That funeral oration of yours was the funniest thing I ever heard.

Her statesmen were reformers, idealists, whose orations were sermons, like the speeches of Gladstone in the Midlothian campaign, dealing with politics in the light of eternal principles.

I say, may lead to, because I would fain hope, for the sake of the credit and dignity of the Republic, that such disreputable orations are rare exceptions.

"Philosophical Oration" was the highest, then came "High Oration," "Oration," etc., etc.]

Here neither with nor as can be proper; because orations are not a style.

His orations are a tropical forest, full of strength and majesty, tangled in luxuriance, a wilderness of self-repetition.

Many of Mr. Webster's admirers think that these two orations are his masterpieces.