Can you bear with such a long answer to your letter, and forbear calling it a 'preachment'?. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)] Reference
A preacher without a preachment is a paradox. From Wordnik.com. [The Fight for the Argonne Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man] Reference
Overt politics and preachment were eschewed -- mostly. From Wordnik.com. [Trace Adkins and Toby Keith's patriotic concert at Jiffy Lube Live on Sept. 11] Reference
And now for a few words with thee, on the heavy preachment of. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
What's not to understand in the preachment: love your enemies?. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Hendra: Forgiving Jerry Falwell] Reference
It is an intellectual concept acquired from literary preachment. From Wordnik.com. [That Inferiority Complex] Reference
Don't look so serious, mother; I don't mean a clerical preachment. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
A pretty preachment he's givin 'us about coffins and them like things. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
Their diplomacy is a tangled preachment, and texts are their war-cries. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
One Bar Boy at the University Club to embark on his great preachment revival. From Wordnik.com. [WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL] Reference
I have a reason, a new one, for this preachment upon a text you have given me. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
It is the prime preachment of socialism that the struggle is a class struggle. From Wordnik.com. [Preface] Reference
In general terms, it may be said that the time has not arrived to make a preachment. From Wordnik.com. [Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913] Reference
She has no preachment to offer and utters no rubbish on the subject of life and the problem. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
Isaac Taylor, "the bell calls people to worship; in Scotland it calls them to a preachment.". From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
But preachment from any source cannot avail with any soul deeply immersed in work for others. From Wordnik.com. [Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul] Reference
“We are busy, father,” said the Governor, “and will hear your preachment another time.”. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Geierstein] Reference
It is really a bit difficult to find just the right audience for a preachment on that appealing parable. From Wordnik.com. [The Family and it's Members] Reference
I wuzn't converted unduh de Holiness preachment uh James Foust but duh de revival of Reverend William Scales. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
But his preachment of natural and spontaneous values, return to primitive conditions, was equally aggressive. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
There again is preachment for thy preachment; and thou wilt be apt to think that I am reforming too: but no such matter. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
I staid in the back-shop an hour and an half, by my watch; and again underwent a good deal of preachment from the women. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
The moral preachment of Wilson before and after war will be the cause that will finally bring his people to the side of the Allies. From Wordnik.com. [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference
A person of integrity strives to model a life of wholeness, to integrate the practice with the preachment, the ends with the means. From Wordnik.com. [Every generation has its heroes, and every war wants them] Reference
Do you think that might explain something -- such as the disinclination of the young t o take all the preachment and professing seriously?. From Wordnik.com. [The Values Split Screen] Reference
Anne's wellmeant preachment with increasing bitterness. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of the Island] Reference
The above rules embody our preachment on individual hygiene. From Wordnik.com. [How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science] Reference
Pales before the drastic preachment of the Norwich scientist. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916] Reference
Britt whirled and broke on this fatuous preachment with an oath. From Wordnik.com. [When Egypt Went Broke] Reference
Now then, above is my preachment, and here follows the reason and purpose of it. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900)] Reference
But class animosity in the political world is the preachment of the revolutionists. From Wordnik.com. [Revolution, and Other Essays] Reference
It is signed simply N.N.A., and has not a word of 'cant' or preachment in it upon my opinions. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English] Reference
He may talk as if there were an iron determinism, but his practice is better than his preachment. From Wordnik.com. [A Preface to Politics] Reference
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