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Whereas Pastor Merrill spoke an educated language—he'd been an English major at Princeton; he'd heard Niebuhr and Tillich lecture at Union Theological—Rector Wiggin spoke in ex-pilot homilies; he was a pulpit-thumper who had no doubt.† (source)
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The chaplain moved up the ramp, and as the coffins moved forward, he began his homily.† (source)
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He poises his pen over a blank sheet of notebook paper and searches for inspiration, running over old sayings and homilies, memories of awards he's won and names of memorable teachers.† (source)
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He then embarked, in a mixture of English and Arabic, on a rambling homily about the armies of Rome and a Syrian village called Dabiq.† (source)
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The author had recast the principles of physics into basic homilies to remind people of self-defeating behavioral patterns.† (source)
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From General Peckem's office on the mainland came prolix bulletins each day headed by such cheery homilies as 'Procrastination is the Thief of Time' and 'Cleanliness is Next to Godliness.'† (source)
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Alessandro's homily was a success, and Nicolo was beginning to get fiery himself.† (source)
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He admired the reverend and labored diligently each Sunday to appear entranced by his homilies, but often it was impossible.† (source)
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Today, I was supposed to be writing a homily—if I could get it down to seven minutes, I knew the older members of the congregation wouldn't fall asleep—but instead, my mind kept straying to one of our youngest members.† (source)
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It was only one splendid breath they had, in spite of their brave mockery at the winter outside the glass; and it was a losing game in the end, it seemed, this revolt against the homilies by which the world is run.† (source)
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It isn't done with subscription files, I got a homily from the woman in Special Registry about it—Bream—no discussion, no questions.† (source)
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Sick-bed homilies and pious reflections are, to be sure, out of place in mere story-books, and we are not going (after the fashion of some novelists of the present day) to cajole the public into a sermon, when it is only a comedy that the reader pays his money to witness.† (source)
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The bishop who had confirmed P.J. back in Brooksville had delivered a homily mainly about the perils of premarital sex.† (source)
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So, feeling clumsy and outsized, like some sort of black Gulliver, he clomps forward, noting the exposed pipes running along the twenty-foot ceilings, the bulletin board with homilies to build self-esteem, and the rough mix of students, more than half of them either black or Latino.† (source)
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These words at a certain level have the quality of a strapping homily.† (source)
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A virgin audience like Colonel Scheisskopf was grist for General Peckem's mill, a stimulating opportunity to throw open his whole dazzling erudite treasure house of puns, wisecracks, slanders, homilies, anecdotes, proverbs, epigrams, apophthegms, bon mots and other pungent sayings.† (source)
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