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Phrases and Collocations for Fluent English A10 – Phrases - continuation A shadow of melancholy touched her lithe fancies, as a cloud dims the waving of golden grain A sharp difference of opinion A sharp pang of regretful surprise A sheaf of letters A shimmer of golden sun shaking through the trees A shiver of apprehension crisped her skin A short time since A shrewd eye to the main chance A shuffling compromise between defiance and prostration A sigh of large contentment A sight for the angels to weep over A signal deed of justice A silver moon, like a new-stamped coin, rode triumphant in the sky A skeptical suspension of judgment A skepticism which prompted rebellion A slight and superficial tribute A slight movement of incredulous dissent A slow thought that crept like a cold worm through all his brain A slowly subsiding frenzy A smile flashed over her face, like sunshine over a flower A smile full of subtle charm A smile of exquisite urbanity A snare and a delusion A soft and purple mist like a vaporous amethyst A soft haze, like a fairy dream, is floating over wood and stream A soft insidious plea A soft intonation of profound sorrow A soft suspicion of ulterior motives

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Phrases and Collocations for Fluent EnglishA10 Phrases - continuationA shadow of melancholy touched her lithe fancies, as a cloud dims the waving of golden grain

A sharp difference of opinion

A sharp pang of regretful surprise

A sheaf of letters

A shimmer of golden sun shaking through the trees

A shiver of apprehension crisped her skin

A short time since

A shrewd eye to the main chance

A shuffling compromise between defiance and prostration

A sigh of large contentment

A sight for the angels to weep over

A signal deed of justice

A silver moon, like a new-stamped coin, rode triumphant in the sky

A skeptical suspension of judgment

A skepticism which prompted rebellion

A slight and superficial tribute

A slight movement of incredulous dissent

A slow thought that crept like a cold worm through all his brain

A slowly subsiding frenzy

A smile flashed over her face, like sunshine over a flower

A smile full of subtle charm

A smile of exquisite urbanity

A snare and a delusion

A soft and purple mist like a vaporous amethyst

A soft haze, like a fairy dream, is floating over wood and stream

A soft insidious plea

A soft intonation of profound sorrow

A soft suspicion of ulterior motives

A solemn glee possessed my mind

A solemn gray expanse that lost itself far away in the gray of the sea

A solemn utterance of destiny

A somber and breathless calm hung over the deepening eve

A somewhat complicated and abstruse calculation [abstruse = difficult to understand]

A somewhat melancholy indolence

A somewhat sharp and incisive voice

A sonorous voice bade me enter

A soothing and quieting touch was gently laid upon her soul

A sordid and detestable motive

A sort of eager, almost appealing amiability

A sort of incredulous stupefaction