings
• riveted attention
• robust sense
• rollicking mirth
• romantic solitudes
• rooted habits
• roseate tints
• rough brutality
• roundabout approach
• rousing chorus
• royal exultations
• rubicund tinge
  • [rubicund = healthy rosiness]
• rude awakening
• rudimentary effort
• rueful conclusion
• ruffled feelings
• rugged austerity
• ruling motive
• rumbling hoarseness
• ruminating mood
• rural imagery
• rustic simplicity
• rustling forest
• ruthless commercialism

S

• sacerdotal preeminence
  • [sacerdotal = priestly]
• sacred tenderness
• sacrilegious violence
• sacrosanct fetish
• sadly disconcerted
• sagacious mind
  • [sagacious = keen discernment, sound judgment]
• sage reflections
• saintly serenity
• salient feature
• salutary amusement
• sanctimonious hypocrite
  • [sanctimonious = feigning piety]
• sane observer
• sanguinary measures
  • [sanguinary = eager for bloodshed; bloodthirsty]
• sanguine expectations
  • [sanguine = cheerfully confident; optimistic]
• sarcastic incredulity
• sardonic taciturnity
  • [sardonic = cynically mocking] [taciturnity = habitually untalkative]
• satirical critic
• satisfying equipoise
  • [equipoise = equilibrium]
• savage satirist
• scalding jests
• scandalous falsehood
• scant recognition
• scathing satire
• scattered distractions
• scholarly attainments
• scientific curiosity
• scintillating wit
• scoffing defiance
• scorching criticism
• scornful negligence
• scriptural exegesis
  • [exegesis = Critical explanation or analysis]
• scrubby foreland
• scrupulous fidelity
• sculptured sphinx
• scurrilous blustering
  • [scurrilous = foul-mouthed]
• searching eye
• secluded byways
• secret dismay
• sectarian sternness
• secure anchorage
• sedentary occupation
• seditious speaking
  • [seditious = arousing to action or rebellion]
• seductive whisperings
• sedulously fostered
  • [sedulously = persevering]
• seeming artlessness
• seething hate
• selective instinct
• self-conscious activity
• self-deprecating irony
• selfish vindictiveness
• selfsame strain
• senile sensualist
• senseless gibberish
• sensibly abated
• sensitively courteous
• sensuous music
• sententious wisdom
  • [sententious = terse and energetic; pithy]
• sentimental twaddle
• sepulchral quiet
• sequestered nook
• seraphic promiscuousness
• serene triumph
• serious resentment
• serpentine curves
• servile obedience
• sesquipedalian words
  • [sesquipedalian = long]
• settled dislike
• severe censure
• shabby imitation
• shadowy abstraction
• shady retirements
• shallow sophistry
• sham enthusiasm
• shambling gait
• shamed demeanor
• shameless injustice
• shapeless conformations
• shaping impulses
• sharp rebuke
• shattered reason
• sheepish look
• sheer boredom
• sheltering hypocrisy
• shifting panorama
• shimmering gaiety
• shining virtues
• shivering soul
• shocking rudeness
• shoreless sea
• shortening days
• shrewd suspicion
• shrewish look
• shrill dissonance
• shrunken wisp
• shuddering reluctance
• shuffling preliminaries
• shy obeisance
• sibilant oath
  • [sibilant = producing a hissing sound]
• sickening jealousy
• sidelong glance
• significant symbol
• silent agony
• silken filaments
• silly escapades
• silvery sea
• similar amplitude
• simple rectitude
• simulated rapture
• simultaneous acclamation
• sincere hospitality
• singular sensitiveness
• sinister forebodings
• sinuous movements
• skeptical contempt
• skillfully maintained
• skulking look
• slackened tension
• slavish imitation
• sledge-hammer blows
• sleepless soul
• sleepy enchantment
• slender resource
• slight acceleration
• slovenly deportment
• slow stupefaction
• sluggish resolution
• slumbering stream
• smacking breeze
• small aptitude
• smiling repose
• smirking commonplace
• smoldering resentment
