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  • M. Krempe had now commenced an eulogy on himself, which happily turned the conversation from a subject that was so annoying to me.   (source)
    eulogy = long expression of praise
  • Ty gave the eulogy.†   (source)
  • After a while, I sit at a table near the front of the room, facing the flower-strewn altar that'll soon be occupied with a line of people reading their eulogies to my brother.†   (source)
  • He began a rambling eulogy of what he called "Frog crumpet"—how plentiful, how available, how delicious.†   (source)
  • She introduces herself to Panem, identifies herself as the head of the rebellion, and then gives my eulogy.†   (source)
  • In a eulogy two friends said Ferris had "miscalculated his powers of endurance, and he died a martyr to his ambition for fame and prominence."†   (source)
  • Eulogies of German leaders, denunciations of traitors and saboteurs, appeals for the unity of the "Nordic peoples."†   (source)
  • He followed by singing a haunting eulogy in a minor key.†   (source)
  • The classmates of the five dead children had transformed the pavement into a tapestry of spray-painted eulogies.†   (source)
  • Another time, in a misprint he hadn't caught, Roberto's article had stated that Senator Smathers had delivered an elegy, instead of a eulogy, of Trujillo before the joint members of the United States Congress.†   (source)
  • Your eulogy would've been hard to write.†   (source)
  • The principal did not just identify the bodies; he also gave a little one-or two-sentence eulogy each time.†   (source)
  • The woman read the stock report like a eulogy.†   (source)
  • Pastor Harris gave the eulogy.†   (source)
  • The memorial service was a blur to me—hymns, prayers, readings from the Bible, words from Brother Ron, and a eulogy.†   (source)
  • In the eulogy Heath Vance said, "Whether it was a game called wall ball we played as kids or training as a Navy SEAL or being a husband to his wife, a father to his kids, he defined commitment.†   (source)
  • Jerene's brother, Pastor Lane Doerring, gave a eulogy, in which he added an appropriate twist to Christa's favorite movie's most famous line.†   (source)
  • The State Legislature stood in recess; Governor Ernest W. McFarland gave the eulogy.†   (source)
  • Behind us lies a salty sea within which swim our drowning specks of memory—our small waterlogged eulogies.†   (source)
  • Most notably, Cedric would have to give one of the eulogies.†   (source)
  • Vlad mused that he'd like Henry to give his eulogy.†   (source)
  • They realize that no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.†   (source)
  • I do not want anyone to attempt a eulogy.†   (source)
  • When a minister at Newburyport, in a rapturous eulogy spoke of Washington as the "savior" of the country, she turned indignant.†   (source)
  • As I bowed my head, I realized: That was my father's entire eulogy.†   (source)
  • She intoned the words as if she were reciting a eulogy.†   (source)
  • Brother Belie Jones didn't give any eulogy, but he asked God to comfort the young widow and raise the baby in the Bosom of the Lamb, and then he read Scriptures for an hour.†   (source)
  • It was a dull, excruciating affair with insufferable long-winded eulogies.†   (source)
  • Maybe delivered the eulogy, that'd be the kicker.†   (source)
  • Caroline had contacted Ma's best friend, a woman named Katie Lowe, to give the eulogy.†   (source)
  • Cotton offered up a fine eulogy to his young friend and recited a few examples from a storyteller he said he much admired: Jimmy "Diamond" Skinner.†   (source)
  • When I opened my eyes, which were fairly wet, I saw that everyone in the room had the same expression, one of those sad-but-happy ones that you see when there's a good memory or joke shared in a eulogy or when your grandparents talk about their childhoods.†   (source)
  • The day after reading Blobb's Peregrinations she, with Bortz, Grace, and the graduate students, attended Randolph Driblette's burial, listened to a younger brother's helpless, stricken eulogy, watched the mother, spectral in afternoon smog, cry, and came back at night to sit on the grave and drink Napa Valley muscatel, which Driblette in his time had put away barrels of.†   (source)
  • Social life, whether it was the crowning of a May queen, the eulogy to a dead president, or an all-night dance, could be held nowhere else.†   (source)
  • She didn't name those famous ladies; instead she was specific, in Nevian eulogy that would have startled Francois Villon.†   (source)
  • —Edmund Burke's eulogy of Charles James Fox for his attack upon the tyranny of the East India Company — House of Commons, December 1, 1783.†   (source)
  • Then I walked up to the podium and unfolded the piece of paper on which I'd printed my eulogy.†   (source)
  • Hey, you're stealing my eulogy," Isaac said.†   (source)
  • He wanted me to write him a eulogy, okay?†   (source)
  • Also, if it's not too much trouble, please prepare a eulogy.†   (source)
  • I do not want anyone to attempt a eulogy.†   (source)
