All 4 Uses of
eloquent
in
The Mill on the Floss
- …to do with him at school as you can, my lad," he said to Tom; and the command was obeyed the more easily because Mr. Sterling by this time had two additional pupils; for though this gentleman's rise in the world was not of that meteor-like rapidity which the admirers of his extemporaneous eloquence had expected for a preacher whose voice demanded so wide a sphere, he had yet enough of growing prosperity to enable him to increase his expenditure in continued disproportion to his income.†
Chpt 2.7
- "Then my compliment ought to be eloquent," said Stephen, really not quite knowing what he said while Maggie looked at him, "seeing that the words were so far beneath the occasion."†
Chpt 6.2
- "No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference," said Maggie, flushing a little.†
Chpt 6.2 *
- She was looking at the tier of geraniums as she spoke, and Stephen made no answer; but he was looking at her; and does not a supreme poet blend light and sound into one, calling darkness mute, and light eloquent?†
Chpt 6.10
Definition:
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(eloquent) powerful use of language