Sentence examples for long oration from inspiring English sources

After two years, he relates in his "Memoirs," he could write a long oration in Latin, together with fifty-odd lines of Latin verse, in half a day.

It was over within five minutes; the work, as he has said throughout the campaign "goes on" and he clearly had no time for a long oration.

In response, Da Ponte delivered what was no doubt a long oration on the glories of Italian poetry, and finished with a suggestion that he himself was available to teach on that subject.

Then do not, Stranger, deny us the first favour which we ask of you: I am sure that you will not, and therefore I shall only beg of you to say whether you like and are accustomed to make a long oration on a subject which you want to explain to another, or to proceed by the method of question and answer.

But when the tribunes commanded him to speak then, if he had anything to say, he began a long oration, filled with all manner of reproaches, in which he spent the remaining part of the time, and the tribunes, when it was dark, dismissed the assembly.

16 Justin, 22.5‑6, gives the substance of a long oration, which he ascribes to Agathocles on this occasion.

His latest example was an hour-long oration delivered last week for an audience of 400 hand-picked people in Cincinnati.

While his office denied that he was conducting a filibuster, today he gave an afternoon-long oration that effectively prevented any consideration of Mr. Graham's bill to create an antiterrorism office in the White House without Senate confirmation.

Launching the longest oration of the conference, the khaki-clad minister accused the United States of conniving at an assassination plot against Prime Minister Fidel Castro's brother Raul, which Maj. Guevara said was intended as an excuse for United States military action against Cuba.

p145 1 1 One might justly censure those who in their histories insert over-long orations or employ frequent speeches; for not only do they rend asunder the continuity of the narrative by the ill-timed insertion of speeches, but also they interrupt the interest of those who are eagerly pressing on toward a full knowledge of the events.

While Morales's anniversary address clocked in ahead of Castro's speech to the UN general assembly in 1960, it was still far short of the Cuban strongman's longest public oration (a seven-hour, 10-minute monologue in 1986).