63. DELIGHT:

Colloquial.

a-Hurrah! Tomorrow's a holiday.

b—Why, did you ever! It's Mr. Thompson.

I'm so glad! Sit down! Well, this is a pleasure. I am delighted. There is no other word to express it. I am delighted.

Classical.

c-Hoo! Marcius coming home!

SHAKESPEARE, Coriolanus, ii, 1.

d-I am giddy; expectation whirls me round,
The imaginary relish is so sweet,

That it enchants my sense.

SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida, iii, 2.

65. DERISION: (See Contempt, Sarcasm, Disdain.)

Colloquial.

a-You fight? Bah! You would run at the sound of a

pop-gun.

Classical.

b--And who doth lead them but a paltry fellow, .

A milk sop, one that never in his life

Felt so much cold as overshoes in snow?

66. DESPAIR:

SHAKESPEARE, Richard III, v, 3.

Colloquial.

a-I've tried and tried and tried, but it is no use. I'm

doomed.

Classical.

b-I have lived long enough: my way of life
Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf.

67. DEPRECATION:

SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth, v, 3.

Colloquial.

a-May I never see such a sight again.

b

Classical.

O, woe is me!

To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!

SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, iii, 1.

68. DEPRECIATION: (See Dispraising, Belittling.)

69. DETERMINATION: (See Assertion.)

Colloquial.

a-You say you will not; I say you shall, and, what is more, I will compel you.

b—I'll do just as I please.

C- -You may call me a liar, a fool, a hypocrite; you may call me anything you wish, you cannot, shall not, swerve me from my purpose.

Classical.

d-I'll have my bond; I will not hear thee speak:
I'll have my bond.

SHAKESPEARE, Merchant of Venice, iii, 3.

70. DIGNITY: (See Pride.)

Colloquial.

a-Do you know to whom you are speaking?
b-I have too much self-respect to do it.

c-You insult me, sir.

d

Classical.

Do not fear our person;

There's such divinity doth hedge a king,
That treason can but peep to what it would.

SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, iv, 5.

71. DISSATISFACTION:

Colloquial.

a-0, that won't do at all.

b-I'm completely dissatisfied. Nothing has gone right. Everything has failed, failed miserably.

c-O, that thing is no use.

use that.

Take it back; we can never

Classical.

d-O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.

SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, iii, 2.

72. DISCONTENT: (See Dissatisfaction.)

73. DISCOURAGING:

Colloquial.

a-0, don't go there. It's so hot and dusty. You'll be all tired out.

b-Take my advice and throw the whole thing over. It will fail sure.

Classical.

I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire;
The day is hot, the Capulets abroad.

SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet, iii, 1.

74. DISPRAISING: (See Belittling, Dissatisfaction.)

a

Colloquial.

-That's not good at all. That's miserable.

b—That picture is very poor indeed; the trees are yellow and the grass looks blue.

Classical.

c-That's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition. SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, iii, 2.

75. DISCRIMINATION: (See Comparison.)

76. DISGUST: (See Aversion.)

77. DISDAIN: (See Contempt.)

Colloquial.

a-I wouldn't be seen with you.

b-I refuse to have any talk with you whatever.

Classical.

c-I know thee not, old man; fall to thy prayers.

SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV, II, v, 5.

78. DISMISSAL: (See Command, Authority.)

e-Rogues, hence, avaunt; vanish like hailstones, go! SHAKESPEARE, Merry Wives of Windsor, i, 3.

79. DISAPPOINTMENT:

Colloquial.

a-0, that's too bad. I had set my whole heart on going. I'm so disappointed.

Classical.

b-There comes my fit again; I had else been per

fect;

But now, I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined.

80. DISMAY:

SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth, iii, 4.

Colloquial.

a-We are lost; O, what will we do?

Classical.

b-France, friend with England! What becomes of me? SHAKESPEARE, King John, iii, 1.

81. DISRESPECT: (See Contempt.)

Colloquial.

a-I don't care who you are. Get out of my way.

b-You are old and foolish.

Classical.

c-These tedious old fools.

SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, ii, 2.

82. DOUBT: (See Perplexity.)

83. DREAD: (See Fear, Anxiety.)

Colloquial.

a-Look! It's a mad dog. O, what if it should come this way?

b-The small-pox. Ugh! I shudder when I think of it.

Classical.

c-What, if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,
Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff,

And there assume some other horrible form?

SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, i, 4.

84. EMULATION: (See Ambition, Admiration.)

Colloquial.

a-O, if I could only do like that.

b-There's an example worthy of our emulation.
c-Let us see then if we can't equal it. It is worth a
trial.

Classical.

d—When the blast of war blows in our ears,

Then imitate the action of the tiger.

SHAKESPEARE, Henry V, iii, 1.