Vulgar words in 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 (Page 1)

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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 SECTION II SIGNIFICANT PHRASES 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.]

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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 SECTION III FELICITOUS PHRASES 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 jealousy, exclusiveness, and taciturnity [taciturnity = habitually untalkative] jovial, ready-witted, and broad-gaged joyous, delightful, and gay justice, mercy, and peace K keen, clear, and accurate knowing, feeling, and willing knowledge, skill, and foresight L labors, anxieties, and trials large, rhythmical, and pleasing laughter, ridicule, and sneers lead, attack, and conquer learning, profundity, and imagination legislation, education, and religion levity, indolence, and procrastination libelers, reviewers, and rivals liberating, vitalizing, and cheering liberty, justice, and humanity light, easy, and playful literature, history, and legend lively, careless, and joyous lofty, serene, and impregnable logical, clear, and consistent loitering, heart-sick, and reluctant lonely, sad, and enslaved long, wailing, and passionate lost, ruined, and deserted loud, deep, and distinct love, veneration, and gratitude lucid, lively, and effective luxurious, whimsical, and selfish M magnificent, sumptuous, and stately magnitude, duration, and scope majesty, beauty, and truth malevolence, vanity, and falsehood manly, refined, and unaffected mean, pitiful, and sordid meek, humane, and temperate melancholy, grave, and serious mercy, truth, and righteousness methodical, sensible, and conscientious might, majesty, and power mild, sweet, and peaceable mischief, cruelty, and futility moans, shrieks, and curses mobile, quick, and sensitive modest, sympathetic, and kind molding, controlling, and conforming monstrous, incredible, and inhuman moral, material, and social motionless, staring, and appalled motives, purposes, and intentions mountains, seas, and vineyards moved, swayed, and ruled murder, destruction, and agony mystery, vagueness, and jargon N narrow, precise, and formal natural, innocent, and laudable neatness, order, and comfort necessary, just, and logical neglect, rashness, and incompetence new, strange, and unusual niggardly, sordid, and parsimonious [grudging, wretched and frugal] noble, laudable, and good noise, clatter, and clamor null, void, and useless O obscure, difficult, and subtle observation, discrimination, and comparison obsolete, artificial, and inadequate obstinacy, stupidity, and wilfulness officious, fidgety, and talkative old, absurd, and meaningless one, individual, and integral openly, frankly, and legitimately opposition, bitterness, and defiance oppressive, grasping, and slanderous opulent, powerful, and prosperous organization, monopoly, and pressure origin, character, and aim original, terse, and vigorous overriding, arrogant, and quarrelsome P pain, toil, and privation pale, ugly, and sinister parable, precept, and practise partial, false, and disastrous passion, tenderness, and reverence patient, gentle, and kind peace, order, and civilization pellucid, animated, and varied [pellucid = transparently clear] permanent, true, and real perplexed, tedious, and obscure personal, sharp, and pointed perspicuity, vivacity, and grace [perspicuity = clearness and lucidity] pert, smirking, and conceited pervading, searching, and saturating petty, unsuccessful, and unamiable philosophy, morals, and discoveries picturesque, daring, and potent piety, charity, and humility pillage, arson, and bloodshed pious, patient, and trustful pity, sympathy, and compassion placable, reasonable, and willing [placable = easily calmed; tolerant] place, fame, and fortune placid, clear, and mellow plague, pestilence, and famine plan, purpose, and work pleasant, friendly, and amiable pleased, interested, and delighted pleasure, enjoyment, and satisfaction plenty, content, and tranquillity plodding, sedentary, and laborious poise, dignity, and reserve polished, elegant, and sumptuous politics, business, and religion pompous, affected, and unreal poor, miserable, and helpless pose, gesture, and expression powerful, dazzling, and daring practical, visible, and tangible precious, massive, and splendid precise, formal, and cynical prejudice, dulness, and spite prepossessions, opinions, and prejudices presiding, directing, and controlling pride, passion, and conceit princely, picturesque, and pathetic principles, conduct, and habits progress, order, and happiness prolonged, obstinate, and continued prompt, fiery, and resolute propriety, perspicacity, and accuracy [perspicacity = perceptive] prosaic, dull, and unattractive protective, propitiatory, and accommodating [propitiatory = conciliatory] protests, criticisms, and rebukes proud, reserved, and disagreeable prudence, mildness, and firmness puckered, winking, and doddering pure, honorable, and just purge, brace, and strengthen purpose, intention, and meaning puzzles, tangles, and questionings Q quarrels, misunderstandings, and enmities questions, disputes, and controversies quicken, sharpen, and intensify quiet, unaffected, and unostentatious R raise, refine, and elevate rapid, robust, and effective rapt, emotional, and mystic raptures, transports, and fancies rash, violent, and indefinite readiness, skill, and accuracy reading, reflection, and observation reaffirmed, amplified, and maintained real, earnest, and energetic regard, esteem, and affection relaxation, recreation, and pleasure religion, politics, and literature reminiscences, associations, and impressions remote, careless, and indifferent reparations, restitutions, and guarantees repress, curb, and correct reproach, shame, and remorse reproof, correction, and instruction resentment, hatred, and despair resolute, patient, and fervent