perorate
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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
A Premier potent may perorate free, At night, at night!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 3, 1892 by Various
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
He perorated: Recent events in Spanish Morocco were far from reassuring for the Spaniards.
From Time Magazine Archive
And in that day," he perorated, "how will the Fitu-Ivan be known in the great world?
From A Son Of The Sun by Jack London
“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
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
No Epworth Leaguers or Christian Endeavorers whereased, resoluted or perorated until their tongues were worn to a frazzle, trying to "preserve the honor of our ger-rate and gal-orious State by suppressing feather- pillow pugilism."
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by William Cowper Brann
Think, and ask yourselves, in spite of all this preaching and perorating from the teeth outward!
From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle
Thus too his Grace the Archbishop of Aix perorating once, with a plaintive pulpit tone, in these words?
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
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
Monsieur Homais came out of his shop, and Mere Lefrangois, in the midst of the crowd, seemed to be perorating.
From Madame Bovary by Eleanor Marx Aveling
"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
