Perorate

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. ❋ Gillpolack (2009)

Canalis, like many men accustomed to perorate, allowed to be too plainly seen. ❋ Unknown (2007)

We have seen legislators perorate, obfuscate, concilliate, mediate .... ❋ Unknown (2007)

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. ❋ Various (N/A)

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. ❋ Unknown (1919)

Men cannot for ever perorate, and agitate and plot. ❋ John Holland Rose (1898)

Let him taste your irony; ply him with your keen incessant questions; and if you will, perorate with the mighty Zeus charioting his winged car through Heaven, and grudging if this fellow get not his deserts. ❋ Of Samosata Lucian (1895)

"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. ❋ Anatole France (1884)

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. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

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 ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

The Greek sought after wisdom; he wanted a man who would perorate and argue and dissertate. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

How we shall prologuize, how we shall perorate, 265 ❋ Robert Browning (1850)

Feuillans, including almost the whole Constitutional Respectability of France, perorate nightly from their tribune; correspond through all ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

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. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

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! ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

In vain does Lafayette fret, indignant; and perorate and strive: Patriots in the passion of terror, bellow round the Royal ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

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 ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

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 ❋ Alfred De Musset (1833)