EXTEMPORE VERSES Lowering as Barkaidy's face The wintry night came in, Cold as the music of his bass, And lengthen'd as his chin.

The tame crow already mentioned very readily undertook extempore imitations of words, and with considerable success.

'Tis an extempore Sing-Sing built in a parlor.

Carlyle had no faith in rapid writing of any sort, any more than Daniel Webster had in extempore speaking.

He is one must be point-blank in every trifle, as if his credit and opinion hung upon it; the very space of his arms in an embrace studied before and premeditated, and the figure of his countenance of a fortnight's contriving; he will not curse you without-book and extempore, but in some choice way, and perhaps as some great man curses.

One of the professors read a chapter; gave out a hymn, which was magnificently sung; and then offered an extempore prayer.

And Tom returned to his work, singing an extempore parody of "We met, 'twas in a crowd," ending with "And thou art the cause of this anguish, my pill-box," in a howl so doleful, that Mrs. Heale marched into the shop, evidently making up her mind for an explosion.

This, indeed, if your words fail you, answers even in public extempore speechbut better where other talking is going on.

I never tired on Sunday, and was in condition to leave the sermon at home, if I chose, and preach it extempore, as all men should do always.

I have known a Woman branch out into a long Extempore Dissertation upon the Edging of a Petticoat, and chide her Servant for breaking a China Cup, in all the Figures of Rhetorick.

She added that she hoped she might depend upon having my Encouragement as soon as it arrived; but as this was a Petition of too great Importance to be answered extempore, I left her without a Reply, and made the best of my way to WILL.

His immediate predecessor, a curate in charge, had been one of those in whom a more passionate missionary zeal had been stirred by the Methodist movement"endeared to the more serious inhabitants by warm zeal and a powerful talent for preaching extempore."

After expressing his admiration of the poem, which he had been reading, he gave me the fine testimony of that opinion, in pointing to the sonnet he had written at the close of it, which was an extempore effusion, and it has not the alteration of a single word.

The large majority of sermons are read, though extempore address is now less infrequent than formerly.

First a very long hymn; then two very long extempore prayers (not by Lord R), which were strangely self-sufficient and wanting in reverence.

It was quite extempore, in very simple words, and illustrated by some delightful and most touching stories of children.

But suppose the Bishop, the moment he entered the room, fell on his knees on the mat, clasped his hands, and poured out a flood of passionate and somewhat hysterical extempore prayer, I should say at once and without the smallest hesitation, "Whatever else this man is, he is not an elderly and wealthy cleric of the Church of England.

In Greek and Latin words, in which it has its open sound, and forms a distinct syllable, or the basis of one; as in Penelope, Pasiphaë, Cyaneë, Gargaphië, Arsinoë, apostrophe, catastrophe, simile, extempore, epitome.

His part was, I presume, partly written, partly extempore.

Extempore speaking; a handbook for the student, the coach, and the judge.

She added that she hoped she might depend upon having my Encouragement as soon as it arrived; but as this was a Petition of too great Importance to be answered extempore, I left her without a Reply, and made the best of my way to WILL.

[Footnote 6: "The custom of reading sermons," notes Scott, "seems originally to have arisen in opposition to the practice of Dissenters, many of whom affected to trust to their Inspiration in their extempore harangues."

I know men who have been practising the art of extempore speaking for many years, but who have reached no perfection in it, and who, if one may judge from their confusion and hesitation when they attempt to speak, are not likely ever to reach even decent mediocrity in that wonderful accomplishment.

Whatever he uttered grew out of a whole world of thought, but it grew before themthat is, he always thought afresh in the presence of the people, and spoke extempore.

They complained of lack of variety in his preaching; said he took it too easy; did not study his sermons sufficiently; often spoke extempore, which was a poor compliment to them; did not visit with impartiality, and indeed had all along favored the carriage people.