With a polyglot Testament in one hand and a phrase-book in the other, he groped his way among the speakers of eleven European languages.
At present any marked variation from the practice of educated English speakers might, if it were common to a considerable number of persons, be described as dialectal.
The practical sense of the speakers controlled and balanced these disruptive factors.
The readiness of English speakers to adopt words from foreign languages becomes marked in fourteenth-century writings.
Some of our speakers may not have known this as well as I.
We have speakers now at work all over the State, their audiences and reception are enthusiastic, and their most radical utterances in favor of woman are the most kindly received and gain them the most applause.
We have allotted the time to be divided as the speakers may desire among themselves.
The other speakerswill give their thought from the standpoint of their respective States.
The voices grew louder as I listened--the speakers were nearing me.
The dialogue lasted for ten minutes, thespeakers at intervals glancing towards us; but we knew the theme, and patiently awaited the issue.
We saw the chief wave his hand--as a signal that the conversation was ended; and the speakers parted.
The speakers are approaching me--the voices reach me, as if rising out of the ground beneath my feet!
The speakers were to be President Hayes, General Grant, General Sherman, Mr. Evarts, and General Sheridan.
One of the principal speakers was an educator of high standing and considerable influence in one of the most important sections of the United States.
There was a reel and there were sound-speakers to keep the ship from sounding like a grave.
The reel played and the speakers gave off minute creakings, and meaningless hums, and very tiny noises of every imaginable sort, all of which were just above the threshold of the inaudible.
How did the first speakers of the human race come to be obliged to call lifeless things by names connoting sex, and therefore connoting, not only activity, but also life and personality?
The monk stood between the twospeakers as between two volcanoes in eruption; he crossed his hands humbly upon his breast, and cried, "Have mercy!
The dance had ceased during this conversation, and the speakers were now walking slowly to and fro the lawn amid the general crowd.
With the speakers very often, yes; but with the strife between the speakers, no.
In one county, I remember, the principal speakers were three lawyers of no very great weight except in a time of excitement.
It was a very large gathering, and some fifty ladies were on the seats in front of the platform, on which were the officers and speakers of the meeting.
I am not certain that I shall not see some Order naming itself from the Golden Violet of the Troubadours or the like, and having among its members none but well-taught and well-mannered speakers who will keep the new art from disrepute.
Her splendid eloquence, always at our service, has seldom been matched, and has never been surpassed by any of the innumerable speakers of the movement.
In one case, Ben Tillett at West Bradford, the Society took an active part in the election, sending speakers and collecting £152 for the Returning Officer's expenses.
Luxurious was once used, to some extent at least, in the sense of rank growth, but now all careful writers and speakers use it in the sense of indulging or delighting in luxury.
Careful speakers make small use of commence in any sense; they prefer to use its Saxon equivalent, begin.
Writers and speakers often fail to discriminate properly between the respective meanings of these two verbs.
Now it will be found that the practice of our most idiomatic writers andspeakers is to prefer that to who in this application.
Correct speakers say, "I should go to town to-morrow if I had a horse.
From the greater emphasis of singularity, energetic speakers and writers sometimes use 'I' as representative of mankind at large.
What will the reader imagine to be the subject on which speakers like these exercise their eloquence?
In vain did journals and speakers of the opposition represent him as a lightminded trifler, who amused himself with frivolous story-telling and coarse jokes, while the blood of the people was flowing in streams.
The gesticulations of many speakers have this same function, being frequently of great service in arousing more nervous energy, which goes back to the brain and arouses more ideas.
Numerous examples of this are found in the literature of history and biography; many actors, speakers and singers habitually fast before public performances.
No one would assert that Mr. Roosevelt possesses that persuasive grace of oratory which made Mr. Gladstone one of the greatest public speakers of modern times.
For eighty-one years your speakers have been accustomed to make the toast announced the point from which they start, but to which they never return.
A large number of the most distinguished speakers of this country and Great Britain have selected their own best speeches for this Library.
Now, we speakers to-night cannot expect to be received with any vast ebullition of boisterous enthusiasm here, for we understand that every member pays for his own wine.
I know it is always more gratifying to an audience for speakers to be able to assure them, in the outset of their remarks, that they are here without notes; but such is not my case.
It is that rare and peculiar privilege which you cannot expect to enjoy in a New England Society even when Mr. Choate addresses you--the privilege of never being able to understand a word that is said by the speakers after dinner.
He seemed to be looking at each one of these alleged speakers and saying of him: "Therefore, I'll watch him till he be dieted to my request and then I will set upon him.
They looked unutterable things at me, as much as to say that at New England dinners I would find the speakers could not be otherwise than high-toned.
Underwood, said in introducing Mr. Read, "It is very seldom that the Sunset Club discharges itsspeakers in batteries of four, but something is due to the speakers.
I ventured to say to the committee that, this being such a large room, some of your speakers might not have a high enough tone of voice to be heard at the other end.
A few of the speakers favored a modest frame building, but a majority thought a log one better suited to their means.
The contrast in felicity of expression between the British and the Continental speakers was very striking, though the latter had no advantage in other respects.
On the programme there will be speakers representing the Unions, missionaries from the field, and speakers of note.
The place of the meeting was a grove in the edge of the town, the speakers occupying an improvised stand.
He had been for years carefully and thoroughly trained on the stump, in Congress, and in the Senate, to meet in debate the ablest speakers in the State and Nation.
In those days he was not so famous in our part of the State as the two speakers whom I have named.
At the Ogle County meeting to which I refer, Lincoln led off, the raciest speakers being reserved for the latter part of the political entertainment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "speakers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
