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He mounts his best ruffles and his finest tunic as he sits down to write his homily.
A CURSORY HISTORY OF SWEARINGJULIAN SHARMAN
Such a homily, at such a time, must have made Mary feel like a person of a very ordinary sort indeed.
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY, VOLUME I (OF 2)FLORENCE A. THOMAS MARSHALL
The story remains, the burden of the rude rhyme of the primer, a text for many a homily of old,—a topic for us now.
THE HEARTH-STONESAMUEL OSGOOD
Well, I did not expect, when you handed me out of my carriage to-day, that I was going to listen to a homily on prudence.
ENDYMIONBENJAMIN DISRAELI
Smithson Junior (as the homily ends and the real business is about to start): "Please, sir, is it sterilized?"
MR. PUNCH'S HISTORY OF MODERN ENGLAND VOL. IV OF IV.CHARLES L. GRAVES
The homily consists of two parts, very dissimilar in style and discordant in tone; the joint is plainly discernible at 81/76.
It is not improbable that it may have been written by the "learned clerke Johan Belleth," to whom the writer of the homily refers.
TRADITIONS, SUPERSTITIONS AND FOLK-LORECHARLES HARDWICK
No sirkar ever doubted less than she, and the suggestions in King's little homily did not please her.
KING--OF THE KHYBER RIFLESTALBOT MUNDY
He rose and stood on the hearth-rug with his hands behind him, as he delivered his little homily for Kitty's benefit.
UNDER FALSE PRETENCESADELINE SERGEANT
The keynote of the Irish homily is struck in this first section.
WORDS RELATED TO HOMILY
- address
- allocution
- appeal
- bombast
- chalk talk
- commentary
- debate
- declamation
- diatribe
- discourse
- disquisition
- dissertation
- eulogy
- exhortation
- harangue
- homily
- invocation
- keynote
- lecture
- opus
- oration
- oratory
- panegyric
- paper
- parlance
- parley
- pep talk
- pitch
- recitation
- rhetoric
- salutation
- sermon
- spiel
- stump
- talk
- tirade
- valedictory
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