Great Phrases to use in your english essays

Eyes alive with enthusiasm

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Happiness is the shadow of thing past. (Paradise Lost 4299)

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He wears the rose of youth upon him. (Antony & Cleopatra 3 : 11 : 20)

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He, who will not when he may, may not when he will. (John of Salisbury)

An endless expanse of blue sky

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Heaven lies about us in our infancy. (Wordsworth)

Leaves fell and fluttered like snow flakes

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. (Keats)

The wind moaned through the trees

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Heaven is our heritage, Earth but a player's stage. (Thomas Nashe)

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A heaven on earth. (Paradise Lost 4-208)

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The heart is not a clock, it will not wind again. (Sacheverell Sitwell)

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Hector is dead. There is no more to say. (Troilus & Cressida 5-10-22)

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Hills whose heads touch heaven. (Othello 1 : 3: 141) His time is forever, everywhere his place. (Abraham Cowley)

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An honest man's the noble work of God.

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Honest labour bears a lovely face. (Thomas Dekker)

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How noiseless falls the foot of time. (W. R. Spencer)

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Hypocrisy in the homage that vice offers to virtue. (La Rochefaocauld)

A rush of embarrassment swept through him Shocked by the directness of the reply His face cracked into an apologetic grin

e moon sailed across the sky like a ghostly gallion Pausing for a moment she became aware of her surroundings The warmth of the air wrapped around her like a scarf A sudden shiver of excitement shot through her body His once designer clothes looked anything but attractive Her shocking smile;broken. •

Adventure is the champagne of life.

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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. (Julius Caesar 3:2:97)

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And death shall be no more. death, thou shalt die. (Donne)

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And justify the ways of God of men. (Paradise Lost 1 – 22)

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And nature must obey necessity. (Julius Caesar 4:3:225)

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And purer than the purest gold. (Ben Jonson : The Touchstone of Truth)

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Danger comes in silence and in secret. (Isaac Pocock)

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Dark with excessive bright. (Paradise Lost : 3 – 380)

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A day is miniature eternity. (Emerson: Journals)

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee. (Donne)

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Absolutely free conscience

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Absorbingly interesting occupation

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Abundantly illustrated book

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Acoustically indistinct consonants

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Admittedly difficult task

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Apparently disconnected facts

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Architecturally successful edifice

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Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. (Pope)

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Astonishingly young mind

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Even God can not change the past. (Agathon)

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Awfully up-hill work

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Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor. (Goethe)

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Excessive scruple is only hidden pride. (Goethe)

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Badly drawn character

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Basically irrelevant detail

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Biologically important functions

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Bitterly contested wars

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Blatantly defied convention

Faint heart wins not lady fair. (William James Linton) •

The fairest things have the fleetest end. (F. Thomson)

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. (William Ellery Channing)

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Fame is food that dead men eat. (A. Dopson)

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For who would bear the whips and scorns of time. (Hamlet 3:1:70)

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Friends are born, not made. (Hendry Brooks Adams)

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Brightly coloured flowers

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Brilliantly written book

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Carefully ascertained facts

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Carefully chosen examples

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Carefully developed theory

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Clearly defined pattern

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Closely guarded secret

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Closely related words

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Commercially oriented people

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Commonly used words

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Comparatively recent development

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Completely different angle

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Completely illiterate audience

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Easily accomplished task

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Economically advanced nation

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Economically backward areas

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Elegantly dressed person

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Eminently readable introduction

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Eminently respectable figures

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Emotionally charged sound

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Entirely unfamiliar country

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Exceedingly clever man

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Extremely attractive girl

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Extremely grave risks

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Extremely popular songs Fairly accurate details

Constantly changing background

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Fairly reliable guide

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Constantly recurring themes

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Fantastically inspiring place

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Critically edited text

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Finely framed speech

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Currently fashionable dress Dangerously disparaging attributes

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Flamboyantly handsome man

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Frequently used word

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Dazzlingly beautiful illuminations •

Fully qualified person

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Dearly loved person •

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Deeply felt resentment

Fundamentally different approach Gaily plumaged birds

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Deeply rooted tradition

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Gaudily coloured beaks

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Delightfully chivalrous statement

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Generally accepted fact

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Densely populated areas

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Genuinely new ideas

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Divinely inspired poetry

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Gorgeously created figures

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Eagerly awaited news

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Grammatically different words

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Literally translated vernacular expressions

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Grievously committed sins

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Logically coherent analysis

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Logically connected sentences

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Happily chosen term

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Logically fallacious inferences

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Hardly audible sound

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Loosely flowing garments

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Hastily summoned meeting

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Marvellously engineered road system

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Heavily bearded person

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Mechanically woven carpet

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Highly developed feeling

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Mentally disturbed people

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Highly disciplined community

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Mentally retarded children

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Highly emotional speeches

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Moderately priced book

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Highly readable narrative

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Mortally wounded man

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Highly sophisticated equipment

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Mutually exclusive categories

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Historically correct usage

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Mutually intelligible dialects

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Historically related family of languages

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Nationally televised programme

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Honestly earned money

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Naturally unstressed words

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Hugely impressive system

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Neatly furnished house

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Immensely complicated affairs

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Negatively charged particle

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Immensely suggestive book

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Negatively prefixed words

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Increasingly inelegant expressions

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Newly appointed minister

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Increasingly popular subject

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Newly constituted board

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Inexpressibly beautiful measure

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Newly discovered languages

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Infinitely productive artist

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Newly married man

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Infinitely small quantities

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Newly constructed buildings

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Infinitely variable world

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Newly published titles

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Infinitely varied world

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Normally constituted man

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Insipidly pious woman

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Noticeably defective speech

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Intellectually mature person

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Noticeably handsome face

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Intensely interesting experience

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adistically cruel man

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Intensely private life

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Seemingly contradictory facets (of one's personality)

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Intensely subjective poet

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Seemingly little things

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Internationally known scientist

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Seemingly worthless people

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Juridically free peasants

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Semantically peculiar etymology

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Keenly analytical ear

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Semantically (very) interesting words

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Lavishly illustrated pages

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Singularly fortunate youth

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Lavishly produced publications

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Slightly different meaning

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Lawfully constituted authority

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Smartly dressed woman

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Legally wedded wife

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Socially acceptable qualities

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Lexicologically interesting polysemy

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Socially adaptive behaviour

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Linguistically enlightened editors

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Socially distinct societies

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Socially distinguished ladies

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Vaguely defined term

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Socially useful productive work

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Vastly increased power

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Sparsely populated areas

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Verbally defined concepts

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Specially designed building

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Vividly attractive pictures

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Specially shaped pipe

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Wholly subjective affair

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Specially written example

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Widely separated countries

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Spiritually elevating influence

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Wildly imaginative mind

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Spiritually highest realities

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Wonderfully rich appearance

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Splendidly successful book

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Strictly limited interest

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Strictly scientific words

• Places - Gave way to a soaring, majestic network of thick-set vines, high archway and domed ceilings.

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Strikingly beautiful places

- Streaks of gay sunlight darted through the open window.

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Strongly developed taste

- It was a palatial home, with high, cool rooms, floors of stone and marble, and elaborately carved furniture with rich upholstery.

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Strongly marked face

People

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Strongly rooted envy

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Strongly worded resolution

- A smart gentleman dresses in a flowing brown cloak and a brown bejewelled hat.

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Suddenly recollected emotion

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Superbly sculptured features

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Surprisingly subtle discrimination

- He was a fine figure of a man, with very yellow hair and narrow, haughty eyes.

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Syllogistically expressed agreement

- They were dressed in dazzling white robes with gold embroidery.

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Symbolically significant work

Feelings

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Systematically organised survey

- There was a song in every heart, cheerfulness in every face and a spring in every step.

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Tacitly accepted values

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Thickly populated city

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Thinly populated area

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Thoroughly dishonest man

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Thoroughly learned system

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Thoughtfully prepared material

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Totally different spirit

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Totally unexpected result

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Tremendously popular form

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Traitorously corrupted youth

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Truly good man

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Unimaginably beautiful gardens

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Uniquely great events

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Universally acknowledged truth

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Unspeakably bad taste

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Utterly different languages

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Utterly insignificant person

- Her hair was tied into a neat and precise bun that not a single strand of hair was out of place.

- Exhilaration bubbled up inside her like soda water. - Her heart thumped wildly when the audience exploded with loud cheers and claps. She grinned happily under the glory of the spotlight. - Disbelieve was written all over their horrified faces. - His face evidenced the struggle between shame and defiance in his heart. - He looked straight ahead , white-faced, tight-lipped, his expression a mask of suppressed rage.

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. An oppressive heat hung in the sky Trying to show the scotching sun is giving pressure 2. an angelic smile plastered on his face An unnatural smile 3. His skin felt like a page of Braille A skin with plenty of raised dots probably rashes

The notorious warden stumbles over the answer after the accidental harmony.

1.clear blue sky turning gray 2. a personifation for the smell of a freshly baked apple pie. 3. a similie for the taste of fried chicken 4. a metaphor for wine a grey frown clouding the sky 2. the aroma of the pie leaping into the air, tickling your nose and making your mouth water. 3. like spicy heaven in batter 4. red (or white) velvet The sky was the bluest of blues and there was a faint fragrant permeating from the beautiful flowers that had bloomed that Spring.......the temperature had mellowed out and there was a soft breeze blowing and it made for a very romantic atmosphere. A Winter's Day

waiting for the sun to come out of hiding. It's as lonely as a new student waiting to make friends. Clouds slowly start to pull apart as the sun peeks around the corner. The creaky fence is a gate to the field of trees below. Barbwire sits ready to remind any one who comes close enough to stay away. All the rickety braches rock like a new born baby snug in the arms of its mother gently swaying in a rocking chair. The sad tree waits as a single rain drop trickles down the long healthy trunk. The sky darkens and is ready for the storm coming its way. It thunders and booms and the dead grass lay motionless soaked. But the little tree still stands alone. -- Kassidy

