Fawcett, they never did exhibit the pathetic importunity and Demosthenic fervor of Baxter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference

In some of the Demosthenic speeches of doubtful authenticity parrhesia is most emphatically the right of the Athenian citizen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

As already indicated, I was conscious of no mean alloy of the Demosthenic gold tempering the baser metal of my general composition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

It is true, we had not any long oration denouncing the absentees, the cabinet council, or any other set of men; but there was not a man present that at one hour and seventeen minutes after the cloth was removed but could have made a Demosthenic speech far superior to any record of antiquity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference

But demagogues, democrats, demonstrations, and Demosthenic oratory are all equally odious to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eustace Diamonds] Reference

But demagogues, democrats, demonstrations, and Demosthenic oratory are all equally odious to John Eustace.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eustace Diamonds]

He is not a natural orator, and labours under physical deficiencies which even a Demosthenic impulse could scarcely overcome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coningsby] Reference

Why, now lazy Vergniaud does not rise with Demosthenic thunder; poor Louvet, unprepared, can do little or nothing: Barrere proposes that these comparatively despicable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution] Reference

Parlement trundled off to Troyes in Champagne; and nothing left but a few mute Keepers of records; the Demosthenic thunder become extinct, the martyrs of liberty clean gone!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution] Reference

After the Demosthenic periods and Ciceronian verbosity of some of our previous rulers Dr. ADDISON'S bright bedside manner with an ailing or moribund Bill is a refreshing spectacle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 1, 1920] Reference

The eloquence which had formerly accustomed itself to the Demosthenic mode, that of putting little pebbles in the mouth, the little pebbles of every day life, now exercised itself more freely on subjects of greater interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [True Story of My Life] Reference

So far he would, in that condition of the Roman culture and feeling, have been less acceptable to the public; but, on the other hand, he would have compensated this disadvantage by much more of natural and Demosthenic fervor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Caesars] Reference

Demosthenic Olympus, the thunder being hushed for the day, is welcomed, in the outer courts, with a shout from four thousand throats; is borne home shoulder-high 'with benedictions,' and strikes the stars with his sublime head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution] Reference

A clear and melodious voice, which rendered it quite unnecessary for him to resort to Demosthenic methods of cultivation.    From Wordnik.com.  [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference

In terms, which Demosthenic force outgo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays] Reference

How nobly Demosthenic our table-talk will be!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General] Reference

1844, Lord Beaconsfield thus described him: -- "He is not a natural orator, and labours under physical deficiencies which even a Demosthenic impulse could scarcely overcome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collections and Recollections] Reference

Demosthenic Speech 'Against Theocrines'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2] Reference