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From the choking desert of upper Sonora to the Mayan tombs of Yucat�n, they had harangued enthusiastic, tamale-bolting, beer-guzzling crowds.

From Time Magazine Archive

After he had harangued them, I noticed that he questioned them eagerly in turn, and was evidently much perturbed at the answers he received.

From The Beautiful White Devil by Boothby, Guy Newell

Throughout the Civil War, the newspapers had harangued, badgered, and dictated; had bolstered up or destroyed men, character, and measures.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

Ex-members of the National Assembly had harangued the multitude and circulated addresses calculated to rouse the people to resistance.

From France in the Nineteenth Century by Latimer, Elizabeth

A thoroughly unaffected, unpretending, man: so modest indeed that I was ashamed afterwards to think how I had harangued him all the Evening, instead of getting him to instruct me. 

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II by Wright, William Aldis