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Spellbinders

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Orators who hold their audience spellbound. The word came into use in America in the presidential election of 1888.

“The Hon. Daniel Dougherty says: ‘The proudest day of his life was when he beheld his name among the “spell-binders” who held the audience in rapture with their eloquence.ʹ”—Liberty Review, July 7th, 1894, p. 13.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Special Pleading
Specie, Species
Spectacles
Spectre of the Brocken
Spectrum, Spectra, Spectre (Latin, specto, to behold)
Speculate
Speech
Speed
Spell (A)
Spellbinders
Spelter
Spence
Spencer
Spendthrift
Spenser (Edmund)
Spenserian Metre (The)
Spent
Spheres
Sphinx (The Egyptian)
Spice