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Much more he said, talking a solid hour, and always coming back to what their dire condition would be when the traders came no more. "And in that day," he perorated, "how will the Fitu-Ivan be known in the great world? Kai-kanak* will men call him. 'Kiakanak! Kai-kanak!" * Man-eater. Tui Tulifau spoke briefly. The case had been presented, he said, for the people, the army, and the traders.
So he perorated somewhat after the following fashion: "And, if the liberality of Yorkshire Churchmen proves insufficient to restore the chief glory of our native county, then, with all confidence, I turn to our excellent Dissenting brethren, and I exclaim, with the Latin poet, 'Flectere si nequeo superos Acheronta movebo." Mr. Anstey Guthrie has some pleasant instances of texts misapplied.
Anything is preferable to this this Second-rate Sedition!" When Frederica perorated, and this remark partook of the nature of peroration, it was as though she took a header into deep water. By the time she had again risen to the surface of her emotions, the Reverend Charles Fetherston had returned to the hinge of the garden-gate, and Miss Coppinger, knowing her man, made no attempt to recall him.
Such animosity as was shown against the priesthood emanated from some of the public clubs where the future Communards perorated. It was only as time went on, and the defence grew more and more hopeless, that Trochu himself was denounced as a cagot and a souteneur de soutanes; and not until the Commune did the Extremists give full rein to their hatred of the Church and its ministers.
So, by that token, and by the uncommon wrath with which his tale inflamed me," John, with a rhetorical flourish, perorated, "I discovered that I loved." And again his eyes said much. Hers were still on the prospect. "Yet if you only know her a little, how can you love her?" she asked, in a musing voice. "Did I say I only know her a little?" asked John. "I know her a great deal.
There has even been a strike of long duration at the Ballachulish Quarries, and Labour leaders have perorated to the Celts; but Gaelic is still spoken, second sight is nearly as common as short sight, you may really hear the fairy music if you bend your ear, on a still day, to the grass of the fairy knowe.
I swear I should like to have a fag!" perorated Abel, meaning that he should like to be the holy office, and to have Gabriel Bennet immediately delivered up to him for discipline. Once Gabriel overheard this kind of conversation in the play-ground, as Abel Newt and some of the other boys were resting after a game at ball.
In fact, you're rather by way of being a duck yourself: And now," he perorated, "never deny again that I can talk nonsense with an aching heart." "All the same," insisted Marietta, "it is very comical to see a cow weep." "At any rate," retorted Peter, "it is not in the least comical to hear a hyaena laugh." "I have never heard one," said she. "Pray that you never may.
The tale was of the colonel's selecting, and it dealt with a shepherdess and a chimney-sweep. "And so," the colonel perorated, "the little china people remained together, and were thankful for the rivet in grandfather's neck, and continued to love each other until they were broken to pieces And the tale is a parable, my son. You will find that out some day. I wish you didn't have to."
Miss Maud Blackadder, twisted sideways on the chair she had pushed farther and farther back from the table, so as to bring herself completely out of line with the other seven, from time to time, rhythmically, twitching with impatience, struck her own leg with her own walking-stick. Rosalind perorated.
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