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Definition of Speeches
1. speech [n] - See also: speech
Lexicographical Neighbors of Speeches
Literary usage of Speeches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Timeby David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"PAGE Biography and speeches 8 8201 Pliny the Younger Celebrated Passages 10 8955
... William Biography and Speech 8 8244 Pym, John Biography and speeches 8 ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1828)
"It is in his speeches that the character of Mr. Canning's mind peculiarly appears
on the vantage ground of its intellectual superiority. ..."
3. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1847)
"We have very defective reports of Wedderburn's official speeches in the House of
Commons, from which he gained so much contemporary applause. ..."
4. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1857)
"APPENDIX, CONTAINING EXTRACTS FROM speeches, ETC » RECEPTION SPEECH AT ... Mr.
Douglass' published speeches alone, would fill two volumes of the size of ..."
5. Types of News Writing by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer (1916)
"speeches, lectures, addresses, and sermons may be considered in the same class
... As reproductions of utterances, news stories of speeches and reports must ..."
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