resourceful, steadfast, and skilful respect, admiration, and homage rest, respite, and peace restless, discontented, and rebellious restraint, self-denial, and austerity reticent, restrained, and reserved reverie, contemplation, and loneliness rich, thoughtful, and glowing ridicule, sarcasm, and invective [invective = abusive language] rights, powers, and privileges rise, flourish, and decay robustness, elasticity, and firmness romance, adventure, and passion rough, barren, and unsightly rude, sulky, and overbearing rush, roar, and shriek S sacredness, dignity, and loveliness sad, gloomy, and suspicious safe, sensible, and sane sanguine, impulsive, and irrepressible [sanguine = cheerfully confident; optimistic] sarcasm, satire, and ridicule satiety, surfeit, and tedium savage, fierce, and intractable scheming, contriving, and dishonesty self-absorbed, conceited, and contemptuous self-conscious, artificial, and affected self-exacting, laborious, and inexhaustible selfishness, coarseness, and mendacity [mendacity = untruthfulness] sense, grace, and good-will sensibility, harmony, and energy sensitive, ardent, and conscientious serene, ineffable, and flawless [ineffable = indescribable] serious, calm, and searching settled, adjusted, and balanced shallow, false, and petty shapes, forms, and artifices sharpness, bitterness, and sarcasm shivering, moaning, and weeping shrewd, artful, and designing shy, wild, and provocative sick, ashamed, and disillusioned silent, cold, and motionless simple, full, and impressive sin, selfishness, and luxury sincere, placable, and generous [placable = easily calmed; tolerant] skill, sagacity, and firmness [sagacity = farsighted; wise] sleekness, stealth, and savagery slovenly, base, and untrue slow, reluctant, and unwelcome smirking, garrulous, and pretentious [garrulous = excessive and trivial talk] smooth, sentimental, and harmonious smug, fat, and complacent sneers, innuendoes, and insinuations social, esthetic, and intellectual solitary, sedentary, and lifeless sound, human, and healthy sour, malignant, and envious spacious, clean, and comfortable speechless, motionless, and amazed spirit, vigor, and variety spitefulness, dishonesty, and cruelty splendid, powerful, and enduring startling, alarming, and vehement statesmen, philosophers, and divines steadiness, self-control, and serenity stern, forbidding, and unfeeling stiff, decorous, and formal strained, worn, and haggard strange, dark, and mysterious strengthen, invigorate, and discipline strenuous, intelligent, and alive striking, bold, and magnificent stripped, swept, and bare strong, cool, and inflexible studied, discussed, and debated sturdy, energetic, and high-minded style, manner, and disposition subtle, delicate, and refined successful, energetic, and ingenious sudden, vehement, and unfamed suggestive, stimulating, and inspiring sullen, silent, and disconsolate suppliant, gentle, and submissive [suppliant = asking humbly] surprise, admiration, and wonder suspicious, restive, and untractable swiftness, mobility, and penetrativeness sympathy, service, and compassion T talent, scholarship, and refinement tameness, monotony, and reserve taste, feeling, and sentiment tedious, painful, and distressing temper, pride, and sensuality temperament, character, and circumstance temperate, sweet, and venerable tenderness, loyalty, and devotion terror, remorse, and shame terseness, simplicity, and quaintness theatrical, sensational, and demonstrative thought, utterance, and action threats, cries, and prayers thrilling, dramatic, and picturesque thwart, criticize, and embarrass time, thought, and consideration touched, strengthened, and transformed tradition, prejudice, and stupidity tragic, tremendous, and horrible transparent, theatric, and insincere treachery, envy, and selfishness tremulous, soft, and bright [tremulous = trembling, quivering, shaking] trial, discipline, and temptation tricks, shufflings, and frauds trivial, labored, and wearisome true, lasting, and beneficial tyranny, injustice, and extortion U ugly, scowling, and offensive unbending, contemptuous, and scornful unclean, shameful, and degrading undecided, wavering, and cautious unearthly, horrible, and obnoxious uneasy, overstrained, and melancholy unity, emphasis, and coherence unmodulated, cold, and expressionless unphilosophical, unsystematic, and discursive unscrupulous, heartless, and hypocritical unwholesome, bewildering, and unprofitable unworldly, peaceable, and philosophical upright, kind-hearted, and blameless urgent, tumultuous, and incomprehensible V vague, impalpable, and incongruous vanities, stupidities, and falsehoods venerable, patriotic, and virtuous verities, certainties, and realities vigilant, inveterate, and unresting [inveterate = long established] vigorous, subtle, and comprehensive violent, sinister, and rebellious virtue, genius, and charm visionary, fraudulent, and empirical vital, formidable, and dominant vivid, comprehensible, and striking vulgarity, ignorance, and misapprehension W waddling, perspiring, and breathless want, worry, and woe wasteful, indolent, and evasive watchful, suspicious, and timid wealth, position, and influence wearied, despondent, and bewildered weight, size, and solidity well-proportioned, logical, and sane whimsical, fantastic, and impracticable wholesome, beautiful, and righteous wicked, pernicious, and degrading wild, confused, and dizzy wilful, wanton, and deliberate will, energy, and self-control wisdom, patriotism, and justice wit, fancy, and imagination worthless, broken, and defeated wretchedness, deformity, and malice wrinkled, careworn, and pale SECTION IV IMPRESSIVE PHRASES 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 C candid, sincere, familiar, and ingenuous 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.]

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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.

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