25 examples of elocutionists in sentences

'I know of a very good elocutionist in Oxford Street.

Among the number was the celebrated elocutionist, Alf.

Mrs. Scott Siddons, an elocutionist of great ability and a descendant of the famous English family of actors of that name, gave several dramatic readings to her numerous admirers.

Coleridge and he had both been public lecturers; Coleridge mingling, with his politics, Theology, from which the other elocutionist abstained, unless it was for the sake of a sneer.

Mr. Holmes was an elocutionist and had taken great pains with Hollis Rheid's voice.

Marjorie was a natural elocutionist; Miss Prudence was afraid of spoiling her by unwise criticism.

On the platform with him were Messrs. Ira O. Knapp, Joseph Armstrong, Stephen A. Chase, and William B. Johnson, who compose the board of directors, and Mrs. Henrietta Clark Bemis, a distinguished elocutionist, and a native of Concord, New Hampshire.

The sermon, prepared by Mrs. Eddy, was well adapted for its purpose, and read by a professional elocutionist, not an adherent of the order, Mrs. Henrietta Clark Bemis, in a clear, emphatic style.

I once met an American elocutionist who could recite ten of Shakespeare's plays, and he showed me the wonderful system of mnemonics by which he achieved the miracle.

Jo was an accomplished elocutionist, and a born mimic.

James Sheridan Knowles (1784-1862) had been a doctor, a schoolmaster, an actor, and a travelling elocutionist, before he took seriously to writing for the stage.

"Knowles's Elocutionist, p. 33.

"Knowles's Elocutionist, p. xxviii.

Those founded on the construction of sentences might, perhaps, do credit to a mechanic, but they certainly do none to an elocutionist."Ib., p. 51.

8.Sheridan was an able and practical teacher of English pronunciation, and one who appears to have gained reputation by all he undertook, whether as an actor, as an elocutionist, or as a lexicographer.

1.Concerning the number of sounds pertaining to the vowel a, or to certain other particular letters, and consequently in regard to the whole number of the sounds which constitute the oral elements of the English language, our educational literati,the grammarians, orthoepists [sicKTH], orthographers, elocutionists, phonographers, and lexicographers,are found to have entertained and inculcated a great variety of opinions.

In the halcyon days of Queen Victoria, before the sad bereavement came upon her which has darkened her latter years and caused her to retire as much as possible from public viewat the time when she read her own speeches from the throneshe was pronounced, by competent critics, to be unsurpassed, as a reader, by any elocutionist in Europe.

An elocutionist in love.

An elocutionist in love.

She suspected that Lutie had a Career awaiting her, and would travel with an Elocutionist some day and have her Picture on the Programme.

He was successful as a singer and elocutionist.

He himself was a beautiful elocutionist, and if I now speak my language well it is in no small degree due to my early training.

Father, as I have already said, was a very charming elocutionist, and my mother read Shakespeare beautifully.

As for the ejaculations, the interjections and grunts with which Henry interlarded the text, they often helped to reveal the meaning of Shakespeare to his audiencea meaning which many a perfect elocutionist has left perfectly obscure.

The grandfather, the father, and the uncle of Alexander Graham Bell were all elocutionists of note.

25 examples of  elocutionists  in sentences