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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
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 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
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
He perorated: Recent events in Spanish Morocco were far from reassuring for the Spaniards.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
"Stench!" he perorated in a voice tremulous with emotion.
From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Arthur William Brown
“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
Thus at Caen, in the early July days, there is a drumming and parading, a perorating and consulting: Staff and Army; Council; Club of Carabots, Anti-Jacobin friends of Freedom, to denounce atrocious Marat.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 by Various
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
The venerable Earl of Hughenden came in as I was perorating.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Jan 27, 1872 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
Think, and ask yourselves, in spite of all this preaching and perorating from the teeth outward!
From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle
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