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I ain't much on the elocute, but I'm goin' ter do my best We listened patiently as she declaimed half a page of wretched prose.— Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch
Well, I should rise to elocute!— Cape Cod Stories
"Floss, I love to hear you elocute," drawled Helen.— The Day of the Beast
As an aid to public speaking I was taught to "elocute," and I remember in every mournful detail the occasion on which I gave my first recitation.— The Story of a Pioneer
You may teach him to fence, and to dance, and to elocute till he is black in the face; you will never teach him to play "Othello" unless he is an actor.— The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
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