Preached

Examples

• It is gravely and well preached, O daughter of Sirach! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It preached Romanism; it persuaded to conversion. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He preached, unmolested by the Moslems, be it noted, in Egypt and Palestine, though the Fifth Crusade was then in progress. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is preached; it is lectured; it is written about. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• A magnificent sermon was preached by my gifted friend on the heathen indifference of the world to the sinfulness of little sins. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Many wise and true sermons are preached us every day by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• In Capernaum he had preached in the synagogue. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• What Jesus preached was a new birth of the human soul; what Paul preached was the ancient religion of priest and altar and propitiatory bloodshed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• John preached in this Wilderness! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• St. Paul preached to these people seven days before he started to Rome. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Your haughty religious people would have held their heads up to see me as I am to-night, and preached of flames and vengeance,' cried the girl. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I thought you would not practise what you preached. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• By hearing him often I came to distinguish easily between sermons newly composed and those which he had often preached in the course of his travels. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Roger Bacon had preached experiment, Gilbert was one of the first to practise it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was a theological work; it preached and it persuaded. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He seems to have preached with considerable effect. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• How oft have I preached to you caution, if not continence? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• All his life he had preached the doctrine of interchange of service between theory and practice, science and the occupations. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• O, Dr. G---- preached a splendid sermon, said Marie. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Nationalism was taught in schools, emphasized by newspapers, preached and mocked and sung into men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• My father never changed, and he preached plain moral sermons without arguments, and was a good man--few better. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Miss Nash has put down all the texts he has ever preached from since he came to Highbury. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Thus for the burglars is selected, not the eighth tablet, but the one on which is recommended a day of rest from labor; to the happily married is preached the seventh commandment. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In 638 he announced that he found the new religion entirely satisfactory, and that it might be preached within the empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This Saladin reunited the efforts of Egypt and Bagdad, and preached a Jehad, a Holy War, a counter-crusade, of all the Moslems against the Christians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Some books against Deism fell into my hands; they were said to be the substance of the sermons which had been preached at Boyle's Lectures. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

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