For some reason, which I could never fathom, this strange being took a fancy to me, and used to inflict on me long Homilies on the dangers to which youth was exposed.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
But she had some friends cooked at one, and they said it was stuffy, and they would sooner have endured twenty short Homilies...."
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
When he set up as a printer in 1542, with type which he seems to have obtained from a relative at Frankfort, he was employed by the great antiquary, John Leland, and by John Cheke, Professor of Greek at Cambridge, for whom he printed in 1543 two Homilies of S. Chrysostom in Greek and Latin, this being the first Greek work printed in England.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard