So wonderfully eloquent was he, that whatever he might choose to say, his auditors had no choice but to believe him; wrong looked like right, and right like wrong; for when it pleased him, he could make a kind of illuminated fog with his mere breath, and obscure the natural daylight with it.

The ring, which she certainly wore that night, might give the secret away; but it is not gifted with speech, though as a silent witness it is exceedingly eloquent.

As the man sat there nervously smoking his long, "green" cigar, and telling me of the Gómezes, both the white one and the black one, of Macéo and Bandera, he grew positively eloquent.

Where Oscar would have been finely eloquent, Gustavus shows himself merely sensible.

Mr. Gathergold, type of the merely rich man, Old Blood-and-Thunder, type of the merely military hero, Old Stony Phiz, type of the merely eloquent statesman, the easily satisfied people, type of the fickle crowd, and at last the gifted poet, type of the discord between words and works, all were natives of the same valley of opportunity.

Said one, of a speaker,"He was so rarely eloquent, that what he did not say was even better than what he did."

It is from that reason that we venture to lay ourselves so open, that we dare to be so warmly eloquent, and that we swell in each other's eyes to such a vast proportion.

He was a great favorite, and received perpetual ovations whenever he travelled, always ready to make speeches at public meetings, which were undoubtedly eloquent and instructive, but not masterpieces like those of Webster at Plymouth and Bunker Hill.

Amongst the first things that seem to be useless, may be reckoned the high tossing and swaggering preaching, either mountingly eloquent, or profoundly learned.

To reach it we ran a matter of seven kilometers through a succession of villages, each with its mutely eloquent tale of devastation and general smash to tell; each with its group of contemptuously tolerant German soldiers on guard and its handful of natives, striving feebly to piece together the broken and bankrupt fragments of their worldly affairs.

The bishop was more than ordinarily eloquent that evening; but the bride, in her white robe, sitting beside her husband, heard only the words of the text: "He shall choose our inheritan

The passionately eloquent reply of the boy captain is yet remembered by those who heard it.

The air of relief that was written on his face was pathetically eloquent.

The supporters of it were Lord Grenville, who introduced it, Lord Loughborough, Lord Holland, and Dr. Horsley, Bishop of Rochester: the latter was peculiarly eloquent.

The breakers seemed to signal to each other; they were cruelly eloquent with menacing gestures.

Possibly the young doctor's expression was rather more un-professionally eloquent than he knew.

He was curiously eloquent.

She talked real eloquent about it, and kinder begun to shed tears.

I listened to his opening; it was clear, skilful, and persuasive, but his closing argument was said to be splendidly eloquent.

It was genuinely interesting, and often strikingly eloquent, yet all the time it was entirely free from mystery, vagueness, and jargon.

"Thy definition is sublime-eloquent!" "Nay," said Valentin, "we concede that Monsieur de Lepany is sublime; we recognise with admiration that he is eloquent; but we submit that he is wholly unintelligible.

The whole audience wept with him, for his tears were sublimely eloquent.

He was superbly eloquent in his eulogies of great men like Adams and Jefferson.

And if he really was a living speaker to the young men who caught the inspiration of his voice, how terribly eloquent he must have been!

I could not understand the import of his words, but the tones of his voice to our ears were entrancingly eloquent.