  • Simple truth is his best, his greatest eulogy.†   (source)
  • In her story, the Tribune's Elson described the eulogy at Holy Rosary Church.†   (source)
  • No organ-piped dirges, no whispered prayers, no eulogy.†   (source)
  • Webster's eulogy, delivered at Faneuil Hal] on August 2, lasted two hours.†   (source)
  • At Seth's instructions, there were no eulogies.†   (source)
  • All I wanted was an old-fashioned Teenager Walkout, wherein I stomp out of the room and slam the door to my bedroom and turn up The Hectic Glow and furiously write a eulogy.†   (source)
  • I don't want to ask you any favors, but if you have time—and from what I saw, you have plenty—I was wondering if you could write a eulogy for Hazel.†   (source)
  • I checked everywhere: under the chairs, around the lectern I'd stood behind while delivering my eulogy, under the treat table, on the bulletin board packed with Sunday school kids' drawings of God's love.†   (source)
  • Genevieve joined Charles Howard in the center of the paddock to hear a eulogy delivered by Joe Hernandez, the man who first called Woolf "Iceman."†   (source)
  • It also took no great figuring to see that to deliver a eulogy for a convent full of crazy, old, overweight nuns was no way to endear herself to her peers.†   (source)
  • If you ask me today what the reverend said, or what Missy's brother said in his eulogy, I couldn't tell you.†   (source)
  • The following month, Greg Mortenson purchased the first good suit he'd ever owned in his life and gave a eulogy to a crowd of Hoerni's family and former colleagues gathered for a memorial service at the Stanford University Chapel, at the heart of the Silicon Valley culture Hoerni helped to create.†   (source)
  • During the eulogy I tried to remain strong, but completely lost control after Harold's light oak casket was lowered.†   (source)
  • A gentleman whom I later learned had met Mother a few times and worked part-time as a golf pro, gave Mother's eulogy.†   (source)
  • In the weeks and months that followed, eulogies to Adams and Jefferson were delivered in all parts of the country, and largely in the spirit that their departure should not be seen as a mournful event.†   (source)
  • The last of the ringing eulogies to _Adams and Jefferson was not deliv-ered until October of 1826, when Attorney General William Wirt addressed Congress in Washington, speaking longer even than Webster had.†   (source)
  • When he was warned not to deliver his great eulogy in appreciation of that foe of slavery, John Quincy Adams, he refused to heed such warnings.†   (source)
  • His memorable eulogy of Sumner was Lucius Lamar's first opportunity to demonstrate a new kind of Southern statesmanship.†   (source)
  • Two weeks after the Sumner eulogy, Carl Schurz of Missouri rose before ten thousand citizens of Boston and hailed Lamar as the prophet of a new day in the relations between North and South.†   (source)
  • And Lucius Lamar, known in the prewar days as one of the most rabid "fire-eaters" ever to come out of the deep South, was standing on the floor of the House and delivering a moving eulogy lamenting his departure!†   (source)
  • Sumner's death, and the invitation of Representative Hoar of Massachusetts to pronounce the eulogy, furnished the ideal occasion for which Lamar had long waited to hold out the hand of friendship to the North.†   (source)
  • SENATOR WILLIAM PITT FESSENDEN of Maine, in a eulogy delivered upon the death of Senator Foot of Vermont in 1866, two years before Senator Fessenden's vote to acquit Andrew Johnson brought about the fulfillment of his own prophecy.†   (source)
  • Mississippians, on the whole, came either to understand and admire the sentiments of the Sumner eulogy, to respect Lamar's sincerity if they did not admire it, or to forgive him for what they considered to be one serious error of judgment if they were strongly opposed to it.†   (source)
  • It is heartening to note that the people of Mississippi continued their support of him, in spite of the fact that on three important occasions—in his eulogy of Charles Sumner, in his support of the Electoral Commission which brought about the election of the Republican Hayes and in his excep-tion to their strongly felt stand for free silver—Lamar had stood against their immediate wishes.†   (source)
  • James Blaine, when his tears were dry, was to write of the Sumner eulogy that "it was a mark of positive genius in a Southern representative to pronounce a fervid and discriminating eulogy upon Mr. Sumner, and skillfully interweave with it a defense of that which Mr. Sumner, like John Wesley, believed to be the sum of all villainies " Southerners to whom Charles Sumner symbolized the worst of the prewar Abolitionist movement and the postwar reconstruction felt betrayed.†   (source)
  • D-d-don't worry about his f-f-fighting," said Luke, in a rush of eulogy.†   (source)
