pretty speech
Example Sentences
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“Brutus made a pretty speech, but Caesar was betrayed.”
From The New Yorker • Aug. 5, 2016
A pretty speech for a man scarce twelve months married—for you!
From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne
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 Werner, E.
This pretty speech was followed by a little pause, during which he came up the steps and led her along the verandah towards two empty chairs at the farther end.
From The Red Rat's Daughter by Boothby, Guy
John Willie, eating his supper almost savagely, had some ado to reply politely to June's rills of pretty speech.
From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver
