306 Verbs to Use for the Word phrasing

This, to use a homely phrase, made their leaders feel out of it.

I must," she faltered out, unconsciously repeating her former phrase.

More and more frequently does one hear this phrase, The League of Nations, used to express the outline idea of the new world that will come out of the war.

I might here borrow the quaint phrase of Herodotus and say, "Now I have done speaking of" John Cabot.

" "'Woman of my heart''Dearest girl in all the world,'" quoted Mrs. Pendomer, reminiscently, "and suchlike tender phrases, scattered in with a pepper-cruet, after the rough copy was made in pencil, and dated just 'Wednesday,' or 'Thursday,' of course.

And we are compelled, moreover, to find a phrase which will put our own efforts in an ideal lightotherwise we cannot go on fighting.

Pearl remembered the phrase.

He cherished, however, no intention of returning to Phrygia, and was still at a considerable distance from that region, when one night, as he was sitting in the inn of a small country town, his ear caught a phrase which arrested his attention.

Doubtless if we were all angels and could impartially enter into all the origins of the quarrel, we should not fight, because to "understand" would be to "forgive"; but as we have not reached that stage, and as we cannot even explain why we are quarrellingthe matter being so complexwe are fain to adopt a phrase and fight on the strength of that.

No mere coincidence brought the Kaiser to Damascus in November, 1898,the same month that Kitchener, in London, was hailed as Gordon's avenger,when he uttered his famous phrase at the tomb of Saladin: "Tell the three hundred million Moslems of the world that I am their friend!"

For ourselves, we own that we do not understand the common phrase, a good man, but a bad king.

A little experience, however, will quickly demonstrate the futility of such hopes; therefore strive to form sensible phrases, and to make the parts of the outline cohere.

But you should be indulgent, Mr. Dodge, to us laymen, who pick up our phrases by merely wandering about the world; or in the nursery perhaps, while you, of the favoured few, by living in the condensation of a province, obtain a precision and accuracy to which we can lay no claim.

" Later he was to recall that phrase with a sicker horror than he experienced now.

He pondered over it for a moment, and then remembered that Hill had applied the same phrase to his wife.

"To be a tutor to such a pupil is absurd," said Mr. Ward, making a long speech containing many scripture phrases, at each of which young George smiled scornfully; and at length Ward ended by asking her honour's leave to retire.

[Footnote 15: He justifies the phrase, repeating it.]

Bismarck employed this phrase on two occasions in addressing the Reichstag; his purpose could have been no other than to bully France.

" "All right, your word is law," said Teddy gallantly, remembering that he had read the phrase somewhere and it had sounded very good.

Thus, a masculine master has coined that immortal phrase, the Eternal Feminine.

The popularity of the work is due not mainly to the verbal skill which makes it rank as the cleverest of English verse compositions, to its shoals of witticisms, its winged words, telling phrases, and incomparable transitions; but to the fact that it continues to address a large class who are not in the ordinary sense of the word lovers of poetry.

My heart is as dry as that spring sometimes proves in a thirsty August, when I revert to the space that is between us; a length of passage enough to render obsolete the phrases of our English letters before they can reach you.

One might just as well go about with a pencil writing up the thought-provoking phrase, whatever it is, on walls.

Bless the children for inventing the phrase!

In the middle of the row she dropped a phrase: 'Anyhow, her appearance is against her.'

306 Verbs to Use for the Word  phrasing