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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 SHARMANSuch 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 MARSHALLThe 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 OSGOODWell, 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 DISRAELISmithson 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. GRAVESThe homily consists of two parts, very dissimilar in style and discordant in tone; the joint is plainly discernible at 81/76.
SELECTIONS FROM EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH 1130-1250: PART II: NOTESVARIOUSIt 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 HARDWICKNo sirkar ever doubted less than she, and the suggestions in King's little homily did not please her.
KING--OF THE KHYBER RIFLESTALBOT MUNDYHe 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 SERGEANTThe keynote of the Irish homily is struck in this first section.
THE LATIN & IRISH LIVES OF CIARANANONYMOUSWORDS 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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