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Example sentences for "great orator"

  • Martin Van Buren cannot be ranked as a great orator.

  • If he had been a great orator he would have charmed the conservatives who hated Federalism and dreaded Jacobinism.

  • Southwick could not be called a great orator, but he had grace, wit, imagination, and a beauty of style that appealed to the hearts and sympathies of his hearers.

  • The speech as a whole has all the qualities which made Mr. Webster a great orator, and the same traits run through his other speeches.

  • It is easy to compare Mr. Webster with this and the other great orator, and to select points of resemblance and of difference, and show where Mr. Webster was superior and where he fell behind.

  • Before all and almost over all was Caesar himself: great orator, letter-writer, grammarian, and historian.

  • He was in addition a great orator; he was also a historian, or at least a philosopher of history, in his City of God; finally, he was a poet at heart and imbued with the most exquisite sensibility in his immortal Confessions.

  • In everything that makes a great orator he was far beneath Berryer.

  • St. Luc is a brave man, a great orator, and his words will fall, golden and sweet like honey, on the ears of the fifty chiefs.

  • They'll be very curious about us, naturally so, and since your new friend Dayohogo has announced that you are a great orator, you can do most of the talking and explaining, Robert.

  • He had forgotten the words of Dayohogo that he would be a great orator, but five minutes after they were spoken he was justifying them.

  • William Pitt had all the graces of a great orator--he was deliberate, self-possessed, positive.

  • He had the great gift of exaggeration, without which no man can be a great orator.

  • It was a rival of Burke's who said, "He is the only man since Cicero who is a great orator, and who can write as well as he can talk.

  • But, though not a great orator, he had in a high degree some of the qualities of a statesman.

  • He was undoubtedly a great orator; and, from the descriptions given by his contemporaries, and the fragments of his speeches which still remain, it is not difficult to discover the nature and extent of his oratorical powers.

  • He is not satisfied with forcing us to confess that Pitt was a great orator, a vigorous minister, an honourable and high-spirited gentleman.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great agitation; great assistance; great benefactor; great consideration; great deeds; great excitement; great grief; great importance; great impression; great indeed; great influence; great intelligence; great interest; great measure; great perfection; great powers; great prince; great quantitie; great sigh; great speech; great spiritual; great teacher; great tournament; great tree; great way; greater amount