E. Everett

Cited as E. Everett. — 23 quotations

Admiral

Like some mighty admiral, dark and terrible, bearing down upon his antagonist with all his canvas straining to the wind, and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides.

Block

Noble heads which have been brought to the block.

Broad

In a broad, statesmanlike, and masterly way.

Cabin

A hunting cabin in the west.

Calmness

Hes calmness was the repose of conscious power.

Cargo

Cargoes of food or clothing.

Carpet

Carpeted temples in fashionable squares.

Clarion

He sounds his imperial clarion along the whole line of battle.

Congressional

Congressional and official labor.

Date

The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms.

Domain

The domain of authentic history.

East

The east began kindle.

Heave

The heaving sods of Bunker Hill.

Imperial

He sounds his imperial clarion along the whole line of battle.

Justify

Unless the oppression is so extreme as to justify revolution, it would not justify the evil of breaking up a government.

Neutralize

Counter citations that neutralize each other.

Ordnance

Then you may hear afar off the awful roar of his [Rufus Choate's] rifled ordnance.

Orion

The flaming glories of Orion's belt.

Parry

The French government has parried the payment of our claims.

Rupture

He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.

Sonorous

There is nothing of the artificial Johnsonian balance in his style. It is as often marked by a pregnant brevity as by a sonorous amplitude.

Superfluous

An authority which makes all further argument or illustration superfluous.

Umpirage

The mild umpirage of the federal Union.