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Example sentences for "eloquent"

Lexicographically close words:
elopements; elopers; elopes; eloping; eloquence; eloquentia; eloquently; elped; elps; els
  1. Thy last song, the Song of the Swan, was an eloquent and impassioned protest of the Christian, attacked in his fervent belief and his faith.

  2. Capot, President of the Society of Agriculture, Sciences, and Arts, gave another eloquent address.

  3. Henri Noubel, Deputy and Mayor of Agen, made an eloquent speech on the unveiling of the statue.

  4. The Mayor, in eloquent language, accepted the work, and acknowledged the fervent thanks of the citizens of Toulouse.

  5. A most sweet and eloquent answer, Pierre; but sit down again.

  6. Astonishment and delight sealed the orphan's lips, and, in silence, far more eloquent than words, she bowed her head upon the table.

  7. A bitter smile twisted the muscles about Mrs. Gerome's mouth, as she gazed into the quivering, eloquent face of her companion, and listened to the impetuous appeal that poured so pathetically over her burning lips.

  8. Perfectly willing that you should make it eloquent with all friendly utterances and sympathy.

  9. To-day there was a spirituelle beauty in the white face that he had never seen before; and the large eloquent eyes were full of dreamy sunset radiance, unlike their wonted steely glitter.

  10. That pallid cheek was flushed; her eager look Beamed eloquent in slumber!

  11. Martyr draws an affecting picture of the anguish of the bereaved parents, which betrayed itself in looks more eloquent than words.

  12. The most eminent of these is by Fléchier, the eloquent bishop of Nismes.

  13. He would be a Clive or a Wellington, unless indeed he should have a fancy for the Bar and the Woolsack, in which case he would be a little more erudite than Lyndhurst, a trifle more eloquent than Brougham.

  14. Go stand upon the heights at Niagara, and listen in awe-struck silence to that boldest, most earnest, and most eloquent of all nature's oracles!

  15. Better far the silent tongue, but the eloquent deed; and the most decisive answer of all is doing.

  16. He may be an acute reasoner and an eloquent speaker, and yet, in spite of all this, fail of success.

  17. The great works of human power, achieved by the hand of genius, are but eloquent examples of what may be achieved by the exercise of this virtue.

  18. Posing as an Italian patriot of liberty, with the reputation for impassioned and eloquent oratory and the added piquancy of being an ex-priest, he had attracted elsewhere a favourable hearing.

  19. Always a believer in the closest union between the component parts of British North America, he was an eloquent advocate for Confederation and on the formation by Sir J.

  20. I have been stimulated to try my hand at translating into Latin five of the most eloquent passages in the book, as a trial of the possibility of putting such things into that language.

  21. Cato spoke well, but could not be reckoned among the eloquent men of his time.

  22. To adopt the eloquent expressions of Arnold respecting the check which she gave to the Carthaginian arms, "Syracuse was a breakwater which God's providence raised up to protect the yet immature strength of Rome.

  23. We had both played the part of the "Leper of Aosta," and had both experienced the feelings described in Monsieur de Maistre's story, before we read them as expressed by his eloquent pen.

  24. He triumphs merely by his presence, more eloquent in his silence than the prophet in his speech.

  25. Mademoiselle de Villenoix has no doubt destroyed the real letters that she received, eloquent witnesses to the delirium she inspired.

  26. Between his moustache and his beard there peeped, like a rose, a sweet and eloquent mouth, small, and fresh, and perfectly formed.

  27. He thundered forth an eloquent challenge to the monumental works of science and human excrescences of knowledge, such as those which societies use the elements of the earthly globe to produce.

  28. Behold in his best shooting-jacket before thee An eloquent 'Squire, who most humbly beseeches.

  29. Channing's eloquent preaching with the use of that book of prayer and praise unsurpassed and unsurpassable in its simple sublimity and fervid depth of devotion.

  30. This she transmitted to his mother in Germany, and with this clue alone the mother obtained the rest; and eloquent outbreakings they are of a spirit glowing with freedom and humanity.

  31. I am reading an immensely thick book by Gioberti, one of the Italian reformers, a devout and eloquent Catholic priest, and it enchants me.

  32. Sir Francis published a manly letter to the electors of Westminster, (he being the representative of that great constituency,) commenting in eloquent terms on this infamous transaction.

  33. Of George Thompson, whom Lord Brougham pronounced one of the most eloquent men either in or out of Parliament, I shall speak at greater length, in connection with the abolition of East Indian Slavery.

