sermoners

How many of our English princes have been coddled at home by their fond papas and mammas, walled up in inaccessible castles, with a tutor and a library, guarded by cordons of sentinels, sermoners, old aunts, old women from the world without, and have nevertheless escaped from all these guardians, and astonished the world by their extravagance and their frolics?

The Newcomes 2006

This is the sin of schoolmasters, governesses, critics, sermoners, and instructors of young or old people.

Roundabout Papers 2006

Thackeray, in one of his ROUNDABOUT PAPERS, speaks of "the sin of tall-talking," which, he says, "is the sin of schoolmasters, governesses, critics, sermoners, and instructors of young or old people."

Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things Henry Van Dyke 1892

This is the sin of schoolmasters, governesses, critics, sermoners, and instructors of young or old people.

Roundabout Papers William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

How many of our English princes have been coddled at home by their fond papas and mammas, walled up in inaccessible castles, with a tutor and a library, guarded by cordons of sentinels, sermoners, old aunts, old women from the world without, and have nevertheless escaped from all these guardians, and astonished the world by their extravagance and their frolics?

The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837