A great source of confusion
A gross piece of stupidity
A habit of riding a theory too hard
A habit of rigorous definition
A happy and compensating experience
A haughty self-assertion of equality
A hideous absurdity
A hideous orgy of massacre and outrage
A high pitch of eloquence
A homelike and festive aspect
A hopeless enigma
A hotbed of disturbance
A hushed rustle of applause testified to a widespread approbation [approbation = warm approval; praise]
A keenly receptive and intensely sensitive temperament
A kind of fantastic patchwork
A kind of surly reluctance
A laudable stimulus
A law of retributive justice
A less revolutionary innovation
A life of studious contemplation
A limpidity and lucidity of style [limpidity = transparent clearity; easily intelligible]
A lingering tinge of admiration
A lively sense of what is dishonorable
A long accumulating store of discontent and unrest
A long tangle of unavoidable detail
A look threatening and peremptory [peremptory = ending all debate or action]
A many-sided and far-reaching enthusiasm
A marvelous sharpener of the faculties
A melancholy preponderance of mischief
A memory-haunting phrase
A mercenary marriage
A mere conjectural estimate
A microscopic care in the search of words
A misconception which is singularly prevalent
A mixture of malignancy and madness
A modicum of truth
A monstrous travesty
A mood of hard skepticism
A more than ordinary share of baseness and depravity
A most laudable zeal
A most repulsive and incomprehensible idiom
A most unseasonable piece of impertinence
A multitude of groundless alarms
A murderous tenacity about trifles
A mysterious and an intractable pestilence
A mysterious and inscrutable power
A narrow and superficial survey
A nature somewhat frivolous and irresolute
A needlessly offensive manner
A nimble interchange of uninteresting gossip