How To Use Clergyman In A Sentence
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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
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In the year 1698, Jeremy Collier, a distinguished nonjuring clergyman, published _A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
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As to the conversation carried on between the clergyman and the earthbound spirit, the same authoress has described a similar one when recording the adventures of Lord and Lady Wynford in Glamis Castle (Ghosts I Have Seen, p. 175).
The Land of Mist
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Hal is indeed shallow, smug, chubby, in love with himself and in thrall to his late clergyman father's last piece of advice that he should chase only the hottest totty.
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a beneficed clergyman
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What other clergyman played any comparable role in bringing down communism, a godless system?
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Others showed him as a young clergyman and as a season ticket holder at local side San Lorenzo.
The Sun
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That a man who certainly did (as F.H. Groome says) look like a “colossal clergyman” should have joined the gipsies, that he should have wandered over England and Europe, content often to have the grass for his bed and the sky for his hostry-roof, has astonished very much (and I believe scandalized very much) this age.
Old Familiar Faces
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The son of a clergyman, he was a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral and was subsequently articled to the organist there.
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I am a non-stipendiary clergyman; a chaplain working with people with disabilities.
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The clergyman administered the Last Rite upon the departed.
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We saw in one of its streets a remarkable proof of liberal toleration; a nonjuring clergyman, strutting about in his canonicals, with a jolly countenance and a round belly, like
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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Born in London the posthumous son of a clergyman and trained by his stepfather as a bricklayer, Jonson became a mercenary, then an actor and leading playwright.
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Junior Exhibition was written with infinite pains and taken to the Greek professor in Beloit College that there might be no mistakes, even after the Rockford College teacher and the most scholarly clergyman in town had both passed upon it.
Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
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CHAPTER VI - THE FRENCH CLERGYMAN'S COUNSEL HAVING thus given an account of the colony in general, and pretty much of my runagate Englishmen, I must say something of the Spaniards, who were the main body of the family, and in whose story there are some incidents also remarkable enough.
The Further Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe
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A quarter of a century on, the clergyman remains a powerful and influential figure even in death.
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The title ‘dean’ is also held - as ‘rural dean’ - by a beneficed clergyman in a part-time capacity.
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“A gelatine lozenge dropped into the tea cup precipitates the tannin in the form of tannate of gelatine,” said the clergyman to Miss Mergle, in a confidential bray.
The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll
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The clergyman participates in marriages chiefly as a witness.
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His cousin also obtained for him from the pope, without his knowledge, the provostship of the church of Geneva, then vacant: but the young clergyman held out a long time before he would accept of it.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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If talking to a friend or relative doesn't help, or is not an option, a clergyman may be helpful.
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When the young maidens come from being examined by the clergyman, or go to church to be confirmed, there he is again close behind them.
Andersen's Fairy Tales
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I recall another student who was an Anglican clergyman.
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And as the clergyman gazed, the belief which had so strongly clung to him that the Earl of Etherington and young Valentine Bulmer were the same individual person, melted away like frostwork before the morning sun, and that so completely, that he marvelled at himself for having ever entertained it.
Saint Ronan's Well
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He can imitate any actor, tragic or comic; any known Parliamentary orator or clergyman; any saw, cock, cloop of a cork wrenched from a bottle and guggling of wine into the decanter afterwards, bee buzzing, little boy up a chimney, etc.
The Newcomes
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A clerical secretary could revoke the permit of a clergyman to do pastoral work.
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a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting
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Like 99 percent of Catholics, I am neither theologian, canonist, nor clergyman.
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A work in any department of general literature rarely appears from the pen of a clergyman in the Church of Scotland, and therefore that to which we are about to refer, under the title noted beneath, [8] is in some respects a curiosity.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852
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He was of Border descent, but was born in or near London, the posthumous son of a clergyman.
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The clergyman, a tall, high-coloured, handsome young man, read the service in a lively, agreeable voice, giving almost a dramatic point to the chapters of Scripture which he read.
