predicant

For two hours Erasmus Smith, the Boer predicant, argued in vain in behalf of his flock.

A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914

In the same predicant tone, he lauded the medical virtues and the mystical powers of every article he sold.

The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution Mariano Azuela 1912

"My dear young lady," he remonstrated, "can you blame me for the unwise, indiscreet utterances of every Dutch predicant who opens his mouth?"

The Rhodesian Gertrude Page 1897

The only other person of importance in the town was a worthy predicant, who evidently had not had his hair cut since the commencement of the War, and who had great difficulty in keeping his little black wide-awake on his head.

My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War P. [Illustrator] Van Breda 1892

At length came the eve of the wedding day and with it the _predicant_, who arrived hungry and thirsty but running over with smiles and blessings.

Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Luckily, the _predicant_ took no notice of this incident, for he was thinking about himself as he was too prone to do.

Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890

"Without doubt the death is as good as another," I answered; "not that I would choose it, for I wish to die in my bed with the _predicant_ saying prayers over me, and my husband weeping -- or pretending to -- at the foot of it."

Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890

To begin with, the _predicant_ was sulky because I had cut him short in his address, and a holy man in the sulks is a bad kind of animal to deal with.

Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Also my quarrel with the _predicant_ had put me out of temper.

Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890

And, indeed, it did come to his ears, though how to this hour I do not know, unless, in spite of our warning, the _predicant_ who was to perform the ceremony, a good and easy man but one who loved gossip, blabbed of it on his journey to the farm, for he had a two days 'ride to reach it.

Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890