  34. His oration (for it partook little of the character of a speech at the bar) in vindication of the liberty of the press was pronounced by Lord Ellenborough, the chief justice, to be the most eloquent address ever delivered in Westminster Hall.

  35. In 1783, Pitt, yielding to the generous impulses of his youth, moved for a committee to inquire into the same subject, and supported his motion in two eloquent speeches.

  36. His daily life bore eloquent witness of his sincere piety.

  37. He was by all accounts an eloquent and effective speaker.

  38. The hymns of his Swan-Song are eloquent testimonies of his desire to depart and be at home with God.

  39. Martensen, the theologian, tells us that his conversation was admirably eloquent and interspersed with wit and humor.

  40. This is an eloquent farewell, clothed in all the expressive wealth of language and imagery of which Kingo was such a master.

  41. In spite of these discouragements, Grundtvig somehow experienced a wonderful rebirth of his hope in the spring of 1824, an experience to which he gave eloquent expression in his great poem, "New Year's Morning.

  42. He was known as an "eloquent man, mighty in the Scriptures.

  43. Before he understood this eloquent language which the painter speaks, he misinterpreted those pictures whose significance he mistook to be literary and not pictorial.

  44. Every line in the face utters the character behind it; every movement of the body is eloquent of the man's whole being.

  45. John Pierpont, the eloquent preacher and poet of Boston.

  46. In spite of the eloquent defence made in his behalf by a young advocate, the tribunal condemned him to twenty years' hard labour.

  47. St. Peter's Gate, which adjoins the house of the Antonellis, was ornamented with a garland of human heads, which eloquent relics grinned dogmatically enough in their iron cages.

  48. Your Conciones ad populum are the most eloquent politics that ever came in my way.

  49. Your fine hare and fine birds (which just now are dangling by our kitchen blaze) discourse most eloquent music in your justification.

  50. Divine services were performed at the Capitol, and there was a dinner at Brown's Hotel, at which Daniel Webster prefaced the first toast in honor of the Father of his Country by an eloquent speech of an hour in length.

  51. Bailey's doorstep and made a eloquent appeal in behalf of a free press, concluding with a proposition that the assemblage go to the house of the Mayor of Washington and give him three cheers.

  52. Foster, in a brief but eloquent address, introduced the orator of the day.

  53. Another eloquent debater was Senator Lamar, of Mississippi, whose influence in molding public opinion at the South had been as healthy as it had been powerful.

  54. Carpenter concluded with an eloquent allusion to General Grant, as one first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen and of all mankind.

  55. Sergeant Smith Prentiss, who came to Washington during the Van Buren Administration to claim a seat in Congress as a Representative from Mississippi, was the most eloquent speaker that I have ever heard.

  56. He then read a brief but eloquent inaugural address.

  57. Under the eloquent pen of John Gilmary Shea the thrilling story of labour and martyrdom glows.

  58. As Leigh had named the qualities of Dora, one by one, Hanbury had felt that thrill which always goes through a man of eloquent emotions when listening to felicitous description.

  59. These eloquent women find it equally hard to please their little critic by silence or by speech.

  60. And so forth, and so forth; a brief, but eloquent address, of which it is to be regretted that no report exists.

  61. Godwin, in his eloquent Lectures on Colonial Slavery, quotes the following anecdote, as related by Mr. T.

  62. What eloquent vituperations we should pour forth, if the contending claims of nature and pride produced such a tissue of contradictions in some other country, and not in our own!

  63. Clarkson assisted by patient investigation of evidence; and Fox and Wilberforce by eloquent speeches.

  64. He then burst into a most eloquent panegyric of El Gran Lord, as he termed him, which I should be very happy to translate, were my pen capable of rendering into English the robust thundering sentences of his powerful Castilian.

  65. I have no doubt that your church members would respond with a liberal collection if you were to picture what you have seen here this afternoon in an eloquent public appeal.

  66. But with Judge Strong's assistance the fathers and mothers recognized their "golden opportunity" and took the step which the eloquent Judge assured them would result in a "glorious future.

  67. Harry frequently urged her to attend services; Deborah, when Hope had seen her was eloquent in his praise.

  68. See here, Doctor," he exclaimed, wheeling around in his chair and interrupting the old man's eloquent discourse.


  69. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eloquent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    articulate; clamorous; declamatory; elevated; eloquent; expressive; felicitous; fluent; glib; knowing; lofty; meaningful; moving; outspoken; pregnant; rhetorical; sententious; significant; silver; slick; smooth; speaking; talkative; talking; vivid; vocal