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In exordiums are we not most commonly modest, except when in a cause of accusation we strive to irritate the minds of the judges?

From The Training of a Public Speaker by Kleiser, Grenville

It is a theory of mine that a drive in the country with the right companion is better than exordiums.

From A Beautiful Possibility by Black, Edith Ferguson

In his hortatory asides and didactic moralizings with their thees and thous and yeas, he is still the fine essayist, like Fielding in his eighteenth century prefatory exordiums.

From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Burton, Richard

Now to the point," I cried; "for exordiums be tedious.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

And so we need not trouble ourselves any more either about the insertions or about the exordiums.

From Joseph Andrews Vol 1 by Fielding, Henry