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Some such hortation is easily imaginable by any one who saw the two old friends together.

From And Even Now by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

The conception of the metempsychosis is strikingly fitted for the purposes of humor, satire, and ethical hortation; and literature abounds with such applications of it.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

Now and again, it seemed to be thought that the lovers were insufficiently fervid—were but dallying with passion; and then there were stentorian grunts of disapproval and hortation.

From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

It is an hortation which, by whomsoever delivered, would tend to dispirit the bravest and most honest of witnesses.

From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

If you would whirl in regular gyration As he does in his dull old mill, He'd show, at any rate, good-will,— Especially if you heard and heeded his hortation.

From Faust by Taylor, Bayard