Significados de long sermons en inglés

The time of pomp and of long sermons had gone by.

Charlie cringed at the long sermons, when he'd have preferred to play golf.

David's wars were a great comfort to him during long sermons.

She hated long sermons, she said, and liked to have something to look at.

Jack says not to-day; he doesn't like long sermons.

I hate the long sermons and the prayers.

We could never see any good in long sermons and nobody else ever could except those giving them.

PREFACES, like long sermons to fashionable congregations, are distasteful to most readers, and in no very high favor with us.

And here good Master Hunt preached twice every Sunday while the men sat on felled trunks reverently listening to his long sermons.

I hope my readers will not be alarmed at this, and suppose that I am about to inflict long sermons upon them.

For a child, it had been terribly boring to sit through long sermons and hymns whose melodies were hopelessly difficult to learn.

How the boy must have suffered whenever his superior officer, his senior by twenty years, inflicted long sermons on him about humanity!

The Bishop of Chelmsford, for example, has recently ascribed our difficulties in the war to our impatience with long sermons-amongother similar causes.

Jill and I used to make poetry about it in church to keep from falling asleep when he preached such awful long sermons.

It was the day of long sermons, when a preacher who measured his discourse by the sands of an hour-glass was deemed moderate.

John Lambert, the Major-General, was a kinsman of our house, and we were all more or less partial to short hair and long sermons.