Citations:speaker


 * 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:
 * "en"

- "Let me hear another sound from you," said Scrooge, "and you'll keep your Christmas by losing your situation! You're quite a powerful speaker, sir," he added, turning to his nephew. "I wonder you don't go into Parliament." "It's likely to be a very cheap funeral," said the same speaker; "for upon my life I don't know of anybody to go to it. Suppose we make up a party and volunteer?" "Well, I am the most disinterested among you, after all," said the first speaker, "for I never wear black gloves, and I never eat lunch. But I'll offer to go, if anybody else will. When I come to think of it, I'm not at all sure that I wasn't his most particular friend; for we used to stop and speak whenever we met. Bye, bye!"


 * 2016 October 2nd,, “Liberal guilt won’t fight nationalism” in , volume 195, № 17 (30 September–6 October 2016), page 21/3:
 * "en"

- Meanwhile, the authoritarianism, which has turned left-liberalism into a movement for sneaks and prudes, was always going to play into the hands of the right. Free citizens have stopped listening to those who respond to the challenge of argument by screaming for the police to arrest the politically incorrect or for universities to ban speakers who depart from leftish orthodoxy.


 * 1957,, Maigret s'amuse, 2020, CMI Publishing, Levallois-Perret, ISBN 978-2-35710-739-7; pp. 189-190.
 * La voix était monotone. Au micro, le speaker devait lire un texte qu'on venait de lui passer et il lui arrivait de buter sur certaines syllabes.