prelection
Example Sentences
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And now, as we have the whole morning before us, Let us go in, if you make no objection, And listen awhile to a learned prelection On Marcus Aurelius Cassioderus.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
At Ware he commenced his prelection, In the dullest of clerical drones; And when next I regained recollection We were rambling o'er Trumpington stones.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
The concluding words of the prelection were like the sound of the organ voluntary at twilight, when the worshippers are dispersing.
From Charles Dickens as a Reader by Charles Foster Kent
Lord Carlisle commenced his able and eloquent prelection by deploring the fact, that Pope had sunk in estimation.
From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by George Gilfillan
So, when Uncle Jaw had finished his prelection, the deacon, after some meditation, came out with, "Railly, they say that your son is going to have the valedictory in college."
From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe
