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Don't you remember my calling two of your forbears a precious pair of donkeys because they wouldn't eat any form of shell-fish, and your replying that, though I was in the habit of grandiloquently describing my ancestor who used to execute people as 'the sheriff of the county, he was only a common hangman?" "Oh, was that the man?
Immediately his old master anticipated him by issuing proposals for a paper which he grandiloquently styled "The Universal Instructor in all Arts and Sciences, and Pennsylvania Gazette," an utterly absurd sheet, whose contents were taken chiefly from an encyclopædia recently published in London.
Napier Terrace had a strip of garden between itself and the rough outer world; big gateways stood at either end, and what Vie Vernon grandiloquently spoke of as "a carriage sweep" curved broadly between.
Tu-Kila-Kila struck another attitude with childish self-satisfaction. "I go into the hut to speak with my ministers," he said, grandiloquently. "Fire and Water, wait you here outside while I enter and speak with my friends from the sun, whom I have brought for the salvation of the crops to Boupari." The King of Fire and the King of Water, supporting the umbrella, bowed assent to his words.
What was ahead of the chums did trouble them. Their future school life was a mystery. There was no prophet to tell them of the exciting and really wonderful things that were to happen to them at Briarwood during the coming term. "Oh, dear me!" complained Nettie Parsons, "I never can do it." "'In the bright Lexicon of Youth, there is no such word as "fail,"" quoted Mercy Curtis, grandiloquently.
The salon of conversation, as the mirrored, gilded, and highly varnished apartment was grandiloquently termed, had been the very spot chosen for our presumably not very terrible ordeal. Things were well under way.
"This kind of thing argues a want of cordiality that may be fatal to us," Sir Orlando had said somewhat grandiloquently to the Duke, and the Duke had made almost no reply. "I suppose I may ask my own guests in my own house," he had said afterwards to Mr. Warburton, "though in public life I am everybody's slave." Mr.
The boxings, the rough lumber, the two by fourteen's finished, the dropped sidings and groved roofing, and lath and ceiling and rough fencings and all the rest? What on earth will we do it with?" "What with?" Ba'tiste waved an arm grandiloquently. "With the future!" "It's taking the longest kind of a chance " "Ah, oui! But the man who is drowning, he will, what-you-say, grab at a haystack."
A quarter of a mile outside the village three white figures confronted him. Two who stood apart in the shadow shrank from observation, but the landlord, seated bareback upon a pony that from some late exertion was breathing heavily, called to him to halt. "In the fashion of my country," he began grandiloquently, "we have come this far to wish you God speed upon your journey."
"I mean fellers don't seem to think about beatin' the Huns at all, they're so busy crabbin' on everything." "It's the guys higher up that does the thinkin'," said Grey grandiloquently. "Hell, but I thought it'd be excitin' like in the movies." "I guess that was a lot o' talk." "Maybe."
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