  • …woman who even in his (Quentin's) father's youth had already established (even if not affirmed) herself as the town's and the county's poetess laureate by issuing to the stern and meagre subscription list of the county newspaper poems, ode eulogy and epitaph, out of some bitter and implacable reserve of undefeat; and these from a woman whose family's martial background as both town and county knew consisted of the father who, a conscientious objector on religious grounds, had starved…†   (source)
  • He was taking the course in electrical engineering, the whole direction of his life had been thus shaped by Gant's eulogies, years before, of the young electrical expert, Liddell.†   (source)
  • Startled at the abrupt switching from the eulogy to herself, Scarlett went red with embarrassment as all eyes turned toward her.†   (source)
  • You can thus get the humans to accept as rhetorical eulogies of "being in love" what were in fact plain descriptions of the real significance of sexual intercourse.†   (source)
  • He could hear and feel every movement of the plane, and he heard also, with mixed feelings, Mallinson's eulogy of himself.†   (source)
  • She paused, as if rehearsing her eulogy, but her face remained dissatisfied.†   (source)
  • Stillwell always prefaced his eulogy with an apologetic statement that Stewart had gone to the bad.†   (source)
  • There are the Records of the Philosophical Societies, and the public Eulogies of Great Men!†   (source)
  • And who pronounced our glowing eulogy in Parliament?†   (source)
  • Mr. Micawber then delivered a warm eulogy on Traddles.†   (source)
  • Is it a glowing eulogy or an accusation of levity?†   (source)
  • Burn was generous in his eulogy, but he created consternation in Tom's breast by concluding, "Wait till you try peggin' out a hide!"†   (source)
  • The school magazine recorded the distinctions he achieved year after year, and when he got his double first Dr. Fleming himself wrote a few words of eulogy on the front page.†   (source)
  • …brother, so much injured, and to whom he was so much indebted, had suddenly arrived in his native kingdom, even the distinctions pointed out by Fitzurse did not altogether remove the Prince's apprehensions; and while, with a short and embarrassed eulogy upon his valour, he caused to be delivered to him the war-horse assigned as the prize, he trembled lest from the barred visor of the mailed form before him, an answer might be returned, in the deep and awful accents of Richard the…†   (source)
  • Gringoire was forced to content himself with this eulogy; for a thunder of applause, mingled with a prodigious acclamation, cut their conversation short.†   (source)
  • She often chatted with Passepartout, who did not fail to perceive the state of the lady's heart; and, being the most faithful of domestics, he never exhausted his eulogies of Phileas Fogg's honesty, generosity, and devotion.†   (source)
  • Receiving an encouraging answer, she condensed the narrative of her life into a few scanty words about herself and a glowing eulogy upon her father; and Flora took it all in with a natural tenderness that quite understood it, and in which there was no incoherence.†   (source)
  • Bob had not been aware of the injurious opinion for which Maggie was performing an inward act of penitence, but he smiled with pleasure at this handsome eulogy,—especially from a young lass who, as he informed his mother that evening, had "such uncommon eyes, they looked somehow as they made him feel nohow."†   (source)
  • But when I know that it was by your special request, of course I must take his eulogy with a grain of salt.†   (source)
  • "I regretted it especially," he resumed, taking the usual course from detraction to insincere eulogy, "because of my gratitude and respect towards my cousin.†   (source)
  • Chapter Eleven He had recently read a eulogy on a new method for curing club-foot, and as he was a partisan of progress, he conceived the patriotic idea that Yonville, in order to keep to the fore, ought to have some operations for strephopody or club-foot.†   (source)
  • If we listen to their eulogies, we shall hear that nothing is more praiseworthy than to exchange the pure and homely pleasures which even the poor man tastes in his own country for the dull delights of prosperity under a foreign sky; to leave the patrimonial hearth and the turf beneath which his forefathers sleep; in short, to abandon the living and the dead in quest of fortune.†   (source)
  • We may easily seem ridiculous in our eulogy of courtesy, whenever we insist on benevolence as its foundation.†   (source)
  • " "Do you know," said Franz, "I have a very great inclination to judge for myself of the truth or exaggeration of your eulogies."†   (source)
  • The words were connected by no regular continuation, but as one ceased another took up the eulogy, or lamentation, whichever it might be called, and gave vent to her emotions in such language as was suggested by her feelings and the occasion.†   (source)
  • He launched into a eulogy of his Eminence, and said that he should not have failed to enter into the Guards of the cardinal instead of the king's Guards if he had happened to know M. de Cavois instead of M. de Treville.†   (source)
  • I am not in a position to express my feeling toward Mr. Casaubon: it would be at best a pensioner's eulogy."†   (source)
