"Speechifying" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... balance-sheet; but I have a young friend here, who has been at sea all winter in those ugly gales that made us so uncomfortable on shore, and he will tell us something. Then we have also Mr. Fullerton, who has been working and speechifying to some purpose for years. While I was pur-blind, this gentleman was clear-sighted; and, if you could go where I have been, and see the missionary work that I have seen, you would never speak ill of a missionary again. I do not believe ill of men. Some one among our statesmen ...
— A Dream of the North Sea • James Runciman
... you think is the news about the seedy-looking fellow you treated by mistake to all that speechifying?" ...
— The Astonishing History of Troy Town • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... with Talsil (Joval, from the same place, had died), a great crowd, all friendly, walked into the village and sat down, speechifying by the principal man, a presentation to me of a small pig; but such confidence that this man came back with me on board, where I gave him presents. I much wished to land at Taman's place, but could not do so, though I tried ...
— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge
... committee-rooms of the capitol at Springfield and the corridors of the one principal hotel were being tramped over almost daily by rampant delegations of ministers, reform aldermen, and civil committeemen, who arrived speechifying, threatening, and haranguing, and departed, only to make room for ...
— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser |
