1

Like dining with a ghost

2

Like drawing nectar in a sieve

3

Like earth's decaying leaves

4

Like echoes from a hidden lyre

5

Like echoes from an antenatal dream

6

like fabrics of enchantment piled to Heaven

7

like fawns at play

8

like first-aid surgeons on the battlefield

9

Like fixed eyes, whence the dear light of sense and thought has fled

10

Like footsteps upon wool

11

Like fragrance from dead flowers

12

Like ghosts the sentries come and go

13

Like ghosts, from an enchanter fleeing

14

Like golden boats on a sunny sea

15

Like great black birds, the demons haunt the woods

16

Like green waves on the sea

17

Like having to taste a hundred exquisite dishes in a single meal

18

Like Heaven's free breath, which he who grasps can hold not

19

Like helpless birds in the warm nest

20

like hounds about God's footstool

21

Like iridescent bubbles floating on a foul stream

22

Like kindred drops mingled into one

23

Like laying a burden on the back of a moth

24

Like lead his feet were

25

Like leaves in wintry weather

26

Like leviathans afloat

27

Like lighting a candle to the sun

28

like long sad vapors through the twilight sky

29

Like making a mountain out of a mole-hill

30

Like mariners pulling the life-boat

31

Like mice that steal in and out as if they feared the light

32

Like mountain over mountain huddled

33

Like mountain streams we meet and part

34

Like music on the water

35

Like notes which die when born, but still haunt the echoes of the hill

36

Like oceans of liquid silver

37

Like one pale star against the dusk,

38

Like one who halts with tired wings

39

Like one who talks of what he loves in dream

40

Like organ music came the deep reply

41

Like pageantry of mist on an autumnal stream

42

like pensive moon-worshipers in an ecstasy of prayerless bloom

43

Like phantoms gathered by the sick imagination

44

Like planets in the sky

45

Like pouring oil on troubled waters

46

like prison-warders hand-cuffing a convict

47

Like roses that in deserts bloom and die

48

Like rowing upstream against a strong downward current

49

Like scents from a twilight garden

50

like sea-going winds over pastures

51

Like separated souls

52

Like serpents struggling in a vulture's grasp

53

like shapes breathed on a mirror and melting away

54

Like sheep from out the fold of the sky, stars leapt

55

Like ships that have gone down at sea

56

Like shy elves hiding from the traveler's eye

57

Like skeletons, the sycamores uplift their wasted hands

58

like some dripping cavern

59

Like some grave night thought threading a dream

60

Like some new-gathered snowy hyacinth,

61

Like some poor nigh-related guest, that may not rudely be dismist

62

Like some suppressed and hideous thought which flits athwart our musings,

63

Like some unshriven churchyard thing, the friar crawled

64

Like something fashioned in a dream

65

Like sounds of wind and flood

66

Like splendor-winged moths about a taper

67

Like stepping out on summer evenings from the glaring ball-room

68

Like straws in a gust of wind

69

like sudden smilings of divine delight

70

Like summer's beam and summer's stream

71

Like sunlight, in and out the leaves, the robins went

72

Like sweet thoughts in a dream

73

Like the awful shadow of some unseen power

74

Like the bellowing of bulls

75

Like the boar encircled by hunters and hounds

76

Like the bubbles on a river sparkling, bursting, borne away

77

Like the cold breath of the grave

78

Like the creaking of doors held stealthily ajar

79

Like the cry of an itinerant vendor in a quiet and picturesque town

80

Like the dance of some gay sunbeam

81

Like the dawn of the morn

82

Like the detestable and spidery araucaria

83

Like the dew on the mountain

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Like the dim scent in violets

85

Like the drifting foam of a restless sea

86

Like the embodiment of a perfect rose, complete in form and fragrance

87

Like the faint cry of unassisted woe

88

Like the faint exquisite music of a dream

89

Like the fair flower dishevel'd in the wind

90

Like the fair sun, when in his fresh array he cheers the morn,

91

Like the falling thud of the blade of a murderous ax

92

Like the fierce fiend of a distempered dream

93

Like the fitting of an old glove to a hand

94

like the flight of a million arrows

95

Like the foam on the river

96

like the genii from the earthen pot

97

Like the great thunder sounding

98

like the head and skin of a dying man

99

Like the jangling of all the strings of some musical instrument

100

Like the jewels that gleam in baby eyes

101

Like the kiss of maiden love the breeze is sweet and bland

102

Like the long wandering love, the weary heart may faint for rest

103

Like the moon in water seen by night

104

Like the music in the patter of small feet

105

Like the prodigal whom wealth softens into imbecility

106

Like the quivering image of a landscape in a flowing stream

107

Like the rainbow, thou didst fade

108

Like the rustling of grain moved by the west-wind

109

Like the sap that turns to nectar, in the velvet of the peach

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Like the sea whose waves are set in motion by the winds

111

Like the sea-worm, that perforates the shell of the mussel,

112

Like the setting of a tropical sun

113

Like the shadow of a great hill that reaches far out over the plain

114

Like the shadows of the stars in the upheaved sea

115

like the shimmering necks of doves

116

Like the shudder of a doomed soul

117

Like the silver gleam when the poplar trees

118

Like the soft light of an autumnal day

119

Like the Spring-time, fresh and green

120

Like the stern-lights of a ship at sea,

121

like the stretching of a sea-bird's wings

122

Like the sudden impulse of a madman

123

like the sweep of sun-rent clouds over a quiet landscape

124

Like the swell of Summer's ocean

125

Like the tattered effigy in a cornfield

126

like the thunder of a retreating storm

127

like the tolling of sweet, grave bells upon the soul

128

Like the vase in which roses have once been distill'd

129

Like the visits of angels, short and far between

130

like the walls and turrets of a gigantic fortress

131

Like the whole sky when to the east the morning doth return

132

Like thistles of the wilderness, fit neither for food nor fuel

133

like those by sculptor graved for niches in a temple

134

Like those great rivers, whose course everyone beholds,

135

Like thoughts whose very sweetness

136

like to a child o'erwearied with sweet toil

137

Like to diamonds her white teeth shone between the parted lips

138

Like torrents from a mountain source, we rushed into each other's arms

139

Like troops of ghosts on the dry wind past

140

Like two doves with silvery wings, let our souls fly

141

Like two flaming stars were his eyes

142

Like vaporous shapes half seen

143

Like village curs that bark when their fellows do

144

Like wasted hours of youth

145

like water bubbling from a silver jar?

