Vocabulary Word
Word: expatiate
Definition: talk at length; speak or write in detail
Definition: talk at length; speak or write in detail
Sentences Containing 'expatiate'
Now, as the business of standing mast-heads, ashore or afloat, is a very ancient and interesting one, let us in some measure expatiate here.
From his mighty bulk the whale affords a most congenial theme whereon to enlarge, amplify, and generally expatiate.
And there seems no reason to doubt that if these elephants, which have now been hunted for thousands of years, by Semiramis, by Porus, by Hannibal, and by all the successive monarchs of the East--if they still survive there in great numbers, much more may the great whale outlast all hunting, since he has a pasture to expatiate in, which is precisely twice as large as all Asia, both Americas, Europe and Africa, New Holland, and all the Isles of the sea combined.
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