ore rotundo
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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At those words, delivered ore rotundo, the haymakers ceased laughing; for even in lay matters they held the parson to be an oracle, and words so long must have a great deal in them.
From My Novel — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
The last words mechanically rolled out, in the same "ore rotundo" with which the poor old Dean of Christchurch used to finish his Gloria, etc. in the Cathedral.
From Letters from High Latitudes by Dufferin, Lord
I hear his clear, musical voice, rolling out, ore rotundo, the resounding periods of Homer, or the energetic lines of Eschylus.
From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Turnbull, Robert
By and by, M. Charpentier came in, who is more voluble, more ore rotundo, grandiose, than M. Belloc.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
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