• smothered sob
• smug hypocrisy
• snappish impertinence
• sneering jibes
• snowy whiteness
• snug retreat
• soaring ambition
• sobbing wail
• sober melancholy
• social banalities
• sociological bearing
• soft allurement
• solemn emptiness
• solid knowledge
• solidifying substance
• solitary grandeur
• somber relations
• somewhat scandalized
• somnolent state
• sonorous simplicity
  • [sonorous = full, deep, rich sound; impressive in style of speech]
• sophistical argument
• soporific emanations
  • [soporific = inducing sleep]
• sordid selfishness
• sorely beset
• sorrowful resignation
• soulless mechanism
• sounding verbiage
• sourly ascetic
• sovereign panacea
• spacious tracklessness
• sparkling splendor
• specialized skill
• specific characteristics
• specious artifice
  • [specious = having the ring plausibility but actually fallacious]
• spectral fears
• speculative rubbish
• speechless surprise
• speedy extinction
• spendthrift prodigality
• spirited vindication
• spiritual dazzlement
• splendid irony
• splenetic imagination
  • [splenetic = ill humor or irritability]
• spontaneous challenge
• sporadic exception
• sportive gaiety
• spotless honor
• sprightly talk
• spurious enthusiasm
• squalid distress
  • [squalid = Dirty and wretched; morally repulsive; sordid]
• squandered talent
• squeamish taste
• staggering surprise
• stainless womanhood
• stale sciolism
  • [sciolism = superficial knowledge]
• stalwart defiance
• stammered apology
• starched sterility
• starlit eminence
• startling eccentricity
• starving proletariat
• stately stride
• statesmanlike person
• statistical knowledge
• statuesque immobility
• staunch manhood
• steadfast obedience
• stentorian voice
  • [stentorian = extremely loud]
• stereotyped commonness
• sterile hatred
• sterling sense
• stern defiance
• stiff conceit
• stifled convulsions
• still solitudes
• stilted bombast
• stimulating impression
• stinging reproach
• stinted endowment
• stipulated reward
• stock pleasantries
• stoic callousness
• stolid obstinacy
• stony stare
• storied traditions
• stormy passion
• stout assertion
• straggling association
• straightforward logic
• straightway vanished
• strained interpretation
• straitened circumstance
• strange wistfulness
• strenuous insistence
• striking diversity
• stringent statement
• strong aversion
• stubborn reality
• studious reserve
• stultified mind
• stunning crash
• stupendous magnitude
• stupid bewilderment
• sturdy genuineness
• subaltern attitude
  • [subaltern = secondary]
• subconscious conviction
• subduing influence
• sublime anticipations
• submissive behavior
• subordinate pursuit
• subsidiary advantage
• substantial agreement
• subterranean sunlessness
• subtle sophistry
• subversive accident
• successfully dispelled
• successive undulations
• succinct phrase
• sudden perturbation
• sullen submission
• summary vengeance
• sumptuously decorated
• superabundant energy
• superannuated coquette
  • [superannuated = retired] [coquette = flirt]
• superb command
• supercilious discontent
  • [supercilious = haughty disdain]
• superficial surliness
• superfluous precaution
• superhuman vigor
• superior skill
• superlative cleverness
• supernatural incident
• supine resignation
• suppliant posture
• suppressed excitement
• supreme exaltation
• surging multitude
• surly tone
• surpassing loveliness
• surprising intimacy
• surreptitious means
  • [surreptitious = clandestine; stealthy]
• sustained vigor
• swaggering bully
• swampy flatness
• swarming population
• sweeping assertion
• sweet peaceableness
• swelling magnitude
• swift transition
• swinging cadence
• symmetrical brow
• sympathetic insight
• syncopated tune
• synthetic judgment
• systematic interaction

T

• tacit assumption
• taciturn magnanimity
  • [taciturn = habitually untalkative]
• tactical niceties
• tameless energy
• tangible realities
• tangled network
• tardy recognition
• tarnished reputation
• tart temper
• tasteful gratification
• tasteless insipidity
• tattered mendicant
  • [mendicant = beggar]
• taunting accusation
• tawdry pretentiousness
• tearful sensibilities
• tearing gallop
• teasing persistency
• technical precision
• tedious formality
• teeming population
• temerarious assertion
  • [temerarious = presumptuous; reckless]
• temperamental complacency
• tempered pathos
• tempestuous breeze
• temporary expedient
• tenacious memory
• tender solicitude
• tense attention
• tentative moment
• tepid conviction
• termagant wife
  • [termagant = quarrelsome, scolding]
• terrible sublimity
• terrifying imprecations
  • [imprecations = curses]
• terse realism
• testamentary document
• thankless task
• thawing laughter
• theological complexities
• thirsting ear
• thorny pathway
• thorough uprightness
• thoughtful silence
• thoughtless whim
• threadbare sentiment
• threatened wrath
• thrilling eloquence
• throbbing pride
• throneless monarch
• thronging images
• thundering rage
• thwarted impulse
• tideless depth
• tigerish stealth
• tightened ominously
• timid acquiescence
• tingling expectation
• tinkling cymbal
• tipsy jocularity
  • [jocularity = given to joking]
• tip-toe curiosity
• tireless egotism
• tiresome braggadocio
  • [braggadocio = pretentious bragging]
• titanic force
• toilsome pleasure
• tolerably comprehensive
• tolerant indifference
• tormenting thought
• torn asunder
• torpid faculties
• tortuous labyrinth
• tortured innocence
• totally engrossed
• touching pathos
• tousled head
• towering pride
• traceable consanguinity
• trackless forest
• traditional type
• tragic intensity
• trailing sweetness
• tranquil grandeur
• transcendent power
• transfiguring tints
• transient emotion
• translucent cup
• transmuting touch
• transparent complement
• treacherous intelligence
• treasured possessions
• trembling anxiety
• tremendous domination
• tremulous sense
  • [tremulous = timid or fearful]
• trenchant phrase
  • [trenchant = forceful, effective, vigorous]
• trifling superfluity
• trite remark
• triumphant boldness
• trivial conventionality
• tropical luxuriance
• troubled inertness
• trudging wayfarer
• trustworthy source
• tumultuous rapture
• tuneful expression
• turbulent times
• turgid appeal
  • [turgid = excessively ornate or complex]
• twilight shadow
• twittered sleepily
• twofold bearing
• typical excellence
• tyrannical disposition

