orate

I remember her standing by the fire and orating, with her tea cup in her hand.

He was great at orating over dead men—especially dead "friends" (as he called his rivals) and dead enemies.

Out under the tamaracks the stranger was orating, and punctuating his remarks with a finger tapping in a palm.

Douglass, was orating, two Irishmen passing by stopped and listened a few minutes, then started on.