elocutioner

"Old Harry's our champion elocutioner at school, you know," Wally said.

A Little Bush Maid Mary Grant Bruce 1918

"Old Harry's our champion elocutioner at school, you know," Wally said.

A Little Bush Maid 1910

Howells put in a night of suffering — long, dark hours of hot and cold waves of fear — and rising next morning from a tossing bed, wrote: “Here’s a play which every manager has put out-of-doors and which every actor known to us has refused, and now we go and give it to an elocutioner.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

a play which every manager has put out-of-doors and which every actor known to us has refused, and now we go and give it to an elocutioner.

Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship William Dean Howells 1878

a play which every manager has put out-of-doors and which every actor known to us has refused, and now we go and give it to an elocutioner.

My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) William Dean Howells 1878

Howells put in a night of suffering -- long, dark hours of hot and cold waves of fear -- and rising next morning from a tossing bed, wrote: "Here's a play which every manager has put out-of-doors and which every actor known to us has refused, and now we go and give it to an elocutioner.

Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

Howells put in a night of suffering -- long, dark hours of hot and cold waves of fear -- and rising next morning from a tossing bed, wrote: "Here's a play which every manager has put out-of-doors and which every actor known to us has refused, and now we go and give it to an elocutioner.

Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899