Shillaber, B. P. (Benjamin Penhallow), 1814-1890 [1854], Life and sayings of Mrs. Partington and others of the family. (J. C. Derby, New York) [word count] [eaf677T].
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ADMIRATION FOR ELOQUENCE.
“Dear me, how fluidly he does talk!” said Mrs.
Partington recently at a temperance lecture. “I am
always rejoiced when he mounts the nostril, for his eloquence
warms me in every nerve and cartridge of my
body. Verdigrease itself could n't be more smooth than
his blessed tongue is;” and she wiped her spectacles with
her cotton bandanna, and never took her eyes from the
speaker during the whole hour he was on the stand.
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Shillaber, B. P. (Benjamin Penhallow), 1814-1890 [1854], Life and sayings of Mrs. Partington and others of the family. (J. C. Derby, New York) [word count] [eaf677T].
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