The Virginians
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the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman
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His obsession with evangelical Christianity made him want to become a clergyman like his father, so he tried to enroll in a theology school.
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Instead, the screenwriters should have devoted more time to developing the relationship between Kat and her clergyman counselor and to providing us with a better understanding of both the friendly dockland security manager, who may have something to hide, and the lowbred Jim, the former fiancé of Kat's sister.
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London who is also an ordained Church of England clergyman.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alan's concern was that as a Presbyterian clergyman he might not be permitted to preach in pulpits of the Church of England, but this was not a problem.
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The theological debates of the time come alive through his bourgeois, sporting, nonintellectual hero who nonetheless is dogged in trying to find out what precisely he would be assenting to in becoming an Anglican clergyman.
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Later, while working as a dairymaid on a prosperous farm, in a beautiful summer, she becomes blissfully engaged to Angel Clare, a clergyman's son.
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This autobiographical tale set in 1907 follows young Alexander and his sister Fanny as they struggle with their father's death and mother's hasty remarriage to an authoritarian clergyman.
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Had he only robbed the mail-coach, or broken into a gentleman's house, the offence might have been expiable; but to rob a clergyman, and a rector too!
Paul Clifford — Complete
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Labuan [15] at one time boasted a Colonial Chaplain and gave its name to the Bishop's See; but in 1872 or 1873, the Church was "disestablished" and the few European Officials who formed the congregation were unable to support a Clergyman.
British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo
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Carew's restless disposition took him to Newfoundland, and on his return he successfully played the parts of a nonjuring clergyman, dispossessed of his living for conscience 'sake; a Quaker -- here is a good example of his wonderful gift -- in an assembly of Quakers; a ruined miller; a rat-catcher; and, having borrowed three children from a tinker, a
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
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The clergyman was just going to knock when he heard a clinking noise, and turning saw through the open door of a black shed just behind him an elderly woman in a black lace cap stooping among reddish big cans, pouring a very bright liquid into a tundish.
The Prussian Officer and Other Stories
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Occasionally he played a game of chess with Parson Fisher, the jolly ex-clergyman, or smoked a pipe with the sadler-postmaster; he attended all the East Patten tea-parties, too, but he made himself so uniformly agreeable to all the ladies that the mothers in Israel agreed with many sighs, that the major was not a marrying man.
Romance of California Life
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As the perpetual curate, he was in charge of a large if slightly unruly parish; evidence suggests that he was an active and conscientious clergyman.
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Hhis father was probably an Italian nobleman, although he liked to hint he was the offspring of a high-ranking clergyman.
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Generally during church service, where the clergyman is a little prosy, snuff-dipping is indispensible.
My Southern Home: or, The South and Its People
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He is such a thorough clergyman, and never had my imagination; he calls my explorations
Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract
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It would be the responsibility of the clergyman him to the police.
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He was the son of a clergyman of great learning and virtue.
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A quarter of a century on, the clergyman remains a powerful and influential figure even in death.
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One clergyman came up and told us the show had made him proud to wear his dog collar again.
The Sun
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He is a clergyman of ability and intellect who would ordinarily be an obviously qualified choice for the role of bishop.
Times, Sunday Times
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the office of a clergyman is twofold; public preaching and private influence
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Every noble enjoying full transmissible nobility was entitled to participate in the noble assemblies, as was every beneficed clergyman in the clerical ones.
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The mode of jumping the broomstick was the general custom in the rural districts of the South, forty years ago; and, as there was no law whatever in regard to the marriage of slaves, this custom had as binding force with the negroes, as if they had been joined by a clergyman; the difference being the one was not so high-toned as the other.
My Southern Home: or, The South and Its People
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Barnes the blacksmith is the biggest and strongest man for forty miles round," said the clergyman sternly.
The Father Brown Omnibus
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My grandfather was a clergyman in the Church of England and he was one of the funniest stand-up comics I ever met.
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A consistory court has the power to hear against any Anglican clergyman or woman a charge of ‘conduct unbecoming a clerk in holy orders’.
