White Hart evening club he was more often than any other the winner of the Headstrong Book -- an old Greek Homer despatched the next morning to the most obstinate haranguer of the preceding night. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
If Darian could not get away from whoever had decided to deliver the usual lecture, the haranguer would then go through the litany of Darian's many character flaws and deficiencies, and the only variation was in how much emphasis an individual placed on a particular flaw. From Wordnik.com. [Owlflight]
And 'gan a-preaching with a frown -- he was a fierce haranguer. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads] Reference
Good heavens! madam, how I started — the insipid haranguer minded me not, he went on. From Wordnik.com. [Agnes De-Courci: a Domestic Tale] Reference
Macaulay here speaks like a heated haranguer or Parliamentary partizan, not like an historian or a critic. From Wordnik.com. [The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad.] Reference
(Kevin Corrigan), and trash-talking another haranguer (Michael Rapaport) through calls to an all-sports radio show. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Springs Independent] Reference
Half an hour was the time allotted for each haranguer; when this was expired, the moderators were seen to look at their watches. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Manners of the Americans] Reference
With the exception of the two or three at the front, no one has her hands free to grab the haranguer by the throat and close the oratorical stop-cock. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 3] Reference
Welch, father-patron saint-cheerleader-haranguer-in-chief of the ubiquitous "shareholder value movement," recently dissed the primacy of shareholder value as "the dumbest idea in the world.". From Wordnik.com. [The Tom Peters Weblog] Reference
This one is the best one for the propagation and rapid increase of the coffee-house politician, club haranguer, the stump-speaker, the street-rioter, the committee dictator -- in short, the revolutionary and the tyrant. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 2] Reference
"It isn't possible!" interrupted Don Ramon excitedly, in mingled horror of the masculinely rampant Mrs. Markham and admiration of the fascinatingly feminine Mrs. Brimmer; "a lady cannot be an orator -- a haranguer of men!". From Wordnik.com. [The Crusade of the Excelsior] Reference
Against th 'haranguer's politicks. From Wordnik.com. [Hudibras] Reference
A haranguer of the populace, and me. From Wordnik.com. [Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection] Reference
A certain Velu, a born vagabond, formerly in the alms-house and brought up there, then a shoemaker or a cobbler, afterwards teaching school in the faubourg de Vienne, and at last a haranguer and proposer of tyrannicide motions, short, stout and as rubicund as his cap, is made President of the Popular club at Blois, then delegate for domiciliary visits, and, throughout the reign of Terror, he is a principal personage in the town, district and department. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 3] Reference
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