I suppose he wants to deliver a ridiculous monologue.

He tells her to attend to her own affairs and remember that silence is a woman's greatest charm, and before committing suicide he utters a monologue in which he says farewell to his parents and to his country, but has no last message for Tecmessa.

This is as though the author were holding a monologue; whereas, it ought to be a dialogue; and a dialogue, too, in which he must express himself all the more clearly inasmuch as he cannot hear the questions of his interlocutor.

Redwood became anxious to end this amazing monologue, to escape to sanity and judgment, to that beleaguered camp, the fastness of the future, where, at the very nucleus of greatness, the Sons were gathered together.

Therefore, in spite of the mystery she deems fit to surround herself with, I heard the following monologue: "He is young, handsome, rich, intelligent; she would be a fool if she did not fall in love with him at once.

Nothing would induce me in so idle a monologue as this to discuss adequately a great political matter like the question of the military punishments in Egypt.

He kept up a continual monologue directed at the cow and his horse, and so he did not hear the approach of Riley Sinclair until the outlaw was close upon him.

" Standing at a table in the center of the stage, with his friends grouped about him, he delivers that inimitable, rambling character monologue so famous in A Magnolia Flower, at the same time that he deftly makes juleps for the party.

A neurasthenic undergraduate comes home to a lonely country-house, reads French monologues, and finds them stupid.

The dinner lasted till rather late, and terminated in an unexpected manner by an offer from Caterna to recite a monologue.

But suddenly he would go back to the tale of his fighting in Lorraine and resume a long and rapid monologue in which little pictures of horror flashed after each other as though his brain were a cinematograph recording some melodrama.

And as he terminated this envenomed monologue the Cardinal thrust the fatal paper into his breast, and clasped his hands convulsively together; his dim eyes flashed fire, his thin lips quivered, his pale countenance became livid, and the storm of concentrated passion shook his frail form as with an ague-fit.

It was true that a word or look from Flip generally brought these monologues to an inglorious and abrupt termination, but they were none the less lugubrious as long as they lasted.

The audience doubtless welcomed long monologues if they were well delivered and presented ideas of worth.

The books containing the monologues of these characters take first place among Browning's writings and occupy a high position in the century's work.

The company continued to talk, whilst Johnson continued his monologue, the word "bear" occurring at intervals, like a word in a catch.