We have seen legislators perorate, obfuscate, concilliate, mediate. From Wordnik.com. [In The Eye of the Hurricane] Reference
Canalis, like many men accustomed to perorate, allowed to be too plainly seen. From Wordnik.com. [Modeste Mignon] Reference
This means there's a link between me and Richard Brinsley Sheridan and it's that both of us can perorate entertainingly on public issues at undue length. From Wordnik.com. [gillpolack: Today I've been looking into how currenc] Reference
You think it no evil to inflame a poor heart, and you perorate as warmly in your deliriums of love as the wretched lawyer who comes with red eyes from a suit he has lost. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
How we shall prologuize, how we shall perorate, 265. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning] Reference
Men cannot for ever perorate, and agitate and plot. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)] Reference
Rapture proclaim to the grove, to the echoing cliffs perorate it?. From Wordnik.com. [Erotica Romana] Reference
The Greek sought after wisdom; he wanted a man who would perorate and argue and dissertate. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)] Reference
In vain does Lafayette fret, indignant; and perorate and strive: Patriots in the passion of terror, bellow round the Royal. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Feuillans, including almost the whole Constitutional Respectability of France, perorate nightly from their tribune; correspond through all. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Legislative Commissioners are posting towards him and it, on the Northern Frontier, to congratulate and perorate: he orders the Municipality of Sedan to arrest these. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
It is not thus that Catholic charity or true beneficence proceeds;/they/study evils in wounds and cure them; they don't perorate in public meetings upon deadly ills for the pleasure of perorating. From Wordnik.com. [Beatrix] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Lost Leaders] Reference
By default the project creator is the project lead, if that position is left vacant, any of the site members can become that person. perorate goes to members who hold the largest number of project credits. From Wordnik.com. [Qwaider Planet] Reference
Dashing the tears from his eyes, Mr. Deputy Recorder went on to perorate; 'I ask,' said he, 'whether such a Kentucky marauder ought not to be outlawed by all nations, and put to the ban of civilised Europe?. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg] Reference
This poor Legislative, spurred and stung into action by a whole France and a whole Europe, cannot act; can only objurgate and perorate; with stormy 'motions,' and motion in which is no way: with effervescence, with noise and fuliginous fury!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Even at last, even when they have exhausted all their ideas, even after the would-be peroration has finally refused to perorate, they remain upon their feet with their mouths open, waiting for some further inspiration, like Chaucer's widow's son in the dung-hole, after. From Wordnik.com. [Lay Morals] Reference
"Reason is our guide and beacon-light; but when you have made a divinity of it, it will blind you and instigate you to crime," -- and he proceeded to develop his thesis, standing both feet in the kennel, as he had once been used to perorate, seated in one of Baron d'Holbach's gilt armchairs, which, as he was fond of saying, formed the basis of natural philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [Dieux ont soif. English] Reference
Even at last, even when they have exhausted all their ideas, even after the would-be peroration has finally refused to perorate, they remain upon their feet with their mouths open, waiting for some further inspiration, like Chaucer’s widow’s son in the dung-hole, after. From Wordnik.com. [Lay Morals] Reference
Bois, he had almost reached his own house, and still, for he had not yet thrown off the intoxication of grief, or his whim of insincerity, but was ever more and more exhilarated by the false intonation, the artificial sonority of his own voice, he continued to perorate aloud in the silence of the night: “People. From Wordnik.com. [Swann's Way] Reference
Because if it were not an instant, it would not be time; therefore time in essence and substance is no other than an instant, and let this suffice, if you understand it, because I do not intend to perorate upon the entire physics; so that you must understand that he means to say that the whole of love is no less present than the whole of time; because this "instans" does not mean a moment of time. From Wordnik.com. [The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the First An Ethical Poem] Reference
I perorate, big time. From Wordnik.com. [Ferule & Fescue] Reference
Oh, I totally perorate. From Wordnik.com. [Ferule & Fescue] Reference
It is not thus that Catholic charity or true beneficence proceeds; they study evils in wounds and cure them; they don’t perorate in public meetings upon deadly ills for the pleasure of perorating. From Wordnik.com. [Beatrix] Reference
A Premier potent may perorate free. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 3, 1892] Reference
Hard to perorate in such an auditory!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Do you perorate?. From Wordnik.com. [Ferule & Fescue] Reference
"why, old fellow, what sort of venom have you swallowed that makes you perorate so savagely against this worthy Fatia Negra. From Wordnik.com. [The Poor Plutocrats] Reference
He had long since emerged from the paths and avenues of the Bois, he had almost reached his own house, and still, for he had not yet thrown off the intoxication of grief, or his whim of insincerity, but was ever more and more exhilarated by the false intonation, the artificial sonority of his own voice, he continued to perorate aloud in the silence of the night: "People 'in society' have their failings, as no one knows better than I; but, after all, they are people to whom some things, at least, are impossible. From Wordnik.com. [Swann's Way] Reference
Siamanish better than most, it is an openear secret, be it said, how I am extremely ingenuous at the clerking even with my badily left and, arrah go braz, I’d pinsel it with immenuensoes as easy as I’d perorate a chickerow of beans for the price of two maricles and my trifolium librotto, the authordux Book of Lief, would, if given to daylight, (I hold a most incredible faith about it) far exceed what that bogus bolshy of a shame, my soamheis brother, Gaoy Fecks, is conversant with in audible black and prink. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
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