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Example sentences for "declaim"

Lexicographically close words:
decking; deckle; deckload; decks; deckt; declaimed; declaimer; declaimers; declaiming; declaims
  1. He never ceases to declaim about the injustice of slavery, because it regards, as he is pleased to assert, a man as a mere thing or a brute.

  2. The four disguised members of the Comedie Francaise on board the vessel from San Francisco, to declaim and prove the superior merits of the Gallic tongue, jumped me to bravo the cleverness.

  3. Bouthoin declaim some lines of Homer, and beseeches him for the designation of that language.

  4. Be it further ordained, That no negro shall be permitted to preach, exhort, or otherwise declaim to congregations of colored people, without a special permission in writing from the president of the police jury.

  5. There are the Orthobrachians, who declaim against the shameful abuse of the left arm and hand, and insist on restoring their perfect equality with the right.

  6. Or suppose he was making an offer of his hand and heart, do you think he would declaim a versified proposal to his Amanda, or perhaps write an impromptu on the back of his hat while he knelt before her?

  7. This angered him very much, and made him declaim against what he considered to be bigotry and intolerance.

  8. As a rule soap-box orators declaim against things about which they know little or nothing.

  9. Almshouses are not usually built by those who declaim against church architecture; nor is utilitarianism famous for its charities.

  10. Of those who declaim about his want of courage few indeed would have dared so much.

  11. Wagner used to declaim greatly against Mendelssohnian tradition, in the orchestra,--that no movement should be taken too slow, for fear of wearying the audience.

  12. It is for wiseacres and charlatans to declaim and domineer.

  13. Mademoiselle de Glapion, whose voice went to the heart, to declaim the beautiful verses of the part of Mordecai!

  14. In Dresden Davison undertook this, and in Zwickau Frau Ritter will declaim it.

  15. I have heard her sing and declaim several times in the last few days, and each time with increasing interest.

  16. On this day also it was the custom for boys still at school to declaim pieces of poetry, and to receive prizes (Plato, Timaeus, 21 B).

  17. And then some will be willing to declaim who will not attempt to debate.

  18. All of which are repeated and amplified in the electoral assemblies, where new-made citizens come to declaim and increase their own excitement.

  19. Dominating these was the wish to do as he was asked--to declaim a part of the sermon.

  20. He began to declaim Mark's peroration in a slow, impressive voice, the kind of voice which seems to fill the corners of the soul with echoes at once strange and familiar.

  21. And this is the reason why I like better the logic of those men who, declaiming against the invasion of foreign merchandise, declaim likewise against the excess of production which is due to the inventive power of the human mind.

  22. Declaim on self-sacrifice as much as you choose, it is all very fine and very beautiful, but be at least consistent.

  23. They taught their penitent to declaim against the new doctrines, which she denominated heresy; against innovations in ecclesiastical government; and against the king's intended divorce from Catharine.

  24. To harbor the persecuted preachers, to neglect the fasts of the church, to declaim against the vices of the clergy, were capital offences.

  25. The piece turns always on the same point; they all declaim against each other, but no one acts; and at the conclusion, the affair is decided as if by accident, by the blind chance of war.

  26. He breaks out into joyful thanksgiving, while the Furies on the other hand declaim against the overbearing arrogance of these younger gods, who take such liberties with those of Titanic race.

  27. Nobody will listen to you declaim the confession and then declaim it over and over again and nothing more.

  28. Forty years ago the school-boys all over the country were accustomed to memorize and declaim these patriotic utterances.

  29. It was no task now for him to stand up and declaim before the professors and students.

  30. Sometimes in the evening, with the other five children around him, he would declaim some piece that he had learned; or he would deliver a speech of his own on some subject of common interest.

  31. When it came his turn to declaim before the school, he had not the courage to do it.

  32. Miserable physicians of souls, you declaim for five quarters of an hour against the mere pricks of a pin, and say no word on the curse which tears us into a thousand pieces!

  33. But no one could declaim them better than he could, and his personal presence was therefore indispensable.

  34. Talking with the most impassioned vehemence, and the most redundant energy of gesture, he went on to declaim against the influences of civilisation upon language and manners as being fatal to all real poetry.


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