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Joseph Priestly, an English chemist and clergyman invented the first glass of artificially carbonated soda using carbon dioxide collected over vats of fermenting beer.
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After the clergyman has cried his peccavi, suppose we hoist up a bishop, and give him a couple of dozen!
Roundabout Papers
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The five people are a doctor who is a scientist, who does not believe in anything not material being scientific; a vicar who is a typical clergyman, who thoroughly believes in supernatural things until they are proved, when he becomes an agnostic; a young American who is a cad and a fool; a girl who believes in fairies and goes to Holy Communion, which is the one thing that depicts she has a certain amount of sense; a duke who ends every sentence with a quotation from Tennyson to Bernard Shaw.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of — -; let us call it Barchester.
The Warden
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The reverand has been for a quarter of a century a clergyman in Hampshire.
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One clergyman came up and told us the show had made him proud to wear his dog collar again.
The Sun
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At a moment when Smith fears she is ruined, she seeks solace and comfort from a clergyman.
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There were many in the city who could never be persuaded that Dorothy had refused him, these being, for the most part, ladies in whose estimation the value of a husband was counted so great, and a beneficed clergyman so valuable among suitors, that it was to their thinking impossible that Dorothy Stanbury should in her sound senses have rejected such an offer.
He Knew He Was Right
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-- The hero of Poland once wished to send some bottles of good wine to a clergyman at Solothurn; and as he hesitated to trust them by his servant, lest he should smuggle a part, he gave the commission to a young man of the name of Zeltner, and desired him to take the horse which he himself usually rode.
The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection
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As I told Barry Jones, my father was a vile clergyman who drowned puppies and had relations with Mum.
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This was reflected in such pictures as Pastor Hall (1940), a film based on a true story of a clergyman who speaks out against the nation's rulers.
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The contemporary appeal of the cod memoirs of a parochial clergyman, covering 50 years of his apparently uneventful life, is open to question.
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He was so concerned at the reference to Addison's disease, he wanted his neighbour, a local clergyman, to witness the records.
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A beneficed clergyman from the most benighted, that is, most
The Kellys and the O'Kellys
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She even had the impertinence to lecture Loretta on how to be the wife of an eminent clergyman.
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See House itself an old clergyman approached him with outstretched hand and the words, "I would like you to call bygones just bygones.
The Moccasin Maker
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A glebe is a piece of land forming part of a clergyman's living, and right next door was the tiny church of St Edmund.
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Countisbury, which are supposed to have been scattered and buried by a resident clergyman at the close of the last century, with the avowed intention of "fogging" later antiquarians -- surely the strangest
Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland
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The other evening the clergyman dined with us, and throughout the meal discussions of the rubric alternated with talk about delicacies of the table!
The Unclassed
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He was quite sure that the clerical look was innate, and by no means dependent upon the wearing of a high vest or a Joseph Parker style of whisker; for once as he sat in the hot room of a Turkish bath and in the Adamitic simplicity of attire suitable to the temperature and the place, a gentleman who occupied the chair nearest introduced conversation by saying, 'I beg your pardon, sir, but are you not a clergyman?'
The Bibliotaph and Other People
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A clergyman read the liturgy from the prayer-book.
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One clergyman came up and told us the show had made him proud to wear his dog collar again.
The Sun
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Touchwood had scarcely extricated himself from this impediment, and again commenced his researches after the clergyman, when his course was once more interrupted by a sort of pressgang, headed by Sir Bingo Binks, who, in order to play his character of a drunken boatswain to the life, seemed certainly drunk enough, however little of a seaman.
Saint Ronan's Well
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But despite the fact that he was an ordained clergyman of the Church of England, parish churches began to close their doors against him.
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His wonderful wit greatly delighted contemporary readers, most of whom were not worried by bawdy, though there were some who thought it inappropriate for a clergyman.
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However, village residents flatly denied he was involved in embezzlement, saying that it was a dirty plot to entrap the clergyman.
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The notion that any clergyman should have the 'impudence' -- (this was the word used by Mrs. Bludlip Courtenay) -- to pause in the service because people came in late, touched the very apex of absurdity.
