gospel-trumpeters

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Sharpington, formalities were unnecessary; but my father observed, sotto voce, in reply, and in the plain vernacular of the day, what in modern times would have been more figuratively expressed, namely, "Did not the gospel-trumpeters wish they might get it!"

Various - International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850