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Instructor Kiphuth, in the meantime, had been expounding his theories on body-building with such success that he was appointed swimming coach at Yale.

From Time Magazine Archive

A young man, barely thirty-six years old, he had already become a well-known figure in the West, where for years he had been expounding the doctrine of free silver.

From The Agrarian Crusade; a chronicle of the farmer in politics by Buck, Solon J. (Solon Justus)

"I can't think why you, or any reasonable man, should object to a board school?" said Paul, who had been expounding his views at some length to the rector.

From The Village by the River by Bedford, H. Louisa

Granser recollected himself, and with a start tore himself away from the rostrum of the lecture-hall, where, to another world audience, he had been expounding the latest theory, sixty years gone, of germs and germ-diseases.

From The Scarlet Plague by Grant, Gordon

"No sir," replied Sam, blushing to think how he had been expounding to the general, a nice point which that officer must understand much better than he did.

From Captain Sam The Boy Scouts of 1814 by Eggleston, George Cary