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Japanese who were youngsters in 1945 recall how politicians and teachers who had been extolling the Emperor and Japan's war aims one day turned into instant democrats and peace lovers the day after surrender.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is similar to another remark made to me once by Georges Laforgue, on an occasion when I had been extolling Julian to the skies.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

He had been extolling modernism, and depreciating "the Ancients" because they could not draw rocks and clouds and trees; and he was fresh from his scientific sketching in the happy hunting-ground of the modern world.

From The Life of John Ruskin by Collingwood, W. G. (William Gershom)

Though he had been extolling his father at his own expense, what had he done but realise his father's hopes.

From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Caine, Hall, Sir

I was not aware that, half an hour before, he had been extolling the Republic to an assemblage of journalists and deputies in one of the offices of the Chamber.

From The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Tocqueville, Alexis de