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Sentences ending with sermon

I followed her up the aisle until she disappeared in the high pew, and then I sat beside my grandfather and thought of her, nor listened to a word of Mr. Allen's sermon. [9]
The rector, not unfeeling by nature, but inveterately professional by habit, had already recovered enough to be thinking of a text for the funeral sermon. [6]
But it was the same when he was blind; as the minute-hand came to the point, marking the expiration of the thirty minutes, he concluded his sermon. [14]
He waited through the hymn, "Life is the time"--He waited to hear the sermon. [6]
The occasion was the death of a valued old friend who had requested that I should preach his funeral sermon. [5]
In church last Sunday I listened to a charity sermon. [5]
I took my station on the pulpit cushion, from which elevation I had an admirable view of all the ceremonies, and could hear the sermon. [4]
It was a sermon, an educational sermon. [9]
I expected a scolding and a sermon. [9]
Nick and I sat in the high box pew of the family with Mrs. Temple, who paid not the least attention to the sermon. [9]

Short sentences using sermon

Is this an old sermon? [4]
The sermon was a surprise. [9]
Providence Sermon, 130. [6]

Sentences containing sermon two or more times

He had three sermons on this subject, known to all the country round as the sweating sermon, the fainting sermon, and the convulsion-fit sermon, from the various effects said to have been produced by them when delivered before large audiences. [6]
My friend went on summer vacation up into the fishing regions of our northern British neighbors, and carried this sermon with him, since he might possibly chance to need a sermon. [5]
A brother minister came and borrowed the manuscript, put it bodily into a sermon, preached the sermon to twelve hundred people on a Sunday morning, and the letter drowned them in their own tears. [5]

