Phrases and Collocations for Fluent English

A5 Phrases - continuation
A gush of entrancing melody
A gusty breeze blew her hair about unheeded
A habit of riding a theory too hard
A habit of rigorous definition
A half-breathless murmur of amazement and incredulity
A half-uneasy, half-laughing compunction
A hand icily cold and clammy as death
A happy and compensating experience
A harassing anxiety of sorrow
A harvest of barren regrets
A haughty self-assertion of equality
A haunting and horrible sense of insecurity
A heart from which noble sentiments sprang like sparks from an anvil
A heavy oppression seemed to brood upon the air
A helpless anger simmered in him
A hideous absurdity
A hideous orgy of massacre and outrage
A high pitch of eloquence
A hint of death in the icy breath of the gale
A homelike and festive aspect
A hopeless enigma
A hot and virulent skirmish
A hot uprush of hatred and loathing
A hotbed of disturbance
A hushed rustle of applause testified to a widespread approbation [approbation = warm
approval; praise]
A jeweler that glittered like his shop
A keenly receptive and intensely sensitive temperament
A kind of fantastic patchwork
A kind of ineffable splendor crowns the day
A kind of surly reluctance
A lady that lean'd on his arm like a queen in a fable of old fairy days
A lapse from the well-ordered decencies of civilization
A large, rich, copious human endowment
A late star lingered, remotely burning
A laudable stimulus
A laugh of jovial significance
A law of retributive justice
A less revolutionary innovation

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