prelection
Example Sentences
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Listen awhile to a learned prelection On Marcus Aurelius Cassiodorus.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
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 Cassiodorus.
From The Golden Legend by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
At Ware he commenced his prelection, In the dullest of clerical drones: And when next I regained recollection We were rumbling o'er Trumpington stones.
From English Satires by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
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
"Well, treatise, then," said I, "or discourse, or essay, or prelection; I'm not particular as to words."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 by Various
