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  • On a scarlet-draped platform an orator of the Inner Party, a small lean man with disproportionately long arms and a large bald skull over which a few lank locks straggled, was haranguing the crowd.   (source)
    haranguing = giving an impassioned speech complaining or trying to persuade
  • And here she closed her harangue: a long one for her, and uttered with the demureness of a Quakeress.   (source)
    harangue = impassioned speech
  • It was brutal: the incessant mechanized haranguing of intensive care.†   (source)
  • This week I was haranguing my Canadian Literature students on the subject of "bold beginnings."†   (source)
  • They had lots to say about all kinds of junk they claimed to know something about, and would drone on in an instigated way, delivering themselves of harangues and oblique sermons that were in fact — Jimmy felt — aimed at himself.†   (source)
  • Most went voluntarily, glad to be able to take a few of their possessions with them and relieved to escape the constant harangues and threats of the Nazis.†   (source)
  • Between drink refills and dispensing of utensils and the magically quick arrival of our food, our entire harangue came in limp bursts.†   (source)
  • He switched the band and dialed across bursts of music, news, a preacher haranguing a softly moaning congregation, a weather report.†   (source)
  • She was too busy putting things on the table and taking them away, and keeping an eye on her daughter, but as she removed the soup bowl with the leftover lentils she caught the final words of her husband's harangue.†   (source)
  • Every few months Torrey's parents flew from Mexico to Boston to harangue her.†   (source)
  • That was haranguing!†   (source)
  • These harangues must not have bothered his conscience much because that year he sent no money.†   (source)
  • Naina shortly after her rescue from the brothel (Sraboni Sircar) So Apne Aap harangued the local police into raiding the brothel to rescue Naina.†   (source)
  • Along with Buffalo Jones, who lost his money and then his mind (the last years of his life were spent haranguing street groups against the wanton extermination of the beasts he himself had so profitably slaughtered), the glamours of the past are today entombed.†   (source)
  • Before I could answer he went into a harangue.†   (source)
  • "Hit was me," harangued Pap Himes doggedly.†   (source)
  • Even then, they'd merely administer a harangue.†   (source)
  • He was pretty pleased with himself until he looked up in the dining room of the Red Cross building and found himself eating breakfast with dozens and dozens of other servicemen in all kinds of fantastic uniforms, and then all at once he was surrounded by images of Luciana getting out of her clothes and into her clothes and caressing and haranguing him tempestuously in the pink rayon chemise she wore in bed with him and would not take off.†   (source)
  • As the harangue continued, one clerk picked up the telephone and made a call.†   (source)
  • A gray-brown hare was on the table, holding a pair of spectacles as he stood on his hind legs and harangued them.†   (source)
  • I had the pleasure to sit and hear the greatest lawyers, orators, in short the greatest men in America, haranguing at the bar, and on the bench.†   (source)
  • A priest in scarlet robes stood on the temple balcony, haranguing the small crowd that had gathered around the flames.†   (source)
  • Pitchmen yelled above the din, nasally hawking their wares in monotonic harangues while erratic explosions in the sky lit up the darkness, sending sprays of myriad fireworks cascading over a small adjacent black lake.†   (source)
  • Better yet, she looked not at all like agitatrix who had harangued crowd.†   (source)
  • Within half an hour Alessandro and Guariglia were floating in a huge cistern as the father of one of the girls harangued them about patriotism and the king.†   (source)
  • When you listen to a mystic's harangue on the impotence of the human mind and begin to doubt your consciousness, not his, when you permit your precariously semi-rational state to be shaken by any assertion and decide it is safer to trust his superior certainty and knowledge, the joke is on both of you: your sanction is the only source of certainty he has.†   (source)
  • He had nursed our softball team along for two years, and by a mixture of patience, luck, shrewd manipulations during some tight ball games, and hard, fist-thumping harangues calculated to shove us into a patriotic awareness of the importance of athletics and physical fitness for the war effort, he was able to mold our original team of fifteen awkward fumblers into the top team of our league.†   (source)
  • He was talking to her, but it seemed in a haranguing sort of way, his jawbone working continuously.†   (source)
