extemporary
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Then, instead of principles, sir, let me speak of practice: it is now several months since I exchanged the race-course, the billiard-table, and the dice-box, for the course of an extemporary preacher.
From The Widow Barnaby Vol. III (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope
If any thing new occur, he may supply it from his own invention; nor will the difference be very apparent between his elaborate and his extemporary compositions.
From Essays by David Hume
In these extemporary and spontaneous effusions, the speaker gives utterance to his hopes and fears, his joys and sorrows.
From An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Lydia Maria Francis Child
The Roman youth thus learned to imitate their gestures and music, which they accompanied with railing verses delivered in extemporary dialogue.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop
She contrived, however, to hush her baby with an extemporary song, which, without alarming the vigilance of the guards, warned her husband from his perilous threshold, and he escaped.
From Discipline by Mary Brunton
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