perorate

Example Sentences

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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 Carlyle, Thomas

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 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 Carlyle, Thomas

Rapture proclaim to the grove, to the echoing cliffs perorate it?

From Erotica Romana by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von