  • He's been going up and down the western country, rousting people out and haranguing them about the Red Menace.†   (source)
  • He sat sidewise in an empty seat across the aisle from me and began to harangue two brothers behind him.†   (source)
  • "The South today has abdicated any right to connection with the human race," Nathan harangued me.†   (source)
  • Then the harangue would continue on the other side of the kitchen table.†   (source)
  • He harangued the woods when the little minnows were trembling and running wizardlike in the water's edge.†   (source)
  • They were warned in the party press, harangued by their constituents, and sent dire warnings threatening political ostracism and even assassination.†   (source)
  • During forced exercise, he wasn't strong enough to run, so he and a few others were separated and harangued through calisthenics.   (source)
    harangued = criticized in an impassioned and annoying manner
  • There was another inspection outside, another haranguing, and then the uneasy pause of night, the pacing of the guards, before the dawn again brought shouting and running and the thud of clubs.   (source)
    haranguing = impassioned criticizing speech
  • My grandmother sounded as if she were the haranguing leader of a compliant mob, as if it were her special responsibility to berate her audience and to amuse them, almost simultaneously—for they rewarded her humor with their punctual laughter, as if they were highly entertained that the tone of voice she used on them was uniformly abusive.†   (source)
  • She kept haranguing me, asking why I visited him, wanting to know what we talked about, all the while scolding me like I was still a child.†   (source)
  • In Cobbler's Square two threadbare sparrows were haranguing several hundred smallfolk, crying doom upon the heads of godless men and demon worshipers.†   (source)
  • In the Piazza San Marco a beautiful young woman with a solid figure, shoulder-length blond hair, and the bluest eyes was holding aloft a small red umbrella and haranguing a group of overweight old ladies, in German.†   (source)
  • Sorry if I've been haranguing.†   (source)
  • "For forty minutes he harangued us from the chair," wrote Senator Maclay of one such disquisition.†   (source)
  • He held to the mechanism he was adjusting and harangued wheezily from behind it.†   (source)
  • My drink was by me, untouched all this long harangue.†   (source)
  • It was not a speech I gave that day, but a harangue.†   (source)
  • "Good night, sir," I said, imagining the Colonel sneaking the Breathalyzer back into the Eagle's house while I got harangued at Jury.†   (source)
  • It was Pedro Tercero Garcia, who hadn't wanted to miss his grandfather's funeral and took advantage of the borrowed cassock to harangue the workers house by house, explaining that the coming elections were their chance to shake off the yoke under which they had always lived.†   (source)
  • Blanca knew all the tenants and had taught many of them to read in the little school-house of Tres Marias, so they began to talk about the bygone days when the Sanchez brothers imposed their law on the region, when old Pedro Garcia had ended the plague of ants, and when the President had been an eternal candidate, standing in the station to harangue them from the train of his defeat.†   (source)
  • And in the morning, long before the child stirs, I hear the gulls and I think about the tomato-red pickup cruising the coastal road between Hampton Beach and Rye Harbor; I hear the raucous, embattled crows, whose shrill disputations and harangues remind me that I have awakened in the real world—in the world I know—after all.†   (source)
  • That night they sang to keep their spirits up, and when they grew tired of harangues, discussions, and songs, they settled into little groups to get through the night as best they could.†   (source)
  • The patrones threw them a big party with empanadas and lots of wine, barbecued a few cows specially slaughtered for the occasion, serenaded them with songs accompanied on the guitar, beat them over the head with a few political harangues, and promised them that if the conservative candidate won the election they would all receive a bonus, but that if he lost they would lose their jobs.†   (source)
  • Putting her out of his mind, Max was enduring another Tweedy harangue about those running the armories and storerooms ("Base thieves and charlatans!"†   (source)
  • He talked up Everest every time he saw me and repeatedly harangued Brad Wetzler, an editor at Outside, about the idea.†   (source)
  • I would have gladly endured a fit of rage, or a frosty harangue of disappointment, and yet it seemed she was making efforts to assure the clearness of my conscience, despite the unavoidable fact of my momentary carelessness and lack of vigilance, which I didn't attempt to diminish when I first phoned with the news.†   (source)
