26 adjectives to describe speakings

Then, as it were, stung into plain speaking: "Shamán say white man bring sicknessbring devils" "Maybe the old Orang Outang's right.

ORR, FREDERICK W. Essentials of effective speaking.

The art of choral speaking.

He immediately follows this non-sequitur with a reference to the lying Hebrew midwives, and he quotes the declaration of God's blessing on them, as if it were an approval of their lying, or their false speaking with an intention to deceive, instead of an approval of their spirit of devotion to God's people.

All this was said seriously, without loud speaking, without gesture, in a confidential tone.

Even Pap smiled, and Mandy herself, who had been looking a bit terrified after her bold speaking, was reassured.

Foremost among the gifts by which he acquired his supreme ascendency must be placed his power of parliamentary speaking.

" "Well, my daughter, don't talk after her; gossip is liable to degenerate into evil speaking and then I think it tends to degrade and belittle the mind to dwell on the defects and imperfections of our neighbors.

"WhyerI don't suppose they'll make any secret of it," Billy stammered, in tardy repentance of his hasty speaking.

He was a great upholder of the doctrine that truth is to be sought for its own sake and without reference to any ulterior end, and he had strong ideas about the discreditthe shamefulness, as it seemed to himof speaking or writing on any subject until it had been mastered down to its last detail.

If you think you can endure perfect discipline and incessant plain speaking go to him, Esmeralda.

C. P. In embellishment, his aim must be to give pleasure; in judicial speaking, to excite either the severity or the clemency of the judge; but in persuasion, to excite either the hope or the fear of the assembly which is deliberating.

i. 2; for a famous case of "obstruction" by lengthy speaking, Gell.

One irrepressible movement of his hands toward her, the mere speaking of her name in a voice warmed by the old passion, would have brought her, rapturous, to his knees.

We do not object to the prompt out-speaking of the public.

An overpowering evil are the secret speakings of slander, to the slandered and to the listener thereto alike, and are as foxes in relentless temper.

A superior speaking or writing to an inferior, might prefix to his or her title of relationship beau or belle; for instance, mon bel oncle, ma belle cousine.

Listen, a little while, And hear the reason why your weary smile And lute-toned speaking is so very sweet, And how my love of you is more complete Than any love of any lover.

If the gestures are good, the most wretched speaking is tolerated.

When she told the meaning of a big word they were all so taken up with admiration that it never occurred to any dog to doubt if it was the right one; and that was natural, because, for one thing, she answered up so promptly that it seemed like a dictionary speaking, and for another thing, where could they find out whether it was right or not?

From much speaking through many years my voice was hoarse, from a severe fall I was quite lame, and as standing, and distinct speaking are important to graceful oratory, I felt like the king's daughter in Shakespeare's play of "Titus Andronicus," when rude men who had cut her hands off and her tongue out, told her to call for water and wash her hands.

We listen to eloquent speaking, read books and write them, settle all the affairs of the universe.

Then, when her mirth had subsided a little, she said: "Just fancy speaking of a girl as 'Poor Mary' whose father has an income of five or six thousand pounds a year!"

Fast speaking (which is a symptom of some few) Aetius will have caused "from abundance of wind, and swiftness of imagination:" "baldness comes from excess of dryness," hirsuteness from a dry temperature.

Reading good literature for the love of it will bring in the habit of grammatical speaking and writing far more effectively than what is known as "a thorough grounding in the principles of English grammar."

26 adjectives to describe  speakings