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The Devil's Dictionary:
Definition of Peroration
Peripatetic
PERORATION
noun
The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.
definition from:
The Devil's Dictionary
by Ambrose Bierce, 1911
Perseverance
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