Significats de descant upon en anglès

He then proceeded to descant upon the general wrongs of horses.

Presently he led out an animal and began to descant upon its merits.

Aliena having read over his sonnet, began thus pleasantly to descant upon it:

Gladly, did time permit, would I descant upon their great and varied merits.

She will not descant upon bodily ailments in the drawing-room or at the table.

Yes, I see, you are going to descant upon the probity of M. Andre Fauvel.

Another trial of this sex is one which I descant upon, in this place, with diffidence.

He was in earnest, with a big theme to descant upon-theresponsibility of the constituency to the empire.

Dawson began once more to descant upon his own astuteness, but I was too sick at heart to listen.

For that matter, why had he felt called so publicly to descant upon the natural history of the Lone Wolf?

Especially I call to mind his expression of indifference when Ercole began to descant upon the worldly possessions of the Lira household.

When over, they joined him for a stroll over the plantation, to hear him descant upon the prospects of the coming crop.

We are brands plucked from the burning. And continued for several minutes to descant upon the theme of everlasting torture by incandescence and thirst.

Little eagerly descanted upon the different animals; she listened with delicious interest.

We must be brief in descanting upon this part of her career.

Then it descanted upon the probable effect in the East.