pretty speech
Example Sentences
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“Brutus made a pretty speech, but Caesar was betrayed.”
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 5, 2016
He needed no second bidding; though I think that she would have listened without displeasure to another pretty speech, and an older man would certainly have made one.
From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman
“What have you to say to that pretty speech, John Armstrong?” asked Uncle Peabody.
From The Spell by William Dana Orcutt
The other gentlemen might receive no high opinion of the new arrival's social talents; who did not even understand how to make a pretty speech to a lady.
From Riven Bonds. Vol. I. A Novel, in Two Volumes by E. Werner
"Miss Hagar must have sat up all last night getting that pretty speech by heart," said Minnette, fixing her mocking black eyes on the face of the spinster.
From Sharing Her Crime by May Agnes Fleming
