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Looking for sentences with "curtain lecture"? Here are some examples.
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Sentence Examples
| Excellent quotation, but remember that the curtain lecture is on the advantages of poverty, as well as the true provenance of gentility. |
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| A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| I wonder whether she ever indulged her husband with it in the course of a curtain lecture! |
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| Meanwhile the elder wife was eating her heart with vexation and forming resolutions to give her husband a curtain lecture. |
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| She seemed to me to be more forward than ever that morning, and I felt a suspicion that I was going to get a curtain lecture. |
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| The curtain lecture was followed next day by a refusal to allow Mr. Sheridan to have the horses till the account was settled. |
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| The tintinnabulations of the wife's curtain lecture are too precious to the enraptured husband to be shared with other ears. |
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| I committed to memory a curtain lecture for my brother, though somehow or other it escaped me and was never delivered. |
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| They stick to the curtain lecture business, but now they do it before the curtain. |
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| The curtain lecture that followed was of unusual virulence, and in the midst of it he fell asleep. |
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| What could the worthy captain do, to console the tender-hearted old squaw, and, peradventure, to save the venerable patriarch from a curtain lecture? |
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