More example sentences with the word sermon in them

I might refer you to those which you yourself preached as late as last June, in a sermon which was one of the finest and most scholarly efforts I ever heard. [9]
Perhaps the preacher would have a sermon against war, and the preacher should see how soldierlike he would take this attack on him. [4]
An effete celebrity, who would never be heard of again in the great places until the funeral sermon waked up his memory for one parting spasm, finds himself in full flavor of renown a little farther back from the changing winds of the sea-coast. [6]
A young lady, who had listened to a solemn sermon of Dr. Posthelwaite's, slipped out of Church before the prayers were ended, and hurried into that deserted portion of the town about the Court House where on week days business held its sway. [9]
And that afternoon we had a two-shilling bottle of port for dinner, which we shared with a broken-down parson who had been chaplain in ordinary to my Lord Wortley, and who had preached us an Easter sermon the day before. [9]
His only excitement was to trudge ten miles to Dorset and listen to a three hour sermon on everlasting fire and brimstone by a man who was supposed to know. [9]
After the sermon was over, an elder took his place at a table within the rails, and the real business of the evening began. [4]
Perhaps the sermon was not new, but it was fervid, and at times the able preacher roared so that articulate sounds were lost in the general effect. [4]
When the sermon was finished, Judge Thatcher's wife dropped alongside of Mrs. Harper as she moved down the aisle with the crowd and said: "Is my Becky going to sleep all day? [5]
The horrible sermon was ended and the words of the chanting crowd fell on his ear. [10]
Now he said, turning to the priests from Chennu-- "Gagabu is a foolish, hot-headed old man, and you have heard from his lips just such a sermon as the young scribes keep by them when they enter on the duties of the care of souls. [10]
And I listened to your sermon intently. [9]
It was hard to preach a sermon without it, and be understood. [5]
I was saying to Mr. Parr that it isn't often one hears a sermon nowadays as able as that, and as sound. [9]
It brought back to her the real motive of her visit, which had in reality been inspired not only by the sermon of the day before, but by sheer curiosity. [9]
Not long before this I had listened to a wonderful sermon by Dr. Chalmers, whose force, and energy, and vehement, but rather turgid eloquence carried, for the moment, all before them,--his audience becoming like clay in the hands of the potter. [6]
Late Carscallen was thinking of a brother whom he had heard preach his first sermon in Edinburgh twenty years before. [11]
Did M. Aubert think it was only a rare touch of humour which had turned De la Foret into a preacher, and set his fate upon a sermon to be preached before the Court? [11]
This Honest, whom they ever counted also a Pious Man, had so much conceit of his Talents, that instead of Reading a Sermon appointed, he to the Surprize of the People, fell to preaching one of his own. [6]
The worst of these trials, perhaps, was a conspicuous article in a newspaper containing a garbled account of his sermon and of the sensation it had produced amongst his fashionable parishioners. [9]
By this time the whole church was red-faced and suffocating with suppressed laughter, and the sermon had come to a dead standstill. [5]
During mass and the sermon Valmond had sat very still, once or twice smiling curiously at thought of how, inactive himself, the gate of destiny was being opened up for him. [11]
I remember of the sermon only that it had an indefinite charm of simplicity and wisdom, with occasional illustrations from nature, which were about the most delicate and dainty things of the kind which I had ever heard. [6]
We read in the Sermon on the Mount: "Be ye therefore perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect. [6]
I frequently prefer the remarks I hear from the pew after the sermon to those I have just been hearing from the pulpit. [6]
Being admitted to the presence he sat down before the clergyman, placed his fire-hat on an unfinished manuscript sermon under the minister's nose, took from it a red silk handkerchief, wiped his brow and heaved a sigh of dismal impressiveness, explanatory of his business. [5]
Clarke's Island (where the Pilgrims heard a sermon on the first Sunday), Saguish Point, and Gurnett Headland (showing now twin white lights) appear like a long island intersected by thin lines of blue water. [4]
The sermon which the old Cure was preaching on Valmond's death was running in my head. [11]
Let me ask the man who could maintain this position most stiffly, what compensation he will accept to go to church some Sunday and sit during the sermon with his wife's bonnet upon his head? [7]
She had exactly the German way; whatever was in her mind to be delivered, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or the history of a war, she would get it into a single sentence or die. [5]
Technically, according to the fifth proposition of the sermon on Human Nature, very bad, no doubt. [6]
The sermon of the elderly minister had to do with beliefs rather than deeds, and was the subject of discussion at luncheon. [9]
In another moment the Cure finished his sermon, but not till his eyes had again met those of Valmond, and there had passed into his mind a sudden, startling thought. [11]
That day at the close of his sermon the Cure spoke of it, and said at the last: "That white shaft, dear brethren, is for us a sign of remembrance and a warning to our souls. [11]
When I preach that sermon I spoke of the other day, I shall have to lay down some principles not fully recognized in some of your text-books. [6]
It was evident that people expected Roscoe to make some reference to Phil's death in his sermon, or, at least, have a part of the service appropriate. [11]
He divined instinctively that a maturer thought on the subject of his sermon had brought on an uneasiness as the full consequences of this new teaching had dawned upon her consequences which she had not foreseen when she had foretold the change. [9]
I am told that a French sermon is like a French speech--it never names an historical event, but only the date of it; if you are not up in dates, you get left. [5]
I'm going to take the Parson's sermon on Jonah next summer; it's the nearest to anything like news we've had from his pulpit in ten years. [4]
On the following Sunday I went to Westminster Abbey to hear a sermon from Canon Harford on A Cheerful Life. [6]
Some were autobiographical, such as those of a trained nurse, a stenographer, a hardware clerk who had sat up late Sunday night to summarize what that sermon had meant to him, how a gray and hopeless existence had taken on a new colour. [9]
It is not strange, therefore, that very good people should often find it difficult, if not impossible, to keep their attention fixed upon a sermon treating feebly a subject which they have thought vigorously about for years, and heard able men discuss scores of times. [6]
And, as though spoken by a voice out of the past, there sounded in his ears the text of that sermon which had so deeply moved him, "I will arise and go to my Father. [9]
You struck the spark in your sermon last night. [11]
I went to service at the Foundling Hospital in Bloomsbury, and while listening superficially to the sermon I was also reading the psalms. [11]
It was a sermon, an allegory, a symbol of Instability. [5]
Fuller, Margaret: borrowed sermon, 130; at a party, 149; The Dial, 159, 160, 162; Memoir, 209; causing laughter, 364; mosaic Biography, 368. [6]
Then came the sermon, "I will arise and go to my father. [9]
Somewhere between the Sermon on the Mount and the teachings of Saint Augustine sin was made a transferable chattel. [6]
I preached my sermon from the lay-pulpit on this matter a good while ago. [6]
When the Doctor sat down to his sermon again, it looked very differently from the way it had looked at the moment he left it. [6]
It was the report of a sermon delivered the evening before by the Rev. [11]
Perhaps you didn't realize it, but my father was striking at me when he referred to your sermon, and spiritual control --and in other things he said when you were talking about the settlement-house. [9]
Whatever book you read, or sermon or lecture you hear, give yourself for the time absolutely to its influence. [4]
I have never read them my sermon yet, and I don't know that I shall, as some of them might take my convictions as a personal indignity to themselves. [6]
Then my friend put it into a sermon and went before his Sunday morning congregation with it. [5]
He begins by preaching a sermon at his unfortunate patient. [3]
Although it doesn't preach, there's a sermon concealed in it. [5]
This was to preach a long sermon to her in that oppressive heat. [5]
The sermon and perhaps the prayers were quite as enjoyable in Gaelic as in English, and the singing was a great improvement. [4]
Sometimes we shoves out early for church, Sunday, en fetches up dah right plum in de middle er de sermon. [5]
And now, by order of Cauchon, an ecclesiastic named Nicholas Midi preached a sermon, wherein he explained that when a branch of the vine--which is the Church--becomes diseased and corrupt, it must be cut away or it will corrupt and destroy the whole vine. [5]
This is the only sermon of Mr. Emerson's ever published. [6]
The sermon was only a more formal declaration of views respecting the Lord's Supper, which he had previously made known in a conference with some of the most active members of his church. [6]
In the back of the rector's mind lay a weight, which he identified, at intervals, with what he was now convinced was the failure of his sermon. [9]
As a committee of the parish reported resolutions radically differing from his opinion on the subject, he preached this sermon and at the same time resigned his office. [6]
On the 9th of September, 1832, he preached a sermon on the Lord's Supper, in which he announced unreservedly his conscientious scruples against administering that ordinance, and the grounds upon which those scruples were founded. [6]
I have heard of one French sermon which closed in this odd yet eloquent way: My hearers, we have sad cause to remember the man of the 13th January. [5]
I have heard of his opening his inmost thoughts to a lady, one Sunday, after a noble sermon of Robertson's had been read in the cathedral stillness of the forest. [4]
Clearly they have not come to advertise their tailors and milliners, nor for the sake of exchanging criticisms on the literary character of the sermon they may hear. [6]
There was good music, which we heard, and doubtless--a good sermon, but there was a wonderful deal of coughing, and so only the high parts of the argument carried over it. [5]
Mr. Alpheus Gore, Mrs. Plimpton's brother, who at five and forty had managed to triple his share of the Gore inheritance, wrote that it would be his regretful duty to send to the bishop an Information on the subject of Mr. Hodder's sermon. [9]
Mr. Russell and Mr. Catherwood nodded approvingly over the sermon in which the South was justified, and the sanction of Holy Writ laid upon her Institution. [9]
I listened to more than one brief sermon from preachers whom I had often heard as they thundered their doctrines down upon me from the throne-like desk. [6]
Little did the minister imagine, as he went off to write his sermon, that his daughter might have given him the clew to the mystery. [9]
He had me measure him and take a whole raft of directions; then he had the minister stand up behind along box with a table--cloth over it, to represent the coffin, and read his funeral sermon, saying 'Angcore, angcore! [5]
He had me measure him and take a whole raft of directions; then he had a minister stand up behind a long box with a tablecloth over it and read his funeral sermon, saying 'Angcore, angcore! [5]
It was not made less poignant by the sermon from the text: "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. [11]
Generally the chanted liturgy constituted the whole function, unless the Lord's Supper was administered; but in these anxious times, for above a week past, a priest or a monk preached a daily sermon. [10]
Emerson had been listening to a sermon from a preacher esteemed for his orthodoxy, in which it was assumed that judgment is not executed in this world, that the wicked are successful, and the good are miserable. [6]
He would have liked more especially to have had him hear his sermon on the Duties of Young Men to Society. [6]
You never did let me get through a charity sermon without having something to sweat about. [5]
Is the old lady really tucked away for the night, or is she coming down to read us a sermon? [9]
The sermon, with its hinted application to the event of the past week, was over at last. [6]
I remember that in the sermon preached by Dr. Grazer after Dr. Holyoke's death, one of the points most insisted upon as characteristic of that wise and good old man was the perfect balance of all his faculties. [3]
Other people uninterested in the sermon found relief in the beetle, and they eyed it too. [5]
The sermon is in no sense "Emersonian" except in its directness, its sweet temper, and outspoken honesty. [6]
The sermon, too, I have read with attention. [6]
Mr. Satterlee, writing his Sunday sermon in his study, heard her and laid down his pen to listen. [9]
The Doctor read his sermon with a pleasant, paternal interest: it was well argued from his premises. [6]
Yet much in his sermon had struck her as so true. [9]
Dead Bartolomeo preached his pregnant sermon, and its burden was: You that worship the vanities of earth--you that long for worldly honor, worldly wealth, worldly fame--behold their worth! [5]
This discourse, as his only printed sermon, and as one which heralded a movement in New England theology which has never stopped from that day to this, deserves some special notice. [6]
He laid by his old sermon. [6]
Tom bent all his energies to the memorizing of five verses, and he chose part of the Sermon on the Mount, because he could find no verses that were shorter. [5]
They had been hid in the unused gallery listening to their own funeral sermon! [5]
What may be heresy in one diocese is not so in another, and I can refer to you volumes written by ministers of this Church, in good standing, whose published opinions are the same as those I expressed in my sermon of yesterday. [9]
One summer's day he saw poor Anne Askew and three men burned at the stake in Smithfield, and heard an ex-Bishop preach a sermon to them which did not interest him. [5]
Of one sermon he said, "The man began way back at the creation, and just preached right along down; and he didn't say nothing, after all. [4]
No, he would have said 'the beauty and the chivalry of Galilee' assembled to hear the Sermon on the Mount. [5]

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