146

like white doves going into the shadow of a wood

147

like white flower-petals on still deep water

148

like windless clouds o'er a tender sky

149

Like winds that bear sweet music,

150

Like wine-stain to a flask the old distrust still clings

151

Like winged stars the fire-flies flash and glance

152

like woodland brooks that cross a sunlit spot

153

Like young lovers whom youth and love make dear

154

likely and plausible

155

Likely enough

156

limit of endurance

157

limited and abbreviated

158

limited in scope

159

limpid twilight

160

linger in expectation

161

Lingering like an unloved guest

162

lingering tenderness

163

linguistic attainments

164

link of sequence

165

Links in the chain of reasoning

166

Lionized by fashionable society

167

liquid eloquence

168

lisping utterance

169

listen in amazement

170

listening reverence

171

listless and inert

172

listless apathy

173

literal and exact

174

literal exactness

175

literary and artistic

176

literary research

177

literature, history, and legend

178

lithe and sinewy

179

Lithe as a panther

180

lithe contortions

181

little idiosyncrasies

182

Little less than scandalous

183

Little white hands like pearls

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Little wonder therefore

185

lively and poignant

186

lively susceptibility

187

lively, careless, and joyous

188

lively, vivacious, vigorous, and forcible

189

livid lightning

190

living manifestation

191

loathsome and abject

192

loathsome oppression

193

local busybody

194

loftiest aspirations

195

loftiness of spirit

196

Lofty and distinguished simplicity

197

lofty and sonorous

198

Lofty as a queen

199

lofty, serene, and impregnable

200

logical and consistent

201

logical precision

202

logical, clear, and consistent

203

loitering, heart-sick, and reluctant

204

lone magnificence

205

Loneliness struck him like a blow

206

lonely, sad, and enslaved

207

Long have I been convinced

208

Long intertangled lines of silver streamlets

209

Long-sighted continuity of thought and plan

210

long, wailing, and passionate

211

longing fancy

212

Look at it in another way

213

Look at some of these questions

214

Look at the situation

215

look of dominance

216

Looked back with faithful eyes like a great mastiff to his master's face

217

Looking as sulky as the weather itself

218

Looking at the matter by and large

219

Looking forward to the early receipt of some of your orders

220

Looking like a snarling beast baulked of its prey

221

Looming large and ugly in the public view

222

looming probabilities

223

loophole of escape

224

Loose and otiose statement

225

Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed

226

loosed out of the brooding hills, it came to pass

227

loquacious assurances

228

loquacity and exuberance

229

lordly abhorrence

230

loss and deterioration

231

loss, deprivation, forfeiture, and waste

232

Lost in a delirious wonder

233

lost in awe

234

Lost in indolent content

235

Lost in irritable reflection

236

Lost like the lightning in the sullen clod

237

lost to remembrance

238

lost, ruined, and deserted

239

loud and passionate

240

loud vociferation

241

loud, deep, and distinct

242

loud, noisy, showy, and clamorous

243

lounging gait

244

loutish rudeness

245

loutish, prankish, selfish, and cunning

246

Love as clean as starlight

247

Love brilliant as the morning

248

Love had like the canker-worm consumed her early prime

249

Love hovered in her gaze

250

Love is a changing lord as the light on a turning sword

251

Love like a child around the world doth run

252

Love like a miser in the dark his joys would hide

253

love of approbation

254

Love shakes like a windy reed your heart

255

Love smiled like an unclouded sun

256

Love that sings and has wings as a bird

257

love, depth, loyalty, and faithfulness

258

love, veneration, and gratitude

259

Lovely as starry water

260

Lovely beyond all words

261

Lovely the land unknown and like a river flowing

262

loving and reverential

263

lovingly quizzical

264

low and groveling

265

lower in estimation

266

lowering aspects

267

lowest degradation

268

loyal adhesion

269

loyal and devoted

270

lucid treatment

271

lucid, lively, and effective

272

Lucidity and argumentative vigor

273

lucidity and vividness

274

lucidity, impressiveness, incisiveness, and pungency

275

lucky and propitious

276

