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

Society was to him an abstraction on which he discoursed like a pulpiteer.

From Cowper by Smith, Goldwin

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

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

And the latter was an indefatigable pulpiteer; one of his University sermons is recorded to have lasted three mortal hours on end.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward