prelection
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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
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 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
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
His reception of my recitation, or prelection, was rather singular.
From The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
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