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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
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
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 W. Pett (William Pett) Ridge
A Premier potent may perorate free, At night, at night!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 3, 1892 by Various
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
He perorated: Recent events in Spanish Morocco were far from reassuring for the Spaniards.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
When I get back to Chicago," he perorated, "I'm going to get a job and stick to it till hell freezes over.
From The Road by Jack London
Friday was Roland's day for receiving his colleagues at his table, where his wife presided and perorated.
From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
And we left him perorating on the steps of the hotel.
From Appearances Being Notes of Travel by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson
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
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
Think, and ask yourselves, in spite of all this preaching and perorating from the teeth outward!
From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle
"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 E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville
