"Words add no courage," which Catiline once said to his soldiers, "a captain's oration doth not make a coward a valiant man:" and as Job feelingly said to his friends, "you are but miserable comforters all."

The solemnity of an oration justifies and demands such scrupulous distinctness.

They thrust long thin fingers through shaggy hair and spoke passionate orations nose to nose.

The president of the day replied with an oration thanking M. Clootz for the honor done to France by such an embassy; and Alexander Lameth followed up the president's harangue by fresh praises of the deputation as holy pilgrims who had thrown off the shackles of superstition.