47 Verbs to Use for the Word eulogy

In the same discourse he pronounced the eulogy of Dr. Mason, who had died a few days before.

For this act he received praise, as also because he chose to take his place Lucius Sestius, who had always been an enthusiastic follower of Brutus, had campaigned with the latter in all his wars, and even at this time made mention of him, had his images, and delivered eulogies.

[that he had sent them from the island a book containing eulogies upon them; this latter caused him such mortification that he erased the passage.]

To-day's newspaper writes the eulogy of A.B., who recently died at the age of ninety-nine, without ever tasting ardent spirits; to-morrow's will add the epitaph of C.D., aged one hundred, who has imbibed a quart of rum a day since reaching the age of indiscretion; and yet, after all, both editors have to admit that the drinking usages of society are growing decidedly more decent.

He read, with tears, the eulogies upon him [and hastened to have him enrolled among the heroes], pretending just the opposite of what he really wished.

" Mr. Outwood received this eulogy with rather a startled expression, and gazed at the object of the tribute in a surprised way.

But nothing could more betray both his hypocrisy in inveighing against the licentiousness of the secular clergy, and the interested spirit of his partisans, in bestowing such eulogies on his piety, than the usual tenour of his conduct, which was licentious to the highest degree, and violated every law, human and divine.

AGO In Mr. Lamb's "Works," published a year or two since, I find a magnificent eulogy on my old school, such as it was, or now appears to him to have been, between the years 1782 and 1789.

When requested to accept this duty I was confined to my bed, but I could not refuse, and I said: 'Yes, if I have to be lifted to the spot!' "Franklin needs no eulogy from me.

But his claims to a place in French literature, leaving aside his eulogies on members of the French Academy deceased between 1700 and 1772, are based chiefly on his writings in connection with the 'Encyclopédie.'

[Here followed a long eulogy on the gallantry and humanity of the thirty-five captors.

G.H. Boaden and George Colman both bear out Lamb's eulogy of Bensley as Malvolio; but otherwise he is not the subject of much praise.

He was a miserable invalid, he told me, after speaking a little eulogy of his brother and examining me closely, respecting his illness and its symptoms.

" Bull Hunter turned to escape from hearing this eulogy, but he dared not move for fear his retreat might be heardand that would be immensely embarrassing.

She ascended to the capitol; the assembled Roman poets recited her praises; Prince Castel Forte, the most honoured of Roman noblemen, uttered a eulogy of her; and, ere she received the destined bays, she took up her lyre and in accordance with custom gave a poetic improvisation.

"Le gentilhomme," said one of the generals, in acknowledgment of their readiness at a peculiarly critical moment, "est toujours gentilhomme, et se montre toujours tel dans besoin et dans le danger"a eulogy as applicable to them as it was in later days to La Tour d'Auvergne, styled the first grenadier of France.

He also mentioned Dr. Chalmers's eulogy upon them.

this Dingo does not merit so many eulogies, and if he is so strong on the alphabet, it is, without doubt, because he belongs to a species of mastiff, not yet classified in zoological science, the canis alphabeticus of New Zealand.

Every telegraphic wire strung from post to post, as it hums in the wind, murmurs his eulogy.

I desire to note these eulogies side by side with the less favorable reflections which I considered it my duty to write down here.

The condemned may remind those who write, of the fact that it is not quite honest to utter a positive verdict on a book merely glanced through, or to pen glowing eulogies on the mediocre work of a friend while slighting the good one of an enemy; and may further ask whether those who, at the dictation of an employer, write what they disbelieve, are not guilty of the serious offence of adulterating public opinion.

Campbell, pouring from his plaintive shell a tender eulogy to his northern homea glowing tissue of Dreams of the Highland mountains, and echoing streams, And broken glades, breathing their balm.

Mr. McCALLUM SCOTT has been rewarded for his consistent admirationdid he not publish a eulogy of "Winston Churchill in Peace and War" when his hero's fortunes were temporarily clouded?and on two days a week will have the privilege of acting as lightning-conductor.

And then, seeking to relieve these eulogies by some strong contrast, she twisted her face into a wrathful expression.

Angela remembered Nick's eulogy of the man.

47 Verbs to Use for the Word  eulogy