One of the Japanese divers was making trouble with the launch crew, preaching the inferiority of the white race and the drubbing one part of it was destined to receive.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
"I have known people to come here and denounce us for a lack of culture who knew nothing about propriety except to eat pie with a fork," Mr. Whittle said again; "but this Dorris,-I'll bet he practises the proprieties instead of preaching them.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
But something of his spirit, something of what he himself had been preaching to Basel in warning and threat for years, seems to have passed on into the pictures Holbein set before the Council.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue