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Easy-going to the point of lethargy Elementary principles of right and wrong Embittered and fanatical agitation Encrusted with pedantry and prejudice [pedantry = attention to detail] Endless and intricate technicalities Endowed with undreamed-of powers Enforced by coercive measures Enormities of crime and anomalies of law Entangled in theological controversy Entirely futile and negligible Erroneous assumptions and sophistries Espoused with extraordinary ardor Essentially one-sided and incomplete Eternally fruitful and stimulating Evidently malicious and adroit Evinces a hardened conscience and an insensibility to shame Exact and resolute allegiance Examples of terrific and explosive energy Exasperating to the last degree Excruciating cruelty and injustice Exposed to damaging criticism Exposing his arrogance and folly to merited contempt Expressions of unrestrained grief Exquisite lucidity of statement Extraordinarily subtle and penetrating analysis Exuberant rush of words <h4 id="id15246" style="margin-top: 2em">F</h4> Facile and fertile literary brains Faithfully and religiously eschewed [eschew = avoid; shun] Fallen into the convenient oblivion of the waste-basket Fanatical and dangerous excesses Far off and incredibly remote Fastidious correctness of form Fate had turned and twisted a thousand ways Fed by many currents from the long stream of human experience Feigning a virtuous indignation Fertility of argumentative resource Fictitious and adventitious aid Finely touched to the fine issues Fit to stand the gaze of millions Fits and starts of generosity Fixed convictions of mankind Flouted as unpractical Foolish and inflexible superstition Fostering and preserving order Free from all controversial pettifogging [pettifogging = quibbling over insignificant details] Freighted with the most precious cargoes Frequently recurring forms of awkwardness Fresh and unsuspected loveliness From the standpoint of expediency and effectiveness Full and tuneful diction Full of ardent affection and gratitude Full of presentiments of some evil Full of singular freshness, insight and power Full of speculation and a deep restrained excitement Fumble and stumble in helpless incapacity <h4 id="id15276" style="margin-top: 2em">G</h4> Gain the applause of future ages Generous to a pathetic and touching degree Give vent to his indignation Giving an ear to a little neighborly gossip Glances and smiles of tacit contempt Gnawing at the vitals of society Grace and gentleness of manner Graceful succession of sentences Gratuitous and arbitrary meddling Greeted with unalloyed satisfaction Grooves of intellectual habit Growing sense of bewilderment and dismay Guilty and baffled antagonists <h4 id="id15290" style="margin-top: 2em">H</h4> Habits of unintelligent routine Habitual self-possession and self-respect Happy and gracious willingness Hard-souled and joyously joyous Haunted by blank misgivings He affected neither pomp nor grandeur He became more blandly garrulous [garrulous = excessive and trivial talk] He declined the proffered hospitality He dropped into an eloquent silence He eludes analysis and baffles description He glanced at her indulgently He had the habit of self-engrossed silences He harbored his misgivings in silence He poured bitter and biting ridicule on his discomfited opponents He spoke with sledgehammer directness He suffers nothing to draw him aside He took his courage in both hands He turned on me a glance of stored intelligence He was disheveled and untidy He was inexhaustibly voluble Heavily freighted with erudition [erudition = extensive learning] Heights of serene contemplation Her voice had a wooden resonance and a ghost of a lisp Hidebound in official pedantry [pedantry = attention to detail] High and undiscouraged hope High-handed indifference to all restraint His chin had too vanishing an aspect His first zeal was flagging His general attitude suggested an idea that he had an oration for you His gestures and his gait were untidy His mood was one of pure exaltation His plea was irresistible His tone verged on the ironical His work was ludicrously perfunctory Hopelessly belated in its appearance <h4 id="id15326" style="margin-top: 2em">I</h4> <div style="break-after:column;"></div>

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