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Example sentences for "expatiates"

Lexicographically close words:
expansive; expansively; expansiveness; expatiate; expatiated; expatiating; expatiation; expatriate; expatriated; expatriates
  1. Footnote 81: Ausonius (in Gratiarum Actione) basely expatiates on this unworthy topic, which is managed by Mamertinus (Panegyr.

  2. In a pompous oration pronounced by Constantius himself, he expatiates on his own exploits with much vanity, and some truth] Chapter XIX: Constantius Sole Emperor.

  3. The latter expatiates on the desultory exploits of Sebastian, and despatches, in a few lines, the important battle of Hadrianople.

  4. Julian, in several places of the two orations, expatiates on the clemency of Constantius to the rebels.

  5. He repeatedly expatiates on the liberality of the Christian hero, which the bishop himself had an opportunity of knowing, and even of lasting.

  6. Sanchez, expatiates on this, and condemns the Jesuit; Catilina Cethegum.

  7. He describes her character, execrates the author of her misfortunes, expatiates on the severity of her fate, the rites of sepulture denied her in a foreign land.

  8. The soul, uneasy, and confined from[1016] home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

  9. The Poet expatiates on the Beauty of Delia's Hair 3.

  10. In the same letter he wrote: The soul, uneasy and confined, at home Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

  11. Caesar then expatiates on the contemptuous way the poor are 'huffed, and cuffed, and disrespecket.

  12. Expatiates on the advantages of having the leading-straps short.

  13. I have shown by a specimen how Brown, working from his diaries of the tour, expatiates on his and his companion's enthusiasm over the romantic scenes they visited.

  14. Josephus expatiates on the terrible suffering, and again and again he denounces the iniquity of the Zealots, who continued the resistance.

  15. The soul of the Christian, conscious of the emptiness of all things here, rests and expatiates in a life to come.

  16. Footnote 69: Busbequius expatiates with pleasure and applause on the rights of war, and the use of slavery, among the ancients and the Turks, (de Legat.

  17. They are elegies on the deaths of private persons, a subject on which Malherbe expatiates with the utmost dignity and solemnity.

  18. Thus, while Malherbe expatiates to Peiresc about queens and princes, he tells us nothing, or next to nothing, about the literary life in which we know that he made so disconcerting a figure.

  19. David expatiates on the dreadful scene: 'He was a worm and no man, a very scorn of men and the outcast of the people.

  20. The evangelistic animals are well known:-- Saint Matthew, who expatiates on the subject of the Incarnation and sets forth the human genealogy of the Messiah, is symbolized by a man.

  21. Thou to whom grace vouchsafes, or ere thy close Of fleshly warfare, to behold the thrones Of that eternal triumph, know to us The light communicated, which through heaven Expatiates without bound.

  22. On that splendor "apud exteras gentes," he expatiates in one of his attacks upon Verres.

  23. When defending Cluentius, he expatiates on the glorious privileges of the Roman Senate.

  24. In his next letter to Mr. Temple, written on the 2nd of April, Boswell further expatiates on his melancholy.

  25. But he did not confine himself within the remoter limit; and his second volume, especially, expatiates on the dark ages that succeeded the fall of the Roman empire.

  26. But thence passing over to what he calls inversi Sileni, those who seem great to the vulgar, and are really despicable, he expatiates on kings and priests, whom he seems to hate with the fury of a modern philosopher.

  27. Wood expatiates on what he thought the glorious age of the university.

  28. The Levites had charge of the public religious services of the temple, especially of its music; and the fullness with which this writer expatiates upon all this part of the ritual shows that it was very dear to his heart.

  29. When the line of the instruction goes through the separating veil and expatiates in the unseen eternity, it must become dim and indistinct to our vision.

  30. Baber expatiates on the grain and fruit and game of its northern parts; of the tulips, violets, and roses of another portion of it; of the streams and gardens of another.

  31. Here they meet with the spirits of heroes and philosophers of antiquity, on whom the author expatiates at some length.

  32. For some time he seems to have made money as a [Greek: rhetor], following the example of Demosthenes, on whose merits and patriotism he expatiates in the dialogue Demosthenis Encomium.


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