"Hortative" Quotes from Famous Books
... under such circumstances. I pulled around the curving rear of the eastern church, with its surface of marble lace, such as we had seen before, gazing upward and upward at the towering awfulness and magnificence of edifice, myself frozen in admiration. The Parson, under high excitement, rained his hortative oratory upon me. ... — The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 • Various |