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So soon as the strange being who had been declaiming had disappeared, the Prefect, turning to me, as he drew up his gown around him, said, 'I give you joy, Piso, of your coadjutor.

From Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century by Ware, William

After they had been declaiming eight hundred years, had they made the world better than when they began?

From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

His speeches were already in the schoolbooks, and for twenty years boys had been declaiming his arguments against nullification.

From The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters by Perry, Bliss