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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

And church and state pause in this made vortex of chaos to prate of the ills of pugilism; to legislate and perorate anent bloodless boxing bouts; to prosecute a brace of harmless pugs.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by William Cowper Brann

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

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

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

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

Consequently," perorated Mr. Mortimer, "I conceive my personal obligations to Mr. Hucks to be satisfied; practically satisfied, even in law; as keen men of business, and allowing for contingencies, satisfied abundantly.

From True Tilda by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Friday was Roland's day for receiving his colleagues at his table, where his wife presided and perorated.

From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand

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

Whilst other people were promenading or perorating, Trochu, in his room at the Louvre, was receiving telegram after telegram informing him that the Germans were now fast closing round the city.

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

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

"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

Did I hear our loquacious Fiddler perorating upon Life?

From First Plays by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

Think, and ask yourselves, in spite of all this preaching and perorating from the teeth outward!

From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle