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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 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 |
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A Dictionary of Useful Phrases
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Here is a collection of excellent phrases and word combinations that you can use to add spice to your writings and speech. |
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