haranguer
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A contemporary described him: an abnormally short man, with ponderous arms and legs, a shuffling gait, beaklike nose and chin, "curious cast of the eye," and a perpetual haranguer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Atlanta Sir: Your cartoon depicts a crowd haranguer and a fanatic, and shows nothing of the Christian sensibilities and calm self-restraint that have made him a Nobel Peace Prizewinner and an effective leader.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sir, I see no resemblance between a pleader at the bar, or a haranguer of the populace, and me.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
He is a great haranguer, talks himself into authority, and, like a parrot, climbs with his beak.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
The prior's face quite red was grown, with horror and with anger; He flung the proffered goblet down—it made a hideous clangor; And 'gan a-preaching with a frown—he was a fierce haranguer.
From Ballads by William Makepeace Thackeray