  • Knowing how greatly it would amuse Abigail, he described how the man had launched into a harangue on the state of national politics, declaring that the trouble with John Adams was that "he had been long in Europe and got tainted."†   (source)
  • I heard myself groan, clearly audible above the harangue, and it occurred to me that this dreadful assault on Sophie had weirdly identical resonances to those of the fracas in which I had first glimpsed him acting out his implacable enmity, the scenes distinguished one from the other mainly by the tone of voice—fortissimo that evening weeks ago, now singularly level and restrained but no less sinister.†   (source)
  • Frequently peeling off his shirt during the hot summer campaign, he harangued audiences in every corner of Texas with his great fund of vituperative epithets and withering sarcasm.†   (source)
  • based upon the removal of Stanton and the appointment of a new Secretary of War in violation of the Tenure-of-Office Act; the ninth related to Johnson's conversation with a general which was said to induce violations of the Army Appropriations Act; the tenth recited that Johnson had delivered "intemperate, inflammatory and scandalous harangues ....as well against Congress as the laws of the United States"; and the eleventh was a deliberately obscure conglomeration of all the charges in the preceding articles, which had been designed by Thaddeus Stevens to furnish a common ground for those who favored conviction but Wereunwilling to identify themselves on basic issues.†   (source)
  • My lips trembled convulsively as my speech turned into a harangue and the great secret I had nursed in my soul thundered into the open room.†   (source)
  • Secession, war—these words long since had become acutely boring to Scarlett from much repetition, but now she hated the sound of them, for they meant that the men would stand there for hours haranguing one another and she would have no chance to corner Ashley.†   (source)
  • But then the little village of sheds clinging to the wall never became a part of the city or of the countryside which stretched beyond, and once when Wang Lung heard a young man haranguing a crowd at the corner of the Confucian temple, where any man may stand, if he has the courage to speak out, and the young man said that China must have a revolution and must rise against the hated foreigners, Wang Lung was alarmed and slunk away, feeling that he was the foreigner against whom the young man spoke with such passion.†   (source)
  • Behind, between them and around them, like a solid wall, the ever-encroaching bodies, voices, faces at all heights, gestures at all heights, all converging upon him, craning, peering, haranguing, pointing him out, discussing him.†   (source)
  • After haranguing the girl for hours through the night she harangued for hours of the day the silent Edward.†   (source)
  • Throughout the remainder of the day, Bleeding Heart Yard was in consternation, as the grim Pancks cruised in it; haranguing the inhabitants on their backslidings in respect of payment, demanding his bond, breathing notices to quit and executions, running down defaulters, sending a swell of terror on before him, and leaving it in his wake.†   (source)
  • On a ledge in the fuel-house stood three tall rush-lights and by the light of them seven or eight lads were marching about, haranguing, and confusing each other, in endeavours to perfect themselves in the play.†   (source)
  • She was already ordering, haranguing, rebuking, and, it must be said, cursing her servants for delays.†   (source)
  • She was haranguing Mademoiselle Baptistine on a subject which was familiar to her and to which the Bishop was also accustomed.†   (source)
  • After Mr. Crawley had done haranguing and expounding, we received our candles, and then we went to bed; and then I was disturbed in my writing, as I have described to my dearest sweetest Amelia.†   (source)
  • One man who held a torch in one hand and a club in the other, mounted a stone post and seemed to be haranguing them.†   (source)
  • With the exception of Enjolras and Marius, who held their peace, all were haranguing rather at hap-hazard.†   (source)
  • This reconcil'd me to the newspaper accounts of his having preach'd to twenty-five thousand people in the fields, and to the antient histories of generals haranguing whole armies, of which I had sometimes doubted.†   (source)
  • With this he left them there, and passing on to others as they formed, he found Lord Nestor, the Pylian master orator, haranguing soldiers of Pylos, forming them for action around the captains Pelagon, Alastor, Khromios, Haimon, and the marshal, Bias.†   (source)
  • So these Danaans held their ground against the Trojans and never stirred, while Agamemnon passed amid the ranks haranguing troops: i "Dear friends, be men, choose valor and pride in one another when shock of combat comes.†   (source)
