Let those who present the gift lay it upon the altar, and then it may be wise to summon whatever oratorical harp, sackbut, and psaltery may add effect and interest to the holy festival.
They would have been left in glorious uncertainty as to his meaning, but that Old Adam's energetic and oratorical action generally sufficed to speed the querist in the right direction.
But the exhilaration of oratorical inebriety still lingered with her, and she heard Phillida professionally rather than personally.
Even Mrs. Frankland, in the rush of oratorical extravagance, had not dared to give this its literal sense.
But as the hours wore on the excitement of her oratorical effort subsided and a natural physical reaction began.
That she and they exaggerated the degree of her personal feeling for her individual listeners is probable; the oratorical temperament enlarges the image of a sentiment as naturally as a magic lantern magnifies a picture.
Solidity and Fluency," he says, "better becomes the historian, then Singularity ofOratorical or Poetical Notions.
And though both verse and oratorical prose should be rhythmical, a set rhythm, a meter, is appropriate only to verse.
Although with good taste as well as classical erudition Ascham preferred Sophocles and Euripides to the oratorical and sententious Seneca, his view was not shared by the renaissance.
The "ioynts and members" are the cola and commas of the oratoricalprose rhythm.
The colonel was seen to straighten his form and put one hand forth in oratorical fashion.
He was chosen one of the speakers on graduation day, and most important of all, he had been chosen to represent his college in the annualoratorical contest with the other colleges of the state.
After these successes it was not to be wondered at that his college elected him to represent the school in the intercollegiate oratorical contest.
This is the point I wish to impress upon the elders, and to advise that all oratorical effort be confined to appropriate times and places.
In this latter branch of oratorical adornment Ferrars was never deficient.
First read such speeches aloud, since by that means you fit words to your lips and acquire a familiarity with oratorical style.
He blended many graces in one, and his speeches are worthy of study as models of oratorical style.
Fox The following is a specimen of masterly oratorical style, from a sermon preached in London, England, by W.
Lord Chatham Lord Chatham's oratorical style was formed on the classic model.
But he resolved to develop his oratorical powers, and devoted every morning to intense reading.
His well-known oration "On the Crown," the preparation of which occupied a large part of seven years, is regarded as the oratorical masterpiece of all history.
He stands for all time as the most inspiring example of oratorical achievement, despite almost insuperable difficulties.
Her lightest remarks had, somehow, anoratorical twang.
The style of Roman tragedy appears to have been direct and vigorous, serious, often animated with oratorical passion, but singularly devoid of harmony, subtlety, poetical refinement and inspiration.
Cicero testifies to his oratorical force, to his serious spirit, and to the didactic purpose of his writings.
On the other hand, there seems to have been more opportunity both for action and for oratorical declamation.
This indifference is the more marked from his generous recognition of the oratorical promise and accomplishment of the men of a younger generation.
But the fact that similar criticisms appear in the satirical and oratorical fragments of the second century B.
Even the structure of the Latin language testifies to the oratorical force and ardour by which it was moulded into symmetry; as the language of Greece betrays the plastic and harmonising power of her early poetry.
Roman literature is altogether more pervaded by oratorical feeling than that of any other nation, ancient or modern.
Oratorical fervour and dignity seem thus to have been the most distinctive characteristic of his style.
Some years since, the oratorical beggar, who addressed himself to the public on each side of the way, in a neat speech spoken from the middle of the road, was almost as constant and regular in his appearances as the postman himself.
While I had been looking at this man, I had also been insensibly led to compare myself, as I stood on the pavement, with my oratorical vagrant, as he stood in the roadway.
Wherein, then, lies the force of an oratorical image?
The poetical image is designed to astound; the oratorical image to give perspicuity.
But the chief beauties of an oratorical image are its energy and reality.
Thousands have warmly testified to the rare oratoricalpowers of the subject of this sketch, the Meriden (Conn.
Talmage thought he was an independent, but he was independent in nothing but oratorical gymnastics.
Occasionally a man replied, often a clergyman of local oratorical reputation being put forward by the landlords.
Wendell Phillips advised the young oratorical aspirant to take "a course of mobs.
Let us here note that Cradock gives a curious account of an oratorical failure of Pitt's in later life and of his consequent irritation, eminently comforting to humbler speakers.
The greatest of Greek oratorical writers and teachers, but debarred from speaking by timidity and a weak voice.
He has consummate oratorical power, fluency and choice of expression, and though he always speaks extempore his speeches might have been carefully written out long beforehand.
He defends himself weakly, and after one of his oratorical tilts, he falls into such spiritual depression, that he almost thinks of suicide.
The merit of the latter is, perhaps, rather oratorical than poetical; nor can I recollect anything in the great Athenian speeches which equals it in force of invective and bitterness of sarcasm.
We learn, with more certainty, that Pericles was distinguished by extraordinary oratorical powers.
I have heard the most eloquent statesman of the age remark that, next to Demosthenes, Dante is the writer who ought to be most attentively studied by every man who desires to attainoratorical eminence.
But surely nothing is more remarkable, in his admirable works, than the art with which his oratorical powers are made subservient to the purposes of poetry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oratorical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
