Preaching

Examples

• Sick people can't bear so much praying and preaching. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• This other gentleman is in the preaching line, I think? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Then, his preaching was ingenious and pithy, like the preaching of the English Church in its robust age, and his sermons were delivered without book. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But if you must go on preaching, keep it till after dinner, when it will send me to sleep, and help my digestion. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• But it lies not in the preaching of a doctrine or the insistence on some particular change in conduct. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Ye have been present neither at the prayer nor preaching, ma'am, if I have observed aright. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He can do it by thy silence as well as by thy preaching; thy laying aside as well as thy continuance in thy work. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I see that you set a right value on my son's preaching. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• For many years, he said, I have exhorted you in vain, with gentleness, preaching, praying, and weeping. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He divided them into business, politics, preaching, learning, and amusement. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Always preaching, retorted she; always coddling and admonishing. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She had been graciously pleased to approve of both of the discourses which he had already had the honour of preaching before her. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I never heard such good preaching as his--such plain, easy eloquence. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Economic determinism has been an antidote to mere preaching of goodness, to hero-worship and political quackery. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• And there was my aunt, all the time I was dressing, preaching and talking away just as if she was reading a sermon. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

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