All 5 Uses of
eloquent
in
Middlemarch
- …magistrate, and in the collection of documentary evidence, but I regard my time as being at the disposal of the public—and, in short, my friends have convinced me that a chaplain with a salary—a salary, you know—is a very good thing, and I am happy to be able to come here and vote for the appointment of Mr. Tyke, who, I understand, is an unexceptionable man, apostolic and eloquent and everything of that kind—and I am the last man to withhold my vote—under the circumstances, you know.†
Chpt 2
- The eloquent auctioneer smiled at his own ingenuity.†
Chpt 3
- But nature has sometimes made sad oversights in carrying out her intention; as in the case of good Mr. Brooke, whose masculine consciousness was at this moment in rather a stammering condition under the eloquence of his niece.†
Chpt 4
- The eloquent auctioneer was seized with pneumonia, and having been a patient of Mr. Peacock's, sent for Lydgate, whom he had expressed his intention to patronize.†
Chpt 5
- I never heard such good preaching as his—such plain, easy eloquence.†
Chpt 5 *
Definition:
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(eloquent) powerful use of language