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  • At the end of that depraved oration, two of the lesser priests rushed forward and lifted their master-or mistress, as the case might be-off the litter and onto the face of the altar.†   (source)
  • They sent cunning messengers, raised to oration the way Masks are raised to war.†   (source)
  • Finally I built him an oratory removed from the house, and he began to spend most of every day there and often the early evening.†   (source)
  • He himself was a firm believer in the value of a good thrashing to vanquish the weaknesses of the soul and was famous for his unrestrained oratory.†   (source)
  • An old colleague of the dead scientist, still a member of the Academy of Sciences, had been brave enough to make the funeral oration.†   (source)
  • He realized that this was a vain concern, as if any man's oration could enhance or diminish that which was divine.†   (source)
  • On my graduation day I delivered an oration in which I showed that humility was the secret, indeed, the very essence of progress.†   (source)
  • To gather strength, he read aloud from Cicero's Orations.†   (source)
  • I stood waiting, bent forward with my feet apart, flat-footed, till they ended their interminable orations.†   (source)
  • But on his best days, Reverend King takes his oration to an even higher level than Kennedy by adding the techniques learned from countless Sunday mornings speaking from the pulpit: thunder and whisper as his voice rises and falls, the changing pace as the reverend speeds up and slows down to make the listener hang on his every word, the stretching or shortening of syllables to accentuate a point.†   (source)
  • But I told Ted Nielsen and the others that we'd have no banquets for you and no oratory.†   (source)
  • He argues that "the sixties swept away lofty oratory and marginalized elaborately constructed prose," to the point where the American public now distrusts formality in language as insincere.†   (source)
  • When the man mentioned that he had not appeared before the Supreme Court for more than thirty years, Tappan said no one doubted his legal acumen or skills of oratory.†   (source)
  • Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states?†   (source)
  • And Chamberlain had gone on to school to make an oration on the subject: Man, the Killer Angel.†   (source)
  • But oratory is a null program.†   (source)
  • But I also realize that I was at that time in many ways afflicted by a staggeringly puerile inexperience: far from my mind was any idea that Nathan—despite his manic tone of voice, the hectic oratory, the sweat, the walleyed expression, the frazzled tension, the whole portrait he presented of one whose entire nervous system down to its minutest ganglia was in the throes of a fiery convulsion—might be dangerously disturbed.†   (source)
  • People may have expected the highfalutin in oratory in those days, but they might not have expected Ned's courtroomflair.†   (source)
  • I must admit I felt the old surge of love and oratory and I haven't a drop of Galician blood.†   (source)
  • DRUMMOND So you, Matthew Harrison Brady, through oratory, legisla-tion, or whatever, pass along God's orders to the rest of the world!†   (source)
  • The priest's attention seemed to retire to some private oratory to wait until she got through.†   (source)
  • After his oration on the two hundredth founding of Plymouth Colony, a young Harvard scholar wrote: I was never so excited by public speaking before in my life.†   (source)
  • Caught in mid-oration, the Commissioner collapsed like an empty sack.†   (source)
  • He offered a rousing oration on the brilliance of the future exposition and the need now for the great men in the banquet hall to think first of the fair, last of themselves, affirming that only through the subordination of self would the exposition succeed.†   (source)
  • The wooden floor becomes a stage, and his oration a performance that takes him from stage left to stage right, then back to stage left again as he breaks down the plan.†   (source)
  • His funeral oration was about a true conjugal love that had withstood many tests to remain a haven of peace for the deceased, a haven to which he had returned at the end of his days.†   (source)
  • It was like getting hugged, or knowing that at the Friday speakings she would be out there in the schoolyard with Mama, sitting on a sawmill puncheon and perking up when it was Mary Toy's turn to quote from "Lord Ullin's Daughter" or my turn to give an oration from Demosthenes.†   (source)
  • At home, he filled pages of his journal with observations on government and freedom, "notes for an oration at Braintree," as he labeled them, though the oration appears never to have been delivered.†   (source)
