The impassive coldness of the croupier as he pronounced his habitual exordium seemed to move the old man's impatience, as he rattled his fingers hurriedly among the gold and muttered some broken words of German between his teeth.
General Grosvenor commences with an exordium eloquent in succinctness and noble in generosity.
See the exordiumto the second Book, where it appears that the gentle poet caressed a vain hope that the peace of Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century was destined to revive chivalry.
This exordium makes one regret that the painter of the young knight in our National Gallery (Giorgione?
I am persuaded that I could not have uttered three sentences, if he had caught my eye in the exordium of this my first harangue.
There is a singular power in that pithy summons of the exordium to the preface of the Mass--“Sursum Corda.
May 4 he remarks in a letter to Luther: "I have shaped the Exordium of our Apology somewhat more rhetorical (hretorikoteron) than I had written it at Coburg.
Voltaire (I think, in his treatise on Epic Poetry) has noticed the multitude of o's in the exordium of the Jerusalem.
Even where his exordium is almost worthy of comparison, as in the funeral discourse on Turenne, we find him degenerate into a trivial eulogy, and he flatters both more profusely and with less skill.
Patru does not even employ the exordium usual in speeches, but rushes instantaneously, though always perspicuously, into his statement of the case.
It is contained in certain words in the exordium of the Fourth Gospel: "That [Word] was the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
Of course, I do not for a moment believe that the Apostle was enabled to write the exordium of his Gospel by any such inspiration.
The disciples, most of them in full uniform, went up and down the steps calmly, and the wordy exordium on the cardinal virtues went on and on.
And now at last that wordyexordium must be over, for, along the garden path, came the clank of accouterments.
His long exordium was devoted to a consideration of the royal and the sacerdotal authority, each of which he in turn extolled.
It was made the occasion of "charitable rebuke" and then of formal complaint against Roussel by his fellow canons, that he failed to repeat the angelic salutation, according to the orthodox practice, after the exordium of his sermon.
We began with the exordium of this great work: we must not withhold the conclusion.
They wed, and she becomes the purest gem of the court of Guinevere, her place in which is described in the beautiful exordium of the poem.
Where sitting by her bedside he began his exordium with so many tears and sighs, that she, perceiving the extremity of his sorrows, began now as a lover to pity them, although Ganymede held her from redressing them.
Tullius, of which the exordium and narrative were brought to light at the late celebrated discovery by Mai, in the Ambrosian library at Milan.
For its exordium Keats uses a line, and probably a whole passage, which he had written many months before and kept by him.
But I thought the present opportunity not to be slighted, for some little opening, that might lighten the task of the exordiumupon the day of attempt.
It was all in answer to Mr. Burke's general exordium and attack.
In the very exordiumof it there was something eminently absurd in the Serjeant's extraordinarily precise, almost mincing pronunciation.
This high-sounding exordium promised the rights of popular sovereignty; but in practice the makers of the Constitution, fearing the passions of the multitude as much as the tyranny of kings, deemed it wise to keep power in the hands of a few.
Evidently this style of exordium was no novelty to Pete, for without apparently paying the least attention to it, he went on surlily packing his master's valise.
