orator

• The abandon of the orator is the spending of his divine heritage for a purpose Patrick Henry had given himself. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators
• He was an orator, and the business of the orator is to inspire other men to think and act for themselves Orators live but in memory. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators
• Anxious murmurs had been heard among the populace who filled the tribunes, or crowded the entrances of the hall of the convention, indicating that a second 31st of May (being the day on which the Jacobins proscribed the Girondists) was about to witness a similar operation The first theme of the gloomy orator was the display of his own virtues and his services as a patriot, distinguishing as enemies to their country all whose opinions were contrary to his own. —  Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
• A strange thing, that that part of an orator which is but superficial, and rather the virtue of a player, should be placed so high above those other noble parts, of invention, elocution, and the rest; nay, almost alone, as if it were all in all. —  The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
• They do not know each other, and they have not the confidence that comes of membership in a large society PARTY GOVERNMENT If the orator is a menace to the wise decisions of the people by a referendum, the party organiser and political "boss" can easily be a curse to representative government on party lines. —  The Rise of the Democracy

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