"Speechifying" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... but not offensive familiarity, "I guess, parson, thet you and Mrs. Deighton hed better form yourselves inter a committee of welcome, and tell them so; I ain't much in the polite speechifying line myself, neither is 'Schneider' here," nodding at the German, "and you can sling in somethin' ornymental 'bout me bein' the representative of the United States—a gentleman a-recrootin' of his health in the South Sea Islands doorin' ...
— The Tapu Of Banderah - 1901 • Louis Becke
... to go to the wars, but you don't go to the wars yourselves. War meetin's is very nice in their way, but they don't keep STONEWALL JACKSON from comin' over to Maryland and helpin' himself to the fattest beef critters. What we want is more cider and less talk. We want you able-bodied men to stop speechifying, which don't 'mount to the wiggle of a sick cat's tail, and to go fi'tin'; otherwise you can stay to home and take keer of the children, while we wimin will ...
— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 2 • Charles Farrar Browne
... you think is the news about the seedy-looking fellow you treated by mistake to all that speechifying?" ...
— The Astonishing History of Troy Town • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... sentence of the Greek, though they had not an idea what it was about—how Barnworth was similarly encouraged through his Latin Oration with cries of "Jump it out!" "One inch more!" mingled sometimes with "False quantity!" "Speak up, prompter!"—how, after the speechifying was done, the examiners rose and made their reports, which nobody listened to and ...
— The Master of the Shell • Talbot Baines Reed
... abundance. About thirty persons sat down to the first table the others waiting with true Indian patience for their turn to come; and a long time it was coming, for as soon as the first set had finished, an intermission was made for music and speechifying. Several very pretty songs were sung by the Indian choir, some in English and ...
— Missionary Work Among The Ojebway Indians • Edward Francis Wilson
... and their aims senseless and—fortunately—unattainable, and for that very reason he did not fear them. But deprive the Socialists of the possibility of expressing themselves freely in word and print, and their grievances, which now found vent in harmless speechifying, would assume the ...
— The Malady of the Century • Max Nordau |
