The clepsydra became in Greece a useful instrument to enforce the law in restricting loquacious orators and lawyers to reasonable limits in their addresses. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
Whether advocates and orators had liberty to plead in causes manifestly known to be unjust, vexatious, or oppressive? 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
Whether those pleading orators were persons educated in the general knowledge of equity, or only in provincial, national, and other local customs? 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
Thousands of people who hate the waste and futility of war as much as any of the orators of that evening were filled with an unholy glee. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.