U

• ubiquitous activity
• ugly revelation
• ulterior purpose
• ultimate sanction
• ultrafashionable world
• unabashed insolence
• unabated pleasure
• unaccountable protervity
  • [protervity = peevishness; petulance]
• unaccustomed toil
• unadorned style
• unaffected pathos
• unaffrighted innocence
• unagitated abstraction
• unalloyed satisfaction
• unalterable determination
• unanimous acclamation
• unanswerable argument
• unapologetic air
• unappeasable resentment
• unapproached supremacy
• unassailable position
• unassuming dignity
• unattainable perfection
• unavailing consolation
• unavoidable propensities
• unballasted eloquence
  • [unballasted = unsteady; wavering]
• unbeaten track
• unbecoming behavior
• unbending reserve
• unbiased judgment
• unblemished character
• unblinking observation
• unblushing iteration
• unbounded hospitality
• unbridgeable chasm
• unbridled fancy
• unbroken continuity
• uncanny fears
• unceasing variation
• unceremonious talk
• uncertain tenure
• unchallenged supremacy
• unchanging affection
• uncharitable ambition
• uncharted depths
• unchastised offense
• unclouded splendor
• uncomfortable doubt
• uncommonly attractive
• uncommunicable quality
• uncomplaining endurance
• uncomprehending smile
• uncompromising dogmatism
• unconcealed aversion
• unconditioned freedom
• uncongenial task
• unconquerable patience
• unconscious serenity
• uncontrollable delight
• unconventional demeanor
• uncounted generations
• uncouth gambols
• uncritical position
• unctuously belaud
  • [unctuously = exaggerated, insincere] [belaud = praise greatly]
• undaunted defender
• undazzled eyes
• undefined anticipations
• undeniable charm
• underlying assumption
• undeviating consistency
• undignified peccadilloes
  • [peccadilloes = small sin or fault]
• undiluted skepticism
• undiminished relish
• undimmed luster
• undisciplined genius
• undisguised amusement
• undismayed expression
• undisputed ascendency
• undistracted attention
• undisturbed silence
• undivided energies
• undoubted authenticity
• undue predilection
  • [predilection = preference]
• undulating hills
• unduly troublesome
• undying friendship
• unearthly gladness
• uneasy craving
• unembarrassed scrutiny
• unembittered sweetness
• unending exactions
• unenlightened zealot
• unenvied insipidity
• unequaled skill
• unequivocally resented
• unerring fidelity
• unessential details
• unexampled sweetness
• unexhausted kindliness
• unexpected confidence
• unfailing courtesy
• unfaltering glance
• unfamiliar garb
• unfathomable indifference
• unfeigned assent
• unfettered liberty
• unflagging zest
• unflattering truth
• unflecked confidence
• unfledged novice
  • [unfledged = young bird without feathers necessary to fly]
• unflinching zeal
• unfolding consciousness
• unforced acquiescence
• unforeseen vicissitudes
  • [vicissitudes = sudden or unexpected changes]
• unforgivable tragedy
• unfounded conjecture
• unfulfilled longing
• ungainly figure
• ungarnished reality
• ungenerously resolved
• ungenial temperament
• ungovernable vehemence
• ungracious temper
• ungrudging tribute
• unguessed riches
• unhallowed threshold
• unhampered expression
• unhappy predecessor
• unheeded beauties
• unheroic measure
• unhesitating faith
• unhindered flight
• unholy triumph
• uniform blending
• unimaginable bitterness
• unimpassioned dignity
• unimpeachable sentiment
• unimpeded activity
• uninstructed critic
• uninterrupted process
• unique personality
• universal reprobation
  • [reprobation = condemned to hell; severe disapproval]
• unjust depreciation
• unknown appellations
  • [appellation = name, title, or designation]
• unlettered laborer
• unlikely contingency
• unlimited opulence
• unlucky dissembler
• unmanly timidity
• unmastered possibility.
• unmeaning farce
• unmeasured hostility
• unmellowed dawn
• unmelodious echoes
• unmerciful plundering
• unmingled consent
• unmistakably fabulous
• unmitigated gloom
• unmixed astonishment
• unmodified passion
• unmurmuring sea
• unnecessary platitudes
• unnumbered thousands
• unobtrusive deference
• unostentatious display
• unpalatable truth
• unparalleled atrocities
• unpardonable error
• unphilosophical dreamer
• unpleasant excrescence
  • [excrescence = abnormal enlargement]
• unprecedented advance
• unprejudiced intelligence
• unpretentious character
• unprincipled violence
• unprofitable craft
• unpurchasable luxury
• unqualified submission
• unquenchable tenderness
• unquestionable genius
• unquestioning fate
• unreasonable pretense
• unreasoning distrust
• unredeemable forfeit
• unrefreshing sameness
• unrelaxing emphasis
• unrelenting spirit
• unremembered winter
• unremitting toil
• unrepining sadness
• unreproved admiration
• unrequited love
• unresentful disposition
• unreserved assent
• unresisted authority
• unresolved exceptions
• unresponsive gloom
• unresting speed
• unrestrained anger
• unrestricted ease
• unrivaled distinction
• unruffled concord
• unsatisfied yearning
• unscrupulous adventurer
• unseasonable apology
• unseemly mirth
• unselfish fidelity
• unsettled trait
• unshakable foundation
• unshrinking determination
• unslackened volubility
  • [volubility = ready flow of speech; fluent]
• unsophisticated youth
• unsparing abuse
• unspeakable delight
• unspiritual tone
• unspoiled goodness
• unstinted praise
• unsullied virtue
• unsurpassed purity
• unswerving integrity
• untameable energy
• unthinkable hypothesis
• untiring energy
• untold calamity
• untoward circumstances
  • [untoward = improper]
• untrammeled expression
• untrodden woodland
• untroubled repose
• untuneful phrase
• untutored mind
• unusual audacity
• unutterable sadness
• unvarnished feeling
• unwarranted limitation
• unwasting energies
• unwavering allegiance
• unwearied diligence
• unwelcome alliance
• unwieldy bulk
• unwilling homage
• unwittingly mingled
• unwonted kindness
  • [unwonted = unusual]
• unworldly foolishness
• unworthy alliance
• unyielding nature
• uproarious laughter
• upstart pretensions
• useless fripperies
  • [fripperies = pretentious, showy]
• utmost scorn

