Use eloquent in a sentence
Sentences ending with eloquent
- Said to be very eloquent. [6]
- Brother O. was very eloquent. [2]
- He was inclined to take Miss Thorn's advice, for he made a gesture of weariness with his cigarette, in the use of which he was singularly eloquent. [9]
- Through her grief her face was eloquent. [11]
- Bowers of delicate ferns and vines flanked the path, and an occasional clump of giant cedars invited us: the world was eloquent. [11]
- He has wonderful eyes--big, and kind, and eloquent. [5]
- Her silence was eloquent. [9]
- His courage grew as the sentences spread out before him; he became eloquent. [11]
- Her curiosity was aroused, she was unable to classify this tall man whose long and narrow face was accentuated by a pointed brown beard, whose lips gleamed red as he spoke, whose slim hands were eloquent. [9]
- She grew eloquent. [11]
Sentences containing eloquent two or more times
- They are piteous wails, too, wails of despair; and one of them is an eloquent reproach; it comes from a poor fellow who has been laden beyond his strength by a stupid teacher, and is eloquent in spite of the poverty of its English. [5]
- It was Arras, one of those few magic names, eloquent with suggestions of mediaeval romance and art, intrigue and chivalry; while upon their significance, since the war began, has been superimposed still another, no less eloquent but charged with pathos. [9]
More example sentences with the word eloquent in them
- There was a wondering and eloquent silence for a moment, then a great wave of laughter began to sweep along that human sea, but a warning bugle-blast cut its career short. [5]
- What desecrating hand will ever banish that eloquent unfinished surprise from that place? [5]
- Despite their costumes, which were negligible, they were eloquent of college campuses in every one of our eight and forty States, lean, thin-hipped, alert. [9]
- Hands clutching money, were thrust aloft out of the jam by men who hoped this eloquent appeal would cleave a road their strugglings could not open. [5]
- Not that she was formal,--or I: our intercourse seemed eloquent of an intimacy in a tantalizing state of suspense. [9]
- The wide, sterile, unpeopled deserts have created eloquent phrases like "No Man's Land" and the "Never-never Country. [5]
- A woman who triumphs over sea-sickness, whom steam from the boilers never affects, nor the propeller-screw disturbs, has little to fear from the words of a man who is neither adroit, eloquent, nor dramatic. [11]
- Painfully, pausing frequently to ponder over these remnants, so eloquent of the fury of the struggle, slipping backward at every step and despite our care getting tangled in the wire, we made our way up the slope. [9]
- He is said to be the most learned and eloquent member of the order. [10]
- It is grand to be eloquent like that, not in words, but in person. [11]
- There came a time when she no longer knew what he was saying: when speech, though eloquent and forceful, seemed a useless medium. [9]
- Some time after this, happening to meet my eloquent cousin, Wendell Phillips, I mentioned the fact to him, and he told me that he had once used the special image said to be borrowed, in a discourse delivered at Williamstown. [6]
- For was not this my darling, and was not all this mute wonder and interest and homage a most eloquent tribute and unforced compliment to it? [5]
- First of all there was an eloquent silence. [9]
- Every now and then a man who may be dull enough prevailingly has a passion of talk come over him which makes him eloquent and silences the rest. [6]
- In the west the sun was slipping down behind the hills, leaving the strong day with a rosy and radiant glamour, that faded away in eloquent tones to the grey, tinsel softness of the zenith. [11]
- He talked in the fewest but directest words, and waxed eloquent in a blunt and colossal way. [11]
- It was impossible that John Malbrouck and his wife could have received him other than they did; his was the eloquent, conquering spirit. [11]
- Add to this that it is the first proof I have asked of his magnanimity, and clothe it all in such winning words as Peitho can lay upon your eloquent lips. [10]
- It is not surprising that the people are proud of it, nor that they put their enthusiasm into eloquent words. [5]
- The redoubtable chief stood in menacing attitude, with his eighteen-foot spear poised; his warriors stood massed at his back, armed for battle, their faces eloquent with their long-cherished loathing for white men. [5]
- Does the exhibit stand upon wide, and loose, and eloquent generalizing--which is not evidence, and not proof--or upon details, particulars, statistics, illustrations, demonstrations? [5]
- Clean shaven, with snowy linen and lace, his own natural hair, silver white, tied in a queue behind, he had large eloquent wondering eyes that seemed always looking, looking beyond the thing he saw. [11]
- Splendidly developed, softly sinewy, warmly bountiful, yet without the least physical over-luxuriance or suggestiveness, Jen, with her tawny hair and dark-brown eyes, was a growth of unrestrained, unconventional, and eloquent life. [11]
- But above all, she was cowed by the sudden change in Janet herself, by the attitude of steely determination eloquent of an animus persons of Lise's type are incapable of feeling, and which to them is therefore incomprehensible. [9]
- Anatole was not quick-witted, nor ready or eloquent in conversation, but he had the faculty, so invaluable in society, of composure and imperturbable self-possession. [2]
- All this Othman pointed out in eloquent words, repeatedly and sternly silencing the Vekeel when he sought to argue in favor of the sentence of death; and the humane persuasiveness of the lenient judge won the hearts of most of the Moslems. [10]
- The voice was persuasive, eloquent, going to every far retreat of emotion in her. [11]
- Nothing one sees, perhaps, is so eloquent of the change that has taken place in the life and fabric of our navy. [9]
- Pain and illness paralysed his keen intellect, and difficulty of breathing often checked the eloquent tongue, both of which had served him so readily in his intercourse with Heinz Schorlin. [10]
- It is my opinion that it was as fine and simple and straightforward and eloquent a state paper as she ever uttered. [5]
- The other day one of the gentlemen from Georgia [Mr. Iverson], an eloquent man, and a man of learning, so far as I can judge, not being learned myself, came down upon us astonishingly. [7]
- Their companion, however, on the other side of the boat, was eloquent in prayers to be rescued. [11]
- Yes, in spite of your eloquent letter lying here beside me, you do not wish it, and it shall not be. [11]
- The last light of the setting sun was reflected from the red roof of the Little Chemist's shop upon the quaint figure and eloquent face, which had in it something of the gentleman, something of the comedian. [11]
- A glance full of promise flashed upon him from her eloquent eyes, and, turning toward the pedestal at the same instant, she asked softly, "Is the compensation I must and will bestow connected with the Arachne? [10]
- I have heard of one French sermon which closed in this odd yet eloquent way: My hearers, we have sad cause to remember the man of the 13th January. [5]
- At the close of his truly masterly and convincing speech, the audience gave three enthusiastic cheers for Illinois, and three more for the eloquent Whig member from the State. [7]
- The main portion of Heinz Schorlin's task was completed when the countess's ambassador reached him, so he set out on his homeward way at once, and this time his silent friend had been eloquent and told him everything which had occurred during his absence. [10]
- Even more eloquent of democratic folly was that part of the town through which we presently passed, streets lined with rows of dreary houses where the workers lived. [9]
- We felt the occasion to be somehow too significant, too eloquent for words.... [9]
- She was never obvious or commonplace, and long before I began to experience the discomforts and sufferings of youthful love I was fascinated by a nature eloquent with contradictions and inconsistencies. [9]
- Heinz Schorlin had obtained no assent, yet the last glance from her eyes had been more eloquent than many a verbal promise, and he gazed after her enraptured. [10]
- But it was not the news of her husband's accident that inspired the greater fear, which was quelled and soothed only to rise again when I recalled the note I had heard in her voice, a note eloquent of tragedy--of tragedy she had foreseen. [9]
- In recalling this noble act of the lowly servitor he grew eloquent, and described minutely what the poor fellow had suffered, and how, after Katterle had left him, he lay motionless, with his thin, pale face irradiated by a grateful smile. [10]
- At the bare name of a bull or a cow, his eye would light and his eloquent tongue would turn itself loose. [5]
- Under my hand, my friends, rests a stranger's eloquent recognition of what we are; through him the world will always henceforth know what we are. [5]
- Silent eyes are much more eloquent than all the tongues in the world. [10]
- Melville seemed to me the most eloquent, Maurice the most in earnest; had I the choice, it is Maurice whose ministry I should frequent. [14]
- However eloquent they may be, they are needless witnesses. [10]
- I like a master standing firm on legs of iron, well born, rich, handsome, eloquent, loaded with advantages, drawing all men by fascination into tributaries and supporters of his power. [6]
- Michael McGrath, was making from the platform an eloquent plea for order and peace, promising a Committee of Arbitration and thinking about soldiers, the leader and the philosophy were landing in Hampton. [9]
- At rare and long intervals, however, he sighs a sigh that is the eloquent expression of a secret confession, to wit "I am useless and a nuisance, a cumberer of the earth. [5]
- While I write, it seems as if I saw again that poor little bearer of the first evil tidings, and heard once more the first shots which interrupted his prophecy with eloquent confirmation. [10]
- Concerning these Pacific isles and their peoples an eloquent prophet spoke long years ago--five and fifty years ago. [5]
- On this he is eloquent, if on nothing else. [6]
- And when she is eloquent, and speaks rapidly and urgently in our ear, are we not to write to her dictation? [14]
- M. Brown-Sequard's example is as, eloquent as his teaching in proof of the advantages of well directed scientific investigation. [3]
- We fell unconsciously into the habit of judging of a man's station in life by this outward and eloquent sign. [5]
- They were eloquent in their protestations, but Mr. Driscoll was not moved by them. [5]
- He was not ill-looking, according to the village standard, parted his hair smoothly, tied his white cravat carefully, was fluent, plausible, had a gift in prayer, was considered eloquent, was fond of listening to their spiritual experiences, and had a sickly wife. [6]
- It is enough if he himself caught inspiration from those eloquent lips; but many a listener has had his youthful enthusiasm fired by that great master of academic oratory. [6]
- I think, that, if any experienced lecturer gives you a different account from this, it will probably be one of those eloquent or forcible speakers who hold an audience by the charm of their manner, whatever they talk about,--even when they don't talk very well. [6]
