Transcriber's Notes
Produced by Don Kostuch
[Transcriber's Notes]
Original "misspellings" such as "fulness" are unchanged.
Unfamiliar (to me) words are defined on the right side of the page in
square brackets. For example:
abstemious diet [abstemious = Eating and drinking in moderation.]
The blandness of contemporary (2006) speech would be relieved by the
injection of some of these gems:
"phraseological quagmire"
"Windy speech which hits all around the mark like a drunken carpenter."
[End Transcriber's Notes]
BY GRENVILLE KLEISER
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FIFTEEN THOUSAND
USEFUL PHRASES
A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK OF PERTINENT
EXPRESSIONS, STRIKING SIMILES, LITERARY.
COMMERCIAL, CONVERSATIONAL, AND
ORATORICAL TERMS, FOR THE EMBELLISHMENT
OF SPEECH AND LITERATURE, AND THE
IMPROVEMENT OF THE VOCABULARY OF THOSE
PERSONS WHO READ, WRITE. AND SPEAK ENGLISH
BY
GRENVILLE KLEISER
FORMERLY INSTRUCTOR IN PUBLIC SPEAKING AT YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL, YALE
UNIVERSITY; AUTHOR OF "HOW TO SPEAK IN PUBLIC," "HOW TO DEVELOP POWER AND
PERSONALITY IN SPEAKING," "HOW TO DEVELOP SELF-CONFIDENCE IN SPEECH AND
MANNER," "HOW TO ARGUE AND WIN," "HOW TO READ AND DECLAIM," "COMPLETE
GUIDE TO PUBLIC SPEAKING," ETC.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
FRANK H. VIZETELLY, LITT.D., LL.D.
FIFTH EDITION
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
NEW YORK AND LONDON
1919
COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
(Printed in the United States of America)
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Copyright under the Articles of the Copyright
Convention of the Pan-American Republics
and the United States, August 11, 1910
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Published. October, 1917
One cannot always live in the palaces and state apartments of language,
but we can refuse to spend our days in searching for its vilest slums.
--William Watson
Words without thought are dead sounds; thoughts without words are nothing.
To think is to speak low; to speak is to think aloud.
--Max Muller
The first merit which attracts in the pages of a good writer, or the talk
of a brilliant conversationalist, is the apt choice and contrast of the
words employed. It is indeed a strange art to take these blocks rudely
conceived for the purpose of the market or the bar, and by tact of
application touch them to the finest meanings and distinctions.
--Robert Louis Stevenson
It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper
they burn.
--Southey
No noble or right style was ever yet founded but out of a sincere heart.
--Ruskin
Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a
thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
--Byron
A good phrase may outweigh a poor library.
--Thomas W. Higginson
PLAN OF CLASSIFICATION
SECTION
I. USEFUL PHRASES
II. SIGNIFICANT PHRASES
III. FELICITOUS PHRASES
IV. IMPRESSIVE PHRASES
V. PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES
VI. BUSINESS PHRASES
VII. LITERARY EXPRESSIONS
VIII. STRIKING SIMILES
IX. CONVERSATIONAL PHRASES
X. PUBLIC SPEAKING PHRASES
XI. MISCELLANEOUS PHRASES
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