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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

Rapture proclaim to the grove, to the echoing cliffs perorate it?

From Erotica Romana by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

He hears Burke perorate, and Johnson dogmatise, and Scott tell his border tales, and Wordsworth muse on the hillside, without the leave of any man, or the payment of any toll.

From English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice by Frederick William Roe

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

When I get back to Chicago," he perorated, "I'm going to get a job and stick to it till hell freezes over.

From The Road by Jack London

"Stench!" he perorated in a voice tremulous with emotion.

From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Arthur William Brown

“Who are you,” he perorated, “and what am I, that I should put my neck into the rope at your bidding?”

From The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London

Aggressions were made and repelled, patriots perorated and fought, diplomatists finessed with a zeal worthy of the world's most restless, if not its wisest, age.

From Thomas Carlyle by John Nichol

And in the corner of the paper a thumb-nail sketch of himself, perorating, with a garland of capital I's round his neck.

From The Marriage of William Ashe 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

And as there was no one less impatient under sentiment or poetry than madame, her feet began to agitate themselves as if Jules were perorating some of his culinary inanities before her.

From Balcony Stories by Grace E. King

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

Did I hear our loquacious Fiddler perorating upon Life?

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