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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
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
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
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
People walked about all day, planted liberty-trees at every street-corner, illuminated willy-nilly, and perorated in the clubs and squares until midnight.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various
Ai! ai!" young Vanderhoffen perorated; "the situation is complete.
From The Certain Hour by James Branch Cabell
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
"That's the man for my money," he perorated.
From Stingaree by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
Think, and ask yourselves, in spite of all this preaching and perorating from the teeth outward!
From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle
The venerable Earl of Hughenden came in as I was perorating.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Jan 27, 1872 by Various
"And what, I ask you," I said perorating, "what on the face of the earth are we to do now?"
From All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville
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
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
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