The gods are angry at the work, and so to put an end to it they confuse the speech of the builders.
And may the god of divine speech [4] expel from his five thousand [5] that wicked thousand 20 who in the midst of his heavenly son, had shouted evil blasphemies!
The biting edge of that terriblespeech had already given the Countess an incurable wound.
The longest speech of the ensuing quarter of an hour was made by Jimmy.
Sid Greenwood was small in comparison, with sharp black eyes, rebellious dark hair and a quick manner of speech and movement.
He felt no excitement about the speech he was to make, and indeed what did that speech amount to?
Marya Petrovna has not listened to Kiryakov for long, but already she feels that she is bored and repelled by him, that his even, measured speech lies like a weight on her soul.
Your speech may be all right for a dead man, but in reference to a living one it is nothing but sarcasm!
Sysoev spoke at length, with pauses to get his breath and with pretensions to rhetoric, and his speech was boring and unpleasant.
His speech pleased everyone and drew some tears, but a good many things in it seemed strange.
Zakusin, wiping from his brow the perspiration that had suddenly appeared on it; he was evidently longing to speak, and in all probability had a speech ready.
Sysoev's speech and his intolerable temper and the horrid, spiteful expression on his face were all forgotten.
The delicate and powerful electrical and atomic mechanism of our ship interfered with the functioning of the menores, and at that time the old habit of speech was far more firmly entrenched, due to hereditary influence, than it is now.
He, luckily, tore off his menore, and insisted in speech that he be brought here.
A hateful, ugly people, perpetually scowling, snarling; their very voices resembled more the growl of wild beasts than the speech of intelligent beings.
Come with me to the governor," he directed, for, while the speech from the rampart was being made, these two underlings had somehow managed to slip away from their perilous place on top of the magazine.
Though all Japanese eyes were downcast, there was a flash of gratitude in every pair as Dan's speech was put into Japanese; though Dan himself could never be made to understand what a tactful one it was.
Indeed, the speech must have had signal effect, for low murmurs ran in all directions through the lately fighting rabble, and by degrees the last efforts at fighting died out on all sides of the compound.
Dave glanced inquiringly at the missionary, who nodded back as much as to say that the governor was making a speech along right lines.
As his speech continued his voice became louder and more authoritative.
While in the act of delivering this strange speech, the gentleman began to drag Margaret, somewhat rudely, out of the room where they were, into another; his speech and the dragging operation going on at the same time.
Confounded, incapable of speech and action, did I remain for some time.
My father took a free glass; and, inspired wi' the generous liquor, made a speech to me as lang as a funeral oration.
The speech which Adam Hunter had made on the occasion of his trial, as already said, excited much sensation, and the truth of the fact stated by him was subjected to investigation.
Every copy brought out some radical, armed with speechor pamphlet.
Paine persisted,--presented hisspeech again the next day.
A secretary read this speech from the tribune,--Paine standing near him, silent, furnishing perhaps an occasional gesture to mark the emphasis.
During all this latter speech the Doctor was standing with his back to Miss Prissy, and his face to the window, just as he did some time before, when Mrs. Scudder came to tell him of Mary's consent.
This tract he distributed among members,--the libretto of the speech he intended to make.
He requested that a speech he had prepared on the subject might be read to the House at once, as he wished to send off a copy to London for the English papers.
In his "Essence of Parliament" we read:-- Lord Ellenborough delivered an alarmist speech about the mutinies in our Indian Army.
Punch was not much interested in the theological controversy involved, though he naturally made play later on with Disraeli's famous "Apes and Angels" speech at Oxford.
Punch reprinted Eyre's speech in Court, and never swerved from the firm conviction that he had saved Jamaican society, white and black, by his promptness and resolution.
Mill, as we notice elsewhere, had more than anyone else shaken Punch's hostility to woman suffrage, but the effect of his speech on capital punishment was even greater.
This speechof Mr. Mill's was the event of the week.
But the bitterest explosion of Punch's wrath against the pampered aristocrats of industry was provoked by a speech in which John Bright complacently dwelt on "the growth of material prosperity and comfort in every class.
The matter of his speech was excellent, its form, occasionally, as extravagant as his getup.
When he made his maiden speech in the House of Commons he had not advanced beyond the stage of the young dandy.
Some men have the easiest way imaginable of dropping into familiar speech with bar-maids and waitresses at a moment's notice, or less.
But she got her speech pretty soon, and protested valiantly.
He early made his mark by a maiden speech delivered on one of the interminable debates on Egypt.
Mr. PUNCH is going to have the speech published in pamphlet form, for distribution among his numerous constituents.
Speaking metaphorically, be goes higher, measures more from the tip of one wing to the other, and is more suggestive of the warbling of a locomotive in his speech than any other Eagle in Philadelphia, which is saying a great deal.
The headmaster did not denounce the school in an impassioned speech from the dais.
Apparently this fact seemed to him enough to cause an epidemic of typhoid fever in the place, and he hauled Kennedy over the coals, in a speech that lasted five minutes, for not having detected this plague-spot in the house.
