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• His satires were famous in Night's Doorstep; I'd heard him declaim, once. —  Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel 02 - Kushiel's Chosen
• In conversation he did not tend to declaim or monopolize the talk. —  Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies
• If Mill taught some of them to reason, Macaulay tempted more of them to declaim: if Mill set an example of patience, tolerance, and fair examination of hostile opinions, Macaulay did much to encourage oracular arrogance, and a rather too thrasonical complacency; if Mill sowed ideas of the great economic, political, and moral bearings of the forces of society, Macaulay trained a taste for superficial particularities, trivial circumstantialities of local colour, and all the paraphernalia of the pseudo-picturesque Of course nothing so obviously untrue is meant as that this is an account of Macaulay's own quality. —  Critical Miscellanies, Volume I (of 3) Essay 4: Macaulay
• Now who would like to participate in these exercises Nat was on his feet in a moment; for he was always ready to declaim, or perform his part of a dialogue. —  The Bobbin Boy or, How Nat Got His learning
• Do not rant or declaim, but speak it 4. —  Successful Methods of Public Speaking

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