Preachers
[pri:tʃəz]
Examples
- Its only organization was an organization of preachers, and its chief function was the sermon. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In that country the preachers are not like our mendicant orders of friars--they have two or three suits of clothing, and they wash sometimes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is the work of publicists and educators, scientists, preachers and artists. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They are known to the largest part only as preachers. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Mr. Hale was one of the most delightful preachers she had ever heard, and a perfect model of a parish priest. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- They have many of them become very learned, ingenious, and respectable men; but they have in general ceased to be very popular preachers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Islam to this day has learned doctors, teachers, and preachers; but it has no priests. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You read glowing articles in magazines about preachers who devote their time to housing reforms, milk supplies, the purging of the civil service. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Edited by Cary