sermonizings

Yea, verily, bereft are the many of the vaunted secular gospels, betided woefully of the brutal loss of their mind melting, anti-American, pessimistic on-air sermonizings.

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But you must not suppose from this specimen of his sermonizings that he ever flew into downright passions with his congregation.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

The zeal with which he sang on Sunday, and the marked attention which he paid to the sermonizings of the dominic, advanced him so far in the affections of the honest people of that rural town, that, had he asked their wealth, their prayers, or their votes, he would have had no difficulty in obtaining them.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

But such discipline could never be obtained by commands, by sermonizings, in short, through any of the disciplinary devices universally known.

The Montessori Method Anne E. Montessori George 1912

But you must not suppose from this specimen of his sermonizings that he ever flew into downright passions with his congregation.

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

But you must not suppose from this specimen of his sermonizings that he ever flew into downright passions with his congregation.

Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

But you must not suppose from this specimen of his sermonizings that he ever flew into downright passions with his congregation.

Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851