The Majestic Night

On a cold, winter day, I walked to the park wearing a grey trench coat. People passed and I could see The moon shone brightly, like a candle illuminating they were merry, for Christmas was on its way. As I a pitch black room. I lowered my gaze and set it on the tall oak tree. It was either dead, or if it was reached the park, I saw kids throwing snowballs and making snowmen while other people were ice winter, "sleeping". Its leafless branches extended skating and laughing. As I watched all of this, I was toward the sky like a frail cobweb blowing in the thinking of my Christmas past, throwing snowballs wind. I shuddered, the moon was an orange, it was with my sister, opening presents on Christmas Day, strangely full, (if it were an orange it would burst with ripeness), and deep in color. It looked like a and me in my youth laughing and enjoying the thought of my family together. Soon those happy marmalade kind of yellow, with a tint of red in it. It times were over so I left the park leaving behind all cast an evil glow across the sky. The sky was even stranger; it was dull and cloudy, the clouds were my memories with the knowledge that this, too, plump, (and rather squashed looking) apples. (Or would soon be a memory! that's what they looked like). And had a mix of -- Jeffrey fiery red, black, and blue. It was eerie, yet majestically beautiful. I stood transfixed for a cotton candy clouds moment, sighed and started to walk off, dead leaves The clouds are like cotton candy swirling around suffocating between my feet. -- Elizabeth ever so gently in a bowl. Moving calmly in the wind, and moving further away from the trees and the sun. I hear the big, giants rustling in the cool, Drop calm breeze. Looking at the sun setting is so bright When you glance down you can see a pond with and yellow. I can't look away. Soon, the shading covers the dark brown ground, and the cloud is a water that is as clear as glass. It just showered a peach just beginning to ripen. The sunset is like a rhythmical rain. A constant "drip drop" tells you tiger beginning to pounce on its prey. When I look that water droplets, clear and circular just fell to the at the trees they almost disappear into the night sky. Earth. A leaf of pine green has an aqua drop that quickly falls down into the pond, like a ball -- Sierra bouncing off of the surface with a quiet splash. The bronze colored fish frantically scatter to the edges The Lost Tree of the circular pool of water when the drop hits the The tree is a person standing alone in the darkness surface. The cool refreshing water ripples as slowly

as a Rollie-Polly. The ripples are soldiers slowly dying in a war. -- Connie

134 girls. -- Tessa

joyfully, I dipped my foot into the cool, clear ocean on that scorching hot day. The sun was beating Sandy Beach down on me as the crystal blue water pulled the The sparkly sea splashes up onto the sandy beach. golden sand from between my toes. The sand spreads across the beach like million of As the wave tumbled closer, I stood up on the tiny grains of salt, covered by shells the sea surfboard and fearfully rode toward the safety of randomly washed up over the years. One is striped the shore. like a zebra with blue. Another one is a sunset -- Breanna colored pink, orange and cream. Small sticks are scattered forming many barriers against the different shells. The sea is a bag of sunflower seeds The astonishing city of Paris, France gratifies your with its salty aroma. I take one last glance and dreams of an amazing destination for an slowly walk back to the car awaiting the next time I intermission. Paris is a sensational place for a visit the beach. vacation at night because you can see all of the -- Alice breath taking sites that may intrigue you in the late night moon. One of the most noteworthy destinations within Paris happens to be the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower exemplifies your A white orb, an illuminant tear in the grand tapestry expedition to Paris because the glare of its lights of black around it. It sits perched like a hawk, can be seen shining miles away. If you decide to staring through a blank, transparent window of fog voyage to the pinnacle of the tower you will be that it is caged around, keeping its true celestial unquestionably flabbergasted. Not to mention, at splendor from the thousands of spectators, sleeping the peak you will most likely be dreadfully under the shadow of light it casts. Its radiance, exhausted because of the long weary expedition to creeps around the blanket of mist that keeps it the pinnacle. Finally, at the very top of the tower it captivated from the land below it. It lies in the will seem as though citizens are having dams center of the sky, as a blanket of wonder tucks it in. shatter within them as everyone wavers in fright High in the sky it sits the center of attention to the and tiny children weep because of the elevation. All bright gray and surrounding air. A silver quarter, in all if you're looking for a luxurious destination falling through a dusty desk of black and gray. In for a celebration or an anniversary look no further the center, the moon, and all around it, fog with he than Paris! depth of space around it. --John -- Alec

THE MOON

She sits, waiting anxiously, ready for anything. Her heart beats, waiting for the results. Cheering voices surround her, as she is waiting for the awards. After her hard day of work, strain, and concentration she hears, 4th. . . 3rd. . .2nd. . . then, a huge relief, 1st prize, her name is called. The grin on her face was lightning everyone's faces, for their teammate had won. The coaches hug her, her teammates cheer loudly, it is the happiest day of her life, now there is only one thing to do, go home, and keep working without forgetting the wonderful day when she beat