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He thought the extemporary prayer very long and hard to bear.

"My spirits were all in arms, and I played a kind of extemporary prelude.

The service commenced with a hymn, to which succeeded an extemporary prayer.

Sermons, extemporary prayer and psalms were part of Bunyan's military training.

All of his longing and the extemporary couplets spawned by it could not make real the intangible vision.

Other cultures have traditions of sung extemporary verse not unlike bertsolaritza.

It is probable that he succeeded better in his extemporary productions than in those which were the fruit of deliberation.

He carefully constructed an apparently extemporary, conversational, style making his stories seem like anecdotes concerning strange events that had happened to him.

Seddon himself backed away from becoming the chapel's minister, preferring extemporary prayer to a formal service.

Extemporary Essays (1922) .

Mr. Blier was in rare form: the entire 19th century came alive in his extemporary remarks from the piano.

Somehow he struggled on, coming up with desperate, improvised defences against each attack, but it was all too seat-of-the-pants, too extemporary and tactical.

Seddon declined to become the minister of the Octagon Chapel, and in his own ministry practised extemporary prayer.

Looks like we can all look forward to the health service being run in the same extemporary way as the privatised gas, electricity, telecom, and rail industries - Oh!

Presently the preacher, having dealt sufficiently in terrifying generalities, went on to practical illustrations, for, after the manner of his class, he was delivering an extemporary oration.

Fang participated in extemporary interpretation and simultaneous interpretation in various fields and interpreted for state leaders, provincial chiefs and foreign state guests.

Sunday services followed a strict structure of readings, prayers, hymns and sermons, but copious outlets for emotionalism were provided through chorus repetitions, extemporary prayers and especially sermons.

While the Reverend Melchisedech was offering up some extemporary orisons, the Captain found an opportunity of growling in the bridegroom's ear: 'What cheer, my lad, what cheer?'

Utilizing the calypsonian tradition of social commentary, while playing with a rhumba band at the posh Orchid Room, he put together an extemporary few bars in honor of guest Prince Philip.

He disliked the use of extemporary prayers, saying, 'There needed no other confutation than to take them down in shorthand and shew them afterwards to those men that had been so audacious as to utter them.'

The show started with the theme song from 1960s cartoon Top Cat, followed by an extemporary monologue by Galloway, dealing primarily with political issues, economics, international relations, political philosophy, and other topical issues.

It is usual, in these extemporary strains, for the Kroomen attached to a man-of-war to taunt, with good-humored satire, their friends who are more laboriously employed in merchant vessels, and not so well fed and paid.

Secondly, the legislative or supreme authority cannot assume to itself a power to rule by extemporary arbitrary decrees, but is bound to dispense justice and decide the rights of the subject by promulgated standing laws,* and known authorised judges.

"Walk-off" home runs were not in evidence then-the great line is said to have been invented by Dennis Eckersley in 1993-nor were shaving-cream pies in the face, but the Giants managed some extemporary celebrations all on their own.

As the housekeeper now made a plunge to drag him out of his extemporary fortress, he gave her such a hearty pinch on the leg, that she sprang back with a scream, and sank, wholly overcome by the pain, into the huge, leather-covered elbow-chair which was near her workstand at the window.