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“Good work, good life when you think how with a few well-chosen, well-sounding words, he enhanced so many peoples entertaiment experience and even made watching ads a little more bearable.”
“He can render a bad text into a well-sounding speech.”
“Our guide having informed him of what he knew and conceived to be our object, was favoured in return with a long reply in well-sounding blank verse; at the end of every line the guide, who listened with deep attention, responded with a grunt, which soon became so ludicrous that our men burst into a loud laugh.”
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
“At first, only Russians visited her, afterwards Frenchmen too, very agreeable, polite, and unmarried, with excellent manners and well-sounding names; they all talked a great deal and very fast, bowed easily, grimaced agreeably; their white teeth flashed under their rosy lips — and how they could smile!”
“Africa, or North and South America, are well-sounding names, and easily pronounced; but it is not until having sailed for weeks along small portions of their shores, that one is thoroughly convinced what vast spaces on our immense world these names imply.”
“Brother Pacificus, the famous poet, of whom we have before spoken, and who was then in France or in the Low Countries, should put it into well-sounding verse.”
“Yet behind these well-sounding phrases there lay, one suspects, little vigorous thought.”
“In 1581 Sir Philip Sidney praised the tragedy of _Gorboduc_, which he had seen acted by the gentlemen of the Inner Temple, because it was "full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases.”
“I should have been willing (of course for an appropriate _honorarium_) to have accepted so well-sounding an appointment myself.”
“And is it by this -- as we must call it, however recommended to our higher feelings by its associations -- well-sounding, but unmeaning verbiage of natural equality and inalienable rights, that our lives are to be put in jeopardy, our property destroyed, and our political institutions overturned or endangered?”
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