"Magniloquently" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... amused at finding himself in the position of a man of business, regulating what was then regarded as a princely fortune. The brewery was sold after a time, and Johnson bustled about with an ink-horn and pen in his button-hole. When asked what was the value of the property, he replied magniloquently, "We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." The brewery was in fact sold to Barclay, Perkins, and Co. for the sum of 135,000l., and some years afterwards it was the largest concern ...
— Samuel Johnson • Leslie Stephen
... the family," grunted the Friar. "I reserve to myself the satisfaction of cutting him dead the next opportunity," he added magniloquently. ...
— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge
... the men—that is, all who had been alert enough to provide pen and paper—bestowed themselves about the candles allotted each group, and began letters "home," dated magniloquently "Headquarters in the Field. Tyler's Division, Sherman's Brigade, 16th July, 1861." The imperial impulse manifested itself in these curt epistles. I ...
— The Iron Game - A Tale of the War • Henry Francis Keenan
... Algernon magniloquently condoled with his sister-in-law on the injustice from which she and her sister had suffered, in consequence of the adverse influence which surrounded her brother, and generously informed her that she had a champion to defeat the machinations ...
— The Young Step-Mother • Charlotte M. Yonge |
