General Temple had magniloquently given his consent, when Throckmorton went through the form of asking it.
"Throckmorton"
Molly Elliot Seawell
277 To his friends and to the press he talked magniloquently about a grand "Southern expedition" to be made up of 8,000 or 10,000 Kansas troops, 4,000 Indians, seven regiments of cavalry, three batteries of artillery, and four regiments of infantry from Minnesota and Wisconsin, which he would command.
"The Struggle for Missouri"
John McElroy
The land that thus magniloquently heralded its advent into the family of nations had supported the institution of human slavery for one hundred and fifty-seven years and was destined to cling to it eighty-seven years longer.
"The Negro"
W.E.B. Du Bois