prelection
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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
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
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 Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
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
"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