Art was able, above all, to wring speech from the dumbness of death, and to create new forms out of the dust of ages.
This speech sounded as familiar to Lilly as an old tune in music.
For a moment this speech gave her food for reflection, though how could she possibly be supposed to know to whom it referred?
But your old uncle hasn't had as much as one pretty look or speech from her yet as a seal of our future relationship.
And it is from this bald, hesitating speech that the whole language of Art has arisen.
When someone would beg anything of us and can only stammer out what he has got to say, we are far more touched than if he expressed himself in a stilted speech learnt by heart.
Burroughs conducted himself in a very injudicious way on his trial; but, when he came to be hanged, made so impressive a speech on the ladder, with fervent protestations of innocence, as melted many of the spectators into tears.
The prisoner, on being called on for her defence, in a short speech declared that she was innocent, and concluded by leaving her case in the hands of the jury, who almost immediately declared her not guilty.
He declared, on the gallows, that he was a murdered man, and appealed to the populace, in a speech of some length, in which he endeavoured to convince them of his perfect innocence.
At the place of execution he made a speech which took up some minutes; wherein he acknowledged his guilt, and hoped for forgiveness from the Almighty.
When on the scaffold, he attempted to address the mob; but his speech failed him, and his eyes having been covered with a silk handkerchief at his own request, the drop fell at the usual signal, and in a few minutes he ceased to live.
Once Nance ventured to criticise a speech of Portius; the amiable Addison, unlike the fashion of some other amiable authors, heard her objections with approval, and soon Mr. Pope was again called into consultation.
Their entertainments are derived rather from reason than imagination; which is the cause that there is no impatience or instability in their speech or action.
Who can read the speechwith which young Hamlet accosts him without trembling?
It seemed to her she would scream if she only had the power, but the power of speech was gone for the time being.
Speech and memory will return at the moment the pressure on the brain ceases.
To offer money to this grave, handsome gentleman of refinedspeech and manners was like tipping an Ambassador, or offering the "price of a pot" to your Colonel, or your Grandfather.
When Carmelita clearly understood the purport of this remarkable speech she put her arms around the Bucking Bronco's neck.
Ringing and repeated cheers greeted the longest public speech that Sir Montague Merline had ever made.
The speech which they used was the right Egyptian language, with whom our Englishmen conversing at least learned their language.
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
She turned her dying eyes expressively to the royal visitor, then looked up to heaven; but not a word did she utter; the organs of speechhad ceased their office!
I thought even my poor flowers of speech might be welcome in such a barren waste!
I lost the power to coordinate; my speech grew inarticulate; my shoulders drooped forward across the table edge.
But her brow clouded, at that speech of mine, and she came to a sudden stop.
Before I had completed that speech the maid Felice had stepped into the room.
Richard made no answer, and Ethel presently felt remorseful for her harsh speech about a poor ignorant woman, overwhelmed with poverty, children, and weak health.
Spencer made the finest speechyou ever heard, only it was rather tiresome; and Norman made everybody cry--and Mary worse than all!
He had longed to make a speech himself--no end of the good it would have done the old stagers to come out with something to the purpose.
Miss Bracy began to be sensible that she had somewhat abused Ethel's patience; and the unfortunate speech about the source of her sensitiveness did not appear to her so direfully cruel as at first.
Fresh sounds below recalled her to speech and action.
Time will--" She stopped; and he said nothing to fill the gap for awhile, there being no pressure of half acquaintance to drive them into speech if they were not minded for it.
And having forgotten the momentary mystery of Henchard's seeming speech to Lucetta she continued, "It is because he does not think I am respectable.
She shirked it with the suddenness of the weak Apostle at the accusation, "Thy speech bewrayeth thee!
His case was carefully explained to him and he nodded assent to all the explanations of the process of speechas though he understood all thoroughly.
In the rest of Russ's cases speech alone was abolished.
Loss of speech after snake-bite is discussed in Chapter XVII, under the head of Aphasia.
Ogle quotes six cases of loss of speech after bites of venomous snakes.
The patient was a young lady who for several months could neither sing nor speak, but on hearing her sister sing a favorite song, she began to sing herself; but, although she could sing, speech did not return for several weeks.
He was so absorbed that he paid no attention to the light of the candle, nor to the speech addressed to him.
One woman who had been thus condemned to silence, suddenly under the influence of a strong excitement recovered her speech, but when the emotion passed away speech again left her.
Speech returned soon after, the eyes opened, and in twenty days the man could distinguish objects.
Speech was jerky and disordered, which gave it a distinctive character.
Speech became thick, the mouth was drawn to the right, and the right eye was partially closed.
Speech was established after removal of the abnormal adhesion.
Aurran, Bartholinus, Louis, Parsons, Tulpius, and others mention speech without the presence of a tongue.
Riolan mentions speech after loss of the tongue from small-pox.
It may be worth while to state that after restoration of speech he spoke with his original American accent.
He made the same speech in about the same words at least half a dozen times.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "speech" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
