I take great pleasure in sending hearty congratulations and best wishes
It is with heartfelt pleasure I——
I cannot refrain from sending a few words of congratulation that——
We offer you our cordial congratulations and best wishes
My most sincere congratulations are yours
I hope in a few days to be able to offer my congratulations in person
Accept hearty congratulations
With most sincere congratulations
I write to offer my heartfelt congratulations
You will receive many hearty congratulations but none more sincere than mine
It must have been a great joy to you. I heartily congratulate you
I applaud you
For Letters of Introduction
It gives me great pleasure to introduce to you ————
I take this opportunity of presenting to you ————
I take great pleasure in making known to you ————
This letter is presented by my friend ————
I shall regard it as a kindness to myself if——
Any courtesy you can extend to ————
I shall appreciate any assistance you may give to ————
I shall regard any attention you can pay ———— as a personal favor
I shall warmly appreciate any attention you may pay to ————
For Letters of Invitation
Will you give us the pleasure of your company to——
I am asking a few friends to——
It would be a pleasure to have you——
Will you join us in——
The pleasure of your company is requested to——
Hoping that your engagements will permit
In anticipation of seeing you next——
———— requests the presence of ————
———— requests the pleasure of your presence at——
For Letters of Regret
I write at once to thank you, regretting most sincerely that——
I very much regret that I cannot accept your kind invitation to——
I regret that a previous engagement will prevent my acceptance of your very kind invitation to——
I very much regret that I cannot avail myself of the opportunity to——
I am grateful to you for your kind invitation, but——
I regret that I am unable to comply with your request because——
I regret extremely that——
For Letters of Thanks
Please accept my grateful acknowledgments for——
I will ever cherish your beautiful gift
My compliments and thanks to ————
Thank you most heartily for the——
Many thanks for the——
With hearty thanks for your kind thought of me
Best of thanks for your kind thought of me
I cannot express my thanks for the kindness which prompted you to——
Many thanks for the kind remembrance
With grateful appreciation for——
Thank you most heartily for——
How can I ever hope to repay you for——
I am extremely grateful to you for——
I am sending this letter as the silent messenger of my thanks and good wishes to you
I must find some way to make due acknowledgment of your goodness to me
I trust I may be able to do you some service, that I may be worthy of your kind approbation
I will not write more but wait until a better opportunity enables me to more fully express myself
Please allow me to send my most thankful acknowledgments for the favor you have conferred upon me
I know not how to express my grateful thanks for your——
The grateful sense I have of your kindness will never be erased from my mind
I take this first opportunity to send you my thanks for——
You have exceedingly obliged me by——
I beg to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of——
I am grateful to you for your kind expression of sympathy
Though your kind letter has waited so long for a reply, you may be assured that I was not unmindful of its messages of sympathy
Please accept my warmest thanks for your kindness
I am deeply indebted to you for——
I received your very agreeable letter, and hasten to give you my most hearty thanks for your——
I thank you for your hospitality
We had a most delightful time while with you
For Letters with Gifts
Please accept this little memento of our regard
Please accept this ———— as a token of high esteem and regard
Please accept as an evidence of unchanging friendship this ————
Please accept this token with my best wishes for many happy returns of your birthday
Will you be so kind as to accept the enclosed ————
I am sending to you a little token of my high regard
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For Christmas Letters
I send you tender tidings of regard this Christmas Day
I hope you will lack nothing to make a Merry Christmas
On this day I think of you, and wish you happiness without limit
May all joys combine to give you a happy Christmas Day
With best wishes and heartiest greetings for Christmas
I wish you a joyful Christmas from the bottom of my heart
With kind remembrances and all good wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Bright New Year
With best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a New Year of health and happiness
The best of good wishes for a happy Christmas
May Christmas bring you plenteous store of happiness and joy
Heaps of Christmas wishes
With the kindest thoughts and the best of good wishes for a happy Christmas
I heartily send all good Christmas wishes to you and yours
For Letters of Condolence
My prayer is that you may be wonderfully sustained by Him who hath said, “Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
Most sincerely yours,
I commend you to Him who hath said, “There shall be no more death, neither sorrow.”
Affectionately yours,
May you have great comfort in the presence of Him who hath said, “I will not leave you destitute.”
Your friend,
Ever remember the good word which tells us that “He shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.”
Faithfully yours,
Though we pass through the valley and the darkness of death let us fear no evil since He is with us.
Ever your friend,
God gives us a fine assurance concerning the future in the word which says, “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”
Most sincerely yours,
With a prayer for every blessing on your self,
Affectionately, your friend,
Be assured of our cordial esteem and fervent prayers.
Very sincerely yours,
May God that comforteth those that are cast down comfort you in this trial is the prayer of
Your friend,
We can meet the trials of life in the comforting conviction that this mortal must put on immortality.
With warmest regards,
No doubt you are inclined to say that all is vanity and vexation of spirit, but do not do so for He knoweth the way that we take.
Faithfully yours,
Now that the time has come that you are “Like Niobe, all tears” also the rather remember the word which says that “God shall wipe away all tears.”
Most sincerely yours,
We send our love and commend you to Him who hath said He will “Swallow up death in victory.”
Most sincerely yours,
While your heart is heavy, and one feel quite deserted, yet we can be much comforted in remembering that “He knoweth our frame.” and is ever mindful of us.With sincere sympathy,
Your friend,
For New Year Letters
May this New Year turn out to be the happiest and the best
With best New Year wishes
May all your plans and wishes come true in this New Year
May the New Year be a happy year for you
A joyous New Year
With all best wishes for a splendid New Year
With all the kindest wishes for good health and good fortune throughout the year
With my most hearty greetings and sincere good wishes for you for all the coming year
With best wishes for a year of great blessing
May the New Year be full of the kindliest benedictions
With kind wishes for a year of the brightest prospects
For General Letters
I am ever, with sincerest regard,
Your friend,
Remember me very kindly to ————
Sincerely,
I beg to be most kindly remembered to ————
With cordial regard,
Accept the sincerest esteem of
Your friend,
My compliments to your ————
Very sincerely,
With sincere regard,
With kindest respects to your whole family,
Yours affectionately,
I beg you will give my affectionate respects to all.
Most cordially yours,
———— best and kindest wishes accompany mine.
Most sincerely,
With truest regard,
With my best wishes for your recovery, and kindest regard to ————
I remain, affectionately yours,
———— joins me in kindest regards and best wishes.
Sincerely yours,
Kind remembrance to all, and doubly to ————.
As ever,
If you are at ————, remember me kindly to——
Yours ever,
Give my kind respects to ————
Very sincerely yours,
We join in affectionate regards to ————
Sincerely,
———— present their respects, with those of
Yours truly,
———— desire me to add their kind regards to mine,
Your affectionate friend,
With truest good wishes.
As ever,
When you see ———— assure ———— of my kind remembrance.
Sincerely yours,
With my best regards to ————
I remain your friend,
With our joint regards to ————, I am ever,
Yours sincerely,
My most affectionate respects to ————
Yours sincerely,
With kindest regards of my family and myself,
I am sincerely yours,
Yours ever, my dear and honored friend, with true regard,
———— desires particularly to be remembered.
Yours ever,
With every sentiment of regard.
Your greatly obliged friend,
With truest sentiments of affectionate esteem.
Your friend,
———— sends her best love.
Yours ever most affectionately,
———— joins in every kind wish and remembrance.
Yours ever,
With cordial wishes for your health,
I am,
Yours very sincerely,
My best respects to ————
Very faithfully yours,
———— is away or I should have been charged with ———— kindest regards to you.
Very sincerely,
My best respects and kindest remembrances to the whole family circle at ————
Very sincerely yours,
We unite in kindest remembrance to your family.
Sincerely yours,
———— begs her most affectionate remembrance to you.
