In the middle there was a stage erected, from which some one was delivering an oration or address of some sort.

There Antony, as consul, rose to pronounce the funeral oration.

But the prisoner's counsel says the slaves might have heard Mr. Foote's torch-light oration, and so have been persuaded to go.

Among those who were to receive the degree of Bachelor of Arts was a young man named Stevenson, who had composed an oration to be delivered on the platform.

We may at least hope that this satire, which overflows with the deadliest contempt of Claudius, is not from the same pen which wrote for Nero his funeral oration.

Chief of these was the effect produced upon Young Italy by the personal gallantry of the poet D'Annunzio, who, when he is not flying at the head of the Italian bombing planes against Pola, is making fiery orations to the Infantry in the front line and distributing among them little tricolor flags bearing his own autograph.

Hoveden has given an oration made by Ralph, Bishop of Durham, in which he addresses the captains as "Brave nobles of England, Normans by birth"; and pointing to the enemy, who knew not the use of armor, exclaims, "Your head is covered with the helmet, your breast with a coat of mail, your legs with greaves, and your whole body with the shield."

I have not read the oration for fifty years; but, as I remember it, it was, in the fashion of the day, one of the most eloquent of all our readings.

But 'twas a fox who spoke the oration.

Diabolus then began his oration.

Emily, as she thanked him, noticed a tear in the eye of the old man, as he concluded his oration, that would have excused a thousand breaches of fastidious ceremony.

Tisquantum closed his wild oration with another loud and prolonged yell, to which all the spectators, who crowded the sides of the hut, replied by a short and yelping cry: and the Powow sank on the ground by the side of his patient, faint and exhausted by the violent and sustained exertions to which both his mind and body had been subjected for several hours without intermission.

We then rehearsed our former oration on our knees, and produced our letters, and requested the aid of interpreters to translate them.

When he rose, he did so with the evident consciousness that the gallery above him was filled with many of his political school, and thrusting both hands well into the bottom of his breeches pockets, he commenced his oration with an air of great self-confidence, occasionally drawing one hand from its concealment to aid his oratory by significant gesture.

Marino Sanuto, who wrote the lives of the Doges of Venice in 1493 (Daru says, erroneously, some fifty years afterwards), has preserved the Orations made by the Doge Tomaso Mocenigo, in opposition to the Florentine proposals; which he copied, according to his statement, from a manuscript that belonged to the Doge himself.

I perfectly remember Payen's oration against this coeffure, and every woman in Paris who had light hair, was, I doubt not, intimidated.

The leper cut short his snarling oration.

Sometimes her father repeated orations of classic heroes, first in the original tongue, and then in English.

Why do you not go and tell him that you are not going to starve and die while he eats caviare and peaches from gold plates and dishes?" A resounding bang of the fist finished this fine oration, and again the questions were unanswered.

[Footnote 20: MS. oration in the Library of Congress.]

"To gain the valedictory oration was one goal that I had said I would attain to.

Your friend's attorney might have gone his way With as great credit as did that orator Which, handling an oration some three hours, Ill for the matter, worse than bad for phrase, Having said dixi, look'd, and found not one To praise or dispraise his oration; For, wearied with his talk, they all were gone.

We understand that there is talk of having the oration set to music.

Expressions are to be used which have a power of illustrating the oration; yet such as are not unusual, but weighty, full-sounding, sonorous, compound, well-invented, and well-applied, not vulgar; borrowed from other subjects, and often metaphorical, not consisting of single words, but dissolved into several clauses, which are uttered without any conjunction between them, so as to appear more numerous.

" Another ill-suppressed groan escaped from Trenta, and for a moment interrupted the count's oration.