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Orators from the right got up and heaped recriminations on the left, orators from the left screamed curses on the right.
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He was about to put on the stage a farce called The Orators, intended as a hit at the Robin Hood debating club, and resolved to show up the two doctors in it for the entertainment of the town.
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He was about to put on the stage a farce called The Orators, intended as a hit at the Robin Hood debating club, and resolved to show up the two doctors in it for the entertainment of the town.
Oliver Goldsmith Irving, Washington 1849
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He was about to put on the stage a farce called The Orators, intended as a hit at the Robin Hood debating club, and resolved to show up the two doctors in it for the entertainment of the town.
Oliver Goldsmith A Biography Washington Irving 1821
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In his farce called the Orators, the celebrated Cocklane
Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald for the Murder of Arthur Davis, Sergeant in General Guise's Regiment of Foot Walter Scott 1801
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Besides, there is no Favourite of a Monarch, which cannot as well succour his friends, as hurt his enemies: But Orators, that is to say,
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633
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"Orators," he says, "joke with an object, not to appear jesters, but to obtain some advantage."
History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873
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If I were again to become a primary instructor, or to teach the art of reading in any higher seminary than the common school-house, I would take the Bible in preference to any twenty 'Orators' or 'English Readers' that I have ever seen.
Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes Ira Mayhew 1854
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"Orators like Cicero used this technique to give seven-hour speeches under intense heckling in the Roman senate," Cooke said.
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Auden dedicated “The Exiles” — one of the Odes in The Orators — to Upward, and made him an executor of his will when he set off to take part in the Spanish Civil War.
The Captive Mind 2009
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