Sentence:  The honourable gentleman forces us to hear a good deal of this detestable rhetoric; and then he asks why, if the secretaries of the Nizam and the King of Oude use all these tropes and <WSD>hyperboles</WSD>, Lord Ellenborough should not indulge in the same sort of eloquence? 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An instance or example of such overstatement.