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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 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 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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"That's the man for my money," he perorated.

From Stingaree by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

Suppressing the receptions which annoyed her, she gave none but men's dinners, where she perorated and paraded, and where, being the only woman present, she had no rivals to fear.

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

At times the demagogues who perorated from the tribunes at these gatherings, brought forward proposals which seemed to have emanated from some madhouse, but which were nevertheless hailed with delirious applause by their infatuated audiences.

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

And we left him perorating on the steps of the hotel.

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

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

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

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

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

From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle