His first important act was to repel from his counsels humiliating superiority in the person of William Pitt, the darling of the nation, the first minister of the world, and one of the three great orators of all time.
And again the cultured orators were wrong, and the untutored Democrats were substantially in the right.
Some oratorsvehemently said that too much time had already been lost, and that the government ought to be settled without the delay of a day.
Orators extolled from the pulpit the wisdom and magnanimity of the eldest son of the Church.
He erected a monument, one portion of which is unhappily destroyed, but into which modern tragedians have often quarried and which orators have not scorned when desiring to instruct themselves in their art.
Antiphon was the earliest in date alike of the Athenian orators and of the professors of eloquence.
There were poets, and even great poets, as well as orators and historians.
Nevertheless, I am able to declare that these great orators were tired to death of listening to one another, and, what was worse, the whole country was tired of listening to them.
A word which one of the orators (for all the speakers called themselves orators) dropped to the memory of Colonel Briqueville gave me my opportunity.
Lamartine was still in the tribune between the two banners, continuing to address the crowd, or rather conversing with them; for there seemed to be almost as many orators as listeners.
Under these circumstances he became, for a moment, the man of the most genuine eloquence that I have ever heard speak in our Assemblies: he left all the mere orators far behind him.
We see, nevertheless, what orators have lost their lives and how few of any promise are left, how far fewer there are who have ability, and how many there are who have nothing but presumption.
Disaster had followed disaster, and iron-throated orators in Hyde and St. James's Parks were now shouting "Stop the war!
Orators and writers allude to it with a respect and adulation that never fell to the share of Louis XIV.
The orators who know how to make an impression upon them always appeal in consequence to their sentiments and never to their reason.
At these words there is an exchange of invectives andorators and audience come to blows.
The speeches of the great orators of the assemblies of the French Revolution are very interesting reading from this point of view.
That thou didst discourage Nero’s reading of the ancient orators in order that thou mightest retain him the longer as an admirer of thine own writings.
And your said orators shall according to their bounden duties pray to God for the preservation of your most Royal Majesty long to live and reign over us.
And your said poororators shall daily pray to God for the prosperous preservation of your Majesty in your most Royal Estate long to reign, and for your most honourable Council long to continue.
October The tenants and inhabitants of Senseker and Halkesgarthe in Whitby Strand in the County of York desire to have Sir John Yorke called before the Council and to take order that your oratorsmay have.
And your orators shall be ever bound to pray for your health and prosperity to the Lord.
All through the week chosen orators wrestled in vain.
On the next occasion Mr. Brice was one of the orators at a much larger meeting in a garden in South St. Louis.
A brief account of it will be found in the chapter on "Some Famous Orators I have Heard.
With these exceptions, the number of American orators who will live in history as orators can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
Our people hear some great orators as they witness a play.
I once, a good many years ago, studied the biographies of the men who belonged to that period who were famous as great orators in Parliament or in Court, to find, if I could, the secret of their power.
If we reckon those Americans only as great orators who are accepted in England as such, or who, belonging to past generations are so accepted now by their own countrymen, the number is very small.
He was one of the most successful stump-orators of that time.
Great scandal, it seems, had been caused by coffee-house oratorsof the irresponsible order.
As at Athens, where the orators were only allowed to speak as long as an hour-glass, filled with water, was running down.
Several Tory orators appealed to a feeling which was strong in the House, and which had, since the Revolution, prevented many laws from passing.
On this occasion Burnet closed the debate by a powerful speech which none of the Tory orators could undertake to answer without premeditation.
Conspicuous among them was Charles Montague, who was rapidly attaining a foremost rank among the orators of that age.
Several orators addressed the crowd which filled the cemetery.
Pamphleteers, historians and orators pronounced that now, at all events, our case was desperate.
Some of his ministers were doubtless men of great ability, excellent orators in the House of Lords, and versed in our insular politics.
The illustrious Pericles underwent innumerable attacks both from the orators in the assembly and from the comic writers in the theatre.
The inhabitants of the district of Marathon paid religious rites to them, and orators solemnly invoked them in their most impassioned adjurations before the assembled men of Athens.
There is indeed some countenance for this confusion between Solonian and post-Solonian Athens, in the usage of the orators themselves.
The orators had recourse to their favourite loci communes, one of which, as we find in Lysias, was the shortness of the time allowed them for preparation.
The great political leaders and orators were the stipendiaries of Eastern princes and nobles who wanted favors from the Senate, and who knew as well how to reward such services as do the railway kings in our times.
Under the Emperors we read of no more great orators like Cicero, battling for human rights and defending the public weal.
But one or two gifted orators will have to take the road.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "orators" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
