34 Verbs to Use for the Word oratories

The lover entered the oratory, and when the door was closed upon his person, the domestic, one known to be worthy of all confidence, was directed to usher in those who waited without.

These rocky islands have for centuries been respected as holy ground, because St. Cuthbert built an oratory on one of them, and died there.

I think all men require to study oratory and elocution.

'The Americans don't want oratory.' JOHNSON.

Tom Moore compares the oratory of Lord Castlereagh to "water spouting from a pump.

He retreated to a desert place in Champagne, where he constructed a small oratory with his own hands.

356; excisemen, attacks, i. 294, n. 9; Garrick, notes to, ii. 227; Highland regiments, raises, iii. 198; v. 150; House of Commons, last speech in the, ii. 16, n. 2; Johnson attacks him, ii. 134, n. 4, 314; criticises his oratory, iv.

SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley (grandson of Dr. Thomas Sheridan and son of Thomas Sheridan), birth, i. 358, n. 2; Comedies, dates of his, iii. 116, n, 1; Duenna, run of the, iii. 116, n. 1; father, estranged from his, i. 388, n. 1; despises his oratory, i. 394, n. 2; funeral, i. 227, n. 4; Johnson, compliments, in a Prologue, iii.

I recalled that this was a privilege dearly prized by all Polynesians, the lack of reading and writing having, as in Greece, developed oratory and orators to a remarkable excellence.

Perhaps for convenience in consideration we may roughly divide his oratory into wood-pile and conversational eloquence.

Lombardus makes poetry include oratory.

It has been inventing attractions of all sorts,fine buildings, sumptuous upholstery and decorations, artistic music, brilliant oratory; it has thought it possible to enlist men by pleasing their tastes and gratifying their sensibilities.

They have lavished their oratory in declaiming upon the absurdity of the methods proposed, and discovered their sagacity, by showing how future navies may be supplied from charity schools, but have substituted no expedients in the place of those which they so warmly condemn, nor have condescended to inform us, how we may now guard our coasts, or man our fleets for immediate service.

Where learned you your oratory, Sir Count?" "From a just cause, my lord," quickly retorted Max.

The ancient Greeks also (though they left too much oratory behind them) had some good notions, especially if we consider that they had not, like modern Europe, the advantage of

" The silence with which his two clients received these explanations made him abandon his mechanical oratory in order to take a good look at them.

When we hear the German professors of to-day preaching of the spread of German culture by the German arms, and when we feel disgust at the exaggerated religious phraseology which pervades the Kaiser's oratory and seems to accord so ill with his policy and ambitions, we must remember the peculiar origins of the Prussian State and how comparatively recent those origins are.

" A young preacher, who was staying at a clergy-house, was in the habit of retiring to his room for an hour or more each day to practice pulpit oratory.

A month afterwards, he was without occupation again, but he soon re-appeared with a new journal of his own, La Rue, La Sue, in its turn, however, only lived during a few numbers, and Jules Vallès now took up café politics, and practised table oratory at the Estaminet de Madrid, where he fostered and expounded the projects which he has since brought to so fearful a result.

The leaders of his party may have admired and praised his oratory, but they wanted something more practical than orations,they wanted the control of men; and so, too, the government demanded a code which would exact the esteem of lawyers and meet the wants of India rather than a composition which would read well.

The public dangers produce oratory, not chants.

His voice and manner did not lend themselves readily to pulpit oratory, but his clear, logical, and intense presentation of the truth produced a profound and permanent effect upon his hearers.

He had the ordinary advantages of education; but he chose to pursue that oratory which is for the mob.' BOSWELL.

As no answer was elicited, his alarm increased; the heavy drapery by which the door was veiled deadened the voices within; and after waiting for a few instants to convince himself that no ingress could be obtained save by stratagem, he proceeded along the corridor until he reached the oratory, where he found one of the waiting-women of the Queen, who, unable to withstand a heavy bribe, permitted him to penetrate into the royal closet.

Men were slow to believe the reports of their wives and sisters respecting Angelina's wonderful oratory, and this incredulity produced the itching ears which soon drew to the meetings where the Grimké sisters were to speak more men than women, and gave them the applause and hearty support of some of the ablest minds of New England.

34 Verbs to Use for the Word  oratories