orator

• “Demades, the Ancient Greek orator, is about to address an assembly in Athens on a matter of vital importance.”

  Campfire Writing: Why Stories are the Writer’s Elemental Tool | Write to Done

• “It was a performance to daunt a lesser orator from the very attempt.”

  St. Andrew's Day Special Meeting

• “Colonel Winston, a great orator from the West, was at a convention in Washington as a candidate for Attorney-General.”

  Stabilization of Money

• “A stump orator is imported, a real rabble-rouser of the peppiest kind, and with blatant eloquence he demonstrates that nothing will be easier than for Gopher Prairie to take the lead and reach the 200,000 class.”

  Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 - Presentation Speech

• “But whoever read it to you should have explained that when I wrote 'He was an orator,' the word orator was marked emphatically, so as to appear printed in capital letters of emphasis.”

  The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• “The prosecutors brought with them a certain orator named Tertullus, a Roman, skilled in the Roman law and language, and therefore fittest to be employed in a cause before the Roman governor, and most likely to gain favour.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)

• “The tongue of the most subtle disputant, and the most eloquent orator, is but the pen with which God writes what he pleases.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)

• “a certain orator -- one of those Roman advocates who trained themselves for the higher practice of the metropolis by practicing in the provinces, where the Latin language, employed in the courts, was but imperfectly understood and Roman forms were not familiar. informed ... against Paul -- "laid information," that is, put in the charges.”

  Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

• “1 And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)

• “Senator John McCain, who has not known as a mellifluous orator, is already playing the political game of lowering expectations for his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis next month – particularly since Senator Barack Obama will deliver his speech before the Democrats at the Denver Broncos’ football stadium.”

  McCain on His Convention Speech - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com

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