lucrative and advantageous

277

lucrative profession

278

ludicrous and detestable

279

Ludicrous attempts of clumsy playfulness and tawdry eloquence

280

ludicrous incongruity

281

lugubrious and unfortunate

282

lugubrious question

283

Luke-warm assurance of continued love

284

lukewarm and indifferent

285

lukewarm repentance

286

lull and silence

287

Lulled by dreamy musings

288

Lulled into a sense of false satisfaction

289

lulled into indifference

290

lumbering gaiety

291

luminous and keen

292

luminous interpretation

293

Luminous with great thoughts

294

lure and captivate

295

lurid and fiery

296

lurid picturesqueness

297

lurking suspicion

298

luscious and lasting

299

lust of conquest

300

luster and resplendence

301

lustihood of youth

302

lustrous surface

303

lusty and big-sounding

304

luxuriance of expression

305

luxuriant in fancy

306

luxuriant richness

307

luxurious, whimsical, and selfish

308

luxury and pomp

309

lying equivocations

310

Maddened by a jealous hate

311

maddening monotony

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madness and folly

313

magic fascination

314

magical and secret

315

magisterial emphasis

316

magnanimity of mind

317

magnanimous concessions

318

Magnanimous indifference to meticulous niceties

319

magnetic fascination

320

magnificent and luxurious

321

magnificent florescence

322

magnificent, sumptuous, and stately

323

magniloquent diction

324

magnitude, duration, and scope

325

maidenly timidity

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main ramifications

327

Mainly, I believe

328

Maintained with ingenuity and vigor

329

majestic and imposing

330

majestic dignity

331

majesty of despair

332

majesty, beauty, and truth

333

Making allowances for differences of opinion

334

Making the ear greedy to remark offense

335

maladjusted marriages

336

malevolence, vanity, and falsehood

337

malevolent ingenuity

338

malice and revenge

339

malice, anger, uncharitableness, and indignation

340

malicious aspersions

341

malign influence

342

malignity and spitefulness

343

malignity, brutality, malevolence, and inhumanity

344

malodorous gentility

345

man of iron

346

manageable proportions

347

mangled arguments

348

manifest reluctance

349

Manifestly harsh and barbarous

350

manifold and complex

351

manifold functions

352

manly and powerful

353

manly reticence

354

manly, refined, and unaffected

355

manner and conduct

356

manners, morals, habits, and behavior

357

mantle of verdure

358

mantling smile

359

manual dexterity

360

manufactured melancholy

361

many fields had been pressed between giant's fingers and so had been left

362

Many of us have had the good fortune

363

Many of you, perhaps, recollect

364

Many thanks--how kind and good you are!

365

March on my soul nor like the laggard stay

366

Marching down to posterity with divine honors

367

marked by acuteness

368

marked individuality

369

Marked out for some strange and preternatural doom

370

marketable commodity

371

marshaled hosts

372

martial footsteps

373

martyrdom of ambition

374

marvel of competency

375

Marvelous copiousness of illustration

376

marvelous lucidity

377

marvelous, wonderful, extraordinary, and incredible

378

Marvelously suggestive and inspiring

379

marvels and mysteries

380

masculine power

381

mask of flippancy

382

masked expression

383

mass of mediocrity

384

massive and compact

385

massive strength

386

massive, ponderous, solid, and substantial

387

master achievement

388

master of phrasing

389

masterly and convincing

390

mastery, proficiency, dexterity, and superiority

391

matchless charm

392

matchless, unrivaled, inimitable, and incomparable

393

material misconception

394

materialistic and sordid

395

maternal and filial

396

maternal solicitude

397

mathematical precision

398

matrimonial alliance

399

matured reflection

400

maudlin and grotesque

401

maudlin sentimentalism

402

mawkish insipidity

403

Mawkishly effeminate sentiment

404

maxim, proverb, truism, and apothegm

405

maxims and morals

406

maximum intensity

407

May I ask to whom you allude?

408

May I ask you to believe

409

May I ask you to do us a great favor by

410

May I be privileged to hear it?

411

May I not speak here

412

May I speak freely?

413

May I try to show that every effort

414

May I venture to ask what inference you would draw from that?

