1
Æschines closes his very able and brilliant oration with the following words:
2
After a brilliant oration, the great tribune went home exhausted, and, indeed, dying.
3
He could not trust himself to speak of the brilliant oration they had just listened to.
4
Edward Everett was the orator of the day, and he delivered a most polished and brilliant oration.
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It was very Scottish and very GB-dominated -he gave a brilliant oration, Gordon at his best.
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Not a brilliant oration in any way; neither exordium nor peroration, and the middle occasionally a little mixed.