Also she cross-examined Charlotte afterwards upon my performances, and supplemented what I had omitted by delivering the passage in full.
We have no errand-boys of eight who offer their services to a young gentleman thus: "For delivering a note on the sly, or getting a bouquet into the right hands, monsieur can trust to me.
He exerted himself during the canvass of 1848, to secure the election of General Taylor, delivering several effective campaign speeches in New England and the West.
I spoke to him of the folly of such inflictions, and took this opportunity of delivering a short lecture upon the same subject to the others assembled in his lodge.
Here, through the high openings in the original wall, men are busy taking in ordelivering bundles of hay from the store-house they have constructed.
It was now my fortune to be born of a German princess; but a man-midwife, pulling my head off in delivering my mother, put a speedy end to my princely life.
It seems that Emerson accepted the duty of delivering the Poem on Class Day, after seven others had been asked who positively, refused.
As the sermon was finished, the sexton marched up through the broad aisle and handed the note over the door of the pulpit to the clergyman, who was wiping his face after the exertion of delivering his discourse.
Here he was so far from shewing any fear, that he rather expressed a contempt at death, and spake an hour upon the ladder with the composure of one delivering a sermon.
Though the queen was now at a distance, yet the found means to encourage her party, and perhaps the hope of delivering her at length, gave strength to their resolution.
I thought that he would not hesitate about delivering them.
This he did, facing about, and delivering his fire whenever an enemy appeared.
Apparently I have heard a young philosopher delivering his sentiments upon an abstract point in human life; and yet have I not listened to a brilliant apology for my own character, and a triumphant defence of my own conduct.
Your Highness may speak with perfect unreserve, and reckon upon mydelivering my genuine sentiments.
I wait no answer, and my only purpose in seeing you was to perform my commission to the letter, by delivering this paper into your own hands.
The little round steward informed his master that a horseman had just arrived, bearing for his Highness a despatch of importance, which he insisted upon delivering into the Prince's own hands.
What were you ordered to do after delivering this letter.
It was at the house of an ardent patriot, who was serving in the Continental army, that Enoch slept, and after the sun rose next morning he had not long to wait before delivering the message.
Will you stop all this by delivering the prisoner to us?
Word for word, sentence for sentence, paragraph for paragraph, Tom wasdelivering the Colonel's own sonorous speech!
That threat concerned the desperate expedient of carrying the revolted ships into an enemy's port, and of there delivering them up.
These violent threats elicit Roland's laughter, but Charlemagne checks the resulting quarrel bydelivering message and emblems of office to Ganelon.
After delivering the message, Ulysses makes an eloquent appeal in behalf of his countrymen, but Achilles coldly rejoins the Greeks will have to defend themselves as he is about to depart.
The gunboats ran up close under the bluffs, delivering their fire in return at short distances, probably without much effect.
It was long, and I was in torture while he was delivering it, fearing something would be expected from me in response.
You were sent to fetch the means of delivering others;' and he took the wand away from him, and touched the casino, and it disappeared, and he was once more left destitute.
But when night came and she found the teacher who understood her so well, waiting to put her to bed for the last time, all her own true feelings came back, and, bursting into tears, she entreated her to find some way of delivering her.
Make your audience sympathize with your repudiation of the remarks of your opponent, even though he has succeeded in delivering them.
Never slip into an affected manner of deliveringany speech.
In early attempts at delivering speeches don't be afraid to pause at certain places to consider whether what you are about to say really contributes to the unity or destroys it.
It should be frankly admitted that the exercises of delivering lines "in character" as here described is not acting or producing the play.
The beginner will not have many opportunities of delivering such remarkable addresses, but in his small sphere he will have chances to do similar things.
As for the speech itself, there are five ways of delivering it: 1.
Topics for these exercises in delivering introductions should be furnished by the interests, opinions, ideas, experiences, ambitions of the students themselves.
In dramatic presentation you deliver the words already written by some one else; and in addition, while you are delivering these remarks you speak as though you were no longer yourself, but a totally different person.
Many speakers yield to the temptation to strive for effect by delivering exclamatory sentences--sometimes only clauses and phrases so enunciated.
He had a message from the Queen, but if his mouth was kept shut, the responsibility would rest on the Indians, and not with him if he were prevented from delivering it.
I can't go, however, without delivering my despatches to the admiral.
You may depend on me fordelivering it safely; for I should otherwise never be able to look my cousin in the face," he answered.
Murray then gave Higson directions to carry the slaver to Saint Helena, and, after delivering her up, to return to Rio by the first opportunity.
I told her what had passed, delivering verbatim the courteous message with which I had been charged.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "delivering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
