Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases. A Practical Handbook

I suffered agonies of shyness

A helpful exercise is to pronounce a phrase aloud

First examine the book in a general way to grasp its character, scope, and purpose. Carefully note the following plan of classification of the various kinds of phrases, and choose for initial study a section which you think will be of the most immediate value to you.

irst examine the book in a general way to grasp its character, scope, and purpose. Carefully note the following plan of classification of the various kinds of phrases, and choose for initial study a section which you think will be of the most immediate value to you.

the habitual language of a people is a barometer of their intellectual, civil, moral, and spiritual ideals.

He has taught also what the great HOLMES taught, that language is a temple in which the human soul is enshrined, and that it grows out of life—out of its joys and its sorrows, its burdens and its necessities. To him, as well as to the writer, the deep strong voice of man and the low sweet voice of woman are never heard at finer advantage than in the earnest but mellow tones of familiar speech.

A clear, crisp articulation holds an audience as by the spell of some irresistible power.

such rests as do not break the continuity of a thought or the progress of the sense.

the clause, which is a short sentence that forms a distinct part of a composition, paragraph, or discourse.

A dangerous varnish of refinement