perorate

“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

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 Brann, William Cowper

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 Ridge, W. Pett (William Pett)

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 Carlyle, Thomas

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

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 Ross, Martin

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 Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

“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

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

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

From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

"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)

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 Brailsford, Henry Noel