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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

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

Feuillans, including almost the whole Constitutional Respectability of France, perorate nightly from their tribune; correspond through all Post-offices; denouncing unquiet Jacobinism; trusting well that its time is nigh done.

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Such animosity as was shown against the priesthood emanated from some of the public clubs where the future Communards perorated.

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

Ai! ai!" young Vanderhoffen perorated; "the situation is complete.

From The Certain Hour by James Branch Cabell

At times the demagogues who perorated from the tribunes at these gatherings, brought forward proposals which seemed to have emanated from some madhouse, but which were nevertheless hailed with delirious applause by their infatuated audiences.

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

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 as there was no one less impatient under sentiment or poetry than madame, her feet began to agitate themselves as if Jules were perorating some of his culinary inanities before her.

From Balcony Stories by Grace E. King

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

I had a vague impression of listening to gigantic marionettes, perorating through a trumpet, with the emphasis of Spaniards.

From Amiel's Journal by Mrs. Humphry Ward

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