elocutionist

• The writer no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist. —  The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
• He himself was a beautiful elocutionist, and if I now speak my language well it is in no small degree due to my early training. —  The Story of My Life
• Between his lips, words bud and blossom If you wish to know the difference between an orator and an elocutionist--between what is felt and what is said--between what the heart and brain can do together and what the brain can do alone--read Lincoln's wondrous words at Gettysburg, and then the speech of Edward Everett. —  Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings
• Feminine enthusiasm is quite equal to it at times, as, for instance, when listening to a favorite elocutionist or violinist. —  Etiquette
• The singer should be a good speaker, even a good elocutionist, and the speaker should be able to produce tones equal in beauty, power, and expressiveness to those of the singer, but, of course, within a more limited range, and less prolonged, as a rule. —  Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged)

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