V

• vacant stupidity
• vacillating obedience
• vacuous ease
• vagabondish spirit
• vagrant wandering
• vaguely discursive
• vain contemplation
• vainglorious show
• valid objection
• valuable acquisition
• valueless assertion
• vampire tongue
• vanished centuries
• vantage ground
• vapid generalities
  • [vapid = lacking liveliness, interest; dull]
• variable temperament
• variegated career
  • [variegated = varied]
• vast advantage
• veering purpose
• vehement panting
• veiled insolence
• velvety lawn
• venerable placidity
• venomous passion
• veracious journals
  • [veracious = honest; truthful; accurate; precise]
• verbal audacities
• verbose manner
• verdant hope
• verifiable facts
• veritable triumph
• vernacular expression
• vernal charm
  • [vernal = resembling spring; fresh; youthful]
• versatile grace
• vexatious circumstances
• vicarious virtue
• vigilant sensibility
• vigorous invective
  • [invective = abusive language]
• vile desecrater
• villainous inconsistency
• vindictive sentiment
• violent agitation
• virgin grace
• virile leadership
• virtual surrender
• virtuous disdain
• virulent prejudice
• visible embarrassment
• visionary dreamer
• vital interpretation
• vitiated taste
  • [vitiated = reduce the value; corrupt morally]
• vitriolic sneer
• vivacious excitement
• vivid portrayal
• vociferous appeal
• voiceless multitude
• volatile fragrance
• volcanic suddenness
• voluble prose
  • [voluble = ready flow of speech; fluent]
• voluminous biography
• voluntary relinquishment
• voracious animosity
• votive wreath
• vulgar prosperity
• vulnerable foe

W

• wabbling enterprise
  • [wabbling = wobbling]
• waggishly sapient
  • [sapient = wise]
• wailing winds
• wandering fancy
• waning popularity
• wanton butchery
• warbling lute
• warlike trappings
• warning prophecy
• warped purpose
• warranted interference
• wasteful prodigality
• wavering courage
• waxwork sex
• wayward fancy
• weakly imaginative
• wearisome wordiness
• wedded incompatibility
• weighty argument
• weird fascination
• welcoming host
• well-turned period
• weltering current
• whimsical touch
• whirling confusion
• whirring loom
• whispering breeze
• whistling winds
• whited sepulcher
• wholesome aspirations
• wholly commendable
• wicked ingratitude
• wide signification
• widespread acclaim
• wild extravagance
• willful waywardness
• willing allegiance
• willowy nothingness
• wily antagonist
• winding pilgrimage
• windowless soul
• winged fancies
• winking stars
• winning plaintiveness
• winsome girlhood
• wise dissertations
• wistful entreaty
• withering scorn
• witnessing approval
• witty expedient
• wizard influence
• woebegone countenance
• woeful weariness
• wolfish tendency
• womanlike loveliness
• wonderful affluence
• wonted activity
  • [wonted = usual]
• wordy warfare
• worthy achievement
• wounded avarice
• wrathful pugnacity
• wretched effeminacy
• wriggling disputant
• writhing opponent

Y

• yawning space
• yearning tenderness
• yielding disposition
• youthful ambition

Z

• zealous devotion
• zigzag method
• zoologically considered