Author: Gail E. TompkinsPublisher: National Council of Teachers
ISBN: 9780814101872
Category : Vocabulary
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Answering Students' Questions about Words
Author: Gail E. TompkinsPublisher: National Council of Teachers
ISBN: 9780814101872
Category : Vocabulary
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Dictionary of English Surnames
Author: P. H. ReaneyPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 041505737X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 3619
Book Description
This classic dictionary explains the origins of over 16,000 names in current English use. It will be a source of fascination to everyone with an interest in names and their history.This classic dictionary answers questions such as these and explains the origins of over 16,000 names in current English use. It will be a source of fascination to everyone with an interest in names and their history.
Similes Dictionary
Author: Elyse SommerPublisher: Visible Ink Press
ISBN: 1578594685
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
Language "Appealing As Sunlight After a Storm." A sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end. —Henry David Thoreau Prose consists of ... phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house. —George Orwell Whether it invokes hard work or merely a hen-house, a good simile is like a good picture—it's worth a thousand words. Packed with more than 16,000 imaginative, colorful phrases—from “abandoned as a used Kleenex” to “quiet as an eel swimming in oil”—the Similes Dictionary will help any politician, writer, or lover of language find just the right saying, be it original or banal, verbose or succinct. Your thoughts will never be "as tedious as a twice-told tale" or "dry as the Congressional Record." Choose from elegant turns of phrases “as useful as a Swiss army knife” and “varied as expressions of the human face”. Citing more than 2,000 sources—from the Bible, Socrates, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, and H. L. Mencken to popular movies, music, and television shows—the Similes Dictionary covers hundreds of subjects broken into thematic categories that include topics such as virtue, anger, age, ambition, importance, and youth, helping you find the fitting phrase quickly and easily. Perfect for setting the atmosphere, making a point, or helping spin a tale with economy, intelligence, and ingenuity, the vivid comparisons found in this collection will inspire anyone. Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. —William Shakespeare A face like a bucket —Raymond Chandler A man with little learning is like the frog who thinks its puddle a great sea. —Burmese proverb Peace, like charity, begins at home —Franklin Delano Roosevelt You know a dream is like a river ever changing as it flows. —Garth Brooks Fit as a fiddle —John Ray’s Proverbs He's not to be allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog. —Arthur Miller Ring true, like good china. —Sylvia Plath Music yearning like a God in pain —John Keats Busy as a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest. —Pat Conroy Enduring as mother love —Anonymous
Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
Author: All about Tea
Author: William Harrison UkersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
The Light of Nature Pursued
Author: Abraham TuckerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
A History of the English Language
Author: Albert Croll BaughPublisher:
ISBN: 9780133891553
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Cicero's Second Philippic
Author: Marcus Tullius CiceroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oratory, Ancient
Languages : la
Pages : 292
Book Description
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