415

May I venture to suggest

416

May it not also be advanced

417

May the day come quickly

418

May we be favored with a reply

419

maze of words

420

Me on whose heart as a worm she trod

421

meager and bare

422

meager evidence

423

mean and debasing

424

mean trickeries

425

mean, pitiful, and sordid

426

meaning and significance

427

Meaningless as the syllables of an unknown tongue

428

meaningless confusion

429

means and materials

430

Meantime it is encouraging to think

431

Meantime soliciting your forbearance

432

Meanwhile let us freely recognize

433

Meanwhile permit me to thank you for your kind attention

434

measure of absurdity

435

measured by years

436

measured cadence

437

mechanical and monotonous

438

mechanical handicraft

439

meddling and muddling

440

meditative and sympathetic

441

meditatively silent

442

medley, mixture, jumble, and hodge-podge

443

meek ambition

444

meek and manageable

445

meek, humane, and temperate

446

meekness, inwardness, patience, and self-denial

447

meet with rebuke

448

melancholy musing

449

melancholy, grave, and serious

450

mellifluous eloquence

451

mellow refinement

452

melodious platitudes

453

melodramatic resource

454

melody and softness

455

melt into space

456

melting mood

457

memorable and glorious

458

memorable experience

459

Memories plucked from wood and field

460

Memory was busy at his heart

461

Men are in the habit of saying

462

Men are telling us nowadays

463

Men everywhere testify

464

Men moved hither and thither like insects in their crevices

465

Men of profound erudition

466

menace and superciliousness

467

menacing attitude

468

mendacious tongue

469

mendicant pilgrim

470

mental metamorphosis

471

Mentality as hard as bronze

472

Mentally round-shouldered and decrepit

473

mercenary view

474

merchantable literature

475

merciful and chivalrous

476

merciful insensibility

477

merciless and unpitying

478

merciless censor

479

merciless, remorseless, relentless, and ruthless

480

mercurial temperament

481

mercy, truth, and righteousness

482

Mere effects of negligence

483

mere generalization

484

meretricious allurements

485

Merge imperceptibly into one another like the hues of the prism

486

merge into character

487

Merged in a sentiment of unutterable sadness and compassion

488

meridian splendor

489

merit and virtue

490

merited ridicule

491

merry jest

492

metallic immobility

493

metaphysical obscurity

494

meteoric splendors

495

Meteors that dart like screaming birds

496

methodical regularity

497

methodical, sensible, and conscientious

498

metrical exactness

499

Microscopic analysis of character

500

microscopic minuteness

501

Microscopic minuteness of eye

502

Might I suggest an alternative?

503

might, majesty, and power

504

mighty and majestic

505

mighty animosity

506

mild and virtuous

507

mild rejoinder

508

mild, gentle, humble, and submissive

509

mild, sweet, and peaceable

510

militant struggles

511

military autocracy

512

Milk-white pavements, clear and richly pale, like alabaster

513

millennial reign

514

mimic gestures

515

minatory shadow

516

mince and temporize

517

mincing precision

518

minds and memories

519

mingled decorousness

520

Mingled distrust and fear

521

mingled with curiosity

522

miniature imitations

523

minister of vengeance

524

Ministering to mere pleasure and indulgence

525

minor impulses

526

minute consideration

527

Minutely and rationally exposing their imperfections

528

minuteness and fidelity

529

minuteness of description

530

miracle of miracles

531

miraculous profusion

532

mirroring lake

533

mirth and joviality

534

mirthful glance

535

mischief, cruelty, and futility

536

mischievous effusion

537

misdemeanors and improprieties

538

miserable musings

539

misery and degradation

540

Misgivings of grave kinds

541

misleading notion

542

mismanagement, indecision, obstinacy, and hardihood

543

misrepresented and reviled

544

misshapen oddities

545

misspent strength

546

mistaken assumption

547

mistrustful superiority

548

mists of criticism

549

misty and indefinite

550

misty depression

551

mitigating circumstances

552

mixture, medley, variety, and diversification

553

moans, shrieks, and curses

554

mobile and expressive

555

mobile countenance

556

mobile, quick, and sensitive

557

mock seriousness

558

mockery and imposture

559

Mockery crept into her tone

560

moderate and cautious

561

modes and methods

562

modest and retiring

563

modest cheerfulness

564

modest, sympathetic, and kind

565

modesty of reserve

566

modesty, fineness, sensitiveness, and fastidiousness

567

modified sentiment

568

Molded by the austere hand of adversity

569

molding and upbuilding

570

molding, controlling, and conforming

571

moldy doctrines

572

mollifying conditions

573

moment of lassitude

574

momentary and languid

575

momentary discomfiture

576

momentous and appalling

577

momentous pause

578

Moments of utter idleness and insipidity

579

monarchial institutions

580

monastic austerity

581

money, position, power, and consequence

582

monopoly and injustice

583

monotonous sameness

584

monotony and indecorum

585

monster of ingratitude

586

monstrosities of character

587

monstrous absurdity

588

monstrous and insupportable

589

monstrous in dulness

590

monstrous, incredible, and inhuman

591

monumental structure

592

mood of tranquillity

593

mood, temper, humor, and caprice

594

Moods of malicious reaction and vindictive recoil

595

moody and brooding

596

moody silence

597

moonlight witchery

598

moral and religious

599

moral obliquity

600

moral, material, and social

601

morbid and irritable

602

Morbid and subjective brooding

603

morbid imagination

604

mordant wit

605

More and more it is felt

606

More or less severe and prolonged

607

More than once have I had to express

608

More than this need not be said

609

More variegated than the skin of a serpent

610

Moreover, I have insisted

611

Moreover, I would counsel you

612

Moreover, when we pass judgment

613

moribund mediocrities

614

Morn, in yellow and white, came broadening out of the mountains

615

mortal affront

616

mortified coldness

617

Most dangerous!

