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The concluding words of the prelection were like the sound of the organ voluntary at twilight, when the worshippers are dispersing.

From Charles Dickens as a Reader by Kent, Charles Foster

At Ware he commenced his prelection, In the dullest of clerical drones: And when next I regained recollection We were rumbling o'er Trumpington stones.

From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

"Well, treatise, then," said I, "or discourse, or essay, or prelection; I'm not particular as to words."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 by Various

Listen awhile to a learned prelection On Marcus Aurelius Cassiodorus.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

Lord Carlisle commenced his able and eloquent prelection by deploring the fact, that Pope had sunk in estimation.

From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by Gilfillan, George