They needed friendship and the touch of human sympathy far more thanpreachment or argument.
Kindness breaks down barriers that preachment or argument would only cause to close the tighter.
No: thou canst not avert the preachment I have ready for thee.
Nay, but this moment's preachment crosses me," he said.
Did the preachmentafflict thee which I delivered the other day upon thy levity and riotous living?
What better preachment upon the Anglo-Saxon and what he has done can be had than The Bridge Builders?
But class animosity in the political world is the preachment of the revolutionists.
As the champion of lucidity and reasonableness he stood in reality for a very good cause,--no preachment more necessary in Germany then or since.
If the putting of preachment into practice is virtue, George Sand was the most virtuous of all novelists, for the hotel of her large and roomy heart was for the entertainment of transients only.
Now there was not a man in the church save this Jew, for all the others were hearing the preachment which the abbot made.
There should be no preachment in these letters, no hitting at peculiar sins; just fill them with Christian sunshine.
I staid in the back-shop an hour and an half, by my watch; and again underwent a good deal of preachment from the women.
I could proceed with as much spirit as I began, and add more preachment to your lively subject, if I had not written more than enough upon it already.
Again his mother began her preachment about patience and humility, so he went away again without having eaten anything, directing his steps toward the quay where the steamers tied up.
Then in a trembling voice he began his preachment on the same old theme, delivered however with more energy and more eloquence.
Sister Bali, who felt offended at this lack of confidence in herself, on the way home relieved her feelings by administering a long preachment to the girl.
I'll admit, Daunt, that I didn't relish some of the priggish preachment on politics mouthed by him in his office when we were there.
Senator Corson was more infuriated by that bland preachment than he would have been by vitriolic insult.
The time being come, I had a full Auditory, and performed my Preachment and Disputation to the general satisfaction of all?
A silver crown to a silver groat he'll give a long preachment against the May-pole next May-morning.
All efforts to induce him to stop or return up stairs till he had finished this wearisome preachment were vain.
This man made no preachment of his virtues, believing that "the years are seldom unjust.
His regard for the purity of women amounted almost to a monomania, and he lived up to his own preachment on all the various forms of integrity with much more strictness than people who affected to believe he was leper.
As he proceeds in his preachment he develops somewhat of the theatrical pose of John of Leyden in "The Prophet.
There again is preachment for thy preachment; and thou wilt be apt to think that I am reforming too: but no such matter.
Now there was not a man in the Church save this Jew, for all the others were hearing the preachmentwhich the Abbot made.
