pretty speech
Example Sentences
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“Brutus made a pretty speech, but Caesar was betrayed.”
From The New Yorker • Aug. 5, 2016
That is a pretty speech to make to a lady!
From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
“I can’t make a pretty speech in return for that, Miss Bellwood,” he replied, “but you know how much more comfortable I shall be to know that you are all safe.”
From The Mynns' Mystery by Fenn, George Manville
Marie Antoinette was beginning to realise that all France did not fawn upon her with the courtier's bended shoulder or pretty speech.
From Vigée Le Brun by MacFall, Haldane
She rewarded Frank’s pretty speech by ringing for tea.
From From Veldt Camp Fires by Bryden, H.A.
