All 10 Uses of
eloquent
in
Arrowsmith
- But as I have no desire to indulge in fancy flights of rhetoric and eloquence, I shall merely say that you will accept, and you will study, and you will memorize, because I tell you to!†
Chpt 5 *
- In Zenith he left his bag at the interurban trolley station and sought Clif, whom he found practicing eloquence over a beautiful pearl-gray motor hearse, in which a beer-fed undertaker was jovially interested.†
Chpt 9
- Mrs. Coughlin and Mrs. Tromp bewailed the cost of laundry soap and butter, and exchanged recipes for pickled peaches, while the men, sitting on the edge of the porch, their knees crossed, eloquently waving their cigars, gave themselves up to the ecstasy of shop-talk: "Say, Doctor, how do you find collections?"†
Chpt 17
- He was more eloquent than ever; then he was annoyed.†
Chpt 17
- As they walked home Leora was eloquently silent.†
Chpt 20
- Nobody would ever stand by him as she had, and he loved her— He dried himself violently; he dashed in with repentances; they told each other that they were the most reasonable persons living; they kissed with eloquence; and then Leora reflected: "Just the same, my lad, I'm not going to help you fool yourself.†
Chpt 20
- But more dismaying was the slimy trail of the dollar which he beheld in Pickerbaugh's most ardent eloquence.†
Chpt 21
- Martin estimated that Pickerbaugh must have used half his time in being inspirational and eloquent.†
Chpt 24
- Her lawyer was also the lawyer of F. X. Jordan, and the most eloquent witness against Martin was Dr. Irving Watters.†
Chpt 24
- The world has always been ruled by the Philanthropists: by the doctors that want to use therapeutic methods they do not understand, by the soldiers that want something to defend their country against, by the preachers that yearn to make everybody listen to them, by the kind manufacturers that love their workers, by the eloquent statesmen and soft-hearted authors—and see once what a fine mess of hell they haf made of the world!†
Chpt 26
Definition:
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(eloquent) powerful use of language