20 Verbs to Use for the Word peroration

He had reached his peroration, and Dorothea, who knew every word of it by heart, was on the alert.

"Mind you," he said, concluding a peroration which his wife listened to with her fingers in her ears"mind you, I reckon I've been absolutely done by you and your precious Uncle George.

At 12.15 I began my peroration.

Strange demonstration believed to be unofficial and without U.S. government sanction, although U. S. Navy chaplain delivers eloquent peroration in English.

They were discussing the depressing peroration of the lecture they had just heard, the last lecture it was in the introductory course in zoology.

One learns what were the special attributes of bearing, voice, or gesture, the circumstances of delivery, or even the antecedent conditions of character and reputation, which perhaps doomed some magnificent peroration to ludicrous failure, or, on the contrary, "ordained strength" out of stammering lips and disjointed sentences.

But looking down on the ground as he strove to find a fitting peroration, he observed that the army's shoes were sadly in want of the blacking brush, so he concluded with more of animation and significance than he had before evinced) "and keep your shoes clean!" I may find room further on to say a few words of what I remember of the revolution which dethroned poor gran ciuco.

Eloquence, fire, sarcasm, pathos, passion, all in turn were bent against Christian superstition, till the great audience, carried away by the torrent of the orator's force, hung silent, breathing soft, as he went on, till the silence that followed a magnificent peroration broke the spell, and a hurricane of cheers relieved the tension.

I knew his peroration by heart.

Hawk's speech was merely introductory, and it was nearing its peroration.

Condivi opens his peroration with the following paragraphs: "Now, to conclude this gossiping discourse of mine, I say that it is my opinion that in painting and sculpture nature bestowed all her riches with a full hand upon Michelangelo.

Quintilian praises the peroration of Priam's speech begging Achilles for the body of Hector, and Cicero gives a rhetorical analysis of the speech of the old man in the Andria of Terence, where the arrangement is especially appropriate to the character of the speaker.

And he spurted on at a mad pace, with a hurried voice, forgetting the devices he had thought of to prolong the peroration, dumping them out all in a heapanything to get through!

At this moment I can recollect almost word for word the stirring and eloquent peroration with which Mr. Bright closed his first address to his Birmingham constituents.

Brougham rewrote his celebrated peroration on the trial of Queen Caroline seventeen times.

Wait, soul, until thine ashen garments fall, And then resume thy broken strains, and seek Fit peroration without let or thrall!"

What chiefly concerned Ben-Zayb was not to throw away the article, to give importance to the affair, so that he could use the peroration.

Yet the minstrel added a new peroration.

he wound up a peroration.

Intending to amplify his peroration by a figure he said, "Swear, but I will prescribe the oath.

20 Verbs to Use for the Word  peroration