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
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