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• Moody's Anecdotes and Illustrations, Related in His Revival Work by the Great Evangelist (revised edition; Chicago: Rhodes and McClure Pub. Co., 1899), by Dwight Lyman Moody, ed. by J. B. McClure (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and Word)
• A Box of Nails for Busy Christian Workers: Bible Readings and Outline Addresses (fourth edition; London: H. R. Allenson, 1906), by C. Edwards (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Incidental Illustrations of the Economy of Salvation, Its Doctrines and Duties (Toronto: G.R. Sanderson, 1856), by Phoebe Palmer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Diamonds from the rough; original incidents and stories, (Chicago, The Evangelical publishing co., [c1911]), by Edward Gideon Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes and illustrations of D. L. Moody, (Chicago, Rhodes & Mcclure, 1877), by Dwight Lyman Moody and James Baird McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christliche unterweisungen in lehren und beispielen, (Zug, J. M. A. Blunschi; [etc., etc.], 1860), by Anton Huber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Broadcast. (Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1865), by Nehemiah Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zufälle, die nicht zufälle sind; oder, Auffallende akte der göttlichen strafgerechtigkeit. (Wien, C. Sartori, 1866), by E. N., Anton Oberkofler, and E. N. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pictures and emblems [electronic resource] / (Toronto : S.R. Briggs : Willard Tract Depository, [1885?]), by Alexander Maclaren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes illustrative of New Testament texts. (New York : A.C. Armstrong, 1887) (page images at HathiTrust)
• New cyclopaedia of prose illustrations : adapted to Christian teaching: embracing allegories, analogies, anecdotes, aphorisms, emblems, fables, legends, metaphors, parables, quotations, similes, Biblical types and figures, etc. / (New York : Thomas Y. Crowell, 1877), by Elon Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• One thousand evangelistic illustrations / (New York : published exclusively for the Homiletic review by George H. Doran company, [c1921]), by Aquilla Webb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The world of moral and religious anecdote : illustrations and incidents gathered from the words, thoughts, and deeds in the lives of men, women, and books / (London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1897), by Edwin Paxton Hood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories and parables to illustrate gospel truths. (Nashville, Pub. House of the M. E. Church, South, Smith & Lamar, agents, 1907), by George Rutledge Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes illustrative of New Testament texts. (New York, A. C. Armstrong, 1892) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parables for our times : a study of present-day questions in the light of Christ's illustrations. (New York : T. Whittaker, 1900), by Wolcott Calkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Earnest thoughts. (New York, American Tract Society, [188-?]), by James Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes, illustrative of a select passage in each chapter of the Old Testament. (Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication, [187-?]), by John Whitecross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopedia of moral and religious anecdotes; a collection of nearly 3000 facts ... with copious topical and Scriptural indexes. (New York, Leavitt, 1849), by Kazlitt Arvine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gleichnisse und Sinnbilder zur christkatholischen Lehre; oder, katholische Glaubens- und Sittenlehren, erklärt und erläutert durch Gleichnisse und Sinnbilder. Ein Handbuch für Prediger, Katecheten und Religionslehrer, zugleich ein Hausbuch zur Belehrung und Erbauung für christliche Familien. (Schaffhausen, Hurter'sche Buchhandlung, 1864), by Anton Kotte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sylua locorum communium omnibus diuini verbi concionatoribus, : nec non variarum lectionum studiosis, non minus vtilis quam necessaria : in qua tum veterum ecclesiae patrum, tum philosophorum, oratorum, & poëtarum, egregia dicta ... in tres classes digesta, adiecto duplici indice. / (Lugduni, : Sumptibus Petri Landry., 1592), by de Granada Luis and Pierre Landry (page images at HathiTrust)
• La science universelle de la chaire, ou, Dictionnaire moral : dans lequel on trouvera par ordre alphabetique, ce que les peres grecs & latins, les interpretes de l'Ecriture Sainte, & les theologiens, les prédicateurs françois, italiens, allemands, &c. ont dit de plus curieux, & de plus solide sur differens sujets de morale (Paris : L. Guerin, 1705-1708), by Jean Richard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seed thoughts for public speakers, (New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls company, [c1916]), by Arthur T. Pierson (page images at HathiTrust)
