Eyes alive with enthusiasm

A rush of embarrassment swept through him

Shocked by the directness of the reply

His face cracked into an apologetic grin

An endless expanse of blue sky

Leaves fell and fluttered like snow flakes

The wind moaned through the trees

e moon sailed across the sky like a ghostly gallion

Pausing for a moment she became aware of her surroundings

The warmth of the air wrapped around her like a scarf

A suddenshiver of excitement shot through her body

His once designer clothes looked anything but attractive

Her shocking smile;broken.

Adventure is the champagne of life.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. (Julius Caesar 3:2:97)

And death shall be no more. death, thou shalt die. (Donne)

And justify the ways of God of men. (Paradise Lost 1 22)

And nature must obey necessity. (Julius Caesar 4:3:225)

And purer than the purest gold. (Ben Jonson : The Touchstone of Truth)

Danger comes in silence andin secret. (Isaac Pocock)

Dark with excessive bright. (Paradise Lost : 3 380)

A day is miniature eternity. (Emerson: Journals)

Death be not proud, though some have called thee. (Donne)

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. (Pope)

Even God can notchange the past. (Agathon)

Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor. (Goethe)

Excessive scruple is only hidden pride. (Goethe)

Faint heart wins not lady fair. (William James Linton)

The fairest things have the fleetest end. (F. Thomson)

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. (William Ellery Channing)

Fame is food that dead men eat. (A. Dopson)

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time. (Hamlet 3:1:70)

Friends are born, not made. (Hendry Brooks Adams)

Happiness is the shadow of thingpast. (Paradise Lost 4-299)

He wears the rose of youth upon him. (Antony & Cleopatra 3 : 11 : 20)

He, who will not when he may, may not when he will. (John of Salisbury)

Heaven lies about us in our infancy. (Wordsworth)

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. (Keats)

Heaven is our heritage, Earth but a player's stage. (Thomas Nashe)

A heaven on earth. (Paradise Lost 4-208)

The heart is not a clock, it will not wind again. (Sacheverell Sitwell)

Hector is dead. There is no more to say. (Troilus & Cressida 5-10-22)

Hills whose heads touch heaven. (Othello 1 : 3: 141)

His time is forever, everywhere his place. (Abraham Cowley)

An honest man's the noble work of God.

Honest labour bears a lovely face. (Thomas Dekker)

How noiselessfalls the foot of time. (W. R. Spencer)

Hypocrisy in the homage that vice offers to virtue. (La Rochefaocauld)

Great Phrases 2

Absolutely free conscience

Absorbingly interesting occupation

Abundantly illustrated book

Acoustically indistinct consonants

Admittedly difficult task

Apparently disconnected facts

Architecturally successful edifice

Astonishingly young mind

Awfully up-hill work

Badly drawn character

Basically irrelevant detail

Biologically important functions

Bitterly contested wars

Blatantly defied convention

Brightly coloured flowers

Brilliantly written book

Carefully ascertained facts

Carefully chosen examples

Carefully developed theory

Clearly defined pattern

Closely guarded secret

Closelyrelated words

Commercially oriented people

Commonly used words

Comparatively recent development

Completely different angle

Completely illiterate audience

Constantly changing background

Constantly recurring themes

Critically edited text

Currently fashionable dress

Dangerously disparaging attributes

Dazzlingly beautiful illuminations

Dearly loved person

Deeply felt resentment

Deeply rooted tradition

Delightfully chivalrous statement

Densely populated areas

Divinely inspired poetry

Eagerly awaited news

Easily accomplished task

Economically advanced nation

Economically backward areas

Elegantly dressed person

Eminently readable introduction

Eminently respectable figures

Emotionally charged sound

Entirely unfamiliar country

Exceedingly clever man

Extremely attractive girl

Extremely grave risks

Extremely popular songs

Fairly accurate details

Fairly reliable guide

Fantastically inspiring place

Finely framed speech

Flamboyantly handsome man

Frequently usedword

Fully qualified person

Fundamentally different approach

Gaily plumaged birds

Gaudily coloured beaks

Generally accepted fact

Genuinely new ideas

Gorgeously created figures

Grammatically different words

Grievously committed sins

Happilychosen term

Hardly audible sound

Hastily summoned meeting

Heavily bearded person

Highly developed feeling

Highly disciplined community

Highly emotional speeches

Highly readable narrative

Highly sophisticated equipment

Historically correct usage

Historically related family of languages

Honestly earned money

Hugely impressive system

Immensely complicated affairs

Immensely suggestive book

Increasingly inelegant expressions

Increasingly popular subject

Inexpressibly beautiful measure

Infinitely productive artist

Infinitely small quantities

Infinitely variable world

Infinitely varied world

Insipidly pious woman

Intellectually mature person

Intensely interesting experience

Intensely private life

Intensely subjective poet

Internationally knownscientist

Juridically free peasants

Keenly analytical ear

Lavishly illustrated pages

Lavishly produced publications

Lawfully constituted authority

Legally wedded wife

Lexicologically interesting polysemy

Linguistically enlightened editors

Literally translated vernacular expressions

Logically coherent analysis

Logically connected sentences

Logically fallacious inferences

Loosely flowing garments

Marvellously engineered road system

Mechanically woven carpet

Mentally disturbed people

Mentally retardedchildren

Moderately priced book

Mortally wounded man

Mutually exclusive categories

Mutually intelligible dialects

Nationally televised programme

Naturally unstressed words

Neatly furnished house

Negatively charged particle

Negatively prefixed words

Newlyappointed minister

Newly constituted board

Newly discovered languages

Newly married man

Newly constructed buildings

Newly published titles

Normally constituted man

Noticeably defective speech

Noticeably handsome face

adistically cruel man

Seeminglycontradictory facets (of one's personality)

