Elocution Sayings

These sayings were found on an Elocution site...I thought they were fun and challenging.

The site is Words & Stuff: e: An Eloquent Orator (2 February 1997)





He usually urges an umbrella upon us

In India, individual effort is intensified

Out of the opposition, an eloquent orator arose

Whether the weather be cold, or whether the weather be hot, We'll be together whatever the weather, whether we like it or not!

the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul

ten tiny tots on the train tracks

We've no time to sit and dither while her withers wither with her

It's your father's fault that the curse got placed and the place got cursed in the first place

Cecil vexeth Essex

One black bug bled blue-black blood while the other black bug bled blue

The Lethe police dismisseth us

The seething sea ceaseth, and so the seething sea sufficeth us

Sinful Caesar sipped his snifter, seized his knees, and sneezed

unique New York

Peggy Babcock

illuminated aluminum linoleum

insidious avian amphibian amphetamines

Spenser's censors' censures

close-cropped curls

self-stultifyingly eristic flummoxed skink

What a to-do to die today, at a minute or two to two

a thing distinctly hard to say, but harder still to do

We'll beat a tattoo, at twenty to two

a rat-tat-tat- tat-tat-tat- tat-tat-tattoo

and the dragon will come when he hears the drum

at a minute or two to two today, at a minute or two to two