Early in the evening, Stubblefield-who, thanks to his size, intellect, and verbosity, had become a prominent, even dominant, figure in the community-delivered a long oration, the tenor of which nobody, least of all he, could afterward recall.

Theodore composed a long funeral oration, the Laudatio Platonis, which remains one of the most important sources for the history of the family.

He didn't feel like a long oration.

Listening to him, the thought that crossed my mind was stump speech, and I prepared myself for a long oration, but he quickly returned to the matter of the two dead girls.

Gone, like their three-games-to-none lead, are the long orations about their greatness and their place in history.

Ransom was lost for a while in the wonder of these things, so that when he came to himself he found that Perelandra was speaking, and what he heard seemed to be the end of a long oration.

Pythagoras in the rear heaved a deep sigh; he drew in his breath preparatory to a long and comprehensive oration.

It had been John's longest oration in some years.

Then Zhang Wentian in a long critical oration, condemned the leaders for the debacle in Jiangxi.

Joseph Maher and Charles Keating deserved standing ovations and thunderous applause for some of their longer orations, but they fell on deaf ears.