bite off more than one can chew

Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.

Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.

He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.

Madame Ratignolle, more careful of her complexion, had twined a gauze veil about her head.

There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.

I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.