preachify
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"I'd rather hear you preachify," she said, "than the preacher himself."
From Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance by Hutchison, Paula
"Soon as the gals and I get the dishes done, we'll be out to hear Abe preachify."
From Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance by Hutchison, Paula
Our Chaplain haint had no chance to preachify yet.
From Si Klegg, Book 1 (of 6) His Transformation From A Raw Recruit To A Veteran by McElroy, John
"You ain't getting preachified I suppose, are you, John?"
From Left to Ourselves or, John Headley's Promise. by Shaw, Catharine
"Shut up your sarmons, Pitt, when Miss Crawley comes down," said his father; "she has written to say that she won't stand the preachifying."
From Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace
"I have had my 'nough of religion and preachifying, but of plain human friendliness not, because there is little of it on the ramble."
From Sight to the Blind by Furman, Lucy
I confess I didn’t think much of him on board, with his preachifying; but dash my top-sail if, with all his pale quiet face he ain’t a jolly fellow in the moment of trouble.
From Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs by Phillips, Emma Watts
