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Definition
powerful use of language
- You are so eloquent.Book One — 1805 (2% in)
- Anatole was not quick-witted, nor ready or eloquent in conversation, but he had the faculty, so invaluable in society, of composure and imperturbable self-possession.Book Three — 1805 (23% in)
- Brother O. was very eloquent.Book Six — 1808-10 (34% in)
- I could not be eloquent, nor could I frankly mention my doubts to the Brothers and to the Grand Master.Book Six — 1808-10 (35% in)
- He evidently wanted to do all the talking himself, and continued to talk with the sort of eloquence and unrestrained irritability to which spoiled people are so prone.Book Nine — 1812 (22% in)
- The unbrushed tufts of hair sticking up behind and the hastily brushed hair on his temples expressed this most eloquently.Book Nine — 1812 (46% in)
- Many spoke eloquently and with originality.Book Nine — 1812 (97% in)
- Thiers alone dedicates a few eloquent lines to their memory: "These wretches had occupied the sacred citadel, having supplied themselves with guns from the arsenal, and fired" (the wretches) "at the French.Book Eleven — 1812 (68% in)
- It was regarded as a model of ecclesiastical, patriotic eloquence.Book Twelve — 1812 (1% in)
- Then, as Thiers eloquently recounts, he ordered his soldiers to be paid in forged Russian money which he had prepared: "Raising the use of these means by an act worthy of himself and of the French army, he let relief be distributed to those who had been burned out.Book Thirteen — 1812 (43% in)
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