Questions were asked extempore at the floor. From LearnThat.org.
Adverb : Questions were asked extempore from the floor. ,to speak extempore. From Dictionary.com.
Then quoth he, “This is a strange manner of daily bread;” and he began re citing in extempore verse: —. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
These seem to have been either like our dumb-shows, or else a kind of extempore farces -- a thing to this day a good deal in use all over Italy and in. From Wordnik.com. [The Illustrated London Reading Book] Reference
(baton ferres, which end in knives or sword-blades, a kind of extempore billhook); -- looking nothing but hungry revolt. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
The following extempore verse I set for a copy. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
His prayers in that case are not strictly extempore. From Wordnik.com. [The Prayer Book Explained] Reference
But extempore prayer should not be impromptu prayer. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
The smoked, extempore fireplace where a party cooked their fish. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
The fact that he used no book did not make the prayers extempore. From Wordnik.com. [The Prayer Book Explained] Reference
Country; but we live in an extempore Method, and as Time serves, and. From Wordnik.com. [A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753] Reference
Mrs. Reading stood by me in very extempore costume, holding a night-lamp. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
But to let mere lads speak extempore is to give rise to the acme of foolish talk. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
He also cultivated extempore speaking, and finally returned South to finish his studies. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
Scottish minister who was accustomed to preface his extempore petition with the words. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
I could then speak Latin as well as English; could make extempore verses upon any theme. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
These may be used for dumplings, or as a sudden extempore, but do not let them be habitual. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
An extempore prayer was made, filled with all the peculiarities usual to that style of petition. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
Many of the speeches were to a large extent extempore, the heads only being committed to writing. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
'Extinguisher No. 1' was hurried along the roads by an extempore company of about fifty men and boys. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
But Brummell had yet but half completed his performance; for the invitation was extempore, and he must gallop to. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
This manual provides an analysis of the art of extempore speaking, together with specific examples and exercises. From Wordnik.com. [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference
We shall presently show that it is composed on a very elaborate plan, and is very far from being an extempore Hymn. From Wordnik.com. [The Prayer Book Explained] Reference
The elaborate arrangement of the Hymn has been exhibited so as to eliminate the notion of an extempore composition. From Wordnik.com. [The Prayer Book Explained] Reference
Further, it will be clear that an extempore prayer may be part of a form of Service, just as much as a printed prayer. From Wordnik.com. [The Prayer Book Explained] Reference
But they puzzled Randolph not a whit; and -- waiving his "grace" until the subsequent meeting, he rattled off extempore. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
Louis only replied by laying some grass and leaves in the bottom of his cap, and putting the bird on this extempore bed. From Wordnik.com. [Louis' School Days A Story for Boys] Reference
This, indeed, if your words fail you, answers even in public extempore speech, -- but better where other talking is going on. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859] Reference
= Demades =, a contemporary of Demosthenes, who, by his genius for extempore oratory, raised himself to a predominant position in. From Wordnik.com. [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference
Then, stirring about his tea for a little while in a state of meditation, he, almost extempore, produced the following verses. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
I remember being greatly troubled by the necessity for a popular national hymn, and manufactured several with extempore rapidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
In another issue of the paper for the same year are some extempore lines on Brighton, dated from East Street, which end thus ecstatically. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
His extempore fantasias are mentioned by Gerber, in his Lexicon, as having excited the admiration of the most accomplished musicians of the time. From Wordnik.com. [Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864] Reference
But we all knew his tricks by now: he read a few lines from a hundred books and constructed his lecture narratives extempore with his dizzying connections. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri] Reference
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