hortations

Updated: May 2, 2025

The good man's ex hortations to Edward to preserve an unblemished life and morals, to hold fast the principles of the Christian religion, and to eschew the profane company of scoffers and latitudinarians, too much abounding in the army, were not unmingled with his political prejudices.

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley — Volume 1

The raft was thronged with Old Judasians mostly clergymen who were shouting hearty hortations, and evidently trying not to appear so old as they felt or rather, not to appear so startlingly old as their contemporaries looked to them. It occurred to the Duke as a strange thing, and a thing to be glad of, that he, in this world, would never be an Old Judasian. Zuleika's shoulder pressed his.

Sir Max Beerbohm - Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story

The good man's ex hortations to Edward to preserve an unblemished life and morals, to hold fast the principles of the Christian religion, and to eschew the profane company of scoffers and latitudinarians, too much abounding in the army, were not unmingled with his political prejudices.

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley — Complete