618

Motion like the spirit of that wind whose soft step deepens slumber

619

motionless and commanding

620

Motionless as a plumb line

621

motionless, staring, and appalled

622

motive, impulse, incentive, and intimation

623

motives and aims

624

motives, purposes, and intentions

625

motley appearance

626

mountainous inequalities

627

Mountains like frozen wrinkles on a sea

628

mountains, seas, and vineyards

629

mournful magnificence

630

mouthing amplitude

631

move with alacrity

632

Moved to unaccustomed tears

633

moved, swayed, and ruled

634

Moving in the same dull round, like blind horses in a mill

635

Much has been said and written about

636

mud and mire

637

muddle of motives

638

muddled and incoherent

639

muddled opinion

640

muddy inefficiency

641

muffled detonations

642

mullioned windows

643

multifarious activity

644

multiform truth

645

multiple needs

646

multitude of details

647

multitudinous details

648

Mumble only jargon of dotage

649

mummery of words

650

mundane importance

651

mural decorations

652

murder, destruction, and agony

653

murderous parody

654

murky recesses

655

murmur of satisfaction

656

murmuring its happiness in its sleep

657

murmurs and reproaches

658

muscularity and morality

659

musical diapason

660

mutable and fleeting

661

mutations of time

662

mute and insensate

663

Mute as an iceberg

664

mute insensibility

665

mutilated and disfigured

666

mutinous thoughts

667

muttered warning

668

muttering and murmuring

669

mutual and friendly

670

mutual animosity

671

My age is as a lusty Winter

672

My appreciation has been quickened

673

My attitude would be one of disapproval

674

My belief, therefore, is

675

My body broken as a turning wheel

676

My body is too frail for its moods

677

My breath to Heaven like vapor goes

678

My confidence in you is absolute

679

My duty is to endeavor to show

680

My experience tells me

681

My first duty is to express to you

682

My friends, do you really believe

683

My friends, I propose

684

My head was like a great bronze bell with one thought for the clapper

685

My heart is as some famine-murdered land

686

My heart is like a full sponge and must weep a little

687

My heart like a bird doth hover

688

My heart tells me

689

My heart will be as wind fainting in hot grass

690

My idea of it is quite the reverse

691

My idea, therefore, is

692

My information is rather scanty

693

My last criticism upon

694

My life floweth away like a river

695

My life was white as driven snow

696

My love for thee is like the sovereign moon that rules the sea

697

My love's like the steadfast sun

698

My lungs began to crow like chanticleer

699

My meaning is quite the contrary

700

My mind is not moved by

701

My mind most perfectly acquiesces

702

My mind swayed idly like a water-lily in a lake

703

My muscles are as steel

704

My next objection is

705

My own private opinion is

706

My point of view is different, but I shall not insist upon it

707

My present business is

708

My regret is intensified by the thought

709

My skin is as sallow as gold

710

My soul was as a lampless sea

711

My spirit seemed to beat the void, like the bird from out the ark

712

My thoughts came yapping and growling round me like a pack of curs

713

My thoughts ran leaping through the green ways of my mind

714

My views are altered in many respects

715

My worst suspicions were confirmed

716

myriad lights

717

myriads of stars

718

mysteries of taste

719

mysterious and incomprehensible

720

Mysterious and invincible darkness

721

mysterious in origin

722

mysterious potency

723

mysterious, dark, secret, and enigmatical

724

mystery, vagueness, and jargon

725

mystic and wonderful

726

mystic meaning

727

mythical kingdom

728

nagging and squabbling

729

naive manner

730

naked eye

731

Naked vigor of resolution

732

nameless and obscure

733

nameless fear

734

narcotic effect

735

narrow and timorous

736

narrow, limited, selfish, and bigoted

737

narrow, precise, and formal

738

narrowed by custom

739

narrowing axioms

740

narrowness of range

741

nasal drone

742

nascent intercourse

743

national shortcomings

744

native incompetence

745

natural and spontaneous

746

natural sluggishness

747

natural, innocent, and laudable

748

Naturally prone to believe

749

Nature seemed to revel in unwonted contrasts

750

nauseous and disgusting

751

nauseous dose

752

nautical venture

753

Nay, I boldly say

754

Nay, it will be a relief to my mind

755

Nay, there is a general feeling

756

neat refutation

757

neatness and propriety

758

neatness, order, and comfort

759

nebulae of romance

760

nebulous uncertainty

761

necessarily and essentially

762

necessary adjuncts

763

necessary, expedient, indispensable, and unavoidable

764

necessary, just, and logical

765

Necessity thus imposed by prudence

766

necessity, emergency, exigency, and crisis

767

necromantic power

768

nectar of enjoyment

769

Need I say that I mean

770

needless depression

771

needs and demands

772

nefarious and malevolent

773

nefarious scheme

774

negations and contradictions

775

negative approbation

776

neglect and evade

777

neglect of duty

778

neglect, overlook, disregard, and contemn

779

neglect, rashness, and incompetence

780

negligible quantity

781

negotiate and bargain

782

neighboring mists

783

Neither should you deceive

784

nerve and fiber

785

Nerveless and faithless folly

786

nerveless hand

787

nervous solicitude

788

nettled opponent

789

neutral and colorless

790

neutral eye

791

Never before have I so strongly felt

792

Never can I cease to feel

793

Never did there devolve

794

Never for a moment believe

795

Never have I felt so forcibly

796

Never was a weaker defense attempted

797

Never was there a greater mistake

798

Never was there an instance

799

Nevertheless we can admit

800

New ambitions pressed upon his fancy

801

New dreams began to take wing in his imagination

802

new perplexities

803

new, strange, and unusual

804

Next, from what has been said it is plain

805

Next, I consider

806

Next, it will be denied

807

nice discrimination

808

nice, finical, effeminate, and silly

809

niceties of difference

810

nicety and precision

811

niggardly allowance

812

niggardly, close, miserly, and parsimonious

813

niggardly, sordid, and parsimonious

814

Night after night the skies were wine-blue and bubbling with stars

815

Night falls like fire

816

Night passes lightly in the open world,

817

nightingale of affection

818

nightmare fantasy

819

Nights of fathomless blackness

820

nimble and airy

821

nimble faculty

822

No argument can overwhelm a fact

823

No defense is to be found

824

No distinct test can be named

825

No doubt there are many questions

826

No doubt to most of us

827

No doubt, in the first instance

828

No finer sentence has come down to us

829

No greater service could be rendered

830

no human feet had walked

831

No longer do we believe

832

No longer shall slander's venomed spite crawl

833

No man regrets more than I do

834

No mark of trick or artifice

835

No more than brief palliatives or mitigations

836

No one can feel this more strongly

837

No one can see the end

838

No one can, I think, pretend

839

No one here, I am sure

840

No one need to exaggerate

841

No one will accuse me

842

No one, I suppose, would say

843

No one, I think, can fail to observe

844

No one, I think, will dispute the statement

845

No true man ever believes

846

No, I am speaking seriously

847

No, I don't understand it

848

nobility of purpose

849

noble and powerful

850

Noble and sublime patience

851

Noble and sublime patience

852

noble condescension

853

noble in amplitude

854

noble, laudable, and good

855

noble, pure, exalted, and worthy

856

nocturnal scene

857

nodding and blinking

858

nodding approval

859

noise, clatter, and clamor

860

noiseless reverie

861

noisy and scurrilous

862

noisy platitudes

863

Noisy torrent of talk

864

nomadic life

865

nominal allegiance

866

non-committal way

867

nonchalant manner

868

nondescript garb

869

None can have failed to observe

870

nonsense and absurdity

871

nonsense rhymes

872

nonsense, trash, twaddle, and rubbish

873

nooks and corners

874

noonday splendor

875

