What the heck, since we're ripping off the good pastor, we might as well continue to sermonise ponderously. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
Both generals, in the intervals of actual war, sermonise each other, and with much the same spirit that they fight. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
Surely the "printing error" was using a printer in Exeter and then piously sermonise to the rest of us about the ecological impact of our actions. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Vote Lib Dem In Scotland Either] Reference
I hope I am not going to sermonise often in the course of this narrative, but I have always thought that the legislative meddling with the Prize Ring was a grave mistake. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Master Gordon possibly guessed what was the topic of Splendid's confidence, -- in truth, few but knew my hero's mind on these matters; and I have little doubt it was for John's edification he went on to sermonise, still at the shaping of his pen. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
But to allegorise and sermonise is out of place here. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series] Reference
I don't wish to sermonise; I merely wish to ventilate my own thoughts and get light if I can. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood] Reference
You used occasionally to sermonise too; I wish you would, in charity, favour me with a sheet full in your own way. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Robert Burns] Reference
Still, Palmor, like most Israelis, is not convinced, and continues to sermonise on morality and democracy other predictable terms. From Wordnik.com. [Al-Ahram Weekly Online] Reference
Telegenic weaknesses: Has a tendency to sermonise which has led to some crueller souls dubbing him the Sir Talks-a-Lot of the Dail. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
It is not often that I sermonise in my articles, and it has been a month since the OtherMalaysia. org research project was brought to a close. From Wordnik.com. [Lim Kit Siang] Reference
With one scam after another swirling around their ankles on a daily basis, our leaders, no matter what tricks they try to come up with, have all but lost their high moral ground from which to sermonise on the evils of corruption. From Wordnik.com. [SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator] Reference
Firstly, you couldn't say it at all till you'd learned Arabic, "returned Molloy;" secondly -- if I may be allowed for to follow suit an 'sermonise -- 'cause you shouldn't say it if you could; an', thirdly, 'cause you'd be a most awful Jack-ass to say it if you did. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan] Reference
Sorry, didn't mean to sermonise. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
“Have you, too, come to preach and sermonise?. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
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