elocution

• Even the dullest had to admit that his elocution was excellent, and the manner of speech is keenly appreciated in America. —  Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
• He was of easy elocution, his language chaste, methodical in the arrangement of his matter, learned and logical in the use of it, and of great urbanity in debate; not quick of apprehension, but, with a little time, profound in penetration, and sound in conclusion. —  Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies
• She made a proficiency in the French language the principal object of her education; bringing over some French actors to Vienna to instruct her in the graces of elocution, and subsequently establishing as her chief tutor a French ecclesiastic, the Abbe de Vermond, a man of extensive learning, of excellent judgment, and of most conscientious integrity. —  The Life of Marie Antoinette
• Lugg has not taken lessons in elocution, at least not since he left Borstal in the reign of Edward the Seventh. —  The Case of the Late Pig - Margery Allingham - Campion 08 - 1937
• Reading and elocution were added to my curriculum, and in my eighth year I began to learn the rudiments of the Caerdicci tongue, the language of scholars. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig

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