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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

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

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 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

When I get back to Chicago," he perorated, "I'm going to get a job and stick to it till hell freezes over.

From The Road by Jack London

"That's the man for my money," he perorated.

From Stingaree by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

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

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

Did I hear our loquacious Fiddler perorating upon Life?

From First Plays by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

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

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

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

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

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