| Tom is a professional hockey player and ballet lover, pursuits on whose alleged similarities he vacuously expatiates. |
| Lee also expatiates at length on his class's visits to Roman sites. |
| It is much more explicitly present in a variety of passages such as the one in which Richard expatiates about the death of kings in characteristically allegorical terms. |
| In a famous passage in chapter 42 David expatiates on the leading principles of his working life. |