Seemingly little things

Seemingly worthless people

Semantically peculiar etymology

Semantically (very) interesting words

Singularly fortunate youth

Slightly different meaning

Smartly dressed woman

Socially acceptable qualities

Socially adaptive behaviour

Socially distinct societies

Socially distinguished ladies

Socially useful productive work

Sparsely populated areas

Specially designed building

Specially shaped pipe

Specially written example

Spiritually elevatinginfluence

Spiritually highest realities

Splendidly successful book

Strictly limited interest

Strictly scientific words

Strikingly beautiful places

Strongly developed taste

Strongly marked face

Strongly rooted envy

Strongly worded resolution

Suddenlyrecollected emotion

Superbly sculptured features

Surprisingly subtle discrimination

Syllogistically expressed agreement

Symbolically significant work

Systematically organised survey

Tacitly accepted values

Thickly populated city

Thinly populated area

Thoroughly dishonest man

Thoroughly learned system

Thoughtfully prepared material

Totally different spirit

Totally unexpected result

Tremendously popular form

Traitorously corrupted youth

Truly good man

Unimaginably beautiful gardens

Uniquely great events

Universally acknowledged truth

Unspeakably bad taste

Utterly different languages

Utterly insignificant person

Vaguely defined term

Vastly increased power

Verbally defined concepts

Vividly attractive pictures

Wholly subjective affair

Widely separated countries

Wildly imaginative mind

Wonderfully rich appearance

Places

- Gave way to a soaring, majestic network of thick-set vines, high archway and domed ceilings.- Streaks of gay sunlight darted through the open window.- It was a palatial home, with high, cool rooms, floors of stone and marble, and elaborately carved furniture with rich upholstery.People- A smart gentleman dresses in a flowing brown cloak and a brown bejewelled hat.- Her hair was tied into a neat and precise bun that not a single strand of hair was out of place.- He was a fine figure of a man, with very yellow hair and narrow, haughty eyes.- They were dressed in dazzling white robes with gold embroidery.Feelings- There was a song in every heart, cheerfulness in every face and a spring in every step.- Exhilaration bubbled up inside her likesoda water.- Her heart thumped wildly when the audience exploded with loud cheers and claps. She grinned happily under the glory of the spotlight.- Disbelieve was written all over their horrified faces.- His face evidenced the struggle between shameand defiance in his heart.- He looked straight ahead , white-faced, tight-lipped, his expression a mask of suppressed rage.. An oppressive heat hung in the sky
Trying to show the scotching sun is giving pressure

2. an angelic smile plastered on his face
An unnatural smile

3. His skin felt like a page of Braille
A skin with plenty of raised dots probably rashes

The notorious warden stumbles over the answer after the accidental harmony.

I like hot and spicy dishes such as asam laksa and chicken curry. I also cannot resist a hot bowl of tomyam, a sweet and sour dish. These dishes never fail to lift up a dull and boring day.

1.clear blue sky turning gray
2. a personifation for the smell of a freshly baked apple pie.
3. a similie for the taste of fried chicken
4. a metaphor for wine
a grey frown clouding the sky
2. the aroma of the pie leaping into the air, tickling your nose and making your mouth water.
3. like spicy heaven in batter
4. red (or white) velvetThe sky was the bluest of blues and there was a faint fragrant permeating from the beautiful flowers that had bloomed that Spring.......the temperature had mellowed out and there was a soft breeze blowing and it made for a very romantic atmosphere.
A Winter's DayOn a cold, winter day, I walked to the park wearing a grey trench coat. People passed and I could see they were merry, for Christmas was on its way. As I reached the park, I saw kids throwing snowballs and making snowmen while other people were ice skating and laughing. As I watched all of this, I was thinking of my Christmas past, throwing snowballs with my sister, opening presents on Christmas Day, and me in my youth laughing and enjoying the thought of my family together. Soon those happy times were over so I left the park leaving behind all my memories with the knowledge that this, too, would soon be a memory!
-- Jeffreycotton candy cloudsThe clouds are like cotton candy swirling around ever so gently in a bowl.Moving calmly in the wind, and moving further away from the trees and the sun. I hear the big, giants rustling in the cool, calm breeze. Looking at the sun setting is so bright and yellow. I can't look away. Soon, the shading covers the dark brown ground,and the cloud is a peach just beginning to ripen. The sunset is like a tiger beginning to pounce on its prey. When I look at the trees they almost disappear into the night sky.
-- SierraThe Lost TreeThe tree is a person standing alone in the darkness waiting for the sun to come out of hiding. It's as lonely as a new student waiting to make friends. Clouds slowly start to pull apart as the sun peeks around the corner. The creaky fence is a gate to the field of trees below. Barbwire sits ready to remind any one who comes close enough to stay away. All the rickety braches rock like a new born baby snug in the arms of its mother gently swaying in a rocking chair. The sad tree waits as a single rain drop trickles down the long healthy trunk. The sky darkens and is ready for the storm coming its way. It thunders and booms and the dead grass lay motionless soaked. But the little tree still stands alone.
-- KassidyThe Majestic NightThe moon shone brightly, like a candle illuminating a pitch black room. I loweredmy gaze and set it on the tall oak tree. It was either dead, or if it was winter, "sleeping". Its leafless branches extended toward the sky like a frail cobweb blowing in the wind. I shuddered, the moon was an orange, it was strangely full, (if it were anorange it would burst with ripeness), and deep in color. It looked like a marmalade kind of yellow, with a tint of red in it. It cast an evil glow across the sky. The sky was even stranger; it was dull and cloudy, the clouds were plump, (and rather squashed looking) apples. (Or that's what they looked like). And had a mix of fiery red, black, and blue. It was eerie, yet majestically beautiful. I stood transfixed for a moment, sighed and started to walk off, dead leaves suffocating between my feet.
-- Elizabeth

