"Grandiloquently" Quotes from Famous Books
... is the almost invariable lot of poor peasantries. His scheme performs an apparent miracle. A body of very poor persons, individually—in the commercial sense of the term—insolvent, manage to create a new basis of security which has been somewhat grandiloquently and yet truthfully called the capitalisation of their honesty and industry. The way in which this is done is remarkably ingenious. The credit society is organised in the usual democratic way explained above, ... — The Rural Life Problem of the United States - Notes of an Irish Observer • Horace Curzon Plunkett
... instant the negro was nonplused, then the palm-leaf was flourished grandiloquently, while its owner said in a voice ... — A Beautiful Possibility • Edith Ferguson Black
... discovered that Spencer was a bright man,—"yes, sir, a citizen of whom the chief mining city of the Rocky Mountains has every reason to be proud,"—and the railway magnate who had nearly ruined him by years of hostility buried the past grandiloquently with a mot. ... — The Silent Barrier • Louis Tracy |