• One thousand tales worth telling / (London : Pickering & Inglis, 1917), by Hy Pickering (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes and illustrations of D.L. Moody. (Chicago : Rhodes & Mcclure, 1877), by Dwight Lyman Moody and J. B. McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrations from art for pulpit and platform / (Boston : The Pilgrim Press, 1912), by James Burns and Book Traces Project (page images at HathiTrust)
• One thousand evangelistic illustrations / (New York : Harper & Brothers, 1921), by Aquilla Webb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes illustrative of New Testament texts. (Hartford, Conn. : Scranton, 1901) (page images at HathiTrust)
• In prospect of Sunday; a collectin of analyses, arguments, applications, counsels, cautions, etc., for the use of preachers and teachers. (New York : Armstrong, 1881), by George Seaton Bowes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fresh bait for fishers of men, (Cleveland : F.M. Barton, 1900), by Louis Albert Banks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Suggestive illustrations on the Gospel of John : illustrations from all sources, picturesque Greek words, library references to further illustrations, references to celebrated pictures, for the use of pastors, Sunday-school teachers, leaders of prayer-meetings, and the home / (Philadelphia, Pa. : A.J. Holman, c1901), by F. N. Peloubet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Feathers for arrows; or, Illustrations for preachers and teachers, from my note book; (New York : Carter, 1883), by C. H. Spurgeon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopedia of moral & religious anecdotes : a collection of nearly three thousand facts, with copious topical and scriptural indexes / (New York : Funk & Wagnalls, 1890, c1869), by Kazlitt Arvine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrative gatherings for preachers and teachers : a manual of anecdotes, facts, figures, proverbs, quotations, etc. / (Philadelphia : Perkinpine & Higgins, 1869), by G. S. Bowes (page images at HathiTrust)
• A homiletic encyclopaedia of illustrations in theology and morals : a handbook of practical divinity, and a commentary on Holy Scripture / (New York : Funk & Wagnalls, 1889), by R. A. Bertram (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fire hundrede fortællinger for skolen og hjemmet / (Chicago : C. Rasmussen Forlagsboghandel, 1886), by Edvard Mau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes and illustrations of D.L. Moody. (Chicago : Rhodes & McClure, 1877), by Dwight Lyman Moody and J. B. McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gem cyclop dia of illustrations / (Cincinnati : Cranston & Stowe ; New York : Hunt & Eaton, 1889), by John Gaines Vaughan and Henry A. Buttz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of illustrations adapted to Christian teaching, embracing mythology, analogies, legends ... and religious anecdotes, etc. ... (London, 1873), by Elon Foster and J. G. Pilkington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sam Jones' anecdotes and illustrations / related by him in his revival work. (Chicago : Rhodes & McClure, 1886), by Sam P. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religious allegories : being a series of emblematic engravings, with written explanations, miscellaneous observations, and religious reflections, designed to illustrate divine truth, in accordance with the cardinal principles of Christianity ... / (Cincinnati, Ohio : Henry Howe, publisher, 111 Main-Street, c1848), by William Holmes and John Warner Barber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Secular annotations on Scripture texts / (London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1872), by Francis Jacox (page images at HathiTrust)
• New cyclopædia of illustrations adapted to Christian teaching ... (New York, Carlton, 1871, ©1870), by Elon Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gospel workers̕ treasury of hymn and revival anecdotes : texts, subjects, outlines, and Scripture readings / (Dayton, Ohio : S.J. Shuey, 1887), by E. S. Lorenz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orde der feest- en lijdensteksten, ten gebruike van de Nd. Herv. gemeente te Arnhem. (Arnhem, Van der Wiel & Co., 1903) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Afternoon / (Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott, 1874, c1873), by Theophilus Stork (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Expositor and current anecdotes. (Cleveland, Ohio : Current Anecdotes, 1906-1913) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes and examples illustrating the Catholic catechism, (New York, Cincinnati [etc.] Benziger brothers, 1904), by Francis Spirago, Francis Spirago, and James Joseph Baxter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Expositor. (Cleveland : F.M. Barton, 1913-[1934]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yu li chao. (Guangzhou : Ju wen tang, Daoguang ren chen [1832]), by Danchidaoren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scripture itself the illustrator : a manual of illustrations gathered from scriptural figures, phrases, types, derivations, chronology, texts, &c., adapted for the use of preachers and teachers / (London : J. Nisbet, [pref. 1872]), by George Seaton Bowes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scripture truth in Oriental dress : or, Emblems explanatory of Biblical doctrines and morals, with parallel or illustrative references to proverbs and proverbial sayings in the Arabic, Bengali, Canarese, Persian, Russian, Sanskrit, Tamul, Telegu and Urdu languages / (Calcutta : Thacker, Spink, 1871), by James Long (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopd̆ia of poetry : first series : embracing the best from all sources and on all subjects / (New York : Funk & Wagnalls, 1872), by Elon Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rivets for truth / (St. Louis : Christian Publishing Co., 1909), by Levi Marshall (page images at HathiTrust)
• One thousand evengelistic illustrations. (New York : George H. Doran company, [©1921]), by Aquilla Webb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopedia of religious anecdotes / (New York : Fleming H. Revell, c1923), by J. Gilchrist Lawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes illustrative of select passages in each chapter of the New Testament / (Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication, [1838]), by John Whitecross (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biblical illustrator, or, Anecdotes, similes, emblems, illustrations, expository, scientific, geographical, historical and homiletic, gathered from a wide range of home and foreign literature, on the verses of the Bible / (New York : Anson D.F. Randolph & Co., [189-?]), by Joseph S. Exell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pastor's manual; containing Scriptural readings, watchwords, forms of marriage, etc., etc. (Boston, Congregational Publishing Society, 1872 [c1871]), by Congregational Churches. Liturgy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes and illustrations of D. L. Moody. (Chicago : Rhodes & McClure, 1886), by Dwight Lyman Moody and J. B. McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fire hundrede fortællinger for skolen og hjemmet / (Chicago, : C. Rasmussen Forlagsboghandel, 1881), by Edvard Mau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bible truths illustrated : for the use of preachers, teachers, bible-school, Christian endeavor, temperance and other Christian workers / (Cincinnati, OH : Standard Publishing Co., c1917), by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes illustrative of Old Testament texts. (New York, A. C. Armstrong, 1886) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopedia of illustrations for public speakers; containing facts, incidents, stories, experiences, anecdotes, selections, etc., for illustrative purposes with cross references. (New York, Funk, 1913), by Robert Scott, ed. by William Curtis Stiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catechetical sermon-aids, (St. Louis, Mo., London, B. Herder book co., 1942), by Joseph H. Schlarman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• New cyclopaedia of illustrations adapted to Christian teaching embracing mythology, analogies, legends, parables, emblems, metaphors, similies, allegories proverbs; classic, historic, and religious anecodtes, etc. / (New York : Palmer, c1870, 1871), by Elon comp Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in the art of illustration; pictures of truth from the newspapers, science, and the round of daily life, for the use of preachers, Sunday-school teachers, prayer-meeting speakers, and for all readers, (New York, Chicago [etc.] F.H. Revell company, [1903]), by Amos R. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• The power of illustration : an element of success in preaching and teaching / (New York : L. Colby, 1850), by John Dowling (page images at HathiTrust)
• The preacher's cabinet. A handbook of illustrations ... 2d ser. (New York, [1881]), by Edward Payson Thwing (page images at HathiTrust)
• One hundred best sermons for special days and occasions : with accompanying cyclopedia of choice illustrations. (New York, London : Harper, 1923), by G. B. F. Hallock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The treasury of illustrations, including the treasury of wit and wisdom, translated and compiled by Abednego David. (London, Christian Literature Society, 1907), by Abednego David (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The art of illustration : being addresses delivered to the students of the Pastor's College, Metropolitan Tabernacle. (London : Passmore Alabaster, 1897), by C. H. Spurgeon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Of such is the kingdom, and other stories from life. (Lincoln, Neb., The Woodruff-Collins Press, 1907), by Richard Lee Metcalfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliotheca manualis concionatoria, ordine alphabetico digesta : novis titulis adaucta; sententiis ss. patrum et doctorum illustrata ... ad commodiorem usum in quinque tomos distributa, cui ultimo accedit opusculum : instructio practica de munere concionandi, exhortandi et catechizandi; cura et studio Alphonsi Cordier et Joannis-Baptistae Baud / (Lutetiae Parisiorum : apud Hippolytum Walzer, 1869-74), by Tobias Lohner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moody's anecdotes and illustrations : related in his revival work by the