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-0, that thing is no use.

use that.

Take it back; we can never

Classical.

d-0, 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.)

Colloquial.

a-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.

-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.

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.

85. ENCOURAGEMENT:

Colloquial.

a-That was fine-go it-go it-one more effort and the

day is ours.

b-Don't give up.

c-Go right in and

You have any number of chances yet.
I'm sure you'll win.

Classical.

d-Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire;
Threaten the threatener, and outface the brow
Of bragging horror.

SHAKESPEARE, King John, v, 1.

e-Good cheer, Antonio! What, man! courage yet!

SHAKESPEARE, Merchant of Venice, iv. 1. f-Why, how now, Adam! no greater heart in thee? Live a little, comfort a little, cheer thyself a little; if this uncouth forest yield anything savage, I will either be food for it, or bring it for food to thee. .. Well said, thou look'st cheerily.

86. ENTREATY:

SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It, ii, 6.

Colloquial.

a-Do, please, let me go this once. O, do.

b-I entreat you, I beg of you to give me a fair hearing.

Classical.

c-Speak with me, pity me, open the door.

88. EXCITEMENT: (See Uproar, Encouragement.)

Colloquial.

a- -Go it! Go it-that's it; now, now!

b-Look out for those horses! Look out!

Classical.

c-Rescue, my lord of Norfolk, rescue, rescue!
The king enacts more wonders than a man,
Daring an opposite to every danger;

His horse is slain, and all on foot he fights,
Seeking for Richmond in the throat of death;
Rescue, fair lord, or else the day is lost.

SHAKESPEARE, Richard III, v, 4.

89. EXCLAMATION: (See Admiration, Indignation.)

Colloquial.

a-O, what a victory! Terrific! Tremendous!

b-Stop! I protest! Shame!

Classical.

c-Look! my lord! it comes!

SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, i, 4.

90. EXCUSE:

Colloquial.

a- -I am sorry I was late, but the clock was slow.

b-I am sorry I have delayed you, but really there were so many visitors I couldn't help it.

Classical.

What I have done,

That might your nature, honor, and exception
Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness.

91. EXECRATION:

SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, v, 2.

Colloquial.

a-Out you go, and don't you come near this house again,

you cur.

b-You, sir, have caused it all; out of my sight.

Classical.

c-Out of my sight! thou dost infect mine eyes.

SHAKESPEARE, Richard III, i, 2.