Boswell, James: Life of Samuel Johnson
Bradford, Gamaliel: Lee the American; American Portraits, 1875-1900
Franklin, Benjamin: Autobiography
Grant, U. S.: Personal Memoirs
Irving, Washington: Life of Goldsmith
Paine, A. B.: Life of Mark Twain
Walton, Izaak: Lives
<Essays, Adventure, etc.>
Addison, Joseph: Spectator Papers
Bryce, Sir James: The American Commonwealth
Burke, Edmund: Speech on Conciliation
Burroughs, John: Wake Robin
Chesterton, G. K.: Heretics
Crothers, S. M.: The Gentle Reader
Dana, R. H., Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast
Darwin, Charles: Origin of Species
Emerson, R. W.: Essays
Irving, Washington: Sketch Book
Lincoln, Abraham: Speeches and Addresses
Lucas, E. V.: Old Lamps for New
Macaulay, T. B.: Essays
Muir, John: The Mountains of California
Thoreau, H. D.: Walden
Twain, Mark: Life on the Mississippi
<Fiction>
Allen, James Lane: The Choir Invisible
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
Barrie, Sir James M.: Sentimental Tommie
Bennett, Arnold: The Old Wives' Tale
Blackmore, R. D.: Lorna Doone
Bunyan, John: Pilgrim's Progress
Cable, G. W.: Old Creole Days
Conrad, Joseph: The Nigger of the Narcissus
Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles: David Copperfield
Eliot, George: Adam Bede
Galsworthy, John: The Patrician
Goldsmith, Oliver: The Vicar of Wakefield
Hardy, Thomas: The Return of the Native
Harte, Bret: The Luck of Roaring Camp (short story)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
Hergesheimer, Joseph: Java Head
Hudson, W. H.: Green Mansions
Kingsley, Charles: Westward Ho!
Kipling, Rudyard: Plain Tales from the Hills (short stories)
London, Jack: The Call of the Wild
Merrick, Leonard: _The Man Who Understood Women (volume of short
stories); The Actor Manager
Mitchell, S. Weir: Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker
Norris, Frank: The Octopus
Poe, Edgar Allan: The Fall of the House of Usher (short story)
Poole, Ernest: The Harbor
Scott, Sir Walter: Ivanhoe
Smith, F. Hopkinson: Colonel Carter of Cartersville
Stevenson, R. L.: Treasure Island
Tarkington, Booth: Monsieur Beaucaire
Thackeray, W. M.: Vanity Fair
Twain, Mark: Huckleberry Finn
Wells, H. G.: Tono Bungay
Wharton, Edith: Ethan Frome
Wister, Owen: The Virginian
INDEX.
The index comprises, besides miscellaneous items, four large classes of matter: (1) topics, including many minor ones not given separate textual captions; (2) all individual words and members of pairs explained or commented on in the text; (3) the key syllables, but not the separate words, of family groups; (4) the first or generic term, but not the other terms, in all assemblies of synonyms; hence, this book can be used as a handbook of ordinarily used synonyms.
Abandon, Synonyms of, Abase, Synonyms of, Abettor, Synonyms of, Abolish, Synonyms of, Abridge Abstract vs. concrete terms. Also see Words Absurd Accumulate Acknowledge, Synonyms of, Acquit, Synonyms of, Act family Active, Synonyms of, Advise, Synonyms of, Aeronautics, Familiar terms in, Affair Affect Affecting, Synonyms of, Affront, Synonyms of, Afraid, Synonyms of, Ag family Agnostic, Synonyms of, Allay, Synonyms of, Allopath Allow, Synonyms of, Altitude Amicable Amuse, Synonyms of, Analysis. See Vocabulary and Synonyms Analysis, Rhetorical, Anglo-Saxon words in modern English. See Native words Anim family Anni, annu family Announce, Synonyms of, Answer, Synonyms of, Antipathy, Synonyms of, Antonyms Appreciate Apprehend Apricot Ardor Argument Artful Artifice, Synonyms of, Ascend Ascend, Synonyms of, Ascribe Ascribe, Synonyms of, Ask, Synonyms of, Assail Associate, Synonyms of, Attach, Synonyms of, Attack; Synonyms of, Attention Audi, auri family Audience, Adapting discourse to, Auto family Avert Awkward, Synonyms of,
Backhanded Bald heads Bare Base Bear Bedlam Beef Begin, Synonyms of, Belief, Synonyms of, Belittle, Synonyms of, Bind, Synonyms of, Bit, Synonyms of, Bite, Synonyms of, Blood relationships between words. Small groups of words so related. Also see Words Bluff, Synonyms of, Boast, Synonyms of, Body, Synonyms of, Bold Bombastic, Synonyms of, Books of synonyms, List of, Boor Boorish, Synonyms of, Booty, Synonyms of, Boys, Kinds of, Brand, brun family Break Break, Synonyms of, Breakfast Bridegroom Bright Brittle, Synonyms of, Brotherly Building, Synonyms of, Burke, Edmund. See Causes for the American Spirit of Liberty Burn family Burn, Synonyms of, Burn with indignation Busy, Synonyms of, By and by
Cad family Calf Call, Synonyms of, Calm, Synonyms of, Cant family Cap(t) family Capricious Care, Synonyms of, Careful, Synonyms of, Cart before the horse, Cas family "Castaway, The" (Defoe). Comments and assignments on, "Causes for the American Spirit of Liberty" (Burke). Comments and assignments on, Cede, ceed, cess family Ceive, ceit, cept family Celebrate, Synonyms of, Celibates, Verbal, Censure Cent family Cent family Charm (noun), Synonyms of, Charm (verb), Synonyms of, Chant family Cheat, Synonyms of, Child. See How a child becomes acquainted, etc. Choke, Synonyms of, Choose, Synonyms of, Chron family Church Churl Cid family Cide family Cigar Cip family Circumstances Cis(e) family Classes of words, in general, (also see Words); in your own vocabulary, Classic words, distinguished from native; in modern English, Clear Clodhopper Close Close the door to, Coax, Synonyms of, Cold Coleridge, S. T., Quotation from, Color, Synonyms of, Combine, Synonyms of, Comfort, Synonyms of, Common Companion Complain, Synonyms of, Conchology Concise, Synonyms of, Condescend, Synonyms of, Condition Confirm, Synonyms of, Confirmed, Synonyms of, Confound Congregate Connect, Synonyms of, Connotation Constable Contagious Continual, Synonyms of, Continuous, continual Contract, Synonyms of, Conversation Copy, Synonyms of, Cordiality Corp(s) family Corrode Corrupt, Synonyms of, Costly, Synonyms of, Coterie, Synonyms of, Counterfeit Courage, Synonyms of, Course family Coxcomb Crafty Crease, cresce, cret, crue family Cred, creed family Crestfallen Crisscross Critical, Synonyms of, Criticism Crooked, Synonyms of, Cross Cross, Synonyms of, Crowd, Synonyms of, Crowsfeet Crude Cruel, Synonyms of, Cry Cry, Synonyms of, Cunning Cur family Cure family Curious, Synonyms of, Cut, Synonyms of,