"Eloquence" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... stay," assured Elfreda, "provided I can win Ma over to my views. It will be the same as using my powers of eloquence to convince a doubtful jury that the prisoner is innocent. There is nothing like practice," she reminded, her wide, boyish grin ...
— Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer • Jessie Graham Flower
... of Catherine remaining in the town; such concession for the purpose of resistance being a very common and sagacious policy with married ladies. Accordingly, when suddenly, and with a good grace, Mrs. Morton appeared affected by her husband's eloquence, and said, "Well, poor thing! if she is so ill, and you wish it so much, I will call to-morrow," Mr. Morton felt his heart softened towards the many excellent reasons which his wife urged against allowing Catherine to reside in the town. He was a political character—he had many ...
— Night and Morning, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... was a good man and a plodding country parson. He read the morning prayers in a creditable but by no means distinguished manner. And he preached a sermon, more remarkable for its practical bearing than for its eloquence or originality, his text being in these words: "Faith ...
— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
... to me, caro mio," said the friend, turning his head alone towards his colleague, "that this promises to be the first time your eloquence has failed you. Here the model of the nihil respondit is ...
— The Saint • Antonio Fogazzaro
... there would have been no question as to his success, for he had some story to tell about every yearling on the place, and they were inimitably told. It was with great reluctance that Hamilton found himself obliged to head off the man's eloquence and make him stick to hard facts. An inquiry as to the number of eggs sold was somewhat of a puzzle, but the farmer's wife knew the amount of the "trade" she had received at the grocery store in the nearest town in return for eggs, and at an average sale ...
— The Boy With the U.S. Census • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
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