  • ") Adams, in his earlier notes for an oration at Braintree, had written, "Nature throws us all into the world equal and alike…… The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man [kings included] to endanger public liberty."†   (source)
  • "The President of the United States and his Lady …. and a vast concourse of other citizens," were present for services led by Bishop William White of Christ Church, with an oration by Representative Henry Lee of Virginia—General "Light-Horse Harry" Lee—who extolled Washington as "first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen."†   (source)
  • A kind of poetry naturally suited to elaborate description and oration and hymnic address, symbolic dreams, and armings.†   (source)
  • Don't be disturbed by oratory," said Dr. Ferris smoothly.†   (source)
  • The oratory was a mistake, I said to him; I would have it torn down at once.†   (source)
  • I never wanted to see the house or the oratory again.†   (source)
  • Both St. Dominic and the Blessed Virgin Mary had come to him in the oratory.†   (source)
  • I might live in that oratory alone while this house fell to ruin.†   (source)
  • I never could write declamations, orations, or popular addresses.†   (source)
  • I knew the Freniere sisters as I knew the magnificent rose trees around my brother's oratory.†   (source)
  • BRADY'S oratory is unassailable; but his vanity—exposed by DRUMMOND'S prodding—is only funny.†   (source)
  • Old organization, as I saw it and from what I heard, relied on oratory, whoop-it-up music, and emotion, much like church.†   (source)
  • Common interests then are so clear that speeches are effortlessly drawn, but at present neither the facts nor the consequences are sufficiently clear to make oratory legitimate.†   (source)
  • The Chair takes it that your oratory means that the group you represent agrees to accept prisoners as before.†   (source)
  • For years Alessandro had been reading Cicero and English parliamentary debates, with no outlet for his oratory except impatient fellow students who did not appreciate the worth of the great cadences Alessandro now had by heart.†   (source)
  • In addition to serving in the Senate, John Quincy also accepted a new professorial chair of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard.†   (source)
  • And the oratory itself was neglected.†   (source)
  • Every man in it is a great man—an orator, a critic, a statesman, and therefore every man upon every question must show his oratory, his criticism, and his political abilities.†   (source)
  • I opened the door of my brother's oratory, shoving back the roses and thorns which had almost sealed it, and set the coffin on the stone floor before the priedieu.†   (source)
  • A small textbook edition of Cicero's Orations became one of his earliest, proudest possessions, as he affirmed with the note "John Adams Book 1749/50" written a half dozen times on the title page.†   (source)
  • Posted separately, the "homespun" was a copy of John Quincy's Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory, but before it could arrive, Jefferson had concluded that it must be some article of home-produced clothing, and so in reply to Adams wrote at length about the virtues of the spinning jenny and loom, and of the thriftiness of household manufactures.†   (source)
  • Did you go back to the oratory?†   (source)
  • I passed my brother's oratory without so much as a thought of him, and standing among the cottonwood and oaks, I heard the night as if it were a chorus of whispering women, all beckoning me to their breasts.†   (source)
  • He has translated Virgil's Aeneid …. the whole of Sallust and Tacitus' Agricola …. a great part of Horace, some of Ovid, and some of Caesar's Commentaries …. besides Tully's [Cicero's] Orations…… In Greek his progress has not been equal; yet he has studiedmorsels of Aristotle's Politics, in Plutarch's Lives, and Lucian's Dialogues, The Choice of Hercules in Xenophon, and lately he has gone through several books in Homer's Iliad.†   (source)
  • Sometimes in the evening I would go out to him and find him in the garden near the oratory, sitting absolutely composed on a stone bench there, and I'd tell him my troubles, the difficulties I had with the slaves, how I distrusted the overseer or the weather or my brokers …. all the problems that made up the length and breadth of my existence.†   (source)
  • He lived in the oratory.†   (source)
  • And as for me, they'd seen me evening after evening emerge from the oratory, which was now little more than a shapeless mass of brick and vine, layered with flowering wisteria in the spring, wild roses in summer, moss gleaming on the old unpainted shutters which had never been opened, spiders spinning in the stone arches.†   (source)
  • For three or four hours at a time, his passionate and imaginative oratory held spellbound the crowds that came to jeer.†   (source)
