I am not writing to deny woman's weakness, nor her vanity, nor the ridiculous exhibition she makes of herself when she takes to "orating" -- as the ❋ W. Blanchard Jerrold (1855)
He grew more moderate in his "orating" and the girls, as critics, were better pleased. ❋ Unknown (1914)
P. Blanton, who -- carried away as usual by the importance of the occasion -- was "orating" to a group of strangers. ❋ Harold Bell Wright (1908)
Mr. Burns was "orating" on the revival mesmerism was destined to make, and telling us how, like the Plumstead Peculiars, we should be able to do without doctors as soon as the healing powers of animal magnetism were properly recognised and diffused. ❋ Charles Maurice Davies (1869)
Now that men not only make the nights of the session hideous by what the Americans call "orating" in Parliament, but trouble the peace of the vacation by saying over again what they said there ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
Nearby is a set of Nazi toy soldiers with a miniature Hitler orating wildly from a podium. ❋ A.J. Goldmann (2010)
A roar of applause greeted the time-honoured yarn, and from somewhere over in the deeper darkness came another voice, orating angrily: ❋ Unknown (2010)
Unfortunately, this means that when Scully is not orating on behalf of the revolution, he is swinging pendulously between the two women for whom he lusts. ❋ Fred Perry (2009)
'Declare your interest!' they shout in the House of Commons when an MP who owns a chain of hock shops omits to say so when orating hotly in favor of a bill to lower the tax on hock shops. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And, parents, if you see me at your kids 'lemonade stand orating about the reality of competition -- please hand me a cup, and send me on my way. ❋ Unknown (2009)
A man with “long hair and beard,” wearing a “primitive cloak,” orating sermons to the crowd and preaching about “ghosts” and “purgatory”—the figure is yet another representation of Christ, scorned and persecuted in life, now praised in death. ❋ EILEEN (2009)
Mr. Obama's bosses have him orating to the rhythm of "No Excuses," despite the mountain of empirical data on the debilitating educational effects of poverty and its attendant corrosions. ❋ Jim Horn (2009)
I took both photos and video of this French leader orating before the statue of Joan of Arc, calling this heroine "little sister." ❋ Unknown (2009)
It might be hard to believe that the release of the bladder is a “communicative act” right up there with a polite conversation between friends or a politician orating before his constituents. ❋ ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ (2009)
They were running for Senator — by orating about a national issue in the campaign for the Illinois legislature. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Some believe Obama supporters have been mesmerized by his Svengali -- or even Hitleresque -- orating skills. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He saved my brother's superhero rendition of him in a cape and tights with a discernible potbelly and a huge, orating mouth, along with every artistic foray we made while at his place, the Land that Art Supplies Forgot. ❋ Unknown (2008)
