38 Words to use with phrase

Phrase cards, set 1-3, by Bessie B. Coleman, Willis L. Uhl, and James F. Hosic.

He has, I am sure, an Italian-English phrase book, which he consults hurriedly in the kitchen, for, whenever he sets a new course before one, he shoots out some carefully prepared and usually quite irrelevant sentence, and watches eagerly to see if one understands.

Second phrase code.

" "Where is the real home?" "I hope it is in heaven," she said, with a simplicity that took away all taint of cant or mere phrase-making.

That soldier had in him the very soul of literature; he was one of the great phrase-makers of modern thought, like Victor Hugo or Disraeli.

Better leave phrase-making to us phrase-mongers.

So when wonderful phenomena in the nervous system are observed,when tables are smashed by invisible hands,when people see ghosts through stone walls, and know what is passing in the heart of Africa,how easily you unlock your wardrobe of terms and clap on the back of every eccentric fact your ready-made phrase-coat,Animal Magnetism, Biology, Odic Force, Optical Illusion, Second Sight, Spirits, and what not!

" A curious phrase current in Devonshire for a young lady who jilts a man is, "She has given him turnips;" and an expressive one for those persons who in spite of every kindness are the very reverse themselves is this: "Though you stroke the nettle ever so kindly, yet it will sting you;" With which may be compared a similar proverb equally suggestive: "He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.

Grimm would derive the name need-fire (German, niedfyr, nodfyr, nodfeur, nothfeur) from need (German, noth), "necessity," so that the phrase need-fire would mean "a forced fire."

With joy he proclaims to the House the long-delayed and welcome news; yet even in the moment of exultation lets slip a doubtful phrase hinting at something behind, which he dares not name, something which may turn to despair the triumph of victory.

The phrase complex ideas, or compound ideas, has been used for the notions which we have of things consisting of different parts, or having various properties, so as to embrace some sort of plurality: thus our ideas of all bodies and classes of things are said to be complex or compound.

The Arabic phrase lantarani, a corruption of la-an-tarani, literally signifies "egad, if you saw me [do so and so];" hence lantarani-wala is equivalent to our terms, "an egregious egotist," or "great boaster.

He is almost as great a phrase-master as Pope, though in a coarser kind.

Must even your womanhood reverse the clasps of your childhood?" "It chimes midnight twice," I saida Martial phrase meaning, 'I am as much in the dark as ever.'

Russia is therefore the motherland of the Children of Israel; though, perhaps, the phrase step-motherland would express more truly the actual relationship, both in its origin and its character.

I know that I'd be half mad with excitement to get at the new job, and that I'd find re-assuring the loved ones (exquisite phrase number two) a hideous bore.

It has a naked material relation to the other fact, that he uses legal phrases oftener than any other dramatist or poet; but with his plastic power over those grotesque and rugged modes of speech it has nought to do whatever.

We keep the phrase pot luck; but, for most of those who use it, it has parted with all its meaning.

Nothing (said he) WAS clearer, than that with us the essential point in Deity is, to be unoriginated, underived; hence with us, a derived God is a self-contradiction, and the very sound of the phrase profane.

The opinion which makes the ascending phrase progressive is false six times out of seven.

From the moment that the phrase réparation des dommages was included in the armistice treaty as a claim that could be urged, it became impossible to ask for a fixed sum.

But ere he could the eager phrase repeat, The phrase his manly fancy found so sweet, The modest maiden toward him turned her face: Her eyes met his a moment's rapturous space, She spoke, her firm glance faltering scarce a jot, "I'd rather not.

She had loved this clumsy liar yonder, had given up a fortune for him, dared all for him, had (as the phrase runs) flung herself at his head.

I do not know whether it was Francisque Sarcey who invented the phrase scène à faire; but it certainly owes its currency to that valiant champion of the theatrical theatre, if I may so express it.

Even in the so-called Elizabethan age, where a certain archaism of phrase survives, the appreciation of temporal and local colour may be helped by such an adherence.

38 Words to use with  phrase