  • But all the Senate knew that Thomas Hart Benton was a rough and tumble fighter off and on the Senate floor—no longer with pistols but with stinging sarcasm, vituperative though learned oratory and bitterly heated debate.†   (source)
  • He was an unusual leader, for he lacked the fine arts of oratory and phrasemaking, he lacked blind devotion to the party line (unless he dictated it), and he lacked the politician's natural instinct to avoid controversial positions and issues.†   (source)
  • Weary, haggard and unshaven Senators, slumped despondently in their chairs after the rigors of an all-night session, muttered "Vote, Vote" in the hopes of discouraging any further oratory on a bill already certain of passage.†   (source)
  • Those illustrious Senators with whom he had served, whose oratory could not attract the glory and romance which surrounded the name of Sam Houston, may have frowned upon his eccentric dress and his habit of whittling pine sticks on the Senate floor while muttering at the length of senatorial speeches.†   (source)
  • Lamar himself was famous later for his stories of the rural South, as noted by Henry Adams in speaking of how effective a representative of the Confederacy Lamar would have made in London: "London society would have delighted in him; his stories would have won success; his manners would have made him loved; his oratory would have swept every audience."†   (source)
  • A very slow speaker, hardly averaging a hundred words a minute, Webster combined the musical charm of his deep organ-like voice, a vivid imagination, an ability to crush his opponents with a barrage of facts, a confident and deliberate manner of speaking and a striking appearance to make his orations a magnet that drew crowds hurrying to the Senate chamber.†   (source)
  • He gave a Speech Day oration in Greek, I recollect, and was outstandingly first-rate in school theatricals.†   (source)
  • The supper things cleared away, Gerald resumed his oration, but with little satisfaction to himself and none at all to his audience.†   (source)
  • Francie recited passages she knew by heart--Portia's speech, Marc Antony's funeral oration, "Tomorrow and tomorrow"--the obvious things that are remembered from Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • Or again, Gant would read to him with sonorous and florid rhetoric passages from Shakespeare, among which he heard most often Marc Antony's funeral oration, Hamlet's soliloquy, the banquet scene in Macbeth, and the scene between Desdemona and Othello before he strangles her.†   (source)
  • She asked me the other day if I knew what your oration is to be about.†   (source)
  • Leora was useful to him during his oration.†   (source)
  • It is not necessary to set down the rest of the oration.†   (source)
  • But his oration ceased as he saw their eyes, which were large with great tales.†   (source)
  • She delivered an oration to her companions.†   (source)
  • Which of these two speeches, think you, would be the best oration for your own funeral?†   (source)
  • Shocking murder of an M. P." That was the funeral oration of one friend and client; and he could not help a certain apprehension lest the good name of another should be sucked down in the eddy of the scandal.†   (source)
  • He had delivered a melancholy oration previous to his funeral, and had doubtless in the packet of letters, presented various keepsakes to relatives.†   (source)
  • This was the groundwork of his oration; worked in with it was his gratitude to Miss Derek for the lift, his willingness to hold a repulsive dog in his arms, and his general regret for the trouble he had caused the human race during the evening.†   (source)
  • There were four other stunts: one Jewish, one Irish, one juvenile, and Nat Hicks's parody of Mark Antony's funeral oration.†   (source)
  • Old Hurlbird took the opportunity to read me a full-blooded lecture, in the style of an American oration, as to the perils for young American girlhood lurking in the European jungle.†   (source)
  • They had sunk into a state of motionlessness while K. gave his oration, and it had not been possible to raise them from this passivity even when the judge was being humiliated.†   (source)
  • …Sloane proceeded to explain and illustrate "How Sockery Set a Hen" Anne laughed until people sitting near her laughed too, more out of sympathy with her than with amusement at a selection that was rather threadbare even in Avonlea; and when Mr. Phillips gave Mark Antony's oration over the dead body of Caesar in the most heart-stirring tones—looking at Prissy Andrews at the end of every sentence—Anne felt that she could rise and mutiny on the spot if but one Roman citizen led the way.†   (source)
