Example Sentences

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The professor has been discoursing upon Wagner and his musical theories, but he will not have anything said about this particular opera.

From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

“The vicar has been discoursing of spiritual love,” said Geoffrey to himself, as he declined to notice, either Rhoda’s constraint or the young clergyman’s stiffness, but chatted away in his free-and-easy manner.

From The Vicar's People by Fenn, George Manville

He has been discoursing on the leaf,—then follows an inquiry into the conditions of the stem.

From Art in England Notes and Studies by Cook, Dutton