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Example sentences for "great speech"

  • However, everybody seems to agree that he made a great speech on the Public Worship Bill as a matter of oratory.

  • As usual, when contemplating making a great speech, he had a flower in his button-hole, and was dressed with unusual care.

  • The Cardinal then made a great speech, and was so obliging as to say that all was forgotten and forgiven, and that the kingdom was solemnly made Roman Catholic again.

  • COIFI, the chief priest of the old religion, made a great speech on the occasion.

  • On Friday last Peel made a great speech on Wood's statement in re the Bank Charter.

  • Peel warmly congratulated him, and he told Ellice it was not merely a good, it was a great speech.

  • Mr. Sumner's great speech, however, by no means ended the debate.

  • He declared in a great speech in the Senate that "slavery is a good, a positive good.

  • Sidenote: =Walks to the capitol on the arm of a friend=] One day Clay made a great speech in favor of his Compromise.

  • The New York Tribune said:-- “Mr. Sumner concluded yesterday a great speech on the true basis of a Republic.

  • Brougham made a great speech on education the other night, but it was so long, tedious, and digressive that he drove everybody away.

  • Daniel Webster's great speech in 1830: "The North was now beginning to insist upon a national government; the South was continuing to insist upon the original understanding of the Constitution; that was all.

  • It was not a great speech,--a series of calm, unimpassioned statements in which clearness of phrase and absolute abstention from aggressive attack upon his opponents were the most marked characteristics.

  • That was indeed a great speech of my father's," he said.

  • His distinguished adversary had composed a great speech to be delivered on the occasion.

  • Pate is going to make a great speech," said Tom Seddon, as Pate drew from his pocket a number of papers and laid them on a stump which he used as a table.

  • Your own lawyer, who has made a great speech, and gained our case?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great assembly; great assistance; great concourse; great estate; great expedition; great expense; great favourite; great feast; great festival; great flood; great happiness; great heat; great impulse; great literary; great many; great mass; great profit; great reader; great spiritual; great storm; great throng; great tournament; great weakness; great wisdom; great woman; least one