Example Sentences

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The child of a politician will sit in committee with a row of empty chairs, and will harangue an imaginary senate from behind the curtains.

From Father and Son: a study of two temperaments by Gosse, Edmund

Leave us: you may go: Today the Lady Psyche will harangue The fresh arrivals of the week before; For they press in from all the provinces, And fill the hive.'

From The Princess by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron