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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

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

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

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

“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

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

From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Arthur William Brown

Ai! ai!" young Vanderhoffen perorated; "the situation is complete.

From The Certain Hour by James Branch Cabell

Amid this group Lange, fat and lumpy, perorated.

From A Mummer's Wife by George (George Augustus) Moore

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 we left him perorating on the steps of the hotel.

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

Did I hear our loquacious Fiddler perorating upon Life?

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

Not ten days hence Patriot Brissot, beshouted this day by the Patriot Galleries, shall find himself begroaned by them, on account of his limited Patriotism; nay pelted at while perorating, and 'hit with two prunes.'

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle

"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