However far we may be from such a consummation, and reluctant to indulge in the magniloquent language which it suggests, I imagine that a literary history is so far satisfactory as it takes the facts into consideration and regards literature, in the perhaps too pretentious phrase, as a particular function of the whole social organism.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
This was the same Beverley Temple of twenty-five years ago, only a little more magniloquent than ever and a little more under Mrs. Temple's thumb.
"Throckmorton"
Molly Elliot Seawell
And that George Throckmorton is a high-toned gentleman"-General Temple paused a little before saying this, hunting for a term magniloquent enough for the occasion-"no one, I think, will deny."
"Throckmorton"
Molly Elliot Seawell