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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
Rapture proclaim to the grove, to the echoing cliffs perorate it?
From Erotica Romana by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
A Premier potent may perorate free, At night, at night!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 3, 1892 by Various
But here he'll pose and perorate, A Brutus vain and voluble.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 8, 1890 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 Roe, Frederick William
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 Melville, Herman
“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 London, Jack
And in that day," he perorated, "how will the Fitu-Ivan be known in the great world?
From A Son Of The Sun by London, Jack
Suppressing the receptions which annoyed her, she gave none but men's dinners, where she perorated and paraded, and where, being the only woman present, she had no rivals to fear.
From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Imbert de Saint-Amand, Arthur Léon, baron
Monsieur Homais came out of his shop, and Mere Lefrangois, in the midst of the crowd, seemed to be perorating.
From Madame Bovary by Aveling, Eleanor Marx
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 Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
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
I had a vague impression of listening to gigantic marionettes, perorating through a trumpet, with the emphasis of Spaniards.
From Amiel's Journal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
"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 Somerville, E. Oe. (Edith Oenone)
