SYN: Speech, oration, declamation, effusion, rant.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Laurence Eusden, son of Dr. Eusden, Rector of Spalsworth, in Yorkshire, was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, took orders, and became Chaplain to Lord Willoughby de Broke.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

(Manuscripts of the King's Library, Nos. 1461 and 1462.) Mohammed, son of Djaafar Elahouazadi, relates that Djamil being sick of the illness of which he died, Elabas, son of Sohail, visited him and found him ready to give up the ghost.
— from On Love by Stendhal

[pg 434] Simeon of Durham, editorial references to, xxxiv , xl , 204 n., 244 n., 288 n., 294 n., 295 n., 309 n., 325 n., 377 n., 391 n. Simoniacs, 372 .
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

But the suppositions that in it the plotters speak as in the last clause of the preceding verse, and that "they say" or the like expression is omitted for the sake of dramatic effect, remove much of the difficulty.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Psalms, Vol. 2 Psalms XXXIX.-LXXXIX. by Alexander Maclaren

"Some ob dem early risers f'm de tall sticks sure to be up by now.
— from Lady Luck by Hugh Wiley

He has been lifted up as the Brazen Serpent was, He has become conspicuous by His very lowliness; by a self-sacrifice so complete that He gave His all, His life, He has won to Himself all men and made His will supreme, so that it and no other shall one day everywhere rule.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Marcus Dods

En Rade is a sort of deliberately exaggerated record—vision rather then record—of the disillusions of a country sojourn, as they affect the disordered nerves of a town névrose.
— from The Symbolist Movement in Literature by Arthur Symons

De Rémusat, I suppose for the sake of dramatic effect, represents Fulbert as ignorant of the marriage, until the mutilated body of Abelard lies at her feet:— Fulbert.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, May 1885 by Various

Queen ELIZABETH II (since 6 February 1952), represented by Lieutenant Governor Sir Fabian MALBON (since 28 October 2005) head of government: Chief Minister Lyndon TROTT (since 1 May 2008) cabinet: Policy Council elected by the States of Deliberation elections: the monarch is hereditary; lieutenant governor appointed by the monarch; chief minister is elected by States of Deliberation election results: Lyndon TROTT elected chief minister, percent of vote of the States of Deliberation NA Legislative branch: unicameral States of Deliberation (45 seats; members are elected by popular vote for four years); note - Alderney and Sark have parliaments elections: last held 23 April 2008 (next to be held in 2012) election results: percent of vote - NA; seats - all independents Judicial branch: Royal Court (judges elected by an electoral college and the bailiff) Political parties and leaders:
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

What spectacle of drunkenness ever restrained the youthful debauchee?
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various