Chrysostom, tom.iii. p. 381 — 386, which the exordium is particularly beautiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

The exordium is ridiculously turgid: If all the members of my body were changed into tongues, and if all my limbs resounded with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

His exordium is a specimen of the very worst possible taste in composition.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One] Reference

The exordium is a passionate address to Captains all; amongst whom, who can more properly be reckoned than Captain Andrew?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica] Reference

Theophrastus adds another kind of exordium, taken from the pleading of the orator who speaks first.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Training of a Public Speaker] Reference

•• kind of exordium to the work thus, aJJacb on at hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strictures on the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Ireland:: From the Most Ancient Times ...] Reference

Fuller looked a little scared at this exordium, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Rachel] Reference

'What a tremendous exordium! distressing to a degree!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camilla] Reference

The following constitutes the exordium of the poem.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference

Griffith shuddered at this exordium; he made no reply.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference

The fragment on Paganini was a part of the exordium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference

The exordium and the conclusion are practically the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faith of Islam] Reference

In the exordium, verses 1, 2, you have two things: -- (1.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference

This exordium did not tend to alter the Pilot's impression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Willis the Pilot] Reference

An exordium, by way of exultation and rejoicing, verses 1, 2. 2.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference

‘Enough of this fooling,’ was his not inappropriate exordium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wrong Box] Reference

Æschines introduces his oration with the following brief exordium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference

Mr. Wordsworth begins his descriptive sketches with the following exordium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Reviews of English Poets] Reference

The President stood up in his carriage and prefaced his speech with this exordium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference

After this terrible excitement follows the solemn exordium to her father's story.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference

Similarly, in the case of speeches, the exordium is prior in order to the narrative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Categoriae. English] Reference

"But surely you do not call such a poetical exordium a profession?" remarked Becker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Willis the Pilot] Reference

From this exordium he proceeded to the touchstone question of the real presence in the mass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference

After a very short and appropriate exordium, he proceeded directly to the merits of the case.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference

Roman laws and the ancient canons, with this sage conclusion, full worthy of the exordium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862] Reference

Paul bowed an assent to this, and could but acknowledge that the unpromising exordium was natural.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

+Note: If the King and Queen of Spain will be present, the exordium of the speech should be adapted.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

It was his exordium; it demanded the attention of the company; and though he had it not, he continued.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861] Reference

"We know all," he said, by way of exordium, "all, all, all! and here is the history of this lamentable case.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference

He will strive in vain to conceive any other exordium than Massillon's that would have matched the occasion presented.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

When we set out on such a walk as we are about to take, with the reader's consent, we quote Thomson for our exordium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 363, March 28, 1829] Reference

It took some time after this amiable exordium to make the stranger understand the right a Capuchin had to interrogate him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The Hâjî now passes to the results of his long and anxious thoughts: I have purposely twisted his exordium into an echo of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi] Reference

But the following are the most ordinary faults to be found in an exordium, and those it is above all things desirable to avoid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference

But in the creation of light, the very commencement of distinguishing, (exordium distinctionis,) this divine Word or Wisdom was manifest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference