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How To Use clergy In A Sentence

• The clergyman and his son pricked up their ears at this, photography being with them only a degree less absorbing a pastime than that of walking; Ron awoke suddenly to the remembrance that his half-plate camera had never been unpacked since his arrival; and the three vied with each other in asking questions about the proposed excursion, and in urging that a date should be fixed. Big Game A Story for Girls
• Virtually all of the clergy are portrayed as venal and conspiratorial.
• Indiscriminate concelebration with Patriotic clergy can't be considered as permitted. Archive 2009-07-01
• With other controversial issues such as slavery and women's ordination, laity and clergy could find Bible verses to help Spirit-led changes.
• When the phrase was first coined, the three estates of the body politic were the lords, the clergy and the commons.
• Even Christian clergy - keep urging him to do more for the Jews.
• During the neverending arguments about women priests even the women concerned were mostly scrupulous about not using the ‘pagan’ term priestess, extraordinary misrepresentations of Jesus' followers were cited as ‘proof’ that women were not meant to be members of the clergy. The Templar Revelation
• It is a sombre painting with the only bright colour provided by the clergymen's vestments and by the headscarves of the women.
• Now the three swords, now and anciently borne before the king at his coronation, were known as the sword of the clergy, the sword of the laity, and the third (curtana), which has no point, the sword of mercy. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
• In some communions the clergy are the sole enunciators of Scripture.