flowery speech

It's not going to come as a result of one magic flowery speech.

In flowery speech that echoes Boyd’s manner, Walker warns that Markham is not to be trifled with.

It’s a flowery speech, more or less written by Susana, about how important preschool is for in- digenous kids.

This was disclosed in a plan for establishing The Patriotic Copperplate Bank of Quodlibet, the particulars whereof were made known at a meeting held in the dining-room of "The Hero" one evening in March, when Theodore Fog made a flowery speech on the subject to ten persons, counting Ferret and Nim Porter the bar-keeper.

Dan went back to the exhibition as if he had done nothing worth remembering, and in less than half an hour from the time the deacon concluded his flowery speech it would have required a very ardent student of humanity to discover that anything out of the natural course of events had taken place.