Example Sentences

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"I have had my 'nough of religion and preachifying, but of plain human friendliness not, because there is little of it on the ramble."

From Sight to the Blind by Furman, Lucy

"Shut up your sarmons, Pitt, when Miss Crawley comes down," said his father; "she has written to say that she won't stand the preachifying."

From Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace

I confess I didn’t think much of him on board, with his preachifying; but dash my top-sail if, with all his pale quiet face he ain’t a jolly fellow in the moment of trouble.

From Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs by Phillips, Emma Watts