When all voices were united to Panegyrize her beauty-when I knew, that the powers of her wit-the charms of her conversation-the accurate judgment, united to the sparkling imagination, were even more remarkable characteristics of her mind, than loveliness of her person, I could not but feel my ambition, as well as my tenderness, excited; I dwelt with a double intensity on my choice, and with a tenfold bitterness on the obstacles which forbade me to indulge it.
"Pelham, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton Last Updated: March 16, 2009
He makes mountains out of millstones, and would Panegyrize the most commonplace of men if he happened to take a fancy to him.
"Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces"
Thomas W. Hanshew
I had once overheard an enamelled queen of fashion declare, with much emotion, that their curate was indispensable to a high-class "at home," and even Panegyrize his graceful transportation of cups of tea, however full.
"St. Cuthbert's"
Robert E. Knowles