Phrases and Collocations for Fluent EnglishA11 Phrases - continuationA sort of stolid despairing acquiescence

A sort of stunned incredulity

A soul as white as heaven

A sound like the throb of a bell

A soundless breeze that was little more than a whisper

A source of unfailing delight and wonder

A spacious sense of the amplitude of life's possibilities

A species of moral usurpation

A specific answer can be given

A spirit inimical to learning

A spirit of complacent pessimism

A staccato cough interrupted the flow of speech

A startling and unfortunate digression

A state of scarcely veiled insurrection

A state of sullen self-absorption

A state of urgent necessity

A steady babble of talk and laughter

A step was at her heels

A stern decree of fate

A stern foe of snobbishness

A stifling sensation of pain and suspense

A stinging wind swept the woods

A stooping girl as pale as a pearl

A storm of public indignation

A strange compound of contradictory elements

A strange mixture of carelessness, generosity, and caprice

A strangely perverse and poverty stricken imagination

A stream of easy talk

A strong assumption of superiority

A strong convulsion shook the vague indefinite form

A strong susceptibility to the ridiculous

A subjugated and sullen population

A subtle emphasis of scorn

A sudden and stinging delight

A sudden gleam of insight

A sudden revulsion

A sudden sense of fear ran through her nerves like the chill of an icy wind

A sudden uncontrollable outburst of feeling

A super-abundance of boisterous animal spirits

A supercilious scorn and pity [supercilious = haughty disdain]

A super-refinement of taste

A supposed ground of affinity

A swaggering air of braggadocio [braggadocio = pretentious bragging]

A sweet bewilderment of tremulous apprehension [tremulous = fearful]

A sweet voice caroling like a gold-caged nightingale

A sweet, quiet, sacred, stately seclusion

A swift knowledge came to her

A swift unformulated fear

A swiftly unrolling panorama of dreams

A synonym for retrogression

A tangle of ugly words

A taunting accusation of falsehood

A tedious and needless drudgery

A telegram is enclosed for your use, as this matter is urgent

A temper which brooked no resistance

A temporary expedient

A tender tone of remonstrance

A theme of endless meditation

A thin shrill voice like the cry of an expiring mouse

A thing of as frail enchantment as the gleam of stars upon snow

A thing of moods and moments

A thoroughly sincere and unaffected effort

A thought occurred to me

A thousand evanescent memories of happy days [evanescent = vanishing like vapor]

A thousand hopes for your success

A thousand mangled delusions

A thousand unutterable fears bore irresistible despotism over her thoughts

A time of disillusion followed

A tiny stream meandering amiably

A tissue of dull excuses

A tone of arduous admiration

A tone of exaggerated solicitude

A torn and tumultuous sky

A total impression ineffable and indescribable

A touch of exquisite pathos

A trace of obvious sarcasm

A tragic futility

A transcript of the common conscience

A treacherous throb of her voice

A trifle prim and puritanic