I had once overheard an enamelled queen of fashion declare, with much emotion, that their curate was indispensable to a high-class "at home," and even panegyrize his graceful transportation of cups of tea, however full. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
Martinia to panegyrize the tails of eminent monkeys, as it is with us to eulogize the beauty of women. From Wordnik.com. [Niels Klim's journey under the ground being a narrative of his wonderful descent to the subterranean lands; together with an account of the sensible animals and trees inhabiting the planet Nazar and the firmament.] Reference
It is the golden era of Roman history, praised by Gibbon and admired by all historians, during which the eyes of contemporaries saw nothing but to panegyrize. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient States and Empires] Reference
When all voices were united to panegyrize her beauty -- when I knew, that the powers of her wit -- the charms of her conversation -- the accurate judgment, united to the sparkling imagination, were even more remarkable characteristics of her mind, than loveliness of her person, I could not but feel my ambition, as well as my tenderness, excited; I dwelt with. From Wordnik.com. [Pelham — Complete] Reference
"He makes mountains out of millstones, and would panegyrize the most commonplace of men if he happened to take a fancy to him. From Wordnik.com. [Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces] Reference
Lady Walpole was proceeding to panegyrize her other guests, when she was interrupted by their return to the drawing-room: Cordelia remained not quite convinced that there is either beauty or propriety in not knowing summer from winter; neither did she become a convert to Lady Walpole’s general reasoning; but her ingenuous mind felt an impression equally new and dangerous; she saw that the genuine unadulterated modes of simple nature in which she had been educated, and to which she had hitherto adhered, were not only little practised, but neither valued nor admired where they were. From Wordnik.com. [Any Thing But What You Expect] Reference
But let us vUOt panegyrize or expect too much. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Political and Private Life of James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont, Knight of St ...] Reference
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