At dinner that day, Ginevra and Paulina each looked, in her own way, very beautiful; the former, perhaps, boasted the advantage in material charms, but the latter shone pre-eminent for attractions more subtle and spiritual: for light and eloquence of eye, for grace of mien, for winning variety of expression.
Heathcliff's anger restored to the boy his coward's eloquence.
" I imagined, for a moment, that this piece of eloquence was addressed to me; and, sufficiently enraged, stepped towards the aged rascal with an intention of kicking him out of the door.
All agreed that the lecture should be public, that others might share the pleasure with them, and perhaps be converted by a higher eloquence than any they possessed.
' Mother said we had better be making up our minds, because every one is talking about it, and we shall have to be on one side or the other, so we may as well settle it now," answered Frank, for there was an impression among the members that all vexed questions would be much helped by the united eloquence and wisdom of the club.
The two clubs frequently met and mingled their attractions in a really entertaining manner, for the speakers made good actors, and the young actresses were most appreciative listeners to the eloquence of each budding Demosthenes.
"Have as little 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 in
I never heard such good preaching as his—such plain, easy eloquence.
Brooke, whose masculine consciousness was at this moment in rather a stammering condition under the eloquence of his niece.
Catherine wished to congratulate him, but knew not what to say, and her eloquence was only in her eyes.
Where else in the country would you find such wit and eloquence as emanate from Depew and Ford, and—" "If you take the papers," interrupted the Westerner, "you must have read of Pete Webster's daughter.
But he has his reward, for he is trusted and convinces, as those who are at the mercy of their own eloquence do not; and he gives a pleasure all the greater for being hardly noticed.
Wang Yi Fan August 25 Lecture and Eloquence By Dr.
Such eloquence, Gared,Ser Waymar observed.
Stay still and you can hear Rising of sun, ferocious cries Speaking of birth about your ear, An eloquence of skies.
Love and business teach eloquence.
Unhappily, I possess neither that eloquence of diction, that poetry of imagination, nor that brilliance of metaphor to tell you all that they mean.
O, let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast, Who plead for love and look for recompense More than that tongue that more hath more express'd.
Eloquence 5.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
