soliloquises

As a description of a curiously calm sage who soliloquises for his own amusement in a study this is perfect.

My Contemporaries In Fiction David Christie Murray

Then Mr. Baines dies, because Sophia has been looking out of the window at a dashing commercial traveller; and Mr. Bennett soliloquises:

Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

[A Monument to BENDIGO, the famous prize-fighter, has been lately erected at Nottingham.] _Old Prize-fighter soliloquises_: --

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 13, 1891 Various

It is that in which the guilty king, overcome by remorse, thus soliloquises: —

A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie

In utter hopelessness Electra takes it and soliloquises over it.

Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb

"Good little Freddy!" soliloquises the pom-pom captain as he snaps his glasses into their case.

On the Heels of De Wet Lionel James 1913

-- "Oho!" soliloquises Beckmesser, with a shock of surprise at audacity such as this, "on that head stands no skittle!"

The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

Olenin, who is young Tolstoi, and not very much of a man, soliloquises in language that was echoed word for word by the Tolstoi of the twentieth century.

Essays on Russian Novelists William Lyon Phelps 1904

Falstaff soliloquises on Shallow's lies concerning his wild youth.

Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900

The opening scene, “the large mean airy chamber,” where Pippa, the little silk-winder from the mills at Asolo, springs from bed, on her New Year's Day festa, and soliloquises as she dresses, is as true as it is lovely when viewed through the rainbow glow of the poetic atmosphere: but how could it succeed on the stage?

Life of Robert Browning Sharp, William, 1855-1905 1897