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Where his predecessors had declaimed in stiff and grandiloquent periods, he developed an easy-flowing, natural and rant-free style.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was Shakespeare's first visit inside the White House, although earlier troupers had declaimed the Bard for Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft on the White House lawn.

From Time Magazine Archive

"So shall it be with yours!" he had declaimed.

From A Boy's Town by Howells, William Dean

His blood warming with this exercise, he began delivering in grandiloquent tones the address which he had declaimed at school, when a voice from the darkness near at hand brought him back to his situation.

From Chums of the Camp Fire by Leslie, Lawrence J.

He had declaimed himself into a violent heat, and was as hoarse as he was hot.

From Hard Times by Dickens, Charles