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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

Rapture proclaim to the grove, to the echoing cliffs perorate it?

From Erotica Romana by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Friday was Roland's day for receiving his colleagues at his table, where his wife presided and perorated.

From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand

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

“Who are you,” he perorated, “and what am I, that I should put my neck into the rope at your bidding?”

From The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London

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

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

Monsieur Homais came out of his shop, and Mere Lefrangois, in the midst of the crowd, seemed to be perorating.

From Madame Bovary by Eleanor Marx Aveling

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

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

And we left him perorating on the steps of the hotel.

From Appearances Being Notes of Travel by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson