Speeches

Examples

• You have no idea how these enigmatic speeches pique my curiosity. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• But this good old Mr. Woodhouse, I wish you had heard his gallant speeches to me at dinner. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Party speeches were delivered, which clothed the question in cant, and veiled its simple meaning in a woven wind of words. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• They made speeches, and passed resolutions, and put their names down, and printed off thousands of prospectuses. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• These were all the speeches that were made, and I recommend them to parties who present policemen with gold watches, as models of brevity and point. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Rosamond had a placid but strong answer to such speeches. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Papers containing reports of these speeches immediately reached the Northern States, and they were republished. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We had one of those celebrated dinners that only Mr. Childs could give, and I heard speeches from Charles Francis Adams and different people. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• One longs to be high-flown, and make speeches like Corneille, after it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I only puzzle them, and oblige them to make civil speeches. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• These speeches of Mr. Davis were not long in reaching Sherman. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Speeches were in order, but it is doubtful whether it would have been safe just then to make other than patriotic ones. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• His speeches began to turn on platitudes--on the vague idealism and indisputable moralities of the Decalogue and the Sermon on the Mount. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Of all his playful speeches (playful, yet always fully meaning what they expressed) none seemed to be more to the taste of Mr. Jarndyce than this. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Only one of my stupid speeches. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• If you are afraid of half a dozen speeches, cried Mr. Rushworth, what would you do with such a part as mine? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• It's as if speeches folk ha' made--clever and smart things as I've thought at the time--come up now my heart's welly brossen. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I think I see him now, trying to be as demure and composed as Anhalt ought, through the two long speeches. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Lynn; and Mary Ingram listened languidly to the gallant speeches of the other. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Now, that's just like Eva, said Marie; just one of her odd speeches. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• First, that my young lady was, in some unaccountable manner, at the bottom of the sharp speeches that had passed between them. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• His mother had inflamed his mind by hints and vague speeches of some deep mystery about his parentage. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Out of her fright came a flash of indignation which made her face scarlet, and her dark eyes gather flame, as she heard some of their speeches. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Mr Boffin's speeches were detestable to me, shocking to me,' said Bella, startling that gentleman with another stamp of her little foot. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Like a speeches of chaff. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I turned about several times to the company, paid my humble respects, said _they were welcome_, and used some other speeches I had been taught. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Sharp, decisive speeches came thronging into her mind, now that it was too late to utter them. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Sonny,' he said, 'if these politicians had their speeches published as they deliver them, a great many shorthand writers would be out of a job. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• However, those soft speeches were speedily succeeded by a proposal of marriage! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• We celebrated a lady's birthday anniversary with toasts, speeches, a poem, and so forth. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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