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Usage examples of sermon.

To all that only your mandate of accusation and allegorical sermons are lacking.

I took this as a tilt at my own class, and braced myself for a sermon on how the city had been bankrupted by old families.

Unhappily, the baronet, who by some fatality never could see when he was winning the battle, thought proper in his wisdom to water the dryness of his sermon with a little jocoseness, on the subject of young men fancying themselves in love, and, when they were raw and green, absolutely wanting to be--that most awful thing, which the wisest and strongest of men undertake in hesitation and after self-mortification and penance-- married!

Sermon sprang in pursuit, grabbed him by the collar and threw him sideways on top of the blameless Bateman, whose face was rammed down against his own desk-lid with such violence that his spectacles snapped at the bridge and a lens flew in each direction.

This morning the homilist was a free man of color by the name of Jubal Labiche, who actually never attended services in the church unless he was asked to give the sermon.

This is like the school for morals offered by the sermons, the precepts, and the tales which our instructors recite for our especial benefit.

Sunday, the 3rd of September, 1430, they were taken to the Parvis Notre Dame to hear a sermon.

Now, perhaps, the reflections which we should be here inclined to draw, would alike contradict both these conclusions, and would show that these incidents contribute only to confirm the great, useful, and uncommon doctrine, which it is the purpose of this whole work to inculcate, and which we must not fill up our pages by frequently repeating, as an ordinary parson fills his sermon by repeating his text at the end of every paragraph.

Some of the photoplay people agree with this temperance sermon, and some of them do not.

There is a good deal of difference between Pickwick and a translation of old French sermons about Madame, and Conde, and people of whom few modern readers ever heard.

Hawkesey used to go everywhere looking like a sermon on the predamnation of unbaptized infants.

The Presidente had folded her arms, and for the last minute or two sat like a person compelled to listen to a sermon.

McDrone, who was an orthodox proser of the old school, had been rather scandalized to see that old Tibbie Mathieson, who used peacefully to go to sleep every Sunday over his short sermons, kept awake all the time that this young man held forth, though he was not particularly brief.

The ranting sermon, the trick with the rain, the call to levy the militia .

A letter from the rector since had warned him that they were full of enthusiasm about his sermon and himself and that a call to the rectorship of the church was imminent.