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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

A Premier potent may perorate free, At night, at night!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 3, 1892 by Various

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

"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

"And what, I ask you," I said perorating, "what on the face of the earth are we to do now?"

From All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville

And in the corner of the paper a thumb-nail sketch of himself, perorating, with a garland of capital I's round his neck.

From The Marriage of William Ashe by Mrs. Humphry Ward

He had listened to Horne Tooke perorating "hanging matters" at the Corresponding Society; he had seen the "electric ruby" circulating at its dinners; he had witnessed the collapse of Thomas Hardy's painstaking and methodical organisation.

From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Henry Noel Brailsford

Whilst other people were promenading or perorating, Trochu, in his room at the Louvre, was receiving telegram after telegram informing him that the Germans were now fast closing round the city.

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

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