Nor am I disparaging or discouraging

876

Nor can I forget either

877

Nor can it justly be said

878

Nor can we afford to waste time

879

Nor can we forget how long

880

Nor can we now ask

881

Nor do I believe

882

Nor do I doubt

883

Nor do I pretend

884

Nor do I think there can be found

885

Nor does it matter much

886

Nor has there been wanting

887

Nor indeed am I supposing

888

Nor is it a fair objection

889

Nor is it probable

890

Nor is this all

891

Nor let me forget to add here

892

Nor must I be understood as saying

893

Nor must it be forgotten

894

Nor need we fear to speak

895

Nor should any attempt be made

896

Nor will history fail to record

897

Nor will I enlarge on the matter

898

normal characteristics

899

Not at all

900

Not at all

901

Not averse to a little gossip

902

Not only so

903

Not so much polished as varnished

904

Not that I quarrel with

905

Not to my knowledge

906

notable and conspicuous

907

notable circumstance

908

note of triumph

909

noted and distinguished

910

Noted for their quixotic love of adventure

911

noteworthy and intelligible

912

noteworthy friendship

913

Nothing but the deepest sense

914

Nothing can be further from the truth

915

Nothing could be clearer

916

Nothing could be more captious or unfair

917

Nothing could be more delightful

918

Nothing could be more striking

919

Nothing is more common in the world

920

Nothing remained but a graceful acquiescence

921

Nothing that you can do

922

noticeably begrimed

923

notoriety and prominence

924

Notoriously distracted by internecine jealousies

925

notoriously profligate

926

Notwithstanding all that has been said

927

Notwithstanding all this, I hold

928

nourish and foster

929

novel signification

930

novel, recent, rare, and unusual

931

novelty and freshness

932

novice and ignoramus

933

Now comes the question

934

Now every nerve in my body seemed like a strained harp-string

935

Now is it very plain to you?

936

Now like a wild nymph she veils her shadowy form

937

Now like a wild rose in the fields of heaven

938

Now memory and emotion surged in my soul like a tempest

939

Now thou seemest like a bankrupt beau, stripped of his gaudy hues

940

Now you are flippant

941

Now, bear with me when I say

942

Now, comparing these instances together

943

Now, from these instances it is plain

944

Now, having spoken of

945

Now, I admit

946

Now, I am far from denying

947

Now, I am far from undervaluing

948

Now, I am justified in calling this

949

Now, I am obliged to say

950

Now, I do not wish you to believe

951

Now, I have a closing sentence or two

952

Now, I pass on to consider

953

Now, I shall not occupy your time

954

Now, I understand the argument

955

Now, I will undertake to say

956

Now, I wish to call your attention

957

Now, if you will clearly understand

958

Now, is there any ground or basis for

959

Now, it is an undoubted fact

960

Now, it is evident

961

Now, it is not at all strange

962

Now, it is unquestioned

963

Now, let me speak with the greatest care

964

Now, let me stop a moment

965

Now, let us consider

966

Now, observe, my drift

967

Now, sir, I am truly horrified

968

Now, the answer we should give

969

Now, the question here at issue

970

Now, the world will say

971

Now, there is a close alliance between

972

Now, this is precisely the danger

973

Now, this is to some extent

974

Now, understand me definitely

975

Now, we do not maintain

976

Now, we will inquire

977

Now, what I want you to realize

978

Now, with regard to

979

Now, you will allow me to state

980

Now, you will understand from this

981

noxious, unwholesome, mischievous, and destructive

982

nucleus and beginning

983

nugatory and ineffectual

984

nugatory cause

985

null, void, and useless

986

nullify and destroy

987

numbed stillness

988

number and variety

989

numberless defeats

990

numerical majority

991

numerous and important

992

Nursed by brooding thought

993

nursed in luxury

994

oaths and revilings

995

obduracy of mind

996

obdurate and impenitent

997

obdurate courage

998

obdurate, unfeeling, callous, and obstinate

999

obedience to conscience