  • He harangued them in such Spanish as he could command, and they listened with respect.†   (source)
  • And a man's voice in sing-song harangue: "Aaa, dawn be a wise-guy!†   (source)
  • He moved about above the crowd in the bed of a wagon, exhorting them to bid, with his hand at the side of his mouth, in a harangue compounded of frenzy, passionate solicitation, and bawdry.†   (source)
  • He launched into a long harangue to the effect that some folks were getting fed up, that it was always the same people had all the jam, and things couldn't go on like that indefinitely, one day there'd be-he rubbed his hands—"a fine old row."†   (source)
  • Conway, who knew a little Pushtu, harangued the tribesmen as well as he could in that language, but without effect; while the pilot's sole retort to any remarks addressed to him in any language was a significant flourish of his revolver.†   (source)
  • Servant girls returned bracelets which they had stolen from their mistresses, and usurers harangued their wives angrily, in defense of usury.†   (source)
  • Every week, on Thursday, in Gant's dusty little office, he would gather the grinning cluster of small boys who bought The Post from him, and harangue them before he sent them out on their duties: "Well, have you thought of what you're going to tell them yet?†   (source)
  • The eyes of the neighbors were expectantly upon him as they settled themselves in easier positions for a long harangue.†   (source)
  • axioms of the exhortations that "the good salesman will never take no for his answer," that he should "stick to his prospect" even if rebuffed, that he should "try to get the customer's psychology," the boy would fall into step with an unsuspecting pedestrian, open the broad sheets of The Post under the man's nose, and in a torrential harangue, sown thickly with stuttering speech, buffoonery, and ingratiation, delivered so rapidly that the man could neither accept nor reject the magazine, hound him before a grinning public down the length of a street, backing him defensively into a wall, and taking from the victim's eager fingers the five-cent coin that purchased his freedom.†   (source)
  • "I never thowt much o' thee!" he harangued.†   (source)
  • Duane did not have a word to say at the end of Euchre's long harangue.†   (source)
  • He thought that he must break from the ranks and harangue his comrades.†   (source)
  • But he continued his harangue without waiting for a reply.†   (source)
  • He harangued his fellows, pushing against their chests with his free hand.†   (source)
  • But he felt it his duty at this moment to try and give a little harangue.†   (source)
  • No; let your conduct be the only harangue.†   (source)
  • Henchard paused in his harangue and turned.†   (source)
  • * * These harangues of the beasts were frequent among the Indians.†   (source)
  • Gringoire ceased, awaiting the effect of his harangue on the young girl.†   (source)
  • Napoleon gallops past the line of fugitives, harangues, urges, threatens, entreats them.†   (source)
  • All hunchbacks walk with their heads held high, all stutterers harangue, all deaf people speak low.†   (source)
  • He was waiting for the prince, and no sooner did the latter appear than he began a long harangue about something or other; but so far gone was he that the prince could hardly understand a word.†   (source)
  • I spoke to the cook about it, when I went on deck to take up my duties in the galley, and though I had looked forward to a surly answer, I had not expected the belligerent harangue that I received.†   (source)
  • And at each point in this harangue, thrusting his broad face, with its flat, broken nose and somewhat aggressive chin directly before Clyde's, and blazing at him with sultry, contemptuous eyes, while the latter leaned away from him, wincing almost perceptibly and with icy chills running up and down his spine and affecting his heart and brain.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Hale's extended harangues upon the subjects of wealth and position taught her to distinguish between degrees of wealth.†   (source)
  • He wanted most of all the people of his own mind, people with whom he could really talk, people he could harangue and scold by the hour, servants, you see, to his fancy.†   (source)
  • After haranguing the girl for hours through the night she harangued for hours of the day the silent Edward.†   (source)
  • The harangue was formidable.†   (source)
  • This harangue excited great mirth among the bystanders; but, preposterous as was the sentiment, I could not help commiserating the forlorn condition of the last toper, whose boon companions had dwindled away from his side, leaving the poor fellow without a soul to countenance him in sipping his liquor, nor indeed any liquor to sip.†   (source)
