At the Reformation in the 16th century Luther and his coadjutors, while projecting into the Protestant creed all the cardinal tenets of Catholicism, excepting that of Purgatory, made no change in the verbiage of the scriptures.
Putting aside the verbiage and dulled circumlocution and stiff hazy phraseology of pulpit etiquette and dignity, it went straight to its point.
Stripped of verbiage and repetition, his ideas are not many.
This species of verbiage is the earmark of all eighteenth-century poetry and poets; not only of those who used the classic couplet, but equally of the romanticizing group who adopted blank verse.
Yes, she would change her notes to say: "uncouth verbiage and slatternly dress are often assets in gaining information and are no hindrance in granting loyalty and devotion.
But against evils born of pure vanity and self-deception, against the verbiage by which man persuades himself that he is the goal and acme of the universe, laughter is the proper defence.
If pure music, even with its immense sensuous appeal, is so easily tedious, what a universal yawn must meet the verbiage which develops nothing but its own irridescence.
Nothing, however, can be fairer, or more amusing, than the way in which he sometimes exposes the unmeaning verbiage of modern poetry.
Skeptical in attitude, a cold listener, obviously impermeable to mere verbiage and affected by the logic of facts alone, he had a ruthless finger ready to poke into the interstices of a loosely-woven argument.
The value of Wilson's "verbiage drives" was questioned in this country.
In other days, before the language was crystallized into the verbiage and idiom of the doctrinaire, prose, too, was untrammelled.
Johnson's pious flim-flam, but the humours of his verbiage are in me, not in him.
Probably the most important question in preparing catalogue titles, is what space to give to the author's frequently long-drawn-out verbiage in his title-page.
The art of extracting what is important or instructive in any book, from the mass of verbiage that commonly overlays it, cannot be learned by theory.
Pages have been written about the ideal, defining it, in verbiage fatiguing and elusive.
Unconvincing verbiage apart, the only change which would take place would be a change of name.
But I am less interested in the verbiageof the Left Wing than in the idea of keeping ultimates everlastingly in the center of attention to the exclusion of mere puttering reforms.
Pedants are bred everywhere out of literature, and the variety in verbiageonce exhibited by some university men has been justly condemned.
The reign of mereverbiage passed away; the benefits of the universities had never ceased to be imparted the whole time.
This public is continually essaying samples of the drama of the high-brows and is continually being driven back from such dry, unprofitable verbiage to those theatres where there is humour, wit, charm and beauty.
They struggled for a little while, and then they succumbed to the worn verbiage of their age, from which it is sometimes no light task to disengage their thought.
And when the abounding verbiage has choked and suffocated the sense, the writer will be obliged to varnish over the mischief with all the false colouring of eloquence.
Hence the sternest education in the use of words is least of all to be gained in the schools, which cultivate verbiage in a highly artificial state of seclusion.
Where there is merely a column to fill, poverty of thought drives the hackney author into an illicit fulness, until the trick of verbiage passes from his practice into his creed, and makes him the dupe of his own puppets.
No verbiage can give it, because theverbiage is other.
There might, perhaps, have been a fuller adherence to the original language and expressions; but if so, what a world of verbiage must have been retained.
The Doctor attempted to speak, but his voice was soon drowned by the Stentorian lungs and tautological verbiage of his opponent.
The most illiterate and presumptuous of the fanatical preachers crowded round her bed, and by the canting verbiage of delusion strove to revive the raptures of enthusiasm.