Affectionately yours,
(FINAL ASSURANCES)
Conventional
Very sincerely yours,
Yours most sincerely,
Very respectfully,
Sincerely yours,
Respectfully yours,
To Friends
Yours faithfully,
Yours affectionately,
Heartily yours,
Yours in all fellowship,
Warmly your friend,
Your affectionate friend,
Yours ever truly,
Ever warmly yours,
With warmest regards,
Yours in heart,
For Lovers
All yours,
As ever,
Your own,
Yours forever and ever,
Ever with the whole heart yours,
Most devotedly yours,
Yours constantly,
Yours ever,
Ever yours,
Yours, with love,
To Relatives
Your loving ————,
Affectionately your ————,
Your devoted ————,
With much love,
Your ever loving ————,
Devotedly your ————,
With much affection, your ————,
LIKENESS
As like as two peas
A striking parallel
As like as two drops of water
Nearly identical in appearance
The same in essential characteristics
Cast in the same mold
A striking similitude between——
Having a very close resemblance
A speaking likeness
It is somewhat analogous to——
It typifies most perfectly the——
With a very exact resemblance
There is no material difference between——
Terms which will be tantamount to——
Have you been struck with the similarity between——
It bears an evident analogy to——
Cut out of the same cloth
You can make it tally with——
LOSS
This particular milk has been spilt
Incalculable waste and loss will be avoided if——
Doomed to ethical decline
Irreparable loss
Rapidly sapping the strength of——
In the blackness of darkness forever
Where does it end
LOVE
He’s the great heart-maker
Winsomely and lovingly
The sacrifices of love
Matchless kindness
Unwavering love
A redeeming love-energy
A glad service of love
A legacy of love
A flame of sacred love
The sweet kingdom of God’s love
The wondrous story of God’s love
The wonderful words of life
The genial flame of affection
The marvel of His love
The love that conquers
Love divine, all loves excelling
The glorious sense of the Divine right of love
Made beautiful by Divine love
The warm yearning intimacy of God’s love
The sweet and unpolluted flower of love
The richest joys out of heaven
If our bosom burns with the fires of love
Love that translated us from alienation to family favor
Love, pure, warm, and changeless
Songs of redeeming love
An eye of love
A heaven of love
Abounding love
With undiminished love
Love is the universal language
What the world needs is love
MANLY
The sanctifying love of a strong victorious man
A patient, loving, uncomplaining soul
A clear-eyed seer of the things of God
An uncompromising foe of evil
Sagacious in spiritual things
A mind full of vigorous hopeful uplifting thoughts
He has a wonderful experience of grace
He passed through the fires of affliction
He is a graduate of the University of Difficulty
We are resolved to lay no stumbling-blocks in the way of the progress of the redemption of the world
We have the abiding consciousness that we are fundamentally right with God
He is in the apostleship of spiritual beauty
A great lover of mankind
He takes a living, loving interest in men
Moral worth
Resolved not to depart from the channel of truth
Holy in character
A warmth of temperament
Generous impulses
The imposing grace of a noble self-restraint
A chaste refinement of spirit
Splendid reserve power
Well content to go down to the grave unpraised
Taking steps toward the threshold of heaven
Walking in the blessed path of peace, power, and purity
A nobility of life
Worthy of more attention than it has yet received
A worthy friend
Hands full of character and delicacy
With unfaltering lip and heart
Men who love their fellow-men and prove their love by service
He did not once deviate from his principles
He has a profound contempt for show and humbug
Men broad-brained and broad-shouldered for the task
Men of breadth of outlook
Men who foresee great things
Large-hearted and clear-eyed men
Real leaders
Men who keep in the straight path of duty
Every man shall bear his own burden
Men whose fidelity merits the highest praise
Men who would dare hell-heat or Arctic cold
Men whose intentions were never open to honest doubt
A man whose happiness was in serving others
Strong men
Untinged by prejudice
Clouded by no unfriendliness
Without acrimony
With no preconceived theories
In whole-hearted simplicity
Above suspicion
With entire frankness
No feeling of estrangement
A gleam of friendly light
The right mental attitude
The right hand of fellowship
In the sunshine of a genial nature
In the genial glow of the firelight
Of gentle mien
The contagion of noble lives
A rare maturity of judgment
He has an unswerving loyalty to principle
He has an unconquerable purpose to be true
He is unfalteringly devoted to duty
He is inflexible in purpose
He is not paralysed by fear of consequences
He is beautifully loyal to——
He is proof against all blandishments
He sits tight in the saddle
MEMORIES
Among the most haunting memories of——
I treasure the memory of it as one of my most precious recollections
A time full of happy memories
I brought away with me a store of happy memories
Rich in historical memories
It moves me to happy memories
It entitles him to grateful remembrance
There are no disturbing reminders
They can console themselves with the reflection that——
It was reminiscent of——
I have many choice recollections of——
Etched forever by the——
MILITARISTIC
The zone of hostilities
The harmless victims of war
Tactical retreat
Martial enthusiasm
A crack regiment
Universal disarmament
Strict neutrality
The inevitable horrors of war
A military advantage
The ruthlessness of war
The neutrality of nations
The international equivalent of the policeman’s club
The lust of empire
The cruel indignities of war
The long-nurtured passions of a nation
When the thunders of war are heard around the world
The arbitrament of arms
A test of materialism
An age crammed with war
The federation of the world
The policy of military preparedness
The patriotism of the common people
A military tattoo in the streets
The dominant military power in the world
The nightmare menace of war
The crime of Cain multiplied a million fold
The maintenance of peace
A sin against civilization
The stunning sense of some great calamity
The futility of militarism
The theater of hostilities
The allied armies
The pitiful misery of the people
An appalling cost of human life
The diplomatic corps
A compact front
Wanton destruction
The military camarilla at ————
Military necessity
Deliberate and wanton vandalism
With ruthless hand
The guilty madness of war
The inveterate belligerence of ————
A crushing indictment of Twentieth-Century civilization
The city tense with the excitement due to militarism
Imbued with the spirit of war
Prepared for vigorous operations
Under cover of the artillery
The oft-trodden battle-ground of the Low Countries
A warless world
An armed peace
The mailed fist
A religion of valor
The terrorism of military might
MYSTERIOUS
Into those invisible regions where we cannot follow
Clothed in a cloak of mystery
The fascination of the inscrutable
In some incomprehensible way
It seems a Sphinx whose riddle no man can read
Shrouded in mystery
A great deal of hokus-pokus
Hidden under the impenetrable veil of metaphor
Absolutely inexplicable
It was Greek to me.
Julius Cæsar, I., 2
Some enigma, some riddle.
Love’s Labour’s Lost, III., 1
A bottomless sea of speculation
NECESSARILY
The pressure of absolute necessity
I am under the imperative necessity of——
It is absolutely essential that——
It must needs be that——
Infinitely more so now
The imperative necessity of——
The need is urgent that——
Of all the essential cogs in the world’s great machine the——
Of extreme importance
Of vital necessity
Conditions will make it imperative that——
It is of prime importance to——
The first and most important requisite of——
Put to it
The supreme need of the hour is——
It is time for him to come to the scratch and——
All important factors in the case
As much as plants need sunshine
Indispensably necessary
The imperative needs of——
In the vigorous school of necessity
OPPORTUNE
Every door is open
Virgin soil
A work in which every man may bear a share
Seize with avidity this opportunity to——
The time seems ripe to——
The keynote to——
Entrée to all the best
Open sesame
A plain opportunity for——
We must take opportunity by the forelock
Had I been so disposed, I——
The hour of opportunity
Now is the time of all times to——
OPPOSITION
Nothing could go more against the grain with me than——
He set his face like flint against——
There is a decided opposition to——
It is one of the counts in the indictment against him that——
He was debarred from——
With strongly divergent opinion
He should be unhorsed
A man who must be discriminated against
It is sheer nonsense to——
The thinness of that kind of argument is seen in——
Hotly contested
His one weapon of defense is——
He made of this fact a telling answer to those who——
It is common to hear deprecations of——
He would have made a more happy effect if——
All this is in direct contradiction to——
Through flinty opposition
Persistently hostile
It has only one defect——it is not true
I differ from him very widely
It is a cry that is raised in the old senseless spiteful way
It is scarcely worth raising our heads to look at
I assure you such is not the case
I think it would be quite inadvisable to do so
It is a convincing demonstration of the fatuity of the notion that——
