At length Lawyer abruptly left the council in the midst of one of Looking Glasss philippics, and retired to his lodge. |
The Athenian orator Demosthenes despised the invader Phillip of Macedon, and berated him in a series of stinging speeches, or philippics. |
While he was speaking his philippics they could not but be243 enthusiastic on the same side. |
In exile in the West from 1974, his gloomy philippics and increasingly turgid prose aroused more bafflement than appreciation. |
I wonder if the new editor of the Daily Telegraph has any Irish blood and will tone down the paper's anti-euro, anti-EU philippics. |
They have also launched countless philippics against Labour's love of the target and the quota, and all manner of diktat from Whitehall. |