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Title: Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases
A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking
Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And
Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And
Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those
Persons Who Read, Write, And Speak English

Author: Greenville Kleiser

Release Date: May 10, 2006 [EBook #18362]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Produced by Don Kostuch

[Transcriber's Notes]
Original "misspellings" such as "fulness" are unchanged.

Unfamiliar (to me) words are defined on the right side of the page in
square brackets. For example:

abstemious diet [abstemious = Eating and drinking in moderation.]

The blandness of contemporary (2006) speech would be relieved by the
injection of some of these gems:

"phraseological quagmire"

"Windy speech which hits all around the mark like a drunken carpenter."

[End Transcriber's Notes]

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