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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
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 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
A Premier potent may perorate free, At night, at night!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 3, 1892 by Various
He perorated: Recent events in Spanish Morocco were far from reassuring for the Spaniards.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
When Frederica perorated, and this remark partook of the nature of peroration, it was as though she took a header into deep water.
From Mount Music by Martin Ross
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
Ai! ai!" young Vanderhoffen perorated; "the situation is complete.
From The Certain Hour by James Branch Cabell
And we left him perorating on the steps of the hotel.
From Appearances Being Notes of Travel by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson
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
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
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
