In Jane he found a more willing auditor; poetry was the food she lived on, and in works of the imagination she found her greatest delight.

How it is that the patriotic harangues at St. Stephen's serve only to amuse the auditors, who identify the sentiments they express as little with the speaker, as they would those of Cato's soliloquy with the actor who personates the character for the night?

This place of worship is capable of containing 1200 auditors.

The kindness, condescension, and forbearance of Adrian were proverbial; he was one of the most eloquent orators of his age; and when pleading the cause of injured innocence, would melt and overwhelm the auditors by the pathos of his appeals.

For years afterward Israel would entertain a few favored auditors with his opinion of the matter, screaming till the tears rolled down his cheeks, "That was the beateree of all the weddin'-towers I ever heerd tell on.

Mrs. Piozzi (Journey, i. 105, date of 1789) says that she heard in Milan 'a travelled gentleman telling his auditors how all the men in London, that were noble, put on a clean shirt every day.'

At the same time offensive and defensive, its aspect easily impresses and leaves the auditor in doubt.

This church is calculated to accommodate 2000 auditors.

He enlightened his auditor greatly in the line of real circus slang.

"How!" exclaimed a wide-eyed auditor; "upholds the earth?

He must so fascinate his auditors that they cannot ask the reason of this fascination, nor remark that he gesticulates at all.

He was a firm believer in the transmigration of souls, some idea of which he had, no doubt, picked up in Eastern ports, and gave his shivering auditors to understand that his arrangements for his own immediate future were already perfected.

Grande Amour asks her to paint his tongue with the royal flowers of delicate odors, that he may gladden his auditors and "moralize his literal senses."

and, without saying any more, beat our poor Ghost off the stage through the street, while every stroke on the pasteboard armour grieved the auditors (because they did not pay for their seats), insomuch that three or four ran after the Ghost, and brought him back in triumph, with the avenging Frenchman at his heels, who would not be appeas'd till our Ghost promised him never to commit the offence of acting again.

No post can pass him without a question, and rather than he will lose the news, he rides back with him to apprise him of tidings; and then to the next man he meets he supplies the wants of his hasty intelligence and makes up a perfect tale, wherewith he so haunteth the patient auditor, that after many excuses he is fain to endure rather the censure of his manners in running away than the tediousness of an impertinent discourse.

Nature, rather than cultivation, had bestowed on him the faculty of conveying the impression he wished to convey, in tones that charm; and held his auditors, and penetrated ears dulled and fatigued by monotony and indistinctness.

All real orators impress themselvestheir own individualityon their auditors.

The brief recital had interested his auditors, but the ensuing pause was rather embarrassing.

I knew that I had small chance of escaping with my life if my presence should be discovered by the men who lay in wait for Harris and the captain; but it was not fear which kept me an auditor when I might well have been an actor to good purpose.

Lamartine says he had "a voice which, like that of the thunder in the clouds, or the organ in the cathedral, had never been anything but the medium of power and divine persuasion to the soul; a voice which only spoke to kneeling auditors; a voice which spoke in the name of God, an authority of language unequaled upon earth, and against which the lowest murmur was impious and the smallest opposition blasphemy."

" The major then related what had happened, letting his auditors into the secret of the true state of the country.

A zealous priest in the north of Ireland missed a constant auditor from his congregation, in which schism had already made depredations.

Of course I do, even most persistent and continuous hearers; whom I do not call pupils, but mere passing auditors of philosophers.

The whole discourse pleased his auditors, and a deputation waited on him to request he would print it.

The next day was the beginning of school, she reminded her auditors, and she'd have no time to get it done!