With an expressive, eloquent thumb Philip expatiated on the charming work.
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On these he expatiated with all the keenness of argument, joined to logical reasoning.
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Every week my jaw dropped lower as she expatiated on the mystic ramifications of this.
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That is why I found it all the more astonishing, when he expatiated upon it.
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This was almost achieved when the two actors expatiated on the subjects of life, love and potato chips.
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But she expatiated at length about this faraway country of which the rest of us knew virtually nothing.
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When Miss Ophelia expatiated on Topsy's naughty, wicked conduct, the child looked perplexed and sorrowful, but said, sweetly.
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The Honorary Patron expatiated on the conceptual framework of peacekeeping and peace support operations, arguing that these may be outdated.
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It is a liturgical and ethical way constantly expatiated on by the prophets and priests, by rabbinic sages, and by philosophers.
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He hated no one, for that would be a negation of the great principle of ahimsa, on which he expatiated with immense earnestness.
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The Dr. > expatiated. Two nymphs [young girls], 18 and 19, exhibited as heretofore. > Rules were submitted by Mr. Lumsdaine for future adoption. Fanny Hill was > read. Tempest.
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And so it came to pass, that the bird, while out one day, met a fellow bird, to whom he boastfully expatiated on the excellence of his household arrangements.
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The tradesman had a disappointed face, but for a moment it brightened as he expatiated on the value of that ring and on the price his people had accepted for it.
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Sabuktigin won one of his greatest battles in Laghman against Jayapala and his army numbering 100,000.The History of India: The Hindu and Mahometan Periods, Mountstuart Elphinstone, p. 321. The area later fell to the Ghurids followed by the Khilis and Timurids. During the early years of the 16th century, the Mughal ruler Babur spent much time in Laghman, and in Baburnama (memoirs of Babur) he expatiated on the beauty of forested hillsides and the fertility of the valley bottoms of the region.
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The writings of the Gurus preserved in the Guru Granth Sahib and the Dasam Granth best interpret and elucidate what gurmat is. Some anecdotes recorded in the Janam Sakhis also help explain gurmat principles. A systematic exposition of gurmat principles was for the first time undertaken by Bhai Gurdas (d. 1636), who in his Varan expatiated upon terms such as gurmukh, one attuned to the Gurus' teaching, sangat, fellowship of the holy, and seva, humble acts of service in the cause of the community and of fellow men in general, besides evolving a framework for the exegetics of gurbani.
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After a tribute to the war dead, Himmler gave his view of the war so far. The tough Soviet resistance could be attributed to the political commissars, the German Invasion of the Soviet Union was a preemptive strike and due to failure by Germany's allies, a chance for victory in 1942 was wasted. Himmler speculated over the Soviet army's potential, spoke disparagingly of the "Vlasov shivaree" (der Wlassow-Rummel), expatiated on the inferiority of the Slavic race, and included thoughts as to how a German minority can prevail over it. In later passages, Himmler claimed Italy's army had been contaminated with communism and was sympathetic to the Western allies.
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Pratt was a campaigner against cruelty towards animals and an opponent of hunting and blood-sports. Many of his writings reflect this concern, including his most famous poem, Sympathy (1788) which argues that man was "born to share" the earth with all other living creatures and asks "Why must man subsist by prey?". In Humanity, or the Rights of Nature he attacks hunting, demanding "For hunger kill, but never sport with life". A review in Gentleman's Magazine of Lord Erskine's speech in support of the Bill for Preventing Malicious and Wanton Cruelty to Animals" (1809) said of Pratt, "Certainly [no living author has] expatiated more on this subject [cruelty to animals] than the Author of "Sympathy," both in his poetical and prose writings.
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Conceding defeat, Atan Burhagohain fled the capital and shifted his camp at Dergaon. On the following morning the king assembled the leading nobles, and expatiated before them on the attack made by the Burhagohain which he characterized as unfriendly and unprovoked, as the premier himself had brought the prince from his ancestral home and seated him on the throne. "I could have killed the Burhagohain," said the king, "but I refrained from taking his life as we are co-disciples and have thus jointly attained companionship under the spiritual teachings of the Guru." During the course of the deliberation on Sunday morning the king asked the officers and nobles to reaffirm their allegiance to him by taking the necessary oaths, according to both the Hindu and Ahom forms.
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