prelection
Example Sentences
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In the afternoon there was a prelection again about the catechism. 27th, Monday.
From Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by Bartlett Burleigh James
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 William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
His reception of my recitation, or prelection, was rather singular.
From The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
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 Charles Foster Kent
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 Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
