Word: perorates
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...south entrance of the palace, a huge young Galla lifted his open hand and struck the great dull-brown Negarit (Em-peror's) war drum. OMMMM . . . OMMMMM . . . Forty smaller kettledrums from the palace answered, rommo-mmommommommomm. The booming throbbed, swelled, seemed to shake the air. On each of the mountain tops that hang over Addis Ababa other drummers smacked their drumheads. The monotonous, terrible call to war spread out from the capital, from mountain top to mountain top, across the wild gorges, jungles and plateaus of Ethiopia, until it rolled into the capitals of the six great rases (princes...
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