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1 Other people uninterested in the sermon found relief in the beetle, and they eyed it too.
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2 , and after the thing had closed with a peculiarly afflicting sermon the applause was enthusiastic.
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3 By this time the whole church was red-faced and suffocating with suppressed laughter, and the sermon had come to a dead standstill.
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4 ABOUT half-past ten the cracked bell of the small church began to ring, and presently the people began to gather for the morning sermon.
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5 Tom counted the pages of the sermon; after church he always knew how many pages there had been, but he seldom knew anything else about the discourse.
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6 This nightmare occupied some ten pages of manuscript and wound up with a sermon so destructive of all hope to non-Presbyterians that it took the first prize.
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7 The glaring insincerity of these sermons was not sufficient to compass the banishment of the fashion from the schools, and it is not sufficient today; it never will be sufficient while the world stands, perhaps.
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8 There is no school in all our land where the young ladies do not feel obliged to close their compositions with a sermon; and you will find that the sermon of the most frivolous and the least religious girl in the school is always the longest and the most relentlessly pious.
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