philippic
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And the third Philippic of Cicero: "We are born to honour and liberty; either let us keep them, or die with honour."
From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous
She sank gasping into the chair, from which she had risen to hurl her Philippic at Rita's head, and by sheer force of her indomitable will caused a most alarming pallor to overspread her face.
From A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties by Major, Charles
He then goes on in the Philippic to read a letter which Antony had sent to Hirtius and to young Cæsar, and which they had sent on to the Senate.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
Then it was that he spoke the third Philippic, and in the evening of the same day he spoke the fourth to the people.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
The Second Philippic also was not delivered but issued as a pamphlet.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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