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 rumbling o'er Trumpington stones.
From English Satires by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
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 Harriet Beecher Stowe
So, when Uncle Jaw had finished his prelection, the deacon, after some meditation, came out with, "Railly, they say that your son is going to have the valedictory in college."
From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Listen awhile to a learned prelection On Marcus Aurelius Cassiodorus.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Throughout the whole of this long prelection Dr Phippeny Piecraft had scarcely moved a muscle, listening with ever deeper attention as the story went on.
From All Men are Ghosts by L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks
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