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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
So they perorate and speculate; and call on the Friends of Law, when the question is not Law or No-Law, but Life or No-Life.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
A Premier potent may perorate free, At night, at night!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 3, 1892 by Various
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
The Greek sought after wisdom; he wanted a man who would perorate and argue and dissertate.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren
He perorated: Recent events in Spanish Morocco were far from reassuring for the Spaniards.
From Time Magazine Archive
“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
A third, perorated a long and beautifully written review, by the bold and startling announcement—"This writer is unquestionably a highly respectable youth."
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
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
And so, Lamoignon too having perorated not amiss, and wound up with that Promise of States-General,—the Sphere-music of Parlementary eloquence begins.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
"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
A foolish stump-orator, perorating on his platform mere benevolences, seems a pleasant object to many persons; a harmless or insignificant one to almost all.
From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle
I had a vague impression of listening to gigantic marionettes, perorating through a trumpet, with the emphasis of Spaniards.
From Amiel's Journal by Mrs. Humphry Ward
"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