  • She knew with a cold certainty that Dave was rehearsing his "stunt" about the Norwegian catching the hen, Ella running over the first lines of "An Old Sweetheart of Mine," and Nat thinking of his popular parody on Mark Antony's oration.†   (source)
  • It's an oration."†   (source)
  • So ended Naphta's caustic oration.†   (source)
  • I thought my oration very good.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • All the same, Joachim discovered him one evening at the usual social gathering in the company of Hermine Kleefeld, her tablemates Ganser and Rasmussen, and, as a fifth, the lad with the monocle and saltcellar fingernail; with his eyes glittering undeniably brighter than usual and with emotion in his voice, Hans Castorp had delivered an extemporaneous oration on Frau Chauchat's peculiar and exotic facial features, while his audience exchanged glances, nudged one another, and tittered.†   (source)
  • During the winter Carol was to hear Dave Dyer's hen-catching impersonation seven times, "An Old Sweetheart of Mine" nine times, the Jewish story and the funeral oration twice; but now she was ardent and, because she did so want to be happy and simple-hearted, she was as disappointed as the others when the stunts were finished, and the party instantly sank back into coma.†   (source)
  • And notwithstanding all the frowns and winks with which Mrs Nickleby intimated that she was going to say something which would clench the business at once, Kate maintained her point by an expressive look, and for once Mrs Nickleby was stopped upon the very brink of an oration.†   (source)
  • I do not readily remember any poem, play, sermon, novel, or oration, that our press vents in the last few years, which goes to the same tune.†   (source)
  • Here Mr Plornish delivered himself of an oration which he invariably made, word for word the same, on all such opportunities.†   (source)
  • During the five minutes or so that Mr. Chillip devoted to the delivery of this oration, my aunt eyed him narrowly.†   (source)
  • Master Charmolue exhibited an alarming note book, and began to read, with many gestures and the exaggerated accentuation of the pleader, an oration in Latin, wherein all the proofs of the suit were piled up in Ciceronian periphrases, flanked with quotations from Plautus, his favorite comic author.†   (source)
  • What he did on those occasions was to turn up his cuffs, stick up his hair, and give us Mark Antony's oration over the body of Caesar.†   (source)
  • Shortly after which oration, as they were going on a nuptial trip to Lyons, in order that Mr. Bounderby might take the opportunity of seeing how the Hands got on in those parts, and whether they, too, required to be fed with gold spoons; the happy pair departed for the railroad.†   (source)
  • Newman said soberly that he had never noticed it; and M. de Grosjoyaux remarked that it was really too soon to deliver a funeral oration upon poor Bellegarde.†   (source)
  • BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET.†   (source)
  • So you may as well,' said Mr Flintwinch, terminating his oration with a screw, 'keep your eyes open at somebody else, for it's no use keeping 'em open at me.'†   (source)
  • CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE HEARTACHE Whatever his motive might have been, Laurie studied to some purpose that year, for he graduated with honor, and gave the Latin oration with the grace of a Phillips and the eloquence of a Demosthenes, so his friends said.†   (source)
  • Newman could not be drawn into any more explicit statement than a repetition of the perplexities he had already thrown out, and a confused oration, showing, How it was necessary to use the utmost caution; how the lynx-eyed Ralph had already seen him in company with his unknown correspondent; and how he had baffled the said Ralph by extreme guardedness of manner and ingenuity of speech; having prepared himself for such a contingency from the first.†   (source)
  • If he asked her to deliver a Latin oration, it would not have seemed a more impossible task to bashful Beth, but there was no place to run to, no Jo to hide behind now, and the poor boy looked so wistfully at her that she bravely resolved to try.†   (source)
  • And after having emptied his glass, he added:— "Ah, by the way, Laigle of the funeral oration, your coat is old."†   (source)
  • This singular performance was repeated, to the ever-increasing admiration of the spectators, at the end of every succeeding article of Mr Pancks's oration.†   (source)
  • This oration from a gruff volunteer in the back-ground, not previously suspected of any powers in that way, was received with three loud cheers; and the speaker became a distinguished character for ever afterwards.†   (source)
