"Section VII: Literary Expressions" (pp175-221) from Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases (New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1917) by Grenville Kleiser (1868-1953).
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
- 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
- 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
- A little jaded by gastronomical exertions
- A lukewarm and selfish love
- A man of imperious will
- 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
- A mild and deprecating air
- A mind singularly practical and sagacious
- 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
- A protest wavered on her lip
- A puissant and brilliant family
- 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
- A super-refinement of taste
- A swaggering air of braggadocio
- A sweet bewilderment of tremulous apprehension
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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, 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
- 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?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Immense and careless prodigality
- Immense objects which dwarf us
- Immersed in secret schemes
- Immured in a trivial round of duty
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The pith and sinew of mature manhood
- The plenitude of her piquant ways
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
- 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