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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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

No Epworth Leaguers or Christian Endeavorers whereased, resoluted or perorated until their tongues were worn to a frazzle, trying to "preserve the honor of our ger-rate and gal-orious State by suppressing feather- pillow pugilism."

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by William Cowper Brann

When Frederica perorated, and this remark partook of the nature of peroration, it was as though she took a header into deep water.

From Mount Music by Martin Ross

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

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

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

Think, and ask yourselves, in spite of all this preaching and perorating from the teeth outward!

From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle

The countess approached the divan in the centre of the room, where Raoul was perorating.

From A Daughter of Eve by Honoré de Balzac

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