All 10 Uses of
eloquent
in
War and Peace
- You are so eloquent.†
Chpt 1 *
- 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.†
Chpt 3
- Brother O. was very eloquent.†
Chpt 6
- I could not be eloquent, nor could I frankly mention my doubts to the Brothers and to the Grand Master.†
Chpt 6
- 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.†
Chpt 9eloquence = powerful use of language
- The unbrushed tufts of hair sticking up behind and the hastily brushed hair on his temples expressed this most eloquently.†
Chpt 9eloquently = with powerful use of language
- Many spoke eloquently and with originality.†
Chpt 9
- 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.†
Chpt 11
- It was regarded as a model of ecclesiastical, patriotic eloquence.†
Chpt 12eloquence = powerful use of language
- 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.†
Chpt 13eloquently = with powerful use of language