Sample Sentences forhomily (auto-selected)
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Alessandro's homily was a success, and Nicolo was beginning to get fiery himself.† (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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Bessie supplied the hiatus by a homily of an hour's length, in which she proved beyond a doubt that I was the most wicked and abandoned child ever reared under a roof.† (source)
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'All day had been flooding with rain; we could not go to church, so Joseph must needs get up a congregation in the garret; and, while Hindley and his wife basked downstairs before a comfortable fire — doing anything but reading their Bibles, I'll answer for it — Heathcliff, myself, and the unhappy ploughboy were commanded to take our prayer-books, and mount: we were ranged in a row, on a sack of corn, groaning and shivering, and hoping that Joseph would shiver too, so that he might give us a short homily for his own sake.† (source)
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Jo must have fallen asleep (as I dare say my reader has during this little homily), for suddenly Laurie's ghost seemed to stand before her, a substantial, lifelike ghost, leaning over her with the very look he used to wear when he felt a good deal and didn't like to show it.† (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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Bennington delivered a homily based on this scene.† (source)
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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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These words at a certain level have the quality of a strapping 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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The chaplain moved up the ramp, and as the coffins moved forward, he began his homily.† (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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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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After favoring them with some heads of that discourse, he remarked that he considered the subject of the day's homily, ill chosen; which was the less excusable, he added, when there were so many subjects "going about."† (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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