We finished our soiree with an extemporaneousball that lasted all night.
To Potemkin belongs the honour of having been the first to play off these mystifications, when he got up extemporaneous villages and herds of cattle all along the road travelled by Catherine II.
The something "left out" of Webster's reported argument was, of course, his extemporaneous and emotional peroration described by Goodrich.
When Marshall appeared in the adjoining room, where the company was gathered, he was asked for an extemporaneous rhyme on the word "paradox.
He was an admirable extemporaneous speaker in the best sense, and he then and there gave me a bit of advice which proved of real value.
My courses of lectures; President Tappan's advice on extemporaneous speaking; publication of my syllabus; ensuing relations with Charles Sumner.
In regard to religious legislation--the raising of temples, arrangement of sacrifices, &c.
Seven full-lunged voices burst forth into a howling song, while twice as many feet thumped and tapped and pranced and pounded in the mazes of an extemporaneous jig.
Now my history which is to astonish the world to-morrow will doubtless glitter with extemporaneous wit which has cost me two weeks of meditation.
He then burst forth into what Edward justly supposed to be an extemporaneous effusion of thanks and praises of his Chief.
Besides his Arthurian work he translated Ovid, and wrote some short poems.
By the very earliest years of the twelfth century, and probably much earlier (though we have no certain evidence of this latter fact), documents of all kinds began to be written in verse of various forms.
Ladies went to a private room and repaired their damaged wardrobe with pins and other extemporaneous contrivances, known of them alone.
When they want to make a full turn-out, the places of any missing members are filled by extemporaneous volunteers.
Webster was a smart man and a good extemporaneous speaker.
This party consisted of one hundred and two people of a resolute character who wished to worship God in a more extemporaneous manner than had been the custom in the Church of England.
They were composed in the Oscan dialect, and were at first rude extemporaneous farces, but were afterward divided into acts like a regular drama.
An extemporaneous red ink of the same kind may be made by dissolving carmine in weak water of ammonia, and adding a little mucilage.
This extemporaneous compound is now seldom or never made by respectable manufacturers.
No loaf bread can, indeed, be well made by any of these two extemporaneous systems, because they are inconsistent with the thorough kneading of the dough.
The wood always contracts a mouldy smell; and the difficulty and nuisance of keeping them water-tight, and preventing shrinkage, are such as to exclude them from all except extemporaneous application.
Few of them would trust themselves to extemporaneous speaking.
While thoroughly prepared, the speech was in a way extemporaneousto meet calls or objections.
Even when one is accustomed to extemporaneous prayer, the use of one of the above books will, nevertheless, be of great service in preventing stereotyped phrases and trains of thought.
Let the extemporaneous prayer, or the printed form of prayer, be used judiciously, as circumstances require.
Another reason why I cannot laugh at it is this: I am not a very easy and extemporaneous laughter, anyway.
It is true that in his European journey he developed a facility in extemporaneous after-dinner speaking or occasional addresses, that was a surprise even to his intimate friends.
Occasionally with quizzical humor he interjected anextemporaneous sentence in French, to the great satisfaction of his audience.
Of or pertaining to improvisation or extemporaneous composition.
To produce or render extemporaneous compositions, especially in verse or in music, without previous preparation; hence, to do anything offhand.
Something made or done offhand, at the moment, or without previous study; an extemporaneous composition, address, or remark.
It enters into the composition of extemporaneoussoda and Seidlitz waters.
As anextemporaneous player, perhaps no pianist has ever lived who could surpass Moscheles.
Sometimes she would seat herself at her instrument and begin an improvisation, and Viotti, seizing his violin, would join in the performance, and in a series of extemporaneous passages display his great powers to the delight of all present.
A very little blaze sets the piece of cold fat swimming, and the black cavity soon glows and splutters with extemporaneous content.
Garay was so rejoiced that he sacrificed a pig, which was served upon this extemporaneous platter, and he boasted that there was no such dish in Europe.
The sermon was as extemporaneous as the prayer, if any thing can come extempore from a mind so drilled and fortified in opinion.
And now let me say how he came to be anextemporaneous speaker, and sometimes not only logical and convincing, but truly eloquent.
It was in this club that Mr. Pierpont first tried himself--and the brethren--with extemporaneous speaking.
I have already said that Mr. Pierpont had no aptitude for extemporaneous speaking; and what was even worse, he had no hope of being able to overcome the difficulty.
Nichols, who labored under a similar disqualification, owing to a similar misapprehension of what was required for extemporaneous speaking, either on the platform or in the pulpit.
It gives clearness, force, precision, beauty, and copiousness of style, so valuable in extemporaneous and impromptu speaking.
