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The superintendent, being with his own people, was orating in pure Arabic or, rather, in the colloquial vernacular which is as close to pure Arabic as one can expect to hear, except among the remoter Bedouins. "Thus it is!" he was declaiming. "Even as I have sought to show you, oh, addle-witted offspring of mangy camels and one-eyed mules!
In the long run they're bound to respect a man who makes them think, and with your reputation for oratory you " "What do you know about my reputation for oratory?" "Oh, I'm not going to tell you everything I know! But seriously, you don't realize what a famous man you are." "Well Though I haven't done much orating this fall. Too kind of bothered by this Paul Riesling business, I guess.
As the orators were orating and the cannon were barking and the sweating people on the sidewalks were shouting, they knew not and cared not for what, I thought of some lines which opened a Washington letter in the Boston Globe many years ago, when John A. Logan was in the United States Senate. There was a tariff discussion on and he took a part.
Husband? husband? Oh, and she so magnificently dressed and tinkling like a chandelier." "Now, Helen, what did really happen?" "What I say. I was, as it were, orating my speech. Annie opens the door like a fool, and shows a female straight in on me, with my mouth open. Then we began very civilly. 'I want my husband, what I have reason to believe is here. No how unjust one is.
Nor are Russian-Americans the only persons who weary an American representative. One morning a card was brought in bearing an undoubted American name, and presently there followed it a tall raw-boned man with long flaxen hair, who began orating to me as follows: "Sir, you are an ambassador from the President of the United States; I am an ambassador from God Almighty.
We have taken the station!" They arrived at the hotel. The lobby was thronged with people. A chocolate salesman from Switzerland was orating: "They have erected a guillotine in Marien Platz. They are shooting down and beheading everybody who wears a white collar." The hotel proprietor quieted the crowd. "Nonsense!" he cried. "Ridiculous nonsense! We are safe.
The passionate appeal had no effect, but while Abijah was orating, Jeroboam was carrying out a ruse, and planting part of his troops behind Judah, so as to put them between two fires and draw a net round the outnumbered and outmanoeuvred enemy. Abijah and his men suddenly detected their desperate position, and did the only wise thing.
Western statesmen should realize this, and should remember that Bolshevism's best propagandist agent is, not Zinoviev orating at Baku, but General Gouraud, with his Senegalese battalions and "strong-arm" methods in Syria and the Arab hinterland. Certainly, any extensive spread of Bolshevism in the East would be a terrible misfortune both for the Orient and for the world at large.
But Verona was irritating. "Dad," she worried, "how do you know that public ownership of utilities and so on and so forth will always be a failure?" Mrs. Babbitt reproved, "Rone, I should think you could see and realize that when your father's all worn out with orating, it's no time to expect him to explain these complicated subjects. I'm sure when he's rested he'll be glad to explain it to you.
The sailor agreed with effusive heartiness to all that he said, and Dan thought while he was speaking orating as one of the American settlers would have expressed it that Jenkins wore a peculiar expression on his manly countenance. Attributing it to unusual interest in the event, he continued "Now, Fred, I want you to be my best-man "
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