The orator spoke magniloquently. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He glanced over that humming hive, seeming to draw a foretaste of its honey, and said magniloquently. From Wordnik.com. [Father Goriot] Reference
He magniloquently claims he has "charged" - the OMB to go through the budget line by line taking action to save Americans tax dollars. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's Squandering More Than Capital] Reference
But he has "every respect for the genius, and for every thing that belongs to the memory, of Dryden;" and thus magniloquently eulogizes his most splendid achievement: -- "The fact is, Dryden's version of the 'Knight's Tale' would be most appropriately read by the towering shade of one of Virgil's heroes, walking up and down a battlement, and waving a long, gleaming spear, to the roll and sweep of his sonorous numbers.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
"Aye -- to the death," said Vallancey magniloquently. From Wordnik.com. [Mistress Wilding] Reference
The earlier of these, somewhat magniloquently called the. From Wordnik.com. [The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force] Reference
I was excited, and spoke, I am afraid, after my custom, somewhat too magniloquently. From Wordnik.com. [Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography] Reference
The buildings magniloquently styled the Angouleme Law Courts were then in process of construction. From Wordnik.com. [Eve and David] Reference
However, as Tom magniloquently quoted, difficulties were only made for brave men -- or boys -- to surmount. From Wordnik.com. [On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story] Reference
Some of these constitutional enactments are most magniloquently worded, but not always with precise grammatical correctness. From Wordnik.com. [North America — Volume 1] Reference
Avilion, 'or, less magniloquently, a pleasant land of Cockaine, where we may sleep away the disturbance of battle, and even read through. From Wordnik.com. [Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)] Reference
All these things when taught by masters are reckoned of great value; great prices are paid for them, and the vendors puff them magniloquently. From Wordnik.com. [On Christian Doctrine, in Four Books] Reference
Trend micro house has its yenta as an decreasing echelon, tenebrionid magniloquently anabiotic dasyatidae in an dishy pharmacologic batrachomyomachia. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
A spirit once well strung up to the concert-pitch of the primeval out-of-doors will hardly dare to finish a study and magniloquently ticket it a picture. From Wordnik.com. [Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays] Reference
The late Philip Gilbert Hamerton, whom some remember as an etcher, wrote a book which he entitled (as I think, too magniloquently) The Intellectual Life. From Wordnik.com. [I. Introductory] Reference
The late Philip Gilbert Hamerton, whom some remember as an etcher, wrote a book which he entitled (as I think, too magniloquently) "The Intellectual Life.". From Wordnik.com. [On The Art of Reading] Reference
Anne, accompanied by two French sous and a German silber gros, -- the which miscellany Mr. Leslie magniloquently called "his coins," and had left in his will as a family heirloom. From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
As Mr. Fuseli states magniloquently, after his manner, 'he was smit with the love of classic lore, and desired to trace, on dubious vestiges, the haunts of ancient genius and learning.'. From Wordnik.com. [Art in England Notes and Studies] Reference
Somewhat magniloquently called the Hôtel St. Jean, our hostelry is an auberge placing two tiny bedchambers and one large and presumably general sleeping-room at the disposal of visitors. From Wordnik.com. [The Roof of France] Reference
When asked what was the value of the property, he replied magniloquently, "We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.". From Wordnik.com. [Samuel Johnson] Reference
When asked what was the value of the property, he replied magniloquently, “We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.”. From Wordnik.com. [Samuel Johnson]
Soon, nevertheless, there insinuates itself the realization that there is in this work neither the all-creating spirit the composer so magniloquently invokes, nor the heaven he strives so ardently to attain. From Wordnik.com. [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference
The land that thus magniloquently heralded its advent into the family of nations had supported the institution of human slavery for one hundred and fifty-seven years and was destined to cling to it eighty-seven years longer. From Wordnik.com. [The Negro] Reference
Oliver would not be persuaded that Fitzjocelyn would not meet them abroad, and began magniloquently talking of his courier, and his route, and while he was looking for the map, the two cousins smiled, and Clara said, -- 'Lucky you to have work at home, and to stay with it.'. From Wordnik.com. [Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2] Reference
Algernon magniloquently condoled with his sister-in-law on the injustice from which she and her sister had suffered, in consequence of the adverse influence which surrounded her brother, and generously informed her that she had a champion to defeat the machinations against their rights. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Step-Mother] Reference
The fact that the most splendid panegyrics upon him were uttered by men of high genius is not in itself more conclusive than if such panegyrics had been conceived by men of lesser quality, because the greater that a man is the more readily does he perceive and more magniloquently acknowledge greatness. From Wordnik.com. [At Large] Reference
So he, magniloquently, as was his wont; and yet his declamations always flowed with such a graceful ease, -- a simple, smiling earnestness, -- an unpractised melody of voice, that what would have been rant from other lips, from his showed only as the healthy enthusiasm of the passionate, all-seeing, all-loving artist. From Wordnik.com. [Prose Idylls, New and Old] Reference
The elaborate wordings of the constitutions made by the French politicians in the days of their great revolution have always been to us no more than so many written grimaces; but we should not have continued so to regard them had the political liberty which they promised followed upon the promises so magniloquently made. From Wordnik.com. [North America — Volume 1] Reference
With unquestionably serious purpose and untiring endeavour, they have sought to embody these modern civilised preconceptions in terms afforded by, or in terms compatible with, the institutions of the Fatherland; and they have been much concerned and magniloquently elated about the German spirit of freedom that so was to be brought to final and consummate realisation in the life of a free people. From Wordnik.com. [An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation] Reference
Very well, I yield you the horse, " Loup said magniloquently. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Battle]
The care of what was magniloquently termed their. From Wordnik.com. [The New Book of Martyrs] Reference
"You shall!" cried Richard magniloquently. From Wordnik.com. [The President A novel] Reference
Whether the occupation of taking casts and clipping stones proved of too sedentary a nature to suit his temperament, or whether an evil counsellor within him, whose name was vanity, whispered: "Seek public admiration, and be certain of public applause," I know not; but the fact is, that, as soon as his time was out, he left his master and his native place to join a band of strolling players; or, as he himself more magniloquently expressed it, he went on the stage. From Wordnik.com. [The Stolen Mask; or The Mysterious Cash-box. A Story for a Christmas Fireside] Reference
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