PUTNAM'S HANDBOOK OF EXPRESSION FOR THE ENRICHMENT OF CONVERSATION, WRITING, AND PUBLIC SPEAKING

Author Know that there is o book which is distinctively a phrase book. Because of this fact, Author has for year been collecting phrases from all sources. This volumes is the result of an endeavor to classify these phrases so that the reader may secure a synonymous phrase as in a book of synonyms, he secures a synonymous word. Many general phrases have been derived from the writings of Thackeray and the Essays of Samuel McCord Crothers. For sermonic phrases writings of the Rev. Thomas Guthrie, D. D., and the Rev. J. H. Jowell, D. D., particularly helpful.