- I thought, but I will not be certain, that some of his arguments were addressed to Number Five rather than to the jury,--the more eloquent passages especially. [6]
- Twenty-seven years ago, I heard him make the most noble and eloquent and beautiful speech that has ever fallen from even his capable lips. [5]
- Wretched nest of human vermin about the fountain--rags, dirt, sunken cheeks, pallor of sickness, sores, projecting bones, dull, aching misery in their eyes and ravenous hunger speaking from every eloquent fibre and muscle from head to foot. [5]
- We never came home from an absence that its face did not light up and speak out its eloquent welcome--and we could not enter it unmoved. [5]
- The poet finds his materials everywhere, as Emerson tells him in this eloquent apostrophe:-- "Thou true land-bird! [6]
- Buckthorne's advice to his friend is, never to be eloquent to an author except in praise of his own works, or, what is nearly as acceptable, in disparagement of the work of his contemporaries. [4]
- The Minorite Egidius, his friend and companion in years, must carry on with Eva, Father Ignatius, the most eloquent member of the order in Nuremberg, with Heinz Schorlin, the work which he, Benedictus, had begun. [10]
- Every accusation against him has been amply proved, and they have been indorsed and reindorsed by his own eloquent silence, till at this day he stands forever convicted. [5]
- A friend of hers, who wrote to me on the appearance of the eloquent article in the Daily News upon the "Death of Currer Bell," gives an anecdote which may well come in here. [14]
- In her conversation, her pulpit, her literature, it is her most frequent and eloquent figure. [5]
- She listened to her eloquent discourse, but she could not help blushing, used as she was to Lurida's audacities. [6]
- It was the head of a tragedienne or a martyr, and the lean, rather beautiful body was eloquent of life. [11]
- In eloquent words he described to Diodoros and Melissa all he had felt, and the terrible consequences of his heedless folly, and as he spoke acute regret filled his eyes with tears. [10]
- Never before had he been so eloquent as while describing how, in the ravine, he had stepped on some loose stones and rolled head foremost down into the chasm with them. [10]
- The little gentleman's hand was as thin and fine as a lady's, his shoulders were narrow and slightly stooped, his eye was eloquent and benign. [11]
- Fences, sheds, everything had a ruined look, and were eloquent of poverty. [5]
- Her air of good-fellowship with men was eloquent of a precise knowledge of what she might expect from them, and she was prepared to do her own policing,--not from any deep moral convictions. [9]
- I was only going to say"--but in his flurry nothing occurred to him to say, for a moment; then by a lucky inspiration he thought of something entirely sufficient for the occasion, and brought it out with eloquent force: "Oh, how beautiful you are! [5]
- Who could have gazed unmoved into the beautiful face, so eloquent in its silent suffering, whose soul would not have been deeply touched by the sorrowful tones of her sweet voice? [10]
- Far be it from him to cast any suspicion upon the motives of the able, eloquent and ingenious lawyers of the state; they act officially; their business is to convict. [5]
- Russell, of ruddy face and ruffled shirt memory, Editor of "The Columbian Centinel," spoke of it in his paper the next day as "the most eloquent prayer ever addressed to a Boston audience. [6]
- Many an eloquent eye testified its deep admiration for the chief, and many a detective's voice murmured, "Look at him--just the king of the profession; only give him a clue, it's all he wants, and there ain't anything hid that he can't find. [5]
- He was surpassingly eloquent; but many eloquent men fail utterly, and they are not, as a class, generally successful. [7]
- He would be eloquent, or perish. [5]
- That box was eloquent with the care with which he had studied her slightest desires and caprices. [9]
- It was more eloquent than speech. [5]
- More illuminating words, eloquent of Mr. Plimpton's ideals. [9]
- She knew how eloquent Barode Barouche could be; she knew how his voice had all the ravishment of silver bells to the unsuspecting. [11]
- He only became eloquent and animated, when the conversation turned upon subjects connected with his art. [10]
- The room was eloquent almost to affectation of the system and order of great business, inasmuch as it betrayed not the least sign of a workshop. [9]
- At breakfast, held earlier than usual on my account, my mother's sympathy was the more eloquent for being unspoken, while my father wore an air of unwonted cheerfulness; charging me, when I departed, to give his kindest remembrances to my Cousin Robert Breck. [9]
- He was stricken dumb; but the wide-eyed wonder, the reverent admiration expressed in his face were more eloquent than any words could have been. [5]
- It was--" "There, don't be so eloquent, Lablanche. [11]
- This eloquent fact could not be unfruitful at the end of a hot political canvass. [5]
- Palmer and Forbes could never get through a speech without attacking each other, and each in his own way was formidably effective--Palmer in virile and eloquent abuse, Forbes in courtly and elegant but scalding satire. [5]
- No ordinary observer could guess the mind that lay behind the eloquent, glowing eyes. [11]
- No gentle speech could ever have equaled that curse in eloquent expression of what he felt for Jane Withersteen. [13]
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