Oratour

Lamprey, that Crassus the Oratour (who kept her) lamented her death.

The Compleat Angler 2007

Nevertheles Love, being a powerfull Oratour in perswading, as also adventurous even on the most difficult dangers; gave her courage to undertake them all: sending Lesca backe againe to him, with full assurance, of these more then Herculean labours.

The Decameron 2004

And at last by his continuall endeauour and long exercise therein, he grewe to bee such an Oratour and Poet, as fewe were in that age liuing, by reason whereof hee grew in fauour with Richard then King of

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Serjeant, Oratour like, declareth the disorder of the Constable

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

This Oratour was that auncient and honorable father, Schir

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

The Oratour vseth another maner of definition, thus: Is this wisedome? no it is a certaine subtill knauish craftie wit, it is no industrie as ye call it, but a certaine busie brainsicknesse, for industrie is a liuely and vnweried search and occupation in honest things, egernesse is an appetite in base and small matters.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

As this deceiued Oratour was framing his excuse, and about to moderate the iust wrath of his Ladie, displeased vpon good occasion, she not able to abyde any more talke, sayde further.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

In the one, as a Oratour to pleate with all facili - tee, and copiouslie to dilate any matter or sentence: in the other to grounde profunde and subtill argument, to fortifie & make stronge our assercion or sentence, to proue and defende, by the

A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde Richard Rainolde

For if by this your pleading, by circumstaunces and arte of an Oratour, whiche you haue vsed in all your discourse, the matter shall fall so out as sentence be giuen on your side, then the bargayne made betwene vs is voyde and of none effecte, bicause I losing the profite of my firste pleading: wherein by our agrement sentence should be geuen on my behalfe, the same bargaine is not accomplished.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

It is nott (I wate) unknawin to thy gratious [106] Hieness, how that thy Grace's umquhill servand and Oratour, (and ever shalbe to my lyves end,) is departed out of thy Realme unto the nixt adjacent of Ingland.

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox