It would aptly apply to our humanity of the present generation; and were these the days when I Sermonized, I could propose that it should afford me an illustration for the pulpit.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
He who Sermonized thus unctuously and with eyes fixed with stern disapproval on the buxom wench before him, was a man who had passed the meridian of life not altogether-it may be surmised-without having indulged in some recreations which had not always the sanctification of his own immortal soul for their primary object.
"The Nest of the Sparrowhawk"
Baroness Orczy
I don't mean to be disrespectful, he observed, but it's hard luck to have one's bones disturbed, after more than a hundred years of tranquillity, to be conveyed clear across the Atlantic, to be orated over, and Sermonized over, and, then, to be flung aside like old junk and forgot.
"In Her Own Right"
John Reed Scott