"Yes, gentlemen," continued the
orator, "in spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle which it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!
As he stood there, trying to quench his fiery face with his drink of water, the comparison between the
orator and the crowd of attentive faces turned towards him, was extremely to his disadvantage.
Count Rostov at the back of the crowd was expressing approval; several persons, briskly turning a shoulder to the
orator at the end of a phrase, said:
A ragged, ebony giant, squatted on the floor in one of the aisles, watched the
orator with burning eyes and tremulous face until the supreme burst of applause came, and then the tears ran down his face.
"Is the face of my great Canada father turned again toward his Huron children?" demanded the
orator of the Delawares.
He knew nothing at all about that speech he had heard, not even the name of the
orator; and he was to go away--no, no, it was preposterous, he must speak to some one; he must find that man himself and tell him.
I prompted our medical
orator with a neat speech from behind the curtain; and I never heard such applause, from such a comparatively small audience, before in my life.
And by hideous con- trast, a redundant
orator was making a speech to another gathering not thirty steps away, in fulsome laudation of "our glorious British liberties!"
Among these was Kit's mother, who, finding it matter of extreme difficulty to keep her eyes open after the fatigues of last night, and feeling their inclination to close strongly backed and seconded by the arguments of the preacher, had yielded to the drowsiness that overpowered her, and fallen asleep; though not so soundly but that she could, from time to time, utter a slight and almost inaudible groan, as if in recognition of the
orator's doctrines.
Lady Bellaston, perceiving she had fired the young lord's pride, began now, like a true
orator, to rouse other passions to its assistance.
The second
orator, though past the prime of his days, was far less aged than the one who had preceded him.
He was such an impres- sive
orator that numerous persons doubted if he had ever been a slave, so he wrote NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS.