How To Use Extempore In A Sentence
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480 Then the gaolers built the cage481 over him and left him therein, lorn and lone, whereupon longing and consternation entered into him and the tongue of his case recited in extempore verse,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Malpractice attorney firstborn practicably domestic scrum and bathometer to hooker painstaking, meliorative, and extempore candor.
Rational Review
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This is usually performed extempore, following the whims of the singer, musician and/or dancer.
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The cultivating process of the ability of extempore accompaniment is also the process of exerting, opening up and developing students' ability of creation.
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Lêng-yen-ching expounded, that is, read aloud with an extempore paraphrase, to lay congregations in China, and the section of it called the Diamond Cutter is the book which is most commonly in the hands of religious Tibetans.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2
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The Prime Minister seemed to be in a very enthusiastic and positive mood as he spoke extempore for about 20 minutes.
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This wasn't like a proper impromptu presentation - this looked unrehearsed, extempore.
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It was irksome to realize that I could not connect my laptop to the projector, thus making useless the multi-page powerpoint I developed for my portion, but then again, talking extempore is never a problem for me.
Archive 2004-07-01
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This is followed by a one-minute extempore speech on a topic given by the company.
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Vithabai with her quick repartee and imaginative extempore dialogues and a vibrating singing voice brought about many changes in the Tamasha performance repertoire.
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Besides that, there is now so little room or use for set speeches in our own language in any part of our English business, that I can see no pretence for this sort of exercise in our schools, unless it can be supposed, that the making of set Latin speeches should be the way to teach men to speak well in English extempore.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 171-180
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Every Thursday, the school organises competitions in areas such as recitation, extempore speech, quiz, map pointing, declamation and prepared talk.
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Don Juan _Don Juan_ or _hooan_ drought _drowt_ drouth _drowth_ extempore _extempore_ (four syllables) familiarity _familyarity_ gaol _jal_ genealogy _-alogy_, not _-ology_ gemus _genyus_
Practical Grammar and Composition
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In any event, it was a bravura performance, a long extempore speech, apparently pulled out of thin air.
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an extempore skit
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‘Most of the teachers congratulated me, as they considered it one of the best extempore presentations,’ he discloses.
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There would be those dreadful extempore prayers and insincere eulogies from a minister who never knew my sister.
GOODBYE CURATE
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Then quoth he, “This is a strange manner of daily bread;” and he began re citing in extempore verse: —
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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_extempore_, -- one of those musical efforts which persons in what we term the savage state will sometimes make when their feelings are touched by new and strange influences.
Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.'
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There would be those dreadful extempore prayers and insincere eulogies from a minister who never knew my sister.
GOODBYE CURATE
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Are not they well enough to be done off-hand; for that is the meaning of the word extempore, which you did not know, did you?
The Journal to Stella
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Some of them knew how to cast a spell on their audience by delivering a speech extempore.
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These seem to have been either like our dumb-shows, or else a kind of extempore farces -- a thing to this day a good deal in use all over Italy and in
The Illustrated London Reading Book
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It does not indeed necessarily follow from his facility and plenipotence of wit in writing, that he could shine at those extempore "flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England
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The practice generally is - apart, perhaps, from the extempore decisions in the Magistrates' Courts - for judges to impose sentences which are reasoned and reasonable.
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First up were the talents of the award-winning extempore duo and they dazzled the crowd with their improvisational skills and stinging repartee.
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Was language invented extempore, or gradually developed from grunts and screeches?
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Like politicians, almost everything they said was designed to enhance their public image while appearing extempore and sincere.
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His books lack the extempore felicities and the reflected fellow-feeling which lent a charm to his spoken sermons; and on the table-land of his controversial treatises, sentence follows sentence like a file of ironsides, in buff and rusty steel, a sturdy procession, but a dingy uniform; and it is only here and there where a son of Anak has burst his rags, that you glimpse a thought of uncommon stature or wonderful proportions.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
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Every evening one of the Batoka plays his "sansa," and continues at it until far into the night; he accompanies it with an extempore song, in which he rehearses their deeds ever since they left their own country.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864
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Cornet Richard Grahame descended the hill, bearing in his hand the extempore flag of truce, and making his managed horse keep time by bounds and curvets to the tune which he whistled.
Old Mortality
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This is usually performed extempore, following the whims of the singer, musician and/or dancer.
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To kiss the handsomest woman in the party, to pay her a compliment in some extempore effusion, or to whisper a confidence (_faire une confidence_) in her ear -- all these are hardly enjoined before they are happily accomplished.
Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.
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The original kayak, though, was an amazing piece of extempore engineering.
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From a reader of speeches, she started speaking extempore.
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It does not indeed necessarily follow from his facility and plenipotence of wit in writing, that he could shine at those extempore “flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar.”
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
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This wasn't like a proper impromptu presentation - this looked unrehearsed, extempore.
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Both have appeals that transcend party loyalty, and both are brilliant extempore speakers who, at their best, hardly sound like politicians at all.
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John Milton, the high-minded creator of "Paradise Lost," along with some of the most celebrated sonnets, elegies and other written works in the English Language, may have also written the decidedly low-minded poem "An Extempore Upon a Faggot.
John Lundberg: Scholar Unearths a Dirty Milton Poem
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The students were later given extempore topics for presentation.
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Don Juan _Don Juan_ or _hooan_ drought _drowt_ drouth _drowth_ extempore _extempore_ (four syllables) familiarity _familyarity_ gaol _jal_ genealogy _-alogy_, not _-ology_ gemus _genyus_
Practical Grammar and Composition
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Hydrophilos, having girded his sable cappa magna as high as to his cherubical loins, at solemn compline sat in his sate of wis-dom, that handbathtub, whereverafter, recreated doctor insularis of the universal church, keeper of the door of meditation, memory extempore proposing and intellect formally considering, recluse, he meditated continuously with seraphic ardour the primal sacra-ment of baptism or the regeneration of all man by affusion of water.
Finnegans Wake
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To 'descant' meant to sing or play an _extempore_ second 'part' to a written melody.
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries
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Throughout, John and his giant puppets kept the audience involved, giving the street play an extempore feel.
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Their extempore skills, general knowledge and other talents were brushed up to match the level of other participants.
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Thus from the same date or a little later we find ‘voluntary’ used for any extempore performance on any instrument.
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She was quite prepared to speak extempore for an hour, when well in her seventies.
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Their worship is spontaneous, with emphasis on extempore prayer, believer's baptism, and the Lord's supper.
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At the audition, the actors were asked to perform extempore.
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John Milton, the high-minded creator of "Paradise Lost," may have also written the decidedly low-minded poem "An Extempore Upon a Faggot.
John Lundberg: Scholar Unearths a Dirty Milton Poem