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Updated: June 16, 2025
"Il tombe," said le Camarade Tollot, in what used to be called the "oratorical orotund" "il tombe." There was a full pause. He was wounded. He rose staggering to his feet. All the other flags were down. A tremendous storm of applause greeted the speaker, who favored us with the recital of a short, sentimental poem as an encore.
He was an elderly man with thin cheeks and a large nose. He had one of those great, orotund voices that occasionally roll out of little men, and he read the service with a misjudged effort to fill the building. The building happened to have peculiarly fine acoustic properties; but the unfortunate man roared like him of Bashan.
Needless to say, the habit should be formed of breathing through the nose when in repose. There is a voice of unusual roundness and fulness known as the orotund, which is indispensable to the public speaker. It is simple, pure tone, rounded out into greater fulness. It is produced mainly by an increased resonance of the chest and mouth cavities, and a more vigorous action of the abdominal muscles.
Is it the proper attitude of the historian simply to write, without thought of anything so irrelevant as a reader? Bancroft was a pioneer, breaking the way ponderously perhaps, but he delved faithfully. If the orotund rolls too sonorously in his periods it was an excess in which his age upheld him.
He was a fledgling barrister, with his future in front of him, the child of "strolling players"; she, the beautiful Miss Linlay, was a singer of note. Her father was the leader of the Bath Orchestra, and had a School of Oratory where young people agitated the atmosphere in orotund and tremolo and made the ether vibrate in glee.
Under the cloak of a theatrical presence and a large orotund manner, and behind a Ciceronian command of sonorous language, the colonel carried concealed a shrewd old brain. It was as though a skilled marksman lurked in ambush amid a tangle of luxuriant foliage.
I'm glad, because well, I'm just glad, that's all. And I suppose that, too, is the woman in me." One given to sonorous and orotund phrases would doubtless have coined a most splendid speech here. But all the old judge, gently patting her hand, said was: "Well, now, ma'am, that's powerful fine the way it's all turned out. And I'm glad I had a blunderin' hand in it to help bring it about.
The first of these registers is sometimes called the "orotund" voice from its quality of roundness, and is employed principally in language of reverence, sublimity, and grandeur. The head tone is the voice of ordinary conversation and should form the basis of the public-speaking style. No one who has to speak in public should be discouraged because of limited vocal resources.
'Beau sire, our lord the august King takes it very ill that you have so long delayed the marriage agreed upon solemnly between your Grace and Madame Alois his sister. 'Therefore, he went on, orotund, 'our lord the King desires that the marriage may be celebrated before he sets out for Acre and the blessed work in those parts.
And he was expected, too, at such a moment, to look grateful. "You will recall the episode of the spy and the abstraction of the papers from the President's office," continued the Secretary of War in orotund and complaisant tones. "It may seem to the public that we have dropped this matter, which is just what we wish the public to think, as it may lull the suspicions of the suspected.
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