soliloquize
soliloquise BrE

"Much better to have let me punch his head," soliloquized Quick.

"That's what we have come to blow up," soliloquized Quick.

"I wonder if the blighter has deserted me," he soliloquized.

"This, then, must be the second door," he soliloquized, "and it is upon my right.

"Perhaps the lion returned," she soliloquized, "or maybe the man has found food.

"A man-eater who will eat no more men," he soliloquized.

"He was about to say how much he is worth now," soliloquized the clerk.

"Pretty decent of that chap not to roast me," he soliloquized.

"Horses and men," he soliloquized as he rose to his feet.

"Maybe she meant differently from what I thought," Jean soliloquized.

"Reckon I was a fool," he soliloquized, with an acute sense of humiliation.

Doubtless the lion had already forgotten him and had gone on about his business, he soliloquized.

"Murray's not such a fool, after all," he soliloquized.

How now, he soliloquized at last, withdrawing the tube, this smoking no longer soothes.

Standing at a bar, he soliloquizes like a Dudley Moore film character.

"Made a bum of me," he soliloquized; "ruined my life.

"A boat divided against itself won't float," he soliloquized.

"You will find," he soliloquized, "that our world is motivated by desires and ambitions very different from those which are most prevalent in your own.

"That fellow may be a thief," he soliloquized, "but whatever he is he's white.

"Stark," he soliloquized, addressing himself, "you are an old humbug.

"Almost like gettin' a message from her," he soliloquized.

'Pretentiousness is the cocaine of the caring classes,' he soliloquized.

Dan soliloquized after a pause: "Ah, yes; there is a grace about it that only comes with long, very long practice."

"Yes," he soliloquized, "I imagine it's just as well that we ran into Junior instead of papa.

The plays are full of characters that soliloquise - that is, speak solo without other characters around them, thinking aloud about their aims, their problems, their ambitions, loves and hatreds.

For indeed no scenic individual, with knavish hypocritical views, will take the trouble to soliloquise a scene: and now consider, is not a scenic Nation placed precisely in that predicament of soliloquising; for its own behoof alone; to solace its own sensibilities, maudlin or other?