English For All: V / LITERARY EXPRESSIONS - FIFTEEN THOUSAND USEFUL PHRASES

V / LITERARY EXPRESSIONS - FIFTEEN THOUSAND USEFUL PHRASES

Vain allurements of folly and fashion

Variously ramified and delicately minute channels of expression

Varnished over with a cold repellent cynicism

Vast sweep of mellow distances

Veiled by some equivocation

Vibrant with the surge of human passions

Vicissitudes of wind and weather [vicissitudes = sudden or unexpected changes]

Vigor and richness of resource

Visible and palpable pains and penalties

Voices that charm the ear and echo with a subtle resonance in the soul

Volcanic upheavings of imprisoned passions

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