prelection

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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

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

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 Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

But our guide has finished his prelection here, and is striding off in the plenitude of his wisdom.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

"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