great evangelist / (Chicago : Rhodes & McClure, 1896), by Dwight Lyman Moody, Gustave Doré, and J. B. McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Teaching and preaching religion to children; (New York, P. J. Kenedy and sons, [c1936]), by John Kean Sharp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• New Testament illustrations : comprising choice selections, anecdotes, similes, incidents explanatory and illustrative, gathered from many sources in this and other countries, together with original articles prepared expressly for this work, by which more than one thousand selected passages from the New Testament are illustrated / (Hartford : J.B. Burr publishing co., 1875, c1874), by William Basil Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Holy-days and holidays : a treasury of historical material, sermons in full and in brief, suggestive thoughts, and poetry, relating to holy days and holidays / (Detroit : Gale Research Company, 1968), by Edward Mark Deems (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Cyclopaedia of nature teachings : being a selection of facts, observations, suggestions, illustrations, examples, and illustrative hints taken from all departments of inanimate nature / (New York : T. Whittaker, 1892), by Hugh Macmillan (page images at HathiTrust)
• 595 pulpit pungencies : with a table of contents. (New York : Carleton, 1866), by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Feest - en Passietexten, (Middelburg, by L. Moens, H. van Osch en de Wed. B. van Dalen, 1804) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orde der feest- en lijdens-teksten voor de Nederduitsche Hervormde gemeente te Rotterdam. (Rotterdam, Wyt, 1827) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orde, volgens welke de feest- en lijdensteksten, in de Nederduitsche Hervormde gemeente te Leiden, gepredikt worden. (Leiden, bij de Wed. D. Du Saar, 1829) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bible illustrations : being a storehouse of similes, allegories, and anecdotes / (New York : Sheldon & Co., 1866, c1863), by John Spencer and Richard Newton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orde der feest- en lijdensteksten, zoo als zij jaarlijks op de feestdagen en vóór paschen in de Nederduitsche Hervormde Gemeente te Rotterdam gepredikt worden. (Rotterdam, Wijt & Zonen, 1848) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orde der feest- en lijdensteksten, zoo als die jaarlijks in de Hederduitsch Hervormde gemeente van 's Gravenhage gepredikt worden. ('s Gravenhage, De Gebroeders Van Cleef, 1859) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A cyclopedia of twentieth century illustrations; new piecture of truth from current events and recent inventions and discoveries, for the use of preachers, Sunday-school teachers and Christian workers, (New York, Chicago [etc.] Fleming H. Revell company, [c1918]), by Amos R. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• New cyclopædia of prose illustrations, adapted to Chistian teaching. (New York, Funk & Wagnalls, [1872-77]), by Elon Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Northern lights on the Bible : drawn from a bishop's experience during twenty-five years in the great-North-West / (London : J. Nisbet, [1893]), by William Carpenter Bompas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Secular annotations on scripture texts / (London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1870), by Francis Jacox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes and illustrations, (New York, Fleming H. Revell Co., [1907]), by R. A. Torrey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Broadcast. (Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1863), by Nehemiah Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketch book, or, Miscellaneous anecdotes, illustrating a variety of topics proper to the pulpit and platform. (New York, Carlton & Porter, 1860), by William C. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quaint and quotable sayings and incidents, (Boston, Mass., The Stratford Company, [c1930]), by Herbert William Lathe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life and sayings of Sam P. Jones, a minister of the gospel. (Atlanta, Ga., The Franklin-Turner Co., 1907), by Sam P. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifteen hundred facts and similes for sermons and addresses. (New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1890), by J. F. B. Tinling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spiritual gems of the ages / (Cincinnati : Elm Street Printing, 1886), by John H. Aughey (page images at HathiTrust)