God's Good Man
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But if the machines are sufferable, that is, if they have so much as divine probability, then it follows of necessity, that the doctrine of the church is false; so that I leave it to every impartial clergyman to consider. '
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
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Now a penny-a-liner is indebted to a single phrase which furnishes his column; a clergyman near
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
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A clergyman has put it on record that when he went in 1873 as curate-in-charge to an out-of-the-way Norfolk village, at his first early celebration he arrived in church about 7.45 A.M., and, he says,
The Social History of Smoking
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During the baptismal service the Satanic hosts, as originators of sin, vice, and maladies, were expelled by insufflation of the officiating clergyman, the sign of the cross, and the invocation of the Triune Deity.
Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing
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In both there is a father who disappears, a mother who would rather be elsewhere, a manipulative clergyman, a wisecracking love interest, a fatal unicycle or bicycle accident, a budding artist, and a flight to the city.
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Lucky little Dido, I thought, stumbling across a clergyman who could so ably guide her along her spiritual way.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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By the door she paused, and when the newly-ordained clergyman passed out, she offered him her hand, the hand which, when he held it last, was pledged to him, There were _diamonds_ on it now -- diamonds of value rare, but their brightness was hateful to that wretched woman, for she knew at what a fearful price they had been bought.
Rosamond — or, the Youthful Error
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Not apparent in the film is how Jane develops her own nondoctrinaire version of faith, largely in reaction to the false or misguided piety of Mr. Brocklehurst, the head of her severe school; St. John Rivers, the rural clergyman who takes a curdled fancy to her; and Rochester himself, whose previous relationships with women leave a great deal to be desired from a moral standpoint.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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David Beckmann became president of Bread for the world in 1991. before that, he worked on poverty issues at the world bank. he is an economist and a Christian clergyman.
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When the young maidens come from being examined by the clergyman, or go to church to be confirmed, there he is again close behind them.
Andersen's Fairy Tales
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My reasons for marrying are, first, that I think it a right thing for every clergyman in easy circumstances (like myself) to set the example of matrimony in his parish.
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London who is also an ordained Church of England clergyman.
Times, Sunday Times
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` I will send for a glass of water, sir, 'said the clergyman leaving the vestry to call the verger, or clerk, ` the lady is fainting.'
Valerie
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It is not remotely didactic and it is mercifully free from the self-righteous pomposity that you might expect from a banker who is also an ordained clergyman.
Times, Sunday Times
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There, with fewest possible sentences, the clergyman announced that he now accepted him and would, therefore, carry out the promise with regard to the bequeathal of his property to him in the event of any untoward circumstances arising later.
The Human Chord
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While her ladyship declaimed, the clergyman's wandering eye confessed his absent mind; his thoughts travelling, perhaps, to accomplish a truce betwixt Saladin and Conrade of Mountserrat, unless they chanced to be occupied with some occurrences of that very day, so that the lady was obliged to recall her indocile auditor with the leading question, "You are well acquainted with Dryden, of course, Mr. Cargill?
St. Ronan's Well
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Soon he heard cries of alarm, horror, despair, and came up to the worthy clergyman of the parish cowering up against the hedge, almost in a fainting fit, under a strong impression that it was the Evil One in person who just hissed past him in a fire-flaught.
Rides on Railways
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Thus at the demise of the clergyman, the title and lands would revert back to the crown to be awarded to someone else.
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His collaborator, the Rev. John Sanders, was an Indian clergyman in Bishop Horden's diocese.
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The Rev. Augustus Horne was, at the time of my narrative, a beneficed clergyman of the Church of England.
Tales of all countries
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The visiting clergyman preached a good sermon and everyone sang the hymns lust illy One of the sidesmen or wardens, I don't know what he was but he was a Stamford, I knew that, met me in the church porch.
Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories
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Still, he was very good-looking and not being dressed as a clergyman might be quite an asset to their party.
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A new sofa had been introduced, a horrid chintz affair, most unprelatical and almost irreligious; such a sofa as never yet stood in the study of any decent High Church clergyman of the Church of England.
Barchester Towers
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They ended up at the Lodging House, where he befriended theological students and dreamed of becoming a clergyman himself.
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In this series, Goya had perfected the painstaking processes of etching and aquatint and placed them in the service of rendering bizarre compositions of man, beast, witch and clergyman.
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The servant was a grave and sedate looking Englishman, between 50 and 60 years of age, and informed me that he had known Colonel Tarleton from his earliest youth, having lived for many years in the family of his father, a worthy clergyman, at whose particular request he had followed the Colonel to this country, with the view that, if overtaken by disease and suffering in his headlong career, he might have some one near him who had known him ere the pranksome mischief of the boy had hardened into the sterner vices of the man.
The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773
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A Bradford clergyman has condemned the ‘malicious’ acts of vandals who show lack of respect and vandalise church property.
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Suddenly, shockingly, the clergyman's son was a desperado.
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Edmund insists that a proper clergyman is not merely a pulpiteer.
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walty" -- inclined to roll -- that the captain set off with misgiving, and as she moved away the crew heard this solemn and disheartening invocation from a clergyman on the wharf: -- "Lord, if it be thy pleasure to bury these, our friends, in the bottom of the sea, take them; they are thine: save them.
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 04 : Tales of Puritan Land
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stane" and there curl on the ice till his toes almost froze on his feet; and one Episcopal clergyman used to have hard work holding back hot words of youthful habit on the golf links; and his people loved him both because he golfed and because he almost said things, when he golfed.
The Canadian Commonwealth
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It was simply squeezing the title dry of all poetic suggestions; and it would have been quite as appropriate to change the name of “The Scarlet Letter” to “The Clergyman's Penance,” or to call
The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
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David Beckmann became president of Bread for the world in 1991. before that, he worked on poverty issues at the world bank. he is an economist and a Christian clergyman.
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In the catalogue of the Shakespeare Library of Warwick Castle is the title of a book written by a Hathaway clergyman of Tewkesbury, said to be "a descendant of Anne Hathaway," ignoring the fact that _Anne Hathaway_ was
Shakespeare's Family
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Let It'suffice that the clergyman resolved to flee, and not alone.
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She knew that she was not going to stay at the English clergyman's house where she was taken at first.
The Secret Garden
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The point to this dissertation -- if point be allowed by courtesy -- is directed, in a measure, at a clergyman in this city, who told gleefully of the break of a church officer in a prayer meeting, and yet the same preacher on the following Sunday night, used, in a brief petition, the words "circumambient," "iridescent" and "corollary.
Idle Comments
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A glebe is a piece of land forming part of a clergyman's living, and right next door was the tiny church of St Edmund.
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The banker, however, was a more important person than the clergyman, and his evident anxiety to lay hands on the forger was a thing not to be overlooked.
The Scarlet Feather
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Despite the fact that his father was a landowner, town councillor, and clergyman we hear of no attempt to rescue or ransom the captive.
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The breakfast was attended by community members, community leaders, elected officials, clergyman and clergywoman.
Nezar Hamze: Weekend of Prayer, Peace and Unity in South Florida
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He went on to Christ's College, Cambridge, took a pass degree, and became a clergyman.
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The clergyman participates in marriages chiefly as a witness.
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Kosciusko once wished to send some bottles of good wine to a clergyman of Solothurn; and as he hesitated to send them by his servant, lest he should smuggle a part, he gave the commission to a young man of the name of Zeltner, and desired him to take the horse which he himself usually rode.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 264, July 14, 1827
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Lucky little Dido, I thought, stumbling across a clergyman who could so ably guide her along her spiritual way.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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His father became a clergyman in middle age and moved to a rectory in Ballymoney.
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The clergyman also gave his guest a glass of port; but accompanied by an ancient British biscuit instead of seedcake.
The Complete Father Brown
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A doctor felt his pulse by deputy — a clergyman comes from the town to read the last service over him — