perorated

"Who are you," he perorated, "and what am I, that I should put my neck into the rope at your bidding?"

WHICH MAKE MEN REMEMBER 2010

One of the key instigators of the Microsoft case, Silicon Valley attorney Gary Reback, famously perorated that Microsoft had become a "threat to the underpinnings of a free society."

The Trustbusters' Last Meal Ticket Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011

'Coffee, two minute,' he perorated, and crept out of the door.

A Rude Awakening Aldiss, Brian 1978

As they seated themselves at table Brahms, who had been in a brown study, suddenly proffered the company an extemporaneous criticism of Ivan's music, which he tore into miscroscopic bits, and flung upon the winds of sarcasm; after which he perorated elaborately upon his own power and the perfect academic accuracy of his style.

The Genius Margaret Horton Potter

Then, raising his stick in the air, The Other Man perorated:

Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926

I kept hammering away -- preaching to my little congregation of fifteen or twenty thousand readers every Sunday, as I now do to ten times that many a month -- until finally the Ministerial Association met, perorated, whereased, resoluted and wound up by practically demanding of the proprietor of the Express that I be either muzzled or fired.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

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."

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

He still perorated, still posed like a shop-walker, still behaved like a puppet, with its pulling strings in plainest evidence.

In the Mist of the Mountains Ethel Sybil Turner 1915

"Who are you," he perorated, "and what am I, that I should put my neck into the rope at your bidding?"

Which Make Men Remember 1901

On or near the sites of the famous Feuillants and Jacobins he now laid down splendid thoroughfares; and where the constitutionals or reds a decade previously had perorated and fought, the fashionable world of Paris now rolled in gilded cabriolets along streets whose names recalled the

The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2) John Holland Rose 1898