As a professional storyteller, Mrs. Thompson was known for her mastery of elocution. From LearnThat.org.
We have a school of oratory, also classes in elocution and movements, excellently managed by women. From Wordnik.com. [The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U. S. A., 1893, With Portraits, Biographies and Addresses] Reference
Reader: Being able to read aloud, fluently and with expression and good elocution, is a very valuable thing. From Wordnik.com. [Learning to Be a Home Keeper] Reference
I wish Mr. Wray success; though I rather think Tidbury is not quite the sort of place to come to for what you call elocution -- eh? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Stolen Mask; or The Mysterious Cash-box. A Story for a Christmas Fireside] Reference
The 'elocution' business has sources as shaky as my Nan's Parkinson's disease riddled knee. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"But I assure you I often wish for your advice, particularly as to my elocution, which is very faulty. From Wordnik.com. [The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage] Reference
"elocution" in its worst sense, but a simple, sincere rendering of the language of the poem. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes] Reference
We have used elocution as a substitute for action. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
The theatre is a school for elocution or it is nothing. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference
I'll furnish the elocution if you'll bring the bombs and guns!. From Wordnik.com. [Rippling Rhymes] Reference
Royal elocution lessons are the subject of "The King's Speech.". From Wordnik.com. [Bob Mondello's Fall Movie Preview] Reference
By the way, do you know, you must take a few lessons in elocution. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I shall never forget my first attempt in the elocution class at school. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
Saturday, when there was only one recitation and an exercise in elocution. From Wordnik.com. [The University of Michigan] Reference
That fencing, dancing, and elocution are useful to the actor I do not deny. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Can a death-severed heart's elocution be imitated more aptly, more touchingly?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
I told her I was about to lecture and was on my way to take lessons in elocution. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
Her face, air, attitude, and elocution are thoroughly and bewilderingly feminine. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
So fluent and melodious was his elocution that his cause naturally begat sympathy. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
Polly had been having an hour's quiet talk with her former elocution teacher, Miss Adams. From Wordnik.com. [The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World] Reference
She cuts short her aunt's elocution, and goes with listless weariness to her own apartments. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
Miss Mary Anderson was my only teacher in elocution, and this was the only lesson I received. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
No less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger has commented on Johnson's shambling elocution. From Wordnik.com. [A Race to Remember] Reference
A friend of mine suggested I should take lessons in elocution from "one of those actor fellows.". From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
It is by the pearls of elocution that the sweet relations between distant friends are preserved. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
At 16, Purva Chawla holds good rankings in schooland loves competing in drama and elocution contests. From Wordnik.com. [A Peaceful Adolescence] Reference
The hero is Spanish, so Crowe wanted to play him sounding like "Antonio Banderas with better elocution.". From Wordnik.com. [The Battle For Summer] Reference
"Gest and Pant -- short for Gesture and Pantomime, senior course in elocution," explained Teddie rapidly. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Wales Senior] Reference
The voice of a singer is not more strictly tied to time and tune than that of an actor in theatrical elocution. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
No need to imitate the gestures of elocution, it is nature, not art, that makes the elocutionist and the orator. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
What we get is Romanticism for short attention spans; a lavishly decorated horror movie with excellent elocution. From Wordnik.com. [Monster Mush] Reference
Demosthenes that he always afterwards formed his elocution and action on the models of the most celebrated actors. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference
People had cried then; they knew not why, save that his elocution was exquisite, and he breathed it in an undertone. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
Not Miss Tebbs, herself, teacher of English and elocution at the High School, could have improved upon the performance. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference
It wanted the persuasive power that allures by an exquisite choice of words, or charms by noble and sympathetic elocution. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
"I know one piece that I learned for elocution, the same as Joe, but you wouldn't want two of the same variety on the bill.". From Wordnik.com. [The Radio Boys at the Sending Station Making Good in the Wireless Room] Reference
German and physical culture and was having some special private teaching in elocution by a master recommended by Miss Adams. From Wordnik.com. [The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World] Reference
The artist David, caught him by the hand as he closed, exclaiming, in rapture at his elocution, "I will drink it with thee.". From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Thus exhorted, Joe recited a humorous piece he had learned recently for delivery in the elocution class, and he recited it very well, too. From Wordnik.com. [The Radio Boys at the Sending Station Making Good in the Wireless Room] Reference
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