  • When the Prior had ceased what he meant as a conciliatory harangue, his companion said briefly and emphatically, "I speak ever French, the language of King Richard and his nobles; but I understand English sufficiently to communicate with the natives of the country."†   (source)
  • Everyone spoke, harangued, and vociferated, swearing, cursing, and consigning the cardinal and his Guards to all the devils.†   (source)
  • They then vent their pomposity from one end of a harangue to the other; and to hear them lavish imagery on every occasion, one might fancy that they never spoke of anything with simplicity.†   (source)
  • It must have been in reference to this outrage that Chanticleer, the next day, accompanied by the bereaved mother of the egg, took his post in front of Phoebe and Clifford, and delivered himself of a harangue that might have proved as long as his own pedigree, but for a fit of merriment on Phoebe's part.†   (source)
  • As the Huron used his native language, the prisoners, notwithstanding the caution of the natives had kept them within the swing of their tomahawks, could only conjecture the substance of his harangue from the nature of those significant gestures with which an Indian always illustrates his eloquence.†   (source)
  • John laughed, and watched her for a minute, as she poised a pretty little preparation of lace and flowers on her hand, and regarded it with the genuine interest which his harangue had failed to waken.†   (source)
  • When Lebeziatnikov finished his long-winded harangue with the logical deduction at the end, he was quite tired, and the perspiration streamed from his face.†   (source)
  • Newman sat gazing at Tristram during this harangue with a lack-lustre eye; never yet had he seemed to himself to have outgrown so completely the phase of equal comradeship with Tom Tristram.†   (source)
  • Nicholas laughed, and entering no further into the subject of this lengthened harangue, reverted to the pleasant tone of the little birthday party.†   (source)
  • This feeling pervades the most trifling habits of life; even the women frequently attend public meetings and listen to political harangues as a recreation after their household labors.†   (source)
  • Whatever effect Sir Thomas's little harangue might really produce on Mr. Crawford, it raised some awkward sensations in two of the others, two of his most attentive listeners—Miss Crawford and Fanny.†   (source)
  • Still, with an unshaken confidence that the English tongue was somehow the mother tongue of the whole world, only the people were too stupid to know it, Mr Meagles harangued innkeepers in the most voluble manner, entered into loud explanations of the most complicated sort, and utterly renounced replies in the native language of the respondents, on the ground that they were 'all bosh.'†   (source)
  • For proof, she harangued the entire household unsparingly till food and drink were brought; and in the evening—the smoke-scented evening, copper-dun and turquoise across the fields—it pleased her to order her palanquin to be set down in the untidy forecourt by smoky torchlight; and there, behind not too closely drawn curtains, she gossiped.†   (source)
  • There is hardly a member of Congress who can make up his mind to go home without having despatched at least one speech to his constituents; nor who will endure any interruption until he has introduced into his harangue whatever useful suggestions may be made touching the four-and-twenty States of which the Union is composed, and especially the district which he represents.†   (source)
  • Well, Rebecca listened to Pitt, she talked to him, she sang to him, she coaxed him, and cuddled him, so that he found himself more and more glad every day to get back from the lawyer's at Gray's Inn, to the blazing fire in Curzon Street—a gladness in which the men of law likewise participated, for Pitt's harangues were of the longest—and so that when he went away he felt quite a pang at departing.†   (source)
  • then let thy hands work for thy livelihood; for, albeit thou be'st unfit for a speedy post, or for a careful shepherd, or for the warfare, or for the service of a hasty master, yet there be occupations—How now, brother?" said he, interrupting his harangue to look towards Isaac, who had but glanced at the scroll which Higg offered, when, uttering a deep groan, he fell from his mule like a dying man, and lay for a minute insensible.†   (source)
  • This picture of her consequence had some effect, for no one loved better to lead than Maria; and with far more good-humour she answered, "I am much obliged to you, Edmund; you mean very well, I am sure: but I still think you see things too strongly; and I really cannot undertake to harangue all the rest upon a subject of this kind.†   (source)
  • The effect of such an harangue, delivered in the nervous language and with the emphatic manner of a Huron orator, could scarcely be mistaken.†   (source)
  • Grantaire was attacking his second bottle and, possibly, his second harangue, when a new personage emerged from the square aperture of the stairs.†   (source)
  • The goodman, with the assurance of a person who feels that he is appreciated, entered into a rather diffuse and very deep rustic harangue to the reverend prioress.†   (source)
  • "It was at the Hôtel-de-Ville," retorted Oudarde sharply, "and Dr. Scourable addressed them a harangue in Latin, which pleased them greatly.†   (source)
  • But Master Coppenole, the hosier, must needs rise of a sudden, and Gringoire was forced to listen to him deliver, amid universal attention, the following abominable harangue.†   (source)
  • Fantine mingled in the group, and began to laugh with the rest at the harangue, which contained slang for the populace and jargon for respectable people.†   (source)
  • One morning it came to pass that M. Gillenormand spoke slightingly of the Convention, apropos of a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, and gave vent to a Royalist harangue on Danton, Saint-Juste and Robespierre.†   (source)
  • His eminence is, at this moment, escorting the very honorable embassy of the Duke of Austria; which is detained, at present, listening to the harangue of monsieur the rector of the university, at the gate Baudets.†   (source)
  • When a great personage, a marshal of France, a prince, a duke, and a peer, traversed a town in Burgundy or Champagne, the city fathers came out to harangue him and presented him with four silver gondolas into which they had poured four different sorts of wine.†   (source)
  • At his entrance Master Florian did not stop short, but, making a half-turn on his heels, and aiming at the provost the harangue with which he had been withering Quasimodo a moment before,— "Monseigneur," said he, "I demand such penalty as you shall deem fitting against the prisoner here present, for grave and aggravated offence against the court."†   (source)
  • The old man's revery lasted for some time, then, looking steadily at Montparnasse, he addressed to him in a gentle voice, in the midst of the darkness where they stood, a solemn harangue, of which Gavroche did not lose a single syllable:— "My child, you are entering, through indolence, on one of the most laborious of lives.†   (source)
  • Finally, a third audience, the most noisy, the most jovial, and the most numerous, encumbered benches and tables, in the midst of which harangued and swore a flute-like voice, which escaped from beneath a heavy armor, complete from casque to spurs.†   (source)
  • The counsel for the defence had some difficulty in refuting this harangue and in establishing that, in consequence of the revelations of M. Madeleine, that is to say, of the real Jean Valjean, the aspect of the matter had been thoroughly altered, and that the jury had before their eyes now only an innocent man.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, as be harangued them, the satisfaction and admiration unanimously excited by his costume were dissipated by his words; and when he reached that untoward conclusion: "As soon as his illustrious eminence, the cardinal, arrives, we will begin," his voice was drowned in a thunder of hooting.†   (source)
  • On the day when the rhetorician Gymnastoras left his prison, bearing in his body many dilemmas and numerous syllogisms which had struck in, he halted in front of the first tree which he came to, harangued it and made very great efforts to convince it.†   (source)
  • At the Conciergerie in particular, the long vault which is called the Rue de Paris was littered with trusses of straw upon which lay a heap of prisoners, whom the man of Lyons, Lagrange, harangued valiantly.†   (source)
  • Then his wife busies herself, grows passionately fond of handling coin, gets her fingers covered with verdigris in the process, undertakes the education of half-share tenants and the training of farmers, convokes lawyers, presides over notaries, harangues scriveners, visits limbs of the law, follows lawsuits, draws up leases, dictates contracts, feels herself the sovereign, sells, buys, regulates, promises and compromises, binds fast and annuls, yields, concedes and retrocedes, arranges, disarranges, hoards, lavishes; she commits follies, a supreme and personal delight, and that consoles her.†   (source)
  • The elder had also her chimera; she espied in the azure some very wealthy purveyor, a contractor, a splendidly stupid husband, a million made man, or even a prefect; the receptions of the Prefecture, an usher in the antechamber with a chain on his neck, official balls, the harangues of the town-hall, to be "Madame la Prefete,"—all this had created a whirlwind in her imagination.†   (source)
  • Agamemnon's harangue reached all his troops: "Shame, shame, you pack of dogs, you only looked well.†   (source)
  • Like a wild boar, with his great heart, this captain in the van harangued his companies, and in the rear Meriones did likewise.†   (source)
  • I harangued them a little on the subject, read the paper, and explained it, and then distributed the copies, which were eagerly signed, not the least objection being made.†   (source)
  • These proverbs, which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and form'd into a connected discourse prefix'd to the Almanack of 1757, as the harangue of a wise old man to the people attending an auction.†   (source)
  • Look to it then, we arm the troops for action— but let me test them first, in that harangue that custom calls for.†   (source)
  • Now I fear their champion, Hektor, will make good his word, the threat he made in his harangue to Trojans, not to return to Ilion from the beachhead until he fired our ships and killed our men.†   (source)
  • Expecting gold and gifts of luxury from Alexandras, Antimakhos had harangued against returning Helen to Menelaos.†   (source)
  • As from night clouds a baleful summer star will blaze into the clear, then fade in cloud, so Hektor shone in front or became hidden when he harangued the rear ranks—his whole form in bronze aflash like lightning of Father Zeus.†   (source)
  • The next he addressed was a man who had been haranguing a large assembly for a whole hour on the subject of charity.†   (source)
  • Now the man harangued his swaggering comrades:
    "Listen to me, my fine friends, here's what I say!†   (source)
  • Eupithes' son Antinous rose and harangued them all:
    "What a blow!†   (source)
  • The brothers harangued them, told them why they'd met:
    a crisis—Menelaus urging the men to fix their minds
    on the voyage home across the sea's broad back,
    but it brought no joy to Agamemnon, not at all.†   (source)
  • Recalling Aegisthus, Zeus harangued the immortal powers:
    "Ah how shameless—the way these mortals blame the gods.†   (source)
  • Again, there is the very characteristic American word /ballyhoo/, signifying [Pg093] the harangue of a /ballyhoo-man/, or /spieler/ (that is, barker) before a cheap show, or, by metaphor, any noisy speech.†   (source)
  • When dinner was over, and the servants departed, Mr Allworthy began to harangue.†   (source)
  • "Hast thou finished thy harangue, Sancho?" said Don Quixote.†   (source)
  • His martial men with fierce harangue he fir'd, And his own ardor in their souls inspir'd.†   (source)
  • The serjeant now began to harangue in praise of his goods.†   (source)
  • The mercer indeed made a long harangue of the great loss they have daily by lifters and thieves; that it was easy for them to mistake, and that when he found it he would have dismissed me, etc., as above.†   (source)
  • In other part the sceptered heralds call
    To council, in the city-gates; anon
    Gray-headed men and grave, with warriours mixed,
    Assemble, and harangues are heard; but soon,
    In factious opposition; till at last,
    Of middle age one rising, eminent
    In wise deport, spake much of right and wrong,
    Of justice, or religion, truth, and peace,
    And judgement from above: him old and young
    Exploded, and had seized with violent hands,
    Had not a cloud descending snatched him thence
    Unseen amid the throng: so violence
    Proceeded, and oppression, and sword-law,
    Through all the plain, and refuge none was found.†   (source)
  • But before I had spoken this, the matter was effected on board; for no sooner was he gone off in the boat, but the boatswain, gunner, carpenter, and all the inferior officers, came to the quarter-deck, desiring to speak with the Captain; & there the boatswain made a long harangue, exclaiming against me, as before mentioned, that, if I had not gone on shore peaceably, for my own diversion, they, by violence would have compelled me, for their satisfaction: that as they had shipped with the Captain, so they would faithfully serve him; but if I did not quit the ship, or the Captain oblige me to it, they would leave the shi†   (source)
  • And though amongst the antient Romans, men were not forbidden to deny, that which in the Poets is written of the paines, and pleasures after this life; which divers of great authority, and gravity in that state have in their Harangues openly derided; yet that beliefe was alwaies more cherished, than the contrary.†   (source)
  • Turnus th' occasion takes, and cries aloud: "Talk on, ye quaint haranguers of the crowd: Declaim in praise of peace, when danger calls, And the fierce foes in arms approach the walls."†   (source)
  • "For God's sake, Sancho," said Don Quixote here, "stop that harangue; it is my belief, if thou wert allowed to continue all thou beginnest every instant, thou wouldst have no time left for eating or sleeping; for thou wouldst spend it all in talking."†   (source)
  • All this long harangue (which might very well have been spared) our knight delivered because the acorns they gave him reminded him of the golden age; and the whim seized him to address all this unnecessary argument to the goatherds, who listened to him gaping in amazement without saying a word in reply.†   (source)
  • While this was preparing, Partridge, being admitted into the same apartment with his friend or master, began to harangue in the following manner.†   (source)
  • regarding him for awhile, as one would regard something never before seen that excited wonder and amazement, he said to him, "I cannot persuade myself, Anselmo my friend, that what thou hast said to me is not in jest; if I thought that thou wert speaking seriously I would not have allowed thee to go so far; so as to put a stop to thy long harangue by not listening to thee I verily suspect that either thou dost not know me, or I do not know thee; but no, I know well thou art Anselmo, and thou knowest that I am Lothario; the misfortune is, it seems to me, that thou art not the Anselmo thou wert, and must have thought that I am not the Lothario I should be; for the things that thou hast sai†   (source)
  • The doctor concluded this harangue with the famous story of Alexander and Clitus; but as I find that entered in my common-place under title Drunkenness, I shall not insert it here.†   (source)
  • Roque Guinart found his squires at the place to which he had ordered them, and Don Quixote on Rocinante in the midst of them delivering a harangue to them in which he urged them to give up a mode of life so full of peril, as well to the soul as to the body; but as most of them were Gascons, rough lawless fellows, his speech did not make much impression on them.†   (source)
  • Mrs Western, on her arrival in the dining-room, having flung herself into a chair, began thus to harangue: "Well, surely, no one ever had such an intolerable journey.†   (source)
  • Thwackum, who had swallowed more liquor than Jones, but without any ill effect on his brain, seconded the pious harangue of Blifil; but Square, for reasons which the reader may probably guess, was totally silent.†   (source)
  • the "Diana" of Jorge de Montemayor where it is written, applying it to his own case so aptly that the peasant went along cursing his fate that he had to listen to such a lot of nonsense; from which, however, he came to the conclusion that his neighbour was mad, and so made all haste to reach the village to escape the wearisomeness of this harangue of Don Quixote's; who, at the end of it, said, "Señor Don Rodrigo de Narvaez, your worship must know that this fair Xarifa I have mentioned is now the lovely Dulcinea del Toboso, for whom I have done, am doing, and will do the most famous deeds of chivalry that in this world have been seen, are to be seen, or ever shall be seen."†   (source)
  • Thus the uproar aforesaid, and the arrival of the landlady, silenced the master of the puppet-show, and put a speedy and final end to that grave and solemn harangue, of which we have given the reader a sufficient taste already.†   (source)
  • Having at length finished his laboured harangue, with which the audience, though it had greatly raised their attention and admiration, were not much edified, as they really understood not a single syllable of all he had said, he proceeded to business, which he was more expeditious in finishing, than he had been in beginning.†   (source)
  • Whether Jones gave strict attention to all the foregoing harangue, or whether it was for want of any vacancy in the discourse, I cannot determine; but he never once attempted to answer, nor did she once stop till Partridge came running into the room, and informed him that the great lady was upon the stairs.†   (source)
  • The landlady finding Sophia intended to stay no longer than till her horses were ready, and that without either eating or drinking, soon withdrew; when Honour began to take her mistress to task (for indeed she used great freedom), and after a long harangue, in which she reminded her of her intention to go to London, and gave frequent hints of the impropriety of pursuing a young fellow, she at last concluded with this serious exhortation: "For heaven's sake, madam, consider what you are about, and whither you are going."†   (source)
  • The master of the show then began a second harangue, and said much of the great force of example, and how much the inferior part of mankind would be deterred from vice, by observing how odious it was in their superiors; when he was unluckily interrupted by an incident, which, though perhaps we might have omitted it at another time, we cannot help relating at present, but not in this chapter.†   (source)
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