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Example sentences for "speechifying"

Lexicographically close words:
spedy; speech; speeche; speeched; speeches; speechless; speechlesse; speechlessly; speechlessness; speechmaking
  1. The sympathy of his compatriots is to him worse than the doctor's medicines, and those who had often heard him speechifying exchanged significant looks when he passed.

  2. For while warming himself on the flames of knowledge in the cellar, or rioting with the Bassarides of Bohemia, or canvassing and speechifying for Tammany, he little thought of what he had deserted in his native country.

  3. Some Radical fellow speechifying at Middlemarch said Casaubon was the learned straw-chopping incumbent, and Freke was the brick-and-mortar incumbent, and I was the angling incumbent.

  4. Pray pity him: so many English gentlemen make themselves miserable by speechifying on entirely private grounds!

  5. He knew the Indian love of speechifying would be too strong in their hunter guests to let him off.

  6. Now," thought Wilfred, "while all this talking and speechifying is abroad, I may get a chance to reach the fort unobserved.

  7. They generally broke up at sundown; but if it was something of unusual interest and urgency, they went on speechifying in the dark, or in the moonlight, and might not adjourn till long after midnight.

  8. Amid all this feasting the speechifying went on.

  9. But there ain't much working done for quite a spell but, instead, a lot of general speechifying and explaining betwixt this one and that one.

  10. Before I has been speechifying to him more than a minute I can tell he's getting interested and he begs me for to continue.

  11. The speechifying and fuss on these occasions generally wastes plenty of time, and the public reception is not thought likely to meet the new squire much before the end of the month.

  12. Anyway, whenever we came to the matter of the speechifying (whether they touched it first or I), down I fell in their estimation the first of those three steps I told you of just now.

  13. Speechifying is the crying and prominent vice of the age.

  14. A man in a blouse, with his hat on his head, mounted on a kerbstone, was speechifying and glorifying the coup d'état.

  15. A Legitimist member muttered in a low voice to his neighbor, "One might imagine he was a bailiff speechifying at a wedding.

  16. I was unusually well, looked and felt bright, and really after a while enjoyed it, though I was always glad when my share in the speechifying was over.


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