The latest and most absurd theory is——
Issues which are poles apart in their true significance
I regret to be compelled to join issue with you
The answer will be a firm and decided negative
I have inly resented the——
I must with all respect demur
It is a wooden-headed scheme
It represents everything repugnant to my convictions
I cannot refrain from expressing my regret that——
It is a manifest absurdity
In which case I should remonstrate
I protested in vain
It is very annoying to me
I fervently hope not
A good stout protest
It is out of the question
A decided negative
It is time to protest and to protest vigorously
I won’t hear it without a protest——
It has not even the saving grace of——
He met with stout opposition
He came out squarely against——
He rubbed the cat the wrong way
They will brook no trifling
A point-blank refusal
There is just ground for objection in the fact that——
It is not exactly fitting that——
There could be no greater fallacy
It was the only rift in a perfect lute
Unless they made a fidget about it
The whole plan is repellent
The suggestion arouses in us only moral disgust
Give it the lie
Such an opinion runs counter to the facts
He delivered a frontal attack upon——
It is playing at cross-purposes
Promptly and vigorously disposed of
It is going to get a short shrift
A railing accusation
A storm of protest
Stubborn resistance
In the face of mighty passions and desires
In the teeth of clenched antagonisms
It is time to protest and to protest vigorously
Not under any circumstances
Too heavily handicapped
A disposition in some to resent
A combination of hindrances
Without flinching
An insuperable barrier
I have the greatest aversion to——
He met with a hot welcome
A defiant note
OPTIMISM
I am very sanguine about it
In a highly gratifying way
It is refreshing to know that——
The uplift of great ideas
All clouds do not rain
No day is so long but has its evening
No news is good news
All is not lost that is delayed
One of the most heartening signs of the days is——
We are with you to the last man and the last dollar
I have a crumb of consolation in the thought that——
We can say with much assurance that——
The plan has attractive features
With unalloyed satisfaction
This is no time to intone funeral ululations
Let us strengthen each other’s hands in God
We need a ringing message to steel the purpose
We are with you from center to outer edge
The news is decidedly reassuring
I was splendidly heartened by——
A word of magnificent promise
A happy confidence
Let’s make the best of it.
Coriolanus, V., 6
A day of great things
One of the bright sides of a dark picture is——
Our lucky star was in the ascendant
In spite of dismal forebodings
In the heyday of confidence
He meets every situation with an inspiration
On the victory side
In the mountains of God
A harbinger of success
Life’s brightest meaning
A bad beginning may make a good ending
No such inept and doleful talk has been coming from——
Cheering in a high degree
In his happiest mood
The outlook is in the highest degree encouraging
We have reason to thank God and take courage
Everything is propitious
The night is long that never finds a day
A pack of blessings
A buoyant optimism
Prospects are very bright for the success of——
The finest game in the world
I have nothing dismal to remember
A happy earnest life
Without grudge or grumbling
A hopeful attitude
An attitude of assurance
An inborn belief in the superiority of——
Always hailed with joy
Quickening and cheerful influences
Assuredly we shall win
Of splendid augury
The habit of expectancy
A hopeful prospect
A promising beginning on intelligent lines
It is bound to accomplish a world of good
A brisk cheerful sense of things present and things to come
Some cheerful hope-laden ideas
No gloomy forebodings
We will have the fun of beginning again
An abiding optimism
With high expectations
Not a lurking doubt or suspicion lingers
The most hopeful sign of the times is
I know nothing more pleasant than to
This is indeed good fortune
How pleasant it is to
I have had a great piece of luck
Let us turn to more pleasant reflections
But, after all, in this as in everything else one must be hopeful
Unquestioned confidence
Without the least misgiving
It is an assured success
Conscious of being able to cope with the situation
Genuine confidence
It is in no wise inimical to your interests
To believe him guilty of deliberate mendacity would be painful
With undiminished confidence
With radiant hopes
We are able for it
A place of peace and unfailing cheeriness
A cheery greeting
In high glee
With many a cheering smile
He manifests a cheerful willingness
Deeply and unfeignedly happy
