What is "elocutionist"

Usage examples of "elocutionist".

No need to imitate the gestures of elocution, it is nature, not art, that makes the elocutionist and the orator.

Instead of having a preliminary contest in which we all could speak and then having some good elocutionist decide those who were the best speakers, the teachers here allowed each fellow to vote for anyone he pleased and the three boys getting the highest number of votes were elected to speak.

Eating the white one will enable you to become the finest elocutionist in the land.

Henrietta Clark Bemis, a distinguished elocutionist, and a native of Concord, New Hampshire.

Eddy, was well adapted for its purpose, and read by a professional elocutionist, not an adherent of the order, Mrs.

I practised all the arts, which are recommended by elocutionists for this purpose, I rumbled my eloquence standing on the seashore, up to my middle in the breakers.

The grandfather, the father, and the uncle of Alexander Graham Bell were all elocutionists of note.

I have heard it recited often (sometimes even in Indian costume) at church socials, political picnics, Dominion Day Celebrations, and kindred uproars, and it never fails to rouse the audience to blood-thirsty fury -- sometimes directed toward the foes of their country, and sometimes toward the elocutionist herself (for it is generally assumed to be a piece for a lady to speak).

Jim Logan looked as if he was having his picture taken by the police, Maurice sounded like Peter Sellers parodying an elocutionist, Hannah's legs seize up if she even thinks she may be on vision, so she comes on like John Cleese .