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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
In vain does Lafayette fret, indignant; and perorate and strive: Patriots in the passion of terror, bellow round the Royal Carriage; it is one bellowing sea of Patriot terror run frantic.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
A Premier potent may perorate free, At night, at night!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 3, 1892 by Various
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
A third, perorated a long and beautifully written review, by the bold and startling announcement—"This writer is unquestionably a highly respectable youth."
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
People walked about all day, planted liberty-trees at every street-corner, illuminated willy-nilly, and perorated in the clubs and squares until midnight.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various
And so, Lamoignon too having perorated not amiss, and wound up with that Promise of States-General,—the Sphere-music of Parlementary eloquence begins.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
Such animosity as was shown against the priesthood emanated from some of the public clubs where the future Communards perorated.
From My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
Did I hear our loquacious Fiddler perorating upon Life?
From First Plays by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
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
"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
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
