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...oratory is his most deadly weapon; his lips form revolutionary metaphors and epigrams and hurl them upon his audience until it becomes intoxicated with his magic; his voice, aided by gestures from "a windmill of arms and legs," is like that of a tragédien, rising from the soft strains of pathos to the roar of dramatic agony. Some have called him "the thunderer of the Revolution," others, "a demagogue, pure and simple...
...difficult to keep wax clean in London. Each color must be cast separately, the parts afterwards joined up with a hot tool. She has been especially successful in portraits of infants and small children where the delicacy of the flesh and coloring is beautifully rendered in the soft translucency...
...okapi is about the size of a large stag, but hornless. Its head tapers to a point, its lips are soft and flexible, which indicates that it feeds upon foliage. In its upper jaw it has no teeth. Its tail resembles that of an ass. The coloring of the okapi is remarkable; cheeks and jaws are yellowish-white; forehead and muzzle chestnut red; large, ass-like ears red fringed with black. The neck, shoulders, barrel and back vary from sepia and black to deep red; the belly is blackish; the tail bright red with a black tuft. The hind quarters...
...would seem now we can hear the soft voice of sweet reasonableness coming to us from Monticello, the voice of 'Old Hickory,' coming across the Blue Ridge from the Hermitage, and from that historic crypt at St. Albans we hear the mighty voice of Woodrow Wilson, wistfully calling to us: 'To you, from failing hands, we throw the torch. Hold it high! Hold it high! Carry on, carry on; keep the faith, keep the faith...
...Soft, woolly balls. They caused an American defeat...