prelection

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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

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 Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)

His reception of my recitation, or prelection, was rather singular.

From The Lady of the Lake by Scott, Walter, Sir

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 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Was it reasonable to have assembled six, ten, or a dozen persons for the purpose of hearing a prelection?

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)