harangues
Example Sentences
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Harangues, so potent in convening the host, were utterly powerless when employed for their separation.
From London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. by Unknown
O'er globes, and sceptres, now on thrones it swells; Now, trims the midnight lamp in college cells: 'Tis tory, whig; it plots, prays, preaches, pleads, Harangues in senates, squeaks in masquerades.
From The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 by Young, Edward
They are so much given to Speech-making, that their common Complements, to any Person they respect, at meeting and parting, are made in Harangues.
From The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada Part I, Part II by Colden, Cadwallader
With difficulty: amid jubilee and scarcity; Patriotic Gifts, Bakers'-queues; Abbe-Fauchet Harangues, with their Amen of platoon-musketry!
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
The grave divine, with knotty points perplext, As if he were awake, nods o'er his text: While the sly mountebank attends his trade, Harangues the rabble, and is better paid.
From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by Browning, William Ernst
