All 7 Uses of
eloquent
in
Babbitt
- He sang eloquently the advantages of proximity of school-buildings to rentable homes, but he did not know—he did not know that it was worth while to know—whether the city schoolrooms were properly heated, lighted, ventilated, furnished; he did not know how the teachers were chosen; and though he chanted "One of the boasts of Zenith is that we pay our teachers adequately," that was because he had read the statement in the Advocate-Times.†
Chpt 4
- I'll tell you, though: No need to blow in a lot of good money on this stuff when you can get a first-rate course in eloquence and English and all that right in your own school—and one of the biggest school buildings in the entire country!"†
Chpt 6
- He coaxed her with large booming sounds, with affable smiles, like a popular preacher blessing an Easter congregation, like a humorous lecturer completing his stint of eloquence, like all perpetrators of masculine wiles.†
Chpt 9
- Then Babbitt slid into a sea of eloquence: "Ladies and gentlemen of the Sixteenth Ward, there is one who cannot be with us here to-night, a man than whom there is no more stalwart Trojan in all the political arena—I refer to our leader, the Honorable Lucas Prout, standard-bearer of the city and county of Zenith.†
Chpt 14
- Seems 's if I couldn't pick up a paper without reading about your well-known eloquence.†
Chpt 14
- He was eloquent, efficient, and versatile.†
Chpt 16
- On a December morning when the Babbitts went to church, Dr. John Jennison Drew was unusually eloquent.†
Chpt 16 *
Definition:
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(eloquent) powerful use of language