  • Thereupon a eulogy of the marvellous fish, with a thousand delicate allusions to the young betrothed of Marguerite of Flanders, then sadly cloistered in at Amboise, and without a suspicion that Labor and Clergy, Nobility and Merchandise had just made the circuit of the world in his behalf.†   (source)
  • But the streak of irritation and hostile triumph seemed to melt for a little while into purer fatherly pride and pleasure, when, Tom's health having been proposed, and uncle Deane having taken occasion to say a few words of eulogy on his general character and conduct, Tom himself got up and made the single speech of his life.†   (source)
  • "My dear vicomte," returned Monte Cristo, "I do not see, in all I have done, anything that merits, either from you or these gentlemen, the pretended eulogies I have received.†   (source)
  • The two Frenchmen did their best to prove that if circumstances might overshadow, they could not really obscure, the national talent for conversation, and M. Ledoux delivered a neat little eulogy on poor Bellegarde, whom he pronounced the most charming Englishman he had ever known.†   (source)
  • It is pleasant to know that a new ministry just come into office are not the only fellow-men who enjoy a period of high appreciation and full-blown eulogy; in many respectable families throughout this realm, relatives becoming creditable meet with a similar cordiality of recognition, which in its fine freedom from the coercion of any antecedents, suggests the hopeful possibility that we may some day without any notice find ourselves in full millennium, with cockatrices who have ceased…†   (source)
  • To survive Mr. Glegg, and talk eulogistically of him as a man who might have his weaknesses, but who had done the right thing by her, not-withstanding his numerous poor relations; to have sums of interest coming in more frequently, and secrete it in various corners, baffling to the most ingenious of thieves (for, to Mrs. Glegg's mind, banks and strong-boxes would have nullified the pleasure of property; she might as well have taken her food in capsules); finally, to be looked up to by…†   (source)
  • / Terms of Approbation and Eulogy…. by Elise L. Warnock, /Dialect Notes/, vol. iv, part 1, 1913.†   (source)
  • Eulogy in a country churchyard it ought to be that poem of whose is it Wordsworth or Thomas Campbell.†   (source)
  • His project meanwhile was very favourably entertained by his auditors and won hearty eulogies from all though Mr Dixon of Mary's excepted to it, asking with a finicking air did he purpose also to carry coals to Newcastle.†   (source)
  • My wish would be simply to present it to thee plain and unadorned, without any embellishment of preface or uncountable muster of customary sonnets, epigrams, and eulogies, such as are commonly put at the beginning of books.†   (source)
  • There is, doubtless, a striking absurdity in supposing that a right of this kind does not exist, but we are reduced to the dilemma either of embracing that supposition, preposterous as it may seem, or of contravening or explaining away a provision, which has been of late a repeated theme of the eulogies of those who oppose the new Constitution; and the want of which, in that plan, has been the subject of much plausible animadversion, and severe criticism.†   (source)
  • …before observed in her. for we always conversed, whenever good fortune and my ingenuity gave us the chance, with the greatest gaiety and cheerfulness, mingling tears, sighs, jealousies, doubts, or fears with our words; it was all on my part a eulogy of my good fortune that Heaven should have given her to me for my mistress; I glorified her beauty, I extolled her worth and her understanding; and she paid me back by praising in me what in her love for me she thought worthy of praise; and…†   (source)
  • " Don Quixote laughed at Sancho's boorish eulogies and thought that, saving his lady Dulcinea del Toboso, he had never seen a more beautiful woman.†   (source)
  • In what words shall I describe this dread exploit, by what language shall I make it credible to ages to come, what eulogies are there unmeet for thee, though they be hyperboles piled on hyperboles!†   (source)
  • …being rebuilt; in which box were found certain parchment manuscripts in Gothic character, but in Castilian verse, containing many of his achievements, and setting forth the beauty of Dulcinea, the form of Rocinante, the fidelity of Sancho Panza, and the burial of Don Quixote himself, together with sundry epitaphs and eulogies on his life and character; but all that could be read and deciphered were those which the trustworthy author of this new and unparalleled history here presents.†   (source)
  • To which Don Quixote replied, "Your highness has spoken like what you are; from the mouth of a noble lady nothing bad can come; and Dulcinea will be more fortunate, and better known to the world by the praise of your highness than by all the eulogies the greatest orators on earth could bestow upon her."†   (source)
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