So no matter how he might glory himself in logical grandiloquence, or how he might attempt to out-talk me in a head-teacher-style, I don't care a snap.
"Botchan (Master Darling)"
Mr. Kin-nosuke Natsume, trans. by Yasotaro Morri
Still, the whole attitude, the whole bearing of the man-his showy, almost comic, appearance and his grandiloquence of expression-as well as the tremendous character of the wording of his theatrical bills, afforded points of attack from the moment that he caught the public eye, that no caricaturist or humorist could resist.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann
I-ah, in fact, I may say," he went on, with some little grandiloquence, "that I have just been the means of bringing such a talent to light myself-an absolute discovery, and one of no little importance."
"Under the Skylights"
Henry Blake Fuller