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Such things are just speechifying, and banal at that. Perhaps they were a necessity of War-time which might well be made use of; when you are fighting for your very life you use every means you have; when you are in imminent danger you do not choose your weapons, you use everything to hand.
There was a moderate and endurable amount of speechifying by-and-by, when the monster double-crowned pines had been cut, and the purple grapes, almost as big as pigeons' eggs, had gone round.
The meeting was at once decided upon, though Ethel could not see why people could not give without speechifying, and her two younger brothers declared it was humbug Tom saying, he wished all blackamoors were out of creation, and Harry, that he could not stand palaver about his friend David. Dr.
Up to this time I had been the planner of the enterprise, but now that the moment had come when all would depend upon able and earnest speechifying, I felt at once the immense superiority of my gallant friend, and gladly left to him the whole conduct of this discussion.
Howard received the freedom of the borough an immense fuss was made about him; people used to follow him in the street, and he was feted and invited to dinners and parties; and there was no end of speechifying. But what did it all come to? Why, nothing, except a little cleaning out of passages and whitewashing of walls. I went with Mr. Howard several times, over the Tower Prison, and also with Mr.
When "Votes for Women" gets to coming down Providence Road the farmers will hitch up a wagon and take mother and the children with a well-packed lunch basket to meet it half way. This is a prophecy! Then, after Jane sat down, I don't believe such a speechifying ever was before as resounded out over the river, even in the time of Old Hickory.
"Well, never mind. It is not necessary that you should." Two o'clock struck as Mlle. Lucienne and Maxence left the office of the commissary of police, she pensive and agitated, he gloomy and irritated. They reached the Hotel des Folies without exchanging a word. Mme. Fortin was again at the door, speechifying in the midst of a group with indefatigable volubility.
Are we fools, or is Peter a gay deceiver?" "He is the most outspoken man I ever knew," said Miss De Voe. "But he tells nothing," said an usher. "Yes. He is absolutely silent," said a bridesmaid. "Except when he's speechifying," said Ray. "And Leonore says he talks and jokes a great deal," said Watts. "I never knew any one who is deceiving herself so about a man," said Dorothy. "It's terrible.
By this time the old men, with most of the women, have drawn together in a clump, and are evidently holding council on some subject of general interest intense interest, too, as can be told by their earnest speechifying, and the gesticulation that accompanies it.
Be hanged to these civilians, he thought to himself, they are always for arranging and speechifying. Mr. Wenham took a chair which was not offered to him took a paper from his pocket, and resumed "You have seen this gratifying announcement in the papers this morning, Colonel?
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