Why I have known the weather in this grandiloquent condition for a whole day.
You are greeted everywhere with grandiloquentor heroic utterances.
The action in its simple humanity is worth all the grandiloquent insolence of the saint and martyr Leovigildo mourned, in whose story virtue and sanctity are equally unevident.
They spoke of Pope's grandiloquent dispatches, and they wondered what had become of Lee and Jackson.
Susarion, the comic poet, makes this grandiloquent proclamation: "Hear, O ye people!
Similar expressions of opinion might be quoted from Quintilian, who describes his style "as sublime and weighty, and grandiloquent often to a fault, but in most of his compositions rude and wanting in order.
Besides, the grandiloquent plans for travel and success which I had so confidently outlined to Burton must be carried out.
Mitchill's Picture of New York, a grandiloquent work written by a prominent member of the Historical Society.
Barrès seeks to crown with the help of inflated, grandiloquent expressions is simply the well-known excitement that hoary sinners feel at the sight of the erotic exploits of others.
The whole passage is, of course, in parody of the grandiloquent style of Aeschylus.
To pass an idle life reeling off grandiloquent speeches and foolish quibbles, is the part of a madman.
I look on them as one of the famous proud bulletins for which your emperor is noted, and to whose overbearing and grandiloquent language all Europe is accustomed.
The house, in spite of its grandiloquent title, was of excessively shabby exterior.
Heath did so, and in a rather grandiloquentsummons called upon Fort Independence to surrender.
St. Leger, imitating the grandiloquent style of Burgoyne, again summoned the fort to surrender, but Colonel Gansevoort peremptorily refused.
The bombastic spread-eagle orator, the grandiloquent gas bag, the highfaluting stump speaker gain few verdicts and win small applause except from their clients.
When music in London came to life again, both Haydn and Salomon were much in evidence, but the Salomon concerts were now given under a more grandiloquent title, following the fashion of the time.
In the depth of mortal anguish, or at the climax of human joy, we do not use a grandiloquent and incomprehensible phraseology.
Mr. Chilvers loved to adorn his dainty discourses with certain words of strangely grandiloquent sound.
Vaunting, in the most grandiloquent language, her intelligence, glory and resources, she exhibits not a single evidence of that patriotic unity and order which would entitle her to domestic confidence and foreign respect.
Every effort was made by grandiloquent proclamations and false allegations to rally and nerve them; but whenever they crossed arms with our forces, if they failed in the onset, like lions foiled in their spring, they retreated to their lair.
It would seem that the grandiloquent dedications prevalent in those days had not escaped her youthful penetration.
I almost expected to see German words on the post-office and on the tobacco-shop, and the grandiloquent Spanish seemed out of place; I thought the Spanish clothes of the men sat upon them uneasily.
The man presented it to his partner with a grandiloquent flourish, and returned thanks in a speech which sent the Northern visitors into spasms of delight at the quaintness of the darky dialect and the darky wit.
With thisgrandiloquent subterfuge Carteret turned to his next article on white supremacy.
He was not the only man specially interested either; seniour councel on both sides had its grandiloquent eye on the new-comer, so to speak - interested to know how he would acquit himself.
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