  • …the illustrious warrior, who, etc.; the pupils in the seminary, these tender levities; errors imputed to newspapers, the imposture which distills its venom through the columns of those organs; etc. The lawyer had, accordingly, begun with an explanation as to the theft of the apples,—an awkward matter couched in fine style; but Benigne Bossuet himself was obliged to allude to a chicken in the midst of a funeral oration, and he extricated himself from the situation in stately fashion.†   (source)
  • Well, as I was saying, they have scarcely spoken the truth at all; but from me you shall hear the whole truth: not, however, delivered after their manner in a set oration duly ornamented with words and phrases.†   (source)
  • Mustapha Mond's oratory was almost up to synthetic standards.†   (source)
  • Twice, after football games, he mounted a hearse and made funeral orations over the University of Georgia.†   (source)
  • The Heckler lowers his newspaper from his face; a slow fierce smile spreads over his face as he leans forward with tensed throat muscles to catch Chance's burst of oratory.†   (source)
  • I don't put everything I know in the papers, but I know that Willie isn't in this race because you admire his oratory.†   (source)
  • As the sun sank lower and lower, there began a deep, singing murmur of male voices from the pueblo below him, not a chant, but the rhythmical intonation of Indian oratory when a serious matter is under discussion.†   (source)
  • And Einhorn with his graces, learning, oratory, and register of effects was not out to influence me practically.†   (source)
  • "Our host", he reminded me, for I had been denouncing the death of oratory, "is generally supposed to be a good speaker."†   (source)
  • Were they not the first to cheer at "Dixie" and the most rampant seekers, in oratory at least, for Yankee blood?†   (source)
  • He went on with his oratory.†   (source)
  • Upon my word it was magnificent, the style of the oratory.†   (source)
  • But then what he said about human dignity, afterward, sounded so spiffing, like formal oratory.†   (source)
  • He was a jolly man, given to oratory and to chumminess with the arts.†   (source)
  • An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.†   (source)
  • What do you know about my reputation for oratory?†   (source)
  • At the end of his oratory Pickerbaugh telegraphed to Dr. J. C. Long, the Chicago bacteriologist.†   (source)
  • She studied singing and oratory and dramatic art and shorthand for a year, in Milwaukee.†   (source)
  • He was a man who never merely talked: he either bubbled or made orations.†   (source)
  • Now just between you and me and the gatepost, my vogue doesn't lie in real estate but in oratory.†   (source)
  • The evening being calm, and the windows still open, these orations could be distinctly heard.†   (source)
  • However, beyond the peals of the organ, and the shouts and hurrahs between each piece of oratory, Jude's standing in the wet did not bring much Latin to his intelligence more than, now and then, a sonorous word in um or ibus.†   (source)
  • I know that there are men who, having nothing to say and nothing to write, are nevertheless so in love with oratory and with literature that they keep desperately repeating as much as they can understand of what others have said or written aforetime.†   (source)
  • When Mr. Washington rose in the flag-filled, enthusiasm-warmed, patriotic, and glowing atmosphere of Music Hall, people felt keenly that here was the civic justification of the old abolition spirit of Massachusetts; in his person the proof of her ancient and indomitable faith; in his strong through and rich oratory, the crown and glory of the old war days of suffering and strife.†   (source)
  • Later, returning to Bridgeburg and possessing some gifts of oratory, he was given, first, the position of assistant district attorney for four years, and following that elected auditor, and subsequently district attorney for two terms of four years each.†   (source)
  • …the wind, betook himself to the designated place, a narrow platform, one of six, outside of the high bulwarks and screened by the great dead-eyes and multiple columned lanyards of the shrouds and back-stays; and, in a great war-ship of that time, of dimensions commensurate with the hull's magnitude; a tarry balcony, in short, overhanging the sea, and so secluded that one mariner of the Indomitable, a non-conformist old tar of a serious turn, made it even in daytime his private oratory.†   (source)
  • Chiltern's speech last night on this Argentine Canal scheme was one of the finest pieces of oratory ever delivered in the House since Canning.†   (source)
  • He made heroic endeavors to keep on his legs, denounce his sister and consume a bit of orange peeling which he chewed between the times of his infantile orations.†   (source)
  • He talked enthusiastically of the music at the Oratory, and said charming things about the connection between incense and the devotional spirit.†   (source)
  • The world shown us in books, whether the books be confessed epics or professed gospels, or in codes, or in political orations, or in philosophic systems, is not the main world at all: it is only the self-consciousness of certain abnormal people who have the specific artistic talent and temperament.†   (source)
  • Cronshaw often went to the gatherings on Tuesday evenings when the poet received men of letters and painters, and discoursed with subtle oratory on any subject that was suggested to him.†   (source)
  • I was almost forgetting that," exclaimed Mason, most calmly and practically at the moment, the previous burst of oratory and emotion having by now been somehow merged in his own mind with the exceptional burst of approval which up to this hour he had never experienced in any case with which previously he had been identified.†   (source)
  • His reputation for oratory established, at the dinner of the Zenith Real Estate Board he made the Annual Address.†   (source)
  • …his elevated moral sentiments, being both gratuitous and unusual, strike them as being a little unfortunate; and though they find his vein of easy humor rather amusing when it has ceased to puzzle them (as it does at first), they have had to make him understand that he really must not tell anecdotes unless they are strictly personal and scandalous, and also that oratory is an accomplishment which belongs to a cruder stage of civilization than that in which his migration has landed him.†   (source)
  • W. F. PEET author of the Shortcut Course in Public-Speaking, is easily the foremost figure in practical literature, psychology & oratory.†   (source)
  • The advertisement in the Minneapolis paper leaped from the page to her eyes: The Cosmos School of Music, Oratory, and Dramatic Art announces a program of four one-act plays by Schnitzler, Shaw, Yeats, and Lord Dunsany.†   (source)
  • He lost the accumulated weariness of business—worry and expansive oratory; he felt young and potential.†   (source)
  • This was their philosophy complete …. in the era of aeroplanes and syndicalism: The Baptist Church (and, somewhat less, the Methodist, Congregational, and Presbyterian Churches) is the perfect, the divinely ordained standard in music, oratory, philanthropy, and ethics.†   (source)
  • The skipper had been trained in oratory by arguments with wharfmasters, and the tourists were reassured.†   (source)
  • The evenings of oratory and committees and lodges stimulated him like brandy, but every morning he was sandy-tongued.†   (source)
  • In the long run they're bound to respect a man who makes them think, and with your reputation for oratory you—"†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • …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.†   (source)
  • Of course you've all read about his speeches and oratory in the papers—and the boy's good-looking, too, eh?†   (source)
  • He was a thin, rustic-faced young man with gold spectacles and a bang of dull brown hair, but when he hurled himself into oratory he glowed with power.†   (source)
  • To be the "livest" of them was as much his ambition now as it had been to excel at making money, at playing golf, at motor-driving, at oratory, at climbing to the McKelvey set.†   (source)
  • His friends had always congratulated him on his oratory, but in their praise was doubt, for even in speeches advertising the city there was something highbrow and degenerate, like writing poetry.†   (source)
  • His convention paper had given him the beginning of a reputation for oratory, so the Republican-Democratic Central Committee sent him to the Seventh Ward and South Zenith, to address small audiences of workmen and clerks, and wives uneasy with their new votes.†   (source)
  • It was only when they attacked the sacred purse that he was frightened into fury, but then, being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.†   (source)
  • This act of pious charity performed, Cedric again motioned them to follow him, gliding over the stone floor with a noiseless tread; and, after ascending a few steps, opened with great caution the door of a small oratory, which adjoined to the chapel.†   (source)
  • The first room, opening on the street, served him as dining-room, the second was his bedroom, and the third his oratory.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Farebrother recurred to her knitting with a dignified satisfaction in her neat little effort at oratory, but this was not what Dorothea wanted to hear.†   (source)
  • Thus electors are well assured beforehand that the Representative of their choice will be an orator; that he will speak often if he can, and that in case he is forced to refrain, he will strive at any rate to compress into his less frequent orations an inquiry into all the great questions of state, combined with a statement of all the petty grievances they have themselves to complain to; so that, though he be not able to come forward frequently, he should on each occasion prove what he…†   (source)
  • But this can only be received as a proof of their determination to persecute, since it must be within everybody's experience that the Chadband style of oratory is widely received and much admired.†   (source)
  • The countess went into the oratory and there Sonya found her on her knees before the icons that had been left here and there hanging on the wall.†   (source)
  • The imagery of the Indian, both in his poetry and in his oratory, is oriental; chastened, and perhaps improved, by the limited range of his practical knowledge.†   (source)
  • He would have had me a scholar; in art, philosophy, rhetoric, oratory, he would have furnished me the most famous teacher.†   (source)
  • The sermon which he now delivered was marked by the same characteristics of style and manner as the general series of his pulpit oratory.†   (source)
  • He certainly did add 'spirit' to the meetings, and 'a tone' to the paper, for his orations convulsed his hearers and his contributions were excellent, being patriotic, classical, comical, or dramatic, but never sentimental.†   (source)
  • Having made this well-turned speech, Villefort looked carefully around to mark the effect of his oratory, much as he would have done had he been addressing the bench in open court.†   (source)
  • In fact, Sam considered oratory as his vocation, and never let slip an opportunity of magnifying his office.†   (source)
  • Timothy was a wiry old laborer, of a type lingering in those times—who had his savings in a stocking-foot, lived in a lone cottage, and was not to be wrought on by any oratory, having as little of the feudal spirit, and believing as little, as if he had not been totally unacquainted with the Age of Reason and the Rights of Man.†   (source)
  • He would mourn now, in a very solemn manner, that his own education had been neglected, and repeatedly point out, in pompous orations to Georgy, the necessity and excellence of classical acquirements.†   (source)
  • My aunt and Mr. Dick represented the Government or the Opposition (as the case might be), and Traddles, with the assistance of Enfield's Speakers, or a volume of parliamentary orations, thundered astonishing invectives against them.†   (source)
  • My young family are not frivolous; they expend the entire amount of their allowance in subscriptions, under my direction; and they have attended as many public meetings and listened to as many lectures, orations, and discussions as generally fall to the lot of few grown people.†   (source)
  • Let us say here that a prince's apartment was then composed of never less than eleven large rooms, from the chamber of state to the oratory, not to mention the galleries, baths, vapor-baths, and other "superfluous places," with which each apartment was provided; not to mention the private gardens for each of the king's guests; not to mention the kitchens, the cellars, the domestic offices, the general refectories of the house, the poultry-yards, where there were twenty-two general…†   (source)
  • In the height of the uproar and laughter, Sam, however, preserved an immovable gravity, only from time to time rolling his eyes up, and giving his auditors divers inexpressibly droll glances, without departing from the sententious elevation of his oratory.†   (source)
  • The present effect of this flight of oratory—much admired for its general power by Mr. Chadband's followers—being not only to make Mr. Chadband unpleasantly warm, but to represent the innocent Mr. Snagsby in the light of a determined enemy to virtue, with a forehead of brass and a heart of adamant, that unfortunate tradesman becomes yet more disconcerted and is in a very advanced state of low spirits and false position when Mr. Chadband accidentally finishes him.†   (source)
  • …in the name of "good taste," upon the wounds of gothic architecture, their miserable gewgaws of a day, their ribbons of marble, their pompons of metal, a veritable leprosy of egg-shaped ornaments, volutes, whorls, draperies, garlands, fringes, stone flames, bronze clouds, pudgy cupids, chubbycheeked cherubim, which begin to devour the face of art in the oratory of Catherine de Medicis, and cause it to expire, two centuries later, tortured and grimacing, in the boudoir of the Dubarry.†   (source)
  • Mr. Wenham continued with the same fluent oratory, which in his place in Parliament he had so often practised—"I sat for an hour or more by Lord Steyne's bedside, beseeching, imploring Lord Steyne to forego his intention of demanding a meeting.†   (source)
