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1 Major St. Hilaire had spoken with rhetorical effect and a certain undoubted pathos.
2 Eloquence, rhetorical effect , poetry, were alike remote from his design.
3 But, if I do, I am not going to use it for any rhetorical effect to-day.
4 The reading of the message, which Walpole delivered with great rhetorical effect , carried confusion into the Tory ranks.
5 Such lines as these manifest something more than a desire for rhetorical effect in speaking of nature's phenomena:-
6 His clutch on the letter was distinctly inquisitive, and he read out the opening sentences with almost rhetorical effect .
7 The rhetorical effect was tremendous:-
8 My last sun has risen, said Lucien; with a sort of rhetorical effect he waved his hand towards the sky.
9 They strain chronology for the sake of rhetorical effect , but they truthfully picture the circumstances under which he was conceived.
10 These questions are not asked for information, but for rhetorical effect , and they forcibly suggest the truth of their negation.
11 "No?" the visitor commented with a rising inflection for rhetorical effect .
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