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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
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
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
Rapture proclaim to the grove, to the echoing cliffs perorate it?
From Erotica Romana by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He perorated: Recent events in Spanish Morocco were far from reassuring for the Spaniards.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
Ai! ai!" young Vanderhoffen perorated; "the situation is complete.
From The Certain Hour by James Branch Cabell
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
No high-perched, privileged and proud possessor Of lineal vantage he; Of perorating witchery no professor, Or casuist subtlety.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 17, 1891 by Various
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
The venerable Earl of Hughenden came in as I was perorating.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Jan 27, 1872 by Various
Did I hear our loquacious Fiddler perorating upon Life?
From First Plays by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
The countess approached the divan in the centre of the room, where Raoul was perorating.
From A Daughter of Eve by Honoré de Balzac
