Sermons

Examples

• 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.
• Mrs. Crawley, the rector's wife, was a smart little body, who wrote this worthy divine's sermons. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You spin out your explanation as Moses spins out his sermons. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• How should you have liked making sermons? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Other books were produced, and after some deliberation he chose Fordyce's Sermons. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• And I don't think my sermons are worth a load of coals to them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• How often has my Mick listened to these sermons, she thought, and me reading in the cabin of a calm! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Many wise and true sermons are preached us every day by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• My uncle Benjamin, too, approved of it, and proposed to give me his shorthand volumes of sermons to set up with, if I would learn shorthand. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Seeing this did more for Jo than the wisest sermons, the saintliest hymns, the most fervent prayers that any voice could utter. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• George avoided him in public and in the regiment, and, as we see, did not like those sermons which his senior was disposed to inflict upon him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I think the man who could often quarrel with Fanny, said Edmund affectionately, must be beyond the reach of any sermons. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• 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.
• He was author of some elegant verses on the death of Queen Caroline, and published besides some poems and sermons, and died 1788. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Well, what do you think of my sermons from the stage? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• It is said that its original use was to limit the length of sermons. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• My father never changed, and he preached plain moral sermons without arguments, and was a good man--few better. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• On Sundays, and at periods of a solemn nature, Mrs. O'Dowd used to read with great gravity out of a large volume of her uncle the Dean's sermons. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• 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.
• The Annual Register, the Gentleman's Magazine, Blair's Sermons, and Hume and Smollett. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• One of my beloved husband's finest sermons was on that text. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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