Peroration

None of this, including Ledeen’s peroration, is what it seems. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Still, reasonably enough, he challenged Congress to do better and this and the peroration were the best parts of the speech. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Although the topic was of particular moment only in tiny Floyd County, his peroration was the finest speech I have ever heard. ❋ Randy Smith (2005)

But the peroration is direct and personal.] 94 Hodie, Episcope, de me proposuisti. ❋ Unknown (1206)

North, recalled the peroration of his father's reply to Hayne, and bitterly regretted that, when his eyes were turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, it had been his unhappy lot to "see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union, on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent, on a land rent with internal feuds, and drenched [as then it was] with fraternal blood." ❋ Various (N/A)

His peroration is a very fine piece of composition. ❋ Unknown (1928)

Tottenham Court Road; take it for granted that no one really cares about Æschylus; and so, with many amusing anecdotes and some profound reflections, reach the peroration, which is that, as he had been told not to see more in Cheapside than he could get into twelve pages of the Universal Review, he had better stop. ❋ Unknown (1925)

How much you will have to say to me about the Greeks, unless you begin first to abuse me about the _Romans_; and if you begin _that_, the peroration will be a very pathetic one, in my being turned out of your doors. ❋ Unknown (1907)

In an eloquent peroration, which is not more eloquent than it is instructive, ❋ Morley, John, 1838-1923 (1905)

And if we turn to the end of the seventh, and note that it alone of all the twelve has nothing that can be called a peroration, but ends in an absolutely bald and businesslike manner, we are almost forced to conclude that this is because the peroration which it once had, as the climax of the work, was unsuitable for its new position and has been wholly removed. ❋ Unknown (1898)

How much you will have to say to me about the Greeks, unless you begin first to abuse me about the Romans; and if you begin that, the peroration will be a very pathetic one, in my being turned out of your doors. ❋ Kenyon, Frederic G (1898)

His peroration was a splendid appeal to English love of liberty. ❋ Unknown (1892)

He counseled moderation and conservatism, and his peroration was a flowery panegyric of the "noble man whose hand is on the helm, guiding the grand old ship of state into safe harbor." ❋ Paul Laurence Dunbar (1889)

Each department of the speech has its notable phrase; and the peroration is a masterpiece of solemn rhetoric. ❋ George William Erskine Russell (1886)

The peroration is the only other part of my defence I shall venture to quote. ❋ Unknown (1882)

My peroration is the only other part of the defence which I shall extract. ❋ Unknown (1882)