Among the many phrases which Germans have coined to describe Belgium the following occur: bastard, eunuch and hermaphrodite.
The passage cited from the British Ambassador's report, as well as some other phrases in the same, are evidently inspired by a certain bias.
And flowery phrases are pleasant to notice,--like music suitably played, and of which one is conscious though occupied with other matters.
What do I think determines the set of phrases a man gets?
A little experience in society teaches a young girl the arts and the phrases which all the Lotharios have in common.
He is accustomed to the phrases with which the plausible visitor, who has a subscription book in his pocket, prepares his victim for the depressing disclosure of his real errand.
Many of the girls chattered a little broken French, and one of them, Miss Euphrosyne De Lacy, had been half educated in Paris, so that she had all the phrases which are to social operators what his cutting instruments are to the surgeon.
Thomas Carlyle, third in the line of descent, finds an audience very different from those which listened to the silver speech of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the sonorous phrases of Samuel Johnson.
Some shrewd old doctors have a few phrases always on hand for patients that will insist on knowing the pathology of their complaints without the slightest capacity of understanding the scientific explanation.
Guizot, let us avow, that for the honor of his logic, one would desire to efface from his writings such phrases as we have just read.
What, then, is the meaning of certain phrases continually uttered by some men?
And let it be remembered also that in most cases such phrasesare translated from another language, that is, from the Welsh.
You made use of certain phrases that reminded me of my shameful course, my base inclinations, and my secret remorse, and in so forcible a manner that the very perusal made me tremble with anger.
These twophrases were introduced into the liturgy of the church by S.
In this translation, the structure and meaning of the sentences and phrases are made very plain, and one reads with a pleasure and facility much enhanced by the clearness and beauty of the page.
It would appear to be one of those cant phrases familiar enough, we may presume, at a certain period, for, if not readily to be understood, the poet was unlikely to make use of it in such a connection.
Such phrases as every inch a king; witch the world; the time is out of joint, and hundreds more, show that modern Englishmen not only speak Shakespeare, but think Shakespeare.
We like very much to make sport of phrases from languages unfamiliar to us, and we enjoy the jokes of ludicrous translations, and so we take the term "Oberster Kriegsherr" and we translate it "Supreme War Lord.
That such phrases should be in the mouths of our apologists for the war is significant.
Everything depends upon the person who effects the enlightenment, upon finding a suitable opportunity, and upon choosing words and phrases adapted to the child's intelligence.
Deliberately I avoid discussing the question as to the precise words and phrases with which the child's enlightenment is to be effected.
To confuse is not to instruct, to mystify is not to enlighten, the repetition of meaningless phrases can leave behind no healthy residuum in the mind.
And if, instead of taking mere phrases from the principal Christian writers, we carefully examine their meaning we shall see that they were strangely devoid of what is now understood by the expression "moral incentive.
And the consequence of this has been that while Christian teaching has been lavish in the use of attractive phrases its actual result has been to create a type of character that has been not so much immoral as amoral.
The noise first rose to us, hanging over the guard, and trying to get phrases for the glory of her sea and sky and mountains and monuments, from a boat which seemed to have been keeping abreast of us ever since we had slowed up.
When she had finished her tea she put these books back into a leather bag, which they filled to a rigid repletion, and, after a few laconic phrases with the tea-girl, she went out like going off the stage.
To-day, turning over the pages of the old Manual, with its fantastic strained phrases staring at me from the page, I cannot help wishing that some wise and tender person had been able to explain to me the conditions as I now see them.
He paused, obviously expecting her to comment; but suddenly phrases failed her.
Linda was cool and remote and grave, silently repeating and weighing the phrases of her letter to Pleydon.
Then, several days later, at a ball, in the midst of the figures of the quadrille, several gasping, breathless phrases are exchanged.
These phrases he printed out painstakingly on the back of a calling card which he tacked up (with a hair-brush) on the outer side of the apartment door.
He closed his book; hitched forward to the old flat-top desk that stood between the windows; lighted a caked brier pipe; and after considerable scribbling on scraps of paper appeared to hit upon an arrangement of phrases that pleased him.
Greathearted phrases were the common tender of Village talk; but not all the talkers were great-hearted.
That was all--all but a few commonplace phrasesat the doer.
Words of his own sprang up in her memory like witnesses against him, half phrases embodying his suspicion of her, wild accusations when, like a drunken man, he had let himself go.
I tell you, Dick, it was all so involved that I believe, although he used the set phrasesabout the Lord Jesus Christ, he really believed it was I that had forgiven him.
And let not the need of plain matter-of-fact explanation of obsolete terms and technical phrases be forgotten on such occasions.
Take care to "pull the sentences together," to avoid loose and redundant phrases and words.
A brief word in passing on the problem raised by some of the phrases of our Burial Service.
Since I had been upon phrasesall these hours I separated and remembered the principal words of each.
I remembered the phrases upon one side and upon the other which still live in the stones of the city, carved and deep, but more lasting than are even the letters of their inscription.
He had phrases that the Black Prince used when he went riding at arms across the Margeride.
Kedzie caught only a few phrases in the holes in the noisy music.
Miss Silsby had by the use of the most high-sounding phrases attained about the final word in candor.
She practised before a mirror any phrases she particularly liked.
But he was repeating to Zada the very phrases of his honeymoon, repeating them with all the fervor of a good actor playing Romeo for the hundredth time with his new leading lady.
This hideous privilege of proving innocence by walking unshod over hot plowshares is most frigidly set forth in the statute where the lawyer's gift for putting terrible things in desiccated phrases was never better shown than in Section 1757.
Born Puck, he died Pierrot,' said Mr. MacColl in one of the superb phrases with which he gibbets into posterity an art or an artist he rather dislikes.
In truth it was your splendid praises Which made us wake To glories hidden in the phrases Of William Blake.
When the phrases of Justinian were used by a Merovingian king or a Spanish Inquisitor not only was the meaning of the words changed, but the facts to which the words could have applied in their old sense were gone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phrases" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
