All 8 Uses of
oration
in
Arrowsmith
- Now just between you and me and the gatepost, my vogue doesn't lie in real estate but in oratory.†
Chpt 9
- Leora was useful to him during his oration.†
Chpt 10 *
- He was a man who never merely talked: he either bubbled or made orations.†
Chpt 19
- He immediately drowned out even his daughters by an oration on the Home Nest: "Here you've got an illustration of Health in the Home.†
Chpt 19
- …a correspondent of many of the nickel-plated Great Men whose pictures and sonorous aphorisms appeared in the magazines: the advertising men who wrote little books about Pep and Optimism, the editor of the magazine which told clerks how to become Goethes and Stonewall Jacksons by studying correspondence-courses and never touching the manhood-rotting beer, and the cornfield sage who was equally an authority on finance, peace, biology, editing, Peruvian ethnology, and making oratory pay.†
Chpt 22
- At the end of his oratory Pickerbaugh telegraphed to Dr. J. C. Long, the Chicago bacteriologist.†
Chpt 22
- But since I've gone and given an imitation of him—I suppose it was probably disloyal— I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.†
Chpt 22
- The skipper had been trained in oratory by arguments with wharfmasters, and the tourists were reassured.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(oration) giving a speech to an audience