"Orate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was dedicated to All-Hallowes, as appeares by the ancient parish booke. The tradition is that it was built by a lawyer, whose picture is in severall of the glasse-windowes yet remaining, kneeling, in a purple gowne or robe, and at the bottome of the windowes this subscription: "Orate pro felici statu Magistri Sieardi Lenot". This church hath no pillar, and the breadth is thirty and two feete and two inches. Hereabout are no trees now growing that would be long enough to make the crosse beames that doe reach from side to side. By ...
— The Natural History of Wiltshire • John Aubrey
... (Lat. memoran'dus, p. part. of memora're; literally, something to be remembered); commem'orate (-ion, -ive); mem'ory (Lat. ...
— New Word-Analysis - Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words • William Swinton
... feasted so often—Captain Sam would have hoisted the Stars and Stripes to the masthead the day the Lusitania sank and put to sea in a dory, if need be, and armed only with a shotgun, to avenge that outrage. To hear Captain Sam orate concerning the neglect of duty of which he considered the United States government guilty was an experience, interesting or shocking, according to the drift of ...
— Shavings • Joseph C. Lincoln |
