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Example sentences for "good speech"

  • John Russell brought his Bill in last night, in a good speech as his friends, and a dull one as his enemies, say.

  • The Duke of Fitzjames made a good speech in the Chamber of Peers, and Chateaubriand a very fine one a few days before, full of eloquence in support of the claim of the Duke of Bordeaux against that of Louis Philippe I.

  • Londonderry made a good speech in the House of Lords last night, gentlemanlike and temperate.

  • Melbourne made a good speech, and produced a surplus, but which the Duke of Wellington will take very good care to reduce again to nil.

  • Morpeth made a good speech, moving the amendment.

  • He invariably speaks well when a good speech is required from him, and this is upon every important question, for he gets no assistance from any of his colleagues, except now and then from Howick.

  • Peel made a good speech, and complimented John on his conduct.

  • Macaulay recovered his reputation on this occasion, and made a good speech.

  • Next to making a good speech, I'd like to be skilled in sleight-of-hand affairs.

  • When I hear a good speech I feel that I'd like to do as well; and, when I hear a poor one, I feel that I'd like to do better.

  • It may have started when I heard a good speech, somewhere, or, it may have started when I heard a poor one.

  • It might be said that one test of a good speech is the vividness with which its framework is discernible.

  • One is tempted to say that the test of a good speech, a well-prepared speech, is its conclusion.

  • But, argues my friend, a good indictment is a different thing from a good speech.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    aint agoin; good aunt; good cheere; good citizenship; good condition; good friend; good game; good ground; good humor; good husbandry; good instance; good lass; good lieutenant; good little; good lords; good memory; good mind; good mother; good news; good patriot; good purpose; good reading; good scholar; good sound; good system; good yeast