rostrum

• Finally Antony is persuaded to take the rostrum, and delivers this greatest funeral oration of all the ages Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Cæsar, not to praise him; The evil that men do live after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Cæsar. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Shakspere, by Colonel John A. Joyce
• Captain Ringgold appeared on the rostrum, after he had patted Mr. and Mrs. Mingo on the head, and glanced at Miss Mingo in the lap of Miss Blanche Manila is the capital of all the Spanish possessions in the East, as the professor has informed you; it has a population of 270,000, which is 40,000 greater than Havana," he began. —  Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics
• At the corner of Market and Marshall streets--between Sixth and Seventh--the collar-clasp orator has his rostrum, and it seems to us that his method of harangue has the quality of genuine art. —  Pipefuls
• Things had so gone with him that the rostrum was his own, and a House crammed to overflowing was there to listen to him. —  Phineas Finn The Irish Member
• In the first place, his mouth is provided with a very long snout or proboscis, classically described as a rostrum, with which he pierces the outer skin of the rose-shoot where he lives, and sucks up incessantly its sweet juices. —  Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science

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