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The case was tried before a big bench of magistrates, all of them local celebrities. Early in the proceedings Lloyd George put in a plea that the court had no jurisdiction in the matter. In response the chairman the presiding magistrate replied grandiloquently that such a point must be decided by a higher court. "Yes, sir," said Lloyd George, "and in a perfectly just and unbiased court."
With a dignity positively marvellous in so small a woman, her head held high and made higher still by the raised roll of her black hair, Edith reigned for three years in that long drawing-room. She laid down the law grandiloquently to the young aspirants who thronged her court; she rewarded with superb compliments those who had achieved.
This distinction is essential. The conditions are antecedent and indispensable. Until they are fulfilled we cannot talk with the enemy, except in the language which he has chosen and forced upon us the stern tongue of battle by land and sea. Germany grandiloquently claims to be the first to propose a peace-conference as a substitute for the horrors of war.
The Emperor Claudius, who took the surname Gothicus in celebration of his victory, announced it grandiloquently to the governor of Illyricum: Claudius to Brocchus. We have destroyed 320,000 of the Goths; we have sunk 2000 of their ships. The rivers are bridged over with shields; with swords and lances all the shores are covered.
Then very grandiloquently, like a man in an old-fashioned picture, he began to back away from them, bowing low all the time, very, very low, first to Barton, then to his daughter, then to Barton again. "I wish you both a very good afternoon!" he said. "Really, I see no reason why either of you should expect a single dull moment!"
"No, boys, it won't do we must leave for the hunt to-day. Why, there may be a million in it." "That's right, Dick; when you fly, fly high," said Tom. "That Frenchman never had a million. If he had a couple of thousand he'd be lucky." "And of course, a couple of thousand is of no importance to us," put in Sam grandiloquently. "All right; I'll go on the hunt alone."
I go back to the wood in Hengishire, my dear, to bring about much that will astonish Chaldea curses on her evil heart. Tell the rye to meet me at his old cottage in a week. Then the wrong will be made right," ended Mother Cockleshell, speaking quite in the style of Meg Merrilees, and very grandiloquently. "And happiness will be yours.
"Nor I," lisped Baby Blake, following suit, in order to keep up her reputation for sentimentality; "I would thob my eyth out!" "See," quoted the curate, grandiloquently, "how `one touch of nature makes the whole world kin!"
I told myself this, somewhat grandiloquently, and with self-gratulation, as I rubbed shoulders with certain of the world's heroes who had passed along this way; and there was physical relief after a strain, when the precipitous valley widened into billowy pastures lying green at the rugged feet of mountains.
And there is the half-caste child, the lisping chee-chee, or Eurasian, grandiloquently so called, much given to sentimental minstrelsy, juvenile polkas, early coquetry, and early beer, hot curries, loud clothes, bad English, and fast pertness.
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