Middlemarch vocabulary

Lo treated me to one of those furious harangues of hers

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita

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a small lean man with disproportionately long arms and a large bald skull over which a few lank locks straggled, was haranguing the crowd.

George Orwell. 1984 (1949)

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here she closed her harangue: a long one for her, and uttered with the demureness of a Quakeress.

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Whilst I stood thus stupid and mute, which she doubtless attributed to nothing more than a concern at parting, this idea procured me perhaps a slight alleviation of it, in the following harangue: That now we were got safe to London, and that she was obliged to go to her place, she advised me by all means to get into one as soon as possible;

John Cleland. Fanny Hill, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure