But, perhaps Asclepiades was the inventor of the acousticon, or ear-trumpet, which has been thought a modern discovery; or of the speaking-trumpet, which is a kind of cure for distant deafness.

The latter shoutedin Frenchthe order for the chop through the speaking-tube to the man Emilio, and then returning to his customer he spread out a napkin and placed a small cruet, with knife, fork, and bread before him.

Public speaking handbook for a beginning course in public speaking.

"Dost thou speak truth, lad?" "I fear my King too much to speak otherwise, unless, indeed, it were to save his life.

" It bears the mark of its origin, for even to-day it is true that the more it creates the illusion of the speaking-voice, causing the reader to listen and to see, so that he forgets the printed page, the better does it accomplish its literary purpose.

Jill Marie Haycox (W); 2Jan58; R205356. No-speak pass.

Manhattan oases; New York's 1932 speak-easies, with a gentlemen's guide to bars and beverages by Gordon Kahn; introd.

When he was within convenient speaking distance, he cried out: "Stop!

As too much speaking hurts, too much galling smarts; so too much music gluts and distempereth.

My father once asked my brother Melville and myself to try to make a speaking-machine, I don't suppose he thought we could produce anything of value, in itself.

" Lastly, Speaking and Moving Stones: "Girald Cambrensis gives an account of a speaking-stone at St. David's in Pembrokeshire.

Our reading, writing, and speaking vocabularies differ.

It is called the "Observing-Speaking-Writing and Reading Method."

"Should any dissatisfied noble speak ill of the Government, he shall first be forbidden to appear in the councils and public places for two years.

At length, as though impelled by another changeful impulse, the Rover advanced towards Gertrude, and, addressing her with a courtesy that would have done credit to a very different scene, he said, in the laboured language that characterised the politeness of the age, "One who in common speaks music should not have neglected the gifts of nature.

I dare not, in this era of refinement, speak plainer, but will take for granted that I am understood.

What stories it could tell, if it could but speak-stories of sorrow, stories of evil, tales of the little kindnesses which the freemasonry of the opium-club teaches men to do unto one another.

Did ever I in willing conference Speak words, made half with tears, that I did love thee?

I bought it for her, and I had in it a speaking-box, to say 'Bonjour!'