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Sam, balancing himself on the narrow, projecting ledge which the chart in the passenger-office had grandiloquently described as a lounge, began to feel the depression which marks the second phase. He almost wished now that he had not been so energetic in having his room changed in order to enjoy the company of his cousin Eustace. It was going to be a tight fit.
"Everything in my house is at the service of the Señor Capitan," began Sancho grandiloquently, "but as to that horse " "No other will do. How much a week? though I may keep him only a day." "Señor, he is the horse of my brother, and my brother is not here. If harm should come " "Full value will be paid. Here!" and a glittering gold piece, a double eagle, flashed in the sun. "Waste no talk now.
The epic closes grandiloquently: With fifty names, the great gods According to their fifty names, proclaimed the supremacy of his course. The compiler has added to the epic what Delitzsch appropriately designates an 'epilogue, a declaration of affection for Marduk. The epilogue consists of three stanzas.
A body of very poor persons, individually in the commercial sense of the term insolvent, manage to create a new basis of security which has been somewhat grandiloquently and yet truthfully called the capitalisation of their honesty and industry. The way in which this is done is remarkably ingenious.
"He gets a microscopic view of it, yes," replied Mae, grandiloquently, "and Edith " "Always sees just what he does," suggested Eric maliciously. "Now, boys," said Miss Mae, assuming suddenly a mighty patronage, "I will not have you hit at Albert and Edith in this way. It will be very annoying to them. They have a right to act just as absurdly as they choose.
The detective, with a defiant glance at the deepening evening shadows, proclaimed grandiloquently: "So be it, Lady Beltham, it shall not be said that a gallant man repays you with ingratitude, and if you care to have it so we will say in unison: "Between us three, Fantômas!" The train thundered through the night.
"Tisquantum, I'll be bound. He looks to have a certain veneer of civilization over his savagery," remarked Winslow, and in another minute the two savages arrived within speaking distance, and the stranger tapping his breast grandiloquently exclaimed, "This is Tisquantum, friend of Englishmen." "Tisquantum is welcome, and so is Samoset," replied Carver gravely.
Our "friends" rarely missed making a noise, and, to secure proper rest, this break-of-day penchant sent people early to bed. A big gun had been placed by the enemy on the top of Wimbleton Ridge, wherefrom as our Garrison Orders grandiloquently stated "the strength of the fortress of Kimberley was tested."
"Messieurs," he said grandiloquently, "I assure you on my honor that I am not misleading you." Nor was he. The discrepancy was cleared up next day. The Morris automobile was undergoing repairs, and the motor manufacturers had supplied the gray car for use in the interim. Steingall swept the matter aside impatiently. "Go on," he said to the Frenchman.
"And succeed in baffling my search for ten long years," supplemented he, grandiloquently. "No, fair dame, I did not." "Your search, indeed! It was not a very eager one." "Well, in truth it was not. The fact is, your beauty entrapped me into that very foolish marriage; but I was a trifle weary of blonde loveliness in tears, etc., so I didn't get out the entire police force, you see."
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