rostra
- plural of rostrum.
Example Sentences
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He is Dr. Harry F. Covington, Professor of Public Speaking and Debating, whose classes meet before the temple rostra.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twelve thousand words long,* it was handed to clerks in the House and Senate who intoned it from the nation's rostra.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead, clerks intoned his Message from the Nation's rostra.
From Time Magazine Archive
Specimens from 12 miles west of Pagosa Springs have thin rostra and diffuse dorsal stripes.
From Geographic Variation in the Pocket Gopher, Thomys bottae, in Colorado by Youngman, Phillip M.
Rome, on the contrary, was filled with universal grief and alarm, as soon as the prætor had pronounced from the rostra the following words, “We have lost a great battle.”
From The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) by Rollin, Charles
