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There was much more to the same effect, which Paul did not read, and the letter ended grandiloquently in a command that Paul was to repair at once to the Manor and there grovel at the feet of his injured father. To this despotic epistle the young man answered in a few lines.
Preaching grandiloquently before a few score natives who understood little beyond the gestures, for the single purpose of warding off disintegration! It reminded the doctor of a stubborn retreat; from barricade to barricade, grimly fighting to keep the enemy at bay, that insidious enemy of the white man in the South Seas inertia.
"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 capitalization of their honesty and industry. The way in which this is done is remarkably ingenious.
Andy Gowran was continually throwing her comparative poverty in poor Lizzie's teeth, and there was nothing he could do which displeased her more. "And I needn't spare my cousin the use of a pony," she said grandiloquently, but feeling as she did so that she was exposing herself before the man. "You'll have the goodness to procure one for him on Tuesday."
Lapierre laughs and shrugs his shoulders as he recalls the scene the apoplectic General, with the glass of wine in one hand, waving the other grandiloquently as he described the wealth about to descend upon them. Yes, the General must begin at the beginning, for it was a long story. First, as to himself and how he came to know of the affair.
"Sure, the inthroductory study of anatomy, sor," explained Garry rather grandiloquently, going on with his yarn.
For this old noble was the true son of a father who had believed to the end in that King who talked grandiloquently of the works of Seneca and Tacitus while driving from the Temple to his trial, with the mob hooting and yelling imprecations into the carriage windows.
"It pays, it pays!" smiled The Author. "I draw from life." "Nature-fakir!" Alicia mocked. "My dear fellow, I draw. You draw and quarter," said Morenas. The Author flung out his arms, grandiloquently. You may as well try to change the course Of yonder sun To north, and south, As to try to subdue by criticism This heart of verse, Or close this mouth! he cried, thumping his chest.
Under an Injun-cigar tree which grew in the Enders' back yard the fascinating visitor out of Northern parts was stretched in a hammock, between draws on a cigarette discoursing grandiloquently to a half-incredulous but wholly delighted audience of three.
"I just don't like the kind of birthday presents you receive," he said, turning on his heel. "Good afternoon." "On your right is the residence of Miss Elaine Dodge, the heiress, who is pursuing the famous master criminal known as the Clutching Hand." The barker had been grandiloquently pointing out the residences of noted New Yorkers as the big sightseeing car lumbered along through the streets.
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