pretty speech

Example Sentences

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“Brutus made a pretty speech, but Caesar was betrayed.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 5, 2016

"That is a very pretty speech," and this time he kissed her voluntarily, and with a most tender affection.

From A Song of a Single Note A Love Story by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

Apropos of this, Lady Gifford made such a pretty speech once.

From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.

But the sudden meeting of Harry with Talbot had raised other thoughts and feelings, which had driven her pretty speech altogether out of her mind.

From A Castle in Spain A Novel by De Mille, James

Marie Antoinette was beginning to realise that all France did not fawn upon her with the courtier's bended shoulder or pretty speech.

From Vigée Le Brun by MacFall, Haldane