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“I’ll just look into my soft drink and listen to someone else perorate about me,” Sting said.

From Washington Post

But here he'll pose and perorate, A Brutus vain and voluble.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 8, 1890 by Various

So little was he supposed to have spoken seriously that another, of whose ceasing to perorate there is no prospect, characterized his criticism in language so strong that it cannot well be repeated. 

From Lost Leaders by W. Pett (William Pett) Ridge

In vain does Lafayette fret, indignant; and perorate and strive: Patriots in the passion of terror, bellow round the Royal Carriage; it is one bellowing sea of Patriot terror run frantic.

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle

Feuillans, including almost the whole Constitutional Respectability of France, perorate nightly from their tribune; correspond through all Post-offices; denouncing unquiet Jacobinism; trusting well that its time is nigh done.

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle

He perorated: Recent events in Spanish Morocco were far from reassuring for the Spaniards.

From Time Magazine Archive

And moral of it is," Mr. Babington-Herle perorated, "that all money is always fine thing to have.

From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell

He still perorated, still posed like a shop-walker, still behaved like a puppet, with its pulling strings in plainest evidence.

From In the Mist of the Mountains by J. Macfarlane

“Now, boys,” Bill perorated, “before I retire to the shades of private life, I motion we give Three Cheers—regular Toplifters—for Richard Wade!”

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 by Various

I attended the clubs held in the churches, when women often perorated from the pulpits.

From My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

And we left him perorating on the steps of the hotel.

From Appearances Being Notes of Travel by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson

"And what, I ask you," I said perorating, "what on the face of the earth are we to do now?"

From All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville

No high-perched, privileged and proud possessor Of lineal vantage he; Of perorating witchery no professor, Or casuist subtlety.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 17, 1891 by Various

"Is it hares?" cried the Dublin tourist, perorating after a flight or two into the subject of poachers; "what d'ye think would happen a hare in Donegal?"

From All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville

He had listened to Horne Tooke perorating "hanging matters" at the Corresponding Society; he had seen the "electric ruby" circulating at its dinners; he had witnessed the collapse of Thomas Hardy's painstaking and methodical organisation.

From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Henry Noel Brailsford