"My spirits were all in arms, and I played a kind of extemporary prelude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference

The extemporary preacher challenges nature on her own ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference

Some say this favours extemporary prayers, and others object.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference

The service commenced with a hymn, to which succeeded an extemporary prayer.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Notes for General Circulation] Reference

Gladstone or a Bright, the advocates of extemporary speaking are out of count.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference

"We had four poets amongst us, who sang by turns extemporary hymns to freedom.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847] Reference

And now you shall hear from me a plain extemporary speech, but so much the truer.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Praise of Folly] Reference

This is the usual series of evolutions through which an extemporary preacher passes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference

Those who champion the method of extemporary preaching lay great stress on two points.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference

Parliament, which are all printed, but was not very dexterous in making extemporary replies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.)] Reference

So I recited as much of the Burial Service as I could remember, and offered an extemporary prayer.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa] Reference

With this extemporary adaptation of a popular ballad to the distressing circumstances of his own case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Dickens and Music] Reference

Robespierre, in a burst of extemporary energy, previously studied, has declared the country in danger.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part I. 1792 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference

The defenders of extemporary preaching must postulate three essentials in any man undertaking the office.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference

Sultan got up an extemporary theatre, adjoining the splendid pavilion, in which his guests were assembled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

(I) The extemporary preacher has a natural warmth and earnestness of conviction that goes straight to the heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference

You have to spend as much time in gathering and arranging the matter for the extemporary as for the written one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference

His lectures were wholly extemporary, or delivered without minutes, and no record was ever made of them by himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference

If you get entangled in a dispute with some learned blockhead, you may silence him with a few extemporary quotations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference

A pig, in a sty even more extemporary than the shanties, is grunting and poking his snout through the clefts of his habitation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866] Reference

To command men thus equipped there were extemporary generals, whose epaulets were obtained from the wardrobe of the Opera Comique.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference

"Il improvisatrice," was she styled by her admiring associates, whom she amused by the hour with her extemporary effusions of rhyme.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference

All points in the system which are doubted, shall be attested by the knight's extemporary oath, for the satisfaction of his readers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference

If the carefully prepared sermon cost as little trouble as the extemporary effort, would the world ever have heard of this discussion?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference

I rejoice extremely over your extemporary lectures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities] Reference

Valetta joined them, much consoled by the prospect of the extemporary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Sides of the Shield] Reference

Amidst such circumstances, extemporary gaiety cannot always be found.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoirs of Count Grammont — Complete] Reference

Scholar, and recommended himself to Busby by his felicity in extemporary epigrams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2] Reference

The extemporary character of their contrivance and expedients, is sufficiently apparent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Tasmania, Volume I] Reference

The principle upon which extemporary prayer was originally introduced, is no longer admitted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland] Reference

Lieutenant's cabin and afterwards sat disputing, the parson for and I against extemporary prayers, very hot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference

I give you my word, he knelt down, as we all did, and began a very miserable jumble of an extemporary prayer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete] Reference

Alfieri; and the Signor Sgricci had to pour forth his extemporary common-places on the bombardment of Algiers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2] Reference