1 And she thought with a tingling in her heart how she and Ashley might ride swiftly through this beauty of blossom and greenery this very afternoon, or tonight by moonlight, toward Jonesboro and a preacher.
2 You talk like a Baptist preacher making a recruiting speech.
3 I goes in, pious as Widow Bogart, and sits still and never cracks a smile while the preacher is favoring us with his misinformation on evolution.
4 It was a negro church; and the preacher's text was about the blackness of darkness, and the weeping and wailing and teeth-gnashing there.
5 There was a low rumbling of heavy sea-boots among the benches, and a still slighter shuffling of women's shoes, and all was quiet again, and every eye on the preacher.
6 While he was speaking these words, the howling of the shrieking, slanting storm without seemed to add new power to the preacher, who, when describing Jonah's sea-storm, seemed tossed by a storm himself.
7 The Norwegian preacher's wife went to Lena and told her she ought not to allow this; she begged Lena to come to church on Sundays.
8 She declared she had heard grandmother was going to make a Baptist preacher of me.
9 If you're going to be a preacher, I want you to marry me.
10 I told her I didn't know what they believed, and didn't care, and that I certainly wasn't going to be a preacher.
11 The faint glimmer of fear became a terror of spirit as the hoarse voice of the preacher blew death into his soul.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 12 The preacher's knife had probed deeply into his disclosed conscience and he felt now that his soul was festering in sin.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 13 The preacher took a chainless watch from a pocket within his soutane and, having considered its dial for a moment in silence, placed it silently before him on the table.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 14 The preacher began to speak in a quiet friendly tone.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 15 Mr. Kernan restored his hat to its original position on his knee and presented an attentive face to the preacher.