DropWhen you glance down you can see a pond with water that is as clear as glass. It just showered a rhythmical rain. A constant "drip drop" tells you that water droplets, clear and circular just fell to the Earth. A leaf of pine green has an aquadrop that quickly falls down into the pond, like a ball bouncing off of the surface with a quiet splash. The bronze colored fish frantically scatter to the edges of the circular pool of water when the drop hits the surface. The cool refreshing water ripples as slowly as a Rollie-Polly. The ripples are soldiers slowly dying in a war.
-- ConnieSandy BeachThe sparkly sea splashes up onto the sandy beach. The sand spreads across the beach like million of tiny grains of salt, covered by shells the sea randomly washed up over the years. One is striped like a zebra with blue. Another one is a sunset colored pink, orange and cream. Small sticks are scattered forming many barriers against the different shells. The sea is a bag of sunflower seeds with its salty aroma. I take one last glance and slowly walk back to the car awaiting the next time I visit the beach.
-- AliceTHE MOONA white orb, an illuminant tear in the grand tapestry of black around it. It sits perched like a hawk, staring through a blank, transparent window of fog that it is caged around, keeping its true celestial splendor from the thousands of spectators, sleeping under the shadow of light it casts. Its radiance, creeps around the blanket of mist that keeps it captivated from the land below it. It lies in the center of the sky, as a blanket of wonder tucks it in. High in the sky it sits the center of attention to the bright gray and surrounding air. A silver quarter, falling through a dusty desk of black and gray. In the center, the moon, and allaround it, fog with he depth of space around it.
-- Alec

She sits, waiting anxiously, ready for anything. Her heart beats, waiting for the results. Cheering voices surround her, as she is waiting for the awards. After her hard day of work, strain, and concentration she hears,4th. . . 3rd. . .2nd. . . then, a huge relief, 1st prize, her name is called. The grin on her face was lightning everyone's faces, for their teammate had won. The coaches hug her, her teammates cheer loudly, it is the happiest day ofher life, now there is only one thing to do, go home, and keep working without forgetting the wonderful day when she beat 134 girls.
-- Tessa
joyfully, I dipped my foot into the cool, clear ocean on that scorching hot day. The sun was beating down on meas the crystal blue water pulled the golden sand from between my toes.
As the wave tumbled closer, I stood up on the surfboard and fearfully rode toward the safety of the shore.
-- Breanna

The astonishing city of Paris, France gratifies your dreams of an amazing destination for an intermission. Paris is a sensational place for a vacation at night because you can see all of the breath taking sites that may intrigue you in the late night moon. One of the most noteworthy destinations within Paris happens tobe the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower exemplifies your expedition to Paris because the glare of its lights can be seen shining miles away. If you decide to voyage to the pinnacle of the tower you will be unquestionably flabbergasted. Not to mention, at the peak you will most likely be dreadfully exhausted because of the long weary expedition to the pinnacle. Finally, at the very top of the tower it will seem as though citizens are having dams shatter within them as everyone wavers in fright and tiny children weep because of the elevation. All in all if you're looking for a luxurious destination for a celebration or an anniversary look no further than Paris!
--John
HOMEMy home was the forest. I lived among the trees and the bushes, the rocks and the rivers. I could name every creek that dribbled through the vast land, every tree rooted to the warm brown earth beneath my feet. The chirping of birds were my wake up call, the hooting of owls a signal that it was time to rest. The monkeys were my companions, for I prefered them to the nasty red bottomed baboons. The ants, well, they were neither friend nor foe. My daily diet consisted of edible shoots, leaves and berries. If I were lucky, there would be a roasted bird for supper.

Thirty years ago, I was plucked out of obscurity. Part of a government plan to bring modernization to the indigenoustribe of the Malay Peninsula, since we would not venture to it.