Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

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Title: 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
Author: Greenville Kleiser
Release Date: May 10, 2006 [EBook #18362]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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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]

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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
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COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY (Printed in the United
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Pan-American Republics and the United States, August 11, 1910 ------ Published.
October, 1917
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