prelection

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

When tired of his lecture, they either began to yawn, or open their mouths in imitation of that act, and the prelection was interrupted.

From The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection by Various

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 Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

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 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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 Kent, Charles Foster