Putnam's Phrase Book / An Aid to Social Letter Writing and to Ready and Effective Conversation, with Over 100 Model Social Letters and 6000 of the World's Best English Phrases

by Edwin Hamlin Carr

We lack’d your counsel and your help.

Othello, I., 3

Thy charge exactly is performed.

The Tempest, I., 2

Thy counsel’s sound.

The Taming of the Shrew, I., 1

He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading.

King Henry VIII., IV., 2

The very thought of this fair company clapp’d wings to me.