"It's what I say to the guv'nor"-thus ran his jeremiad-"in dealin' with these here irregular settin's out, where nothin's not to say parallel with anything else, nor dimensions lendin' theirselves to accommodation.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
She ascended to a jeremiad of the cardinal laws of housekeeping, palm still suspicious.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst
The third of the three essays mentioned was a jeremiad on the morbid self-consciousness of the age, which shows itself in religion and philosophy, as skepticism and introspective metaphysics; and in literature, as sentimentalism, and "view-hunting."
"Brief History of English and American Literature"
Henry A. Beers