  • It was greatly increased when it was discovered that Kate had not the least appetite for supper: a discovery so alarming that there is no knowing in what unaccountable efforts of oratory Mrs Nickleby's apprehensions might have been vented, if the general attention had not been attracted, at the moment, by a very strange and uncommon noise, proceeding, as the pale and trembling servant girl affirmed, and as everybody's sense of hearing seemed to affirm also, 'right down' the chimney of…†   (source)
  • The Oratory of France claimed the precedence, since Philip de Neri was only a saint, while Berulle was a cardinal.†   (source)
  • At the end of the suite, in the oratory, there was a detached alcove with a bed, for use in cases of hospitality.†   (source)
  • In his oratory there were two straw prie-Dieu, and there was an arm-chair, also in straw, in his bedroom.†   (source)
  • There was no exit possible from this oratory, except by passing through the bedroom, nor from the bedroom, without passing through the dining-room.†   (source)
  • The Oratory of Italy, established at Florence by Philip de Neri, and the Oratory of France, established by Pierre de Berulle.†   (source)
  • Out of a similar sideboard, properly draped with white napery and imitation lace, the Bishop had constructed the altar which decorated his oratory.†   (source)
  • In a twinkling, with all the vivacity of an alert old woman, Madame Magloire had rushed to the oratory, entered the alcove, and returned to the Bishop.†   (source)
  • His wealthy penitents and the sainted women of D—— had more than once assessed themselves to raise the money for a new altar for Monseigneur's oratory; on each occasion he had taken the money and had given it to the poor.†   (source)
  • As might have been observed from what has been said above, the house was so arranged that in order to pass into the oratory where the alcove was situated, or to get out of it, it was necessary to traverse the Bishop's bedroom.†   (source)
  • …the key was there; he opened it; the first thing which presented itself to him was the basket of silverware; he seized it, traversed the chamber with long strides, without taking any precautions and without troubling himself about the noise, gained the door, re-entered the oratory, opened the window, seized his cudgel, bestrode the window-sill of the ground-floor, put the silver into his knapsack, threw away the basket, crossed the garden, leaped over the wall like a tiger, and fled.†   (source)
  • …vases, and flutings which had formerly been silvered with silver leaf, which was a sort of episcopal luxury; above the chimney-piece hung a crucifix of copper, with the silver worn off, fixed on a background of threadbare velvet in a wooden frame from which the gilding had fallen; near the glass door a large table with an inkstand, loaded with a confusion of papers and with huge volumes; before the table an arm-chair of straw; in front of the bed a prie-Dieu, borrowed from the oratory.†   (source)
  • A glazed door opened on the garden; opposite this was the bed,—a hospital bed of iron, with a canopy of green serge; in the shadow of the bed, behind a curtain, were the utensils of the toilet, which still betrayed the elegant habits of the man of the world: there were two doors, one near the chimney, opening into the oratory; the other near the bookcase, opening into the dining-room.†   (source)
  • …on the gardens, M. Henri Puget had entertained in state, on July 29, 1714, My Lords Charles Brulart de Genlis, archbishop; Prince d'Embrun; Antoine de Mesgrigny, the capuchin, Bishop of Grasse; Philippe de Vendome, Grand Prior of France, Abbe of Saint Honore de Lerins; Francois de Berton de Crillon, bishop, Baron de Vence; Cesar de Sabran de Forcalquier, bishop, Seignor of Glandeve; and Jean Soanen, Priest of the Oratory, preacher in ordinary to the king, bishop, Seignor of Senez.†   (source)
  • When, by chance, he received seven or eight persons at one time, the prefect, or the general, or the staff of the regiment in garrison, or several pupils from the little seminary, the chairs had to be fetched from the winter salon in the stable, the prie-Dieu from the oratory, and the arm-chair from the bedroom: in this way as many as eleven chairs could be collected for the visitors.†   (source)
  • Another stroke of his oratory made me asham'd of that, and determin'd me to give the silver; and he finish'd so admirably, that I empty'd my pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all.†   (source)
  • The multitudes of all sects and denominations that attended his sermons were enormous, and it was matter of speculation to me, who was one of the number, to observe the extraordinary influence of his oratory on his hearers, and how much they admir'd and respected him, notwithstanding his common abuse of them, by assuring them that they were naturally half beasts and half devils.†   (source)
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