• One hundred sermon sketches for extempore preachers / (London : Joseph Masters, 1877), by S. Baring-Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopedia of illustrations for public speakers, containing facts, incidents, stories, experiences, anecdotes, selections, etc. for illustrative purposes, with cross-references; (New York and London, Funk and Wagnalls company, 1911 [c1910]), by Robert Scott and William Curtis Stiles (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Present day parables, (Cleveland, O., F. M. Barton, c1900), by J. Wilbur Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scripture illustrations from the domestic life of the Jews and other Eastern nations / (London : William Collins, Sons, & Co., 1877), by John Eadie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories and poems for public addresses / (New York : George H. Doran, c1922), by Alonzo Bernard Webber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Holy-days and holidays : a treasury of historical material, sermons in full and in brief, suggestive thoughts, and poetry, relating to holy days and holidays / (New York ; London : Funk & Wagnalls, 1902), by Edward Mark Deems (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The missioner's manual of anecdotes. For the use of mission preachers, catechists, and Sunday school teachers. (London, J. T. Hayes, [1876]), by Arthur Gregory Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrations from mythology, (Fort Wayne, Ind., Glad tidings publishing co., [c1927]), by William E. Biederwolf (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Great archers and their weapons and Fresh arrows from many quivers : a study of illustrative powers of pulpit orators, with selections of their illustrations. (Cleveland, O. : F.M. Barton, [1903]), by Louis Albert Banks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Legenden och medeltidens latinska predikan och "exempla" i deras värdesattning av kvinnan / (Helsingfors : Helsingfors Centraltryckeri och Bokbinderi Aktiebolag, 1915), by Hjalmar Crohns (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Moody's child stories as related by Dwight Lyman Moody in his revival work in Europe and America. (Chicago, Rhodes & McClure Pub, Co., 1900), by Dwight Lyman Moody (page images at HathiTrust)
• A homiletic encyclopaedia of illustrations in theology and morals : a handbook of practical divinity, and a commentary on Holy Scripture / (London : Dickinson, 1880), by R. A. Bertram (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scientific illustrations and symbols : moral truths mirrored in scientific facts designed for the use of the senate, the bar, the pulpit, the orator, and the lover of nature / (London : R.D. Dickinson, 1885), by David Morgan Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dictionary of illustrations adapted to Christian teaching : embracing mythology, analogies, legends, parables, emblems, metaphors, similes, allegories, proverbs, classic, historic and religious anecdotes, etc. ; with elaborate textual and topical indexes. (London : R. D. Dickinson., 1892), by Elon Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sammlung von Beispielen über biblische Hauptbegriffe, etc., in alphabetischer Reihenfolge : ein Handbuch für Geistliche, Lehrer, Sonntagsschullehrer und die Familie / (Basel : F. Riehm, 1889), by A. Rodemeyer and A. Rodemeyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of anecdote, incident, illustrative fact, selected and arranged for the pulpit and the platform. (New York, T. Whittaker, 1888), by Walter Baxendale (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Preachers' monthly : a storehouse of homiletic help. (London : J. Lobb.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Preacher's analyst. (London : E. Stock,) (page images at HathiTrust)
• One thousand new illustrations for the pulpit, platform, and class : with exhaustive subject and textual indices / (London : R. D. Dickinson, 1890), by H. O. Mackey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Information and illustration. Helps gathered from facts, figures, anecdotes, books, etc., for sermons, lectures, and addresses. (London : Nisbet, [1884?]), by George Seaton Bowes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Suggestive thoughts on religious subjects: a dictionary of quotations and selected passages from the best writers, ancient and modern. For the use of the clergy and others. (London, C. Griffin & company, [188-?]), by Henry Southgate (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apt illustrations for public addresses; (New York, George H. Doran company, [c1920]), by Alonzo Bernard Webber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Windows for sermons; a study of the art of sermonic illustration, together with four hundred fresh illustrations suited for sermons and reform addresses, (New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls co., 1902), by Louis Albert Banks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le Speculum laicorum; (Paris, A. Picard, 1914), by Speculum laicorum and J. Th Welter, contrib. by d 1275 John of Hoveden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cyclopedia of moral and religious anecdotes : a collection of several thousand facts, incidents, narratives, examples, and testimonies, embracing the best of the kind in most former collections, and some hundreds in addition, original and selected. The whole arranged and classified on a new plan, with copious topical and scriptural indexes / (New-York : E. Worthington, 1881), by Kazlitt Arvine (page images at HathiTrust)
• O verdadeiro prégador no seculo XVIII; referindo os progressos, decadencias e restauraçoens, que tem tido a oratoria sagrada, desde o principio do mundo até ao prezente. E reprovando o systema, adoptado por alguns dos prégadores, mais modernos: propoem ultimamente em differentes sermoens, differentes modellos da eloquencia evangelica. (Porto, J. Agathon, 1798) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes historiques, légendes et apologues, (Paris, Librairie Renouard, H. Loones, successeur, 1877), by de Borbone Stephanus and A. Lecoy de La Marche, ed. by A. Lecoy de La Marche (page images at HathiTrust)
• Things new and old: or, A storehouse of similes, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adages, apologues, divine, moral, political, &c., with their several applications. Collected and observed from the writings and sayings of the learned in all ages to this present. (London, W. Tegg, 1869), by John Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
• La bibliothèque des prédicateurs, qui contient les principaux sujets de la morale chrétienne mis par ordre alphabetique. (Lyon, A. Boudet, 1733), by Vincent Houdry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moody's anecdotes and illustrations. (Chicago, Rhodes & McClure publishing co., 1896), by Dwight Lyman Moody and James Baird McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• 1001 illustrations for pulpit and platform / (New York : George H. Doran Company, [1926]), by Aquilla Webb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrative gatherings for preachers and teachers. A manual of anecdotes, facts, figures, proverbs, quotations, etc. Adapted for Christian teaching. (Philadelphia, Perkinpine & Higgens, [1863]), by George Seaton Bowes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exempel-Lexikon für Prediger und Katecheten : (Freiburg im Breisgau : Herder, 1906-), by A. Scherer and Johannes Baptist Lampert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Patriotic illustrations for public speakers, (Cincinnati : The Standard publishing company, [c1919]), by William Herbert Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• 1001 illustrations for pulpit and platform / (New York : Richard R. Smith, Inc., 1930, c1926), by Aquilla Webb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Anecdotes : illustrative of a select passage in each chapter of the Old Testament / (Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication, [1835]), by John Whitecross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Capsules of wisdom; punch lines to put across a message. (New York, Bloch Pub. Co., 1948), by Max L. Forman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• New cyclopaedia of prose illustrations : adapted to Christian teaching : embracing mythology, analogies, legends, parables, emblems, metaphors, similes, allegories, proverbs, classic, historic, and religious anecdotes, etc. / (New York : W.C. Palmer, 1875), by Elon Foster and Stephen H. Tyng (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes illustrative of Old Testament texts. (Hartford, Conn. : S. S. Scranton Co., 1903) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Platform and pulpit aids. (Hartford, Conn. : S.S. Scranton, 1903) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrative gatherings for preachers and teachers : a manual of anecdotes, facts, figures, proverbs, quotations, etc., adapted for Christian teaching / (Philadelphia : Perkinpine & Higgins, [pref. 1864]), by George Seaton Bowes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The guiding hand, or, Providential direction, illustrated by authentic instances / (Boston : H.L. Hastings ; London : Marshall Brothers, 1893, c1881), by H. L. Hastings (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moody's stories : being a second volume of anecdotes, incidents, and illustrations / (New York : Fleming H. Revell, 1899), by Dwight Lyman Moody (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seed thoughts for public speakers, (New York [etc.] Funk & Wagnalls company, 1900), by Arthur T. Pierson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopedia of moral and religious anecdotes : a collection of nearly three thousand facts, incidents, narratives, examples and testimonies, containing the best of the kind in most former collections, and some hundreds in addition, original and selected, the whole critically arranged and classified on a new plan, with copious topical and scriptural indexes / (New York : Leavitt, Trow & Co., 1848), by Kazlitt Arvine (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Homiletic and illustrative treasury of religious thought : or twenty thousand choice extracts, selected from the works of all the great writers, ancient and modern with copious indices / (London : Dickinson, 1889), by Charles Neil, Joseph S. Exell, and H. D. M. Spence-Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrations for sermons and instructions, definitions, word-pictures, exemplifications, quotations, and stories, explanatory of Catholic doctrine and practice. (New York, J. F. Wagner (inc.), [c1916]), by Charles Jerome Callan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art of Illustration, by C. H. Spurgeon (Gutenberg ebook)
• Moody's Stories: Being a Second Volume of Anecdotes, Incidents, and Illustrations, by Dwight Lyman Moody (Gutenberg ebook)

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