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Definition
powerful use of language
- He talked so eloquently of the possibility of capturing a fighting-machine that I more than half believed in him again.2.7 — Book 2 Chapter 7 — The Man on Putney Hill (88% in)
- And looking across space with instruments, and intelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of, they see, at its nearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles sunward of them, a morning star of hope, our own warmer planet, green with vegetation and grey with water, with a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility, with glimpses through its drifting cloud wisps of broad stretches of populous country and narrow, navy-crowded seas.1.1 — Book 1 Chapter 1 — The Coming of the Martians (29% in)
- I turned to a scowling face, and silent, eloquent lips.2.2 — Book 2 Chapter 2 — What We Saw from the Ruined House (96% in)
There are no more uses of "eloquent" in The War of the Worlds.
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