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

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

These were the Reverend Charles Honeymans of the period, and their following was like unto the following of that popular pulpiteer.

From Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)

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

I write sermons in sport, he says; but sermons by a fellow-sinner, not by a dogmatic pulpiteer, not by a censor or a cynic.

From Horace by Tuckwell, William