It is a cheerful sign of progress when
He is capable of taking the highest view which the circumstances of the case may admit
He has the habit of holding an expectant attitude
To attain that will be a supreme delight
He is all the time pressing forward with keen expectancy
There are many hopeful aspects of the situation
The situation is greatly improved
May we have a part in bringing in a new and better day
A happy augury for the future
A happy prospect
Like a sunbeam on a winter’s day
With superb optimism
Let us do it with a shout
A jubilant mood
I am fully prepared for all eventualities
He is quite sure of himself
He has a new and sure grip on the facts
In the full assurance of success
It may be averred with confidence that——
I have every assurance that——
In the result alone will be confidence
I have the certitude of all this
He staked his faith on——
With the easy assurance of——
PARTIAL
A beggarly account of——
The whole truth is not known
That is not the sole question
We have not heard the whole of the facts
He does but scant justice to——
PASSION
Like a fire in the bones
With soul aflame for truth and justice
His one absorbing passion
His whole concern centered in——
The thought was like a raging fever
With a great strain of the eternal in his message
A spiritual passion which would break through all formal proprieties
He seemed obsessed with the desire to——
PATIENCE
What can’t be cured must be endured
A small stock of patience
Time brings everything to those who wait
We must placidly bear the strain of——
You have an infinite deal of patience
With the most angelic patience
Least said, soonest mended
PATRIOTIC
Putting other ambitions aside in order to serve his country
A noble temper of patriotism
The great humane movements of events towards liberty
The accents of democracy
Against the notion that whatever is profitable is right
A passion for ideals
The unspeakable boon of freedom
The foundations of a mighty nation
Aflame with the spirit of opposition against tyrannies
A thorough-going patriot
A magnificent spirit of self-abnegation
In the ardor of self-sacrifice
Hearts afire with love for liberty
Unshakable loyalty
Emblem of everything we hold most dear and desirable
A royal pride of country
Soundly and unimpeachably a loyal citizen
The new patriotism
The golden age of the federation of the world
A world-wide democracy
A United States of the world
A world patriotism
A universal alliance
A league of peace
A glorious future for the nations of the world
International patriotism
A democracy as broad as humanity
International federation
The new prosperity
One of our chief claims to glory is——
Universal democracy
A supreme court of arbitrament
A peace federation
The end of autocracies
The end of secret diplomacy
It is subversive of every principle of our democracy
Pan-Americanism
The menace of military might——
The most far-reaching extensions of freedom and democracy the world has ever known
The unconquerable mind of freemen
As fine soldiers as ever despised death
Shakespeare
This land of such dear souls, this dear-dear land.
King Richard II., II., 1
Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’s, Thy God’s, and truth’s.
King Henry VIII., III., 2
God, for some strong purpose, steel’d the hearts of men.
King Richard II., V., 2
Let men say we be men of good government.
I. King Henry IV., I., 2
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts, that no dissension hinder government.
III. King Henry VI., IV., 6
I do love my country’s good with a respect more tender, more holy and profound.
Coriolanus, III., 3
I have watch’d the night, ay, night by night, in studying good for England.
II. King Henry VI., III., 1
England never did, nor never shall, lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.
King John, V., 7
In our country’s cause fell bravely.
Cymbeline, V., 4
Good fortune bids us pause, and smooth the frowns of war with peaceful looks.
III. King Henry VI., II., 6
PENALTY
Sent to cool his heels in——
He got what was due to him
He is face to face with the remorseless judgment of his times
He would have been put to it to have gotten into a worse quagmire than——
This will make interesting reading for——
Reaping a dragon-tooth harvest
The direct result of his own unsocial acts
The direful consequences of——
PERPLEXED
Utterly at sea
I am really at the end of my tether
I am mightily at a loss to know what——
This further complicates the problem
And in like quandary I find myself touching the——
It is very vague
I had it inchoately in my mind
We cannot make much of it
His thoughts do not run in the natural order of sequence
An inextricable dilemma
My wits faint.
Romeo and Juliet, II., 4
Involved in inextricable confusion
Left in a mood of perplexity
Utterly inscrutable
The problem is surely perplexing
Full of confusion worse confounded
It would serve only to becloud the issue
A question of sufficient complexity to tax the power of the wisest
PESSIMISTIC
A peddler of pessimism
He has always had a plentiful stock of gloomy ideas
A heart of lead in my breast
It hangs like a dark pall over——
The unpleasant intelligence of——
The most ominous feature of it all was——
Any attempt was foredoomed to failure
No rosy delusions should be permitted to warp our judgment
There is a little of the melancholy element in——
Augured evil
Doleful recollections
Smothered under the wet blanket of——
He indulges in the gloomiest forebodings
A most discouraging frame of mind
Fallen into the Slough of Despond
I found myself under my juniper tree
It is the very mystery of perversity
He is in a woeful state of mind
A sense of desolation
There came upon my heart an intolerable burden of despondency
A dreary conclusion
The unexpected and adverse strokes of fortune
A damper of my hopes
A gloomy consolation
A discouraging moment
Friendless, homeless, hopeless, undone
Impossible of accomplishment
Grave symptoms
A forlorn hope
A nameless foreboding
One has to be optimistic to find anything hopeful in the present outlook
A somber and mournful aspect
A sign of ill omen
He has the habit of dating existence by the memory of its burdens
A sea of trouble
Under the pressure of calamity
A welter of sordid interests
A very flood of wretchedness
A sorry plight
Moments when one grows sick of mankind
Inexpressibly miserable
A very gloomy report
He is etching the black pictures deeper and deeper into his consciousness
By some strange fatality
Hearts bursting with despair
A terrible legacy
With a groan of sickening remorse
With a sense of desolation
Many vicissitudes
All true in a finished civilization
He has seen many a bitter day of sorely tried hopes
The many accessories of evil
Crushed by burdens
The misspent strivings of mankind
Errant human nature
To move in paralyzing dread
Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward
A particularity which converts every trifle into a thorn
A dark and stormy sea
PICTURESQUE
The singing river
The place of wraithing tempests
The mood of poetry
The slow wind crooning among the pines
The dank odor of autumn leaves
The scent of damask roses
A skein of cloud
A star of orange light
A dim blue haze
A gently sloping hill
A shimmer of golden sunlight
A blossom passing fair
Delicious days
A cloud of fire
Lingering lover-wise
A billowy prairie
Nodding grasses
Rugged seas
The merriest voices of the spring
Deathless music
The jargon of the tempest
Lovely, ivy-mantled
Checkered with sunlight and shadow
The distant gloom of foreboding mountains
Bewilderments of beauty
The ermine of the snows
Marble dawns
The first kindling stars of dusk
Pine-grown mountains
En rapport with the earth
A bewildering field of fragrance and delight
A robe of verdure
The inviting air
Lovely clusters
Gracefully pendent
Delicately adorned
The balmy breath of spring
Fair as virgin snows
Grand with imperial purple
The silence of eternity
PLEASED
Sweeter than honey and the honey-comb
I am quite in raptures with——
To my great satisfaction, I——
I do not know a pleasure more appealing than——
You cannot imagine what pleasure it gives me to——
I went on my way with a merry heart
There is a certain undiluted bliss in——
Cheering in a high degree
Could anything be more agreeable than——
As bright as a sunbeam
I am very glad and genuinely pleased that——
I think it admirable and meets the case fully
The most gratifying features of the——
Frank delight
Out of sheer enjoyment of doing it
I dote upon it
It was most gratifying
I enjoyed it prodigiously
Not an inconsequential part
This is indeed a pleasure
I greatly rejoice in the——
We always look back with pleasure to——
It is gratifying to know that——
I was never so proud of it as I am to-day
This is the panacea for all my disabilities
This is the elixir of life
I had the good fortune to——
This is certainly ideal
Enamored of——
Perfectly in raptures over——
To my agreeable disappointment I found that——
Genuinely glad
I am quite delighted
We were delighted beyond measure
To my inexpressible delight
Much to our profit and delight
In the most delightful fashion
A day I still recall with pleasure
It exceeded my greatest expectation
A wonderful time
This is the sort of thing I enjoy
I like the idea very much
That’s simply splendid
There is an unfailing charm in it
A delightful idea truly
I like it prodigiously
Isn’t that jolly
Of first-rate merit
I was highly pleased with it
It was in the best taste
It is a beautiful piece of industrial accomplishment
I call it a delightful spectacle
A capital idea
Altogether a fine thing
A sentiment worthy of emulation
A source of constant pleasure
A very real asset
With none of the slight faults of immaturity
It is an uplifting habit
The sight filled me with admiration
Of no ordinary cleverness
It was perfectly splendid
It is a fine instance of
It called forth unqualified admiration
It was strikingly impressive
The result exceeded my most sanguine expectations
The finest flower that ever blossomed
It is an amiable habit by no means to be discouraged
Genuine gratification
Much to our profit and delight