Here you will see the leader, devoted to the topics of the time and place; Descanting on the railroad news of the day; expressing the editor's opinions on the rates of freight or passage, or on the advantages his town offers for establishing new industries; or criticising the recent appointment of postmaster.
"Two Years in Oregon"
Wallis Nash
There he discovered the author-doctor drinking with a circle of friends, to whom he was Descanting upon Peg's worship of himself.
"Superwomen"
Albert Payson Terhune
He longed to explore these gardens and take home to Harwich some report of the famous Dutch tulip-beds on which Captain Barker was perpetually Descanting.
"The Blue Pavilions"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch