pulpiteer

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These words came from no Sunday pulpiteer, but from the assistant to the president of the Standard Oil Co. of Ohio.

From Time Magazine Archive

History that corrects the blunders of contemporary critics, will assign to her an honored place long after the paltry penny-a-liner and ranting pulpiteer are forgotten.

From The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation by Nation, Carry Amelia

His sermons do not seem to be more remarkable when you read them than those of many another pulpiteer, although they are full of thought.

From The Young Man and the World by Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah

Mark how the stock words of the pulpiteer, "transgressor," "worldly lusts," "dreadful," "awful," "perdition" stalk fiercely through the sermon of the youthful saint or sinner!

From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 by Thompson, Slason

In their silence they were preaching to him a sermon such as no mortal pulpiteer ever uttered; but his ears were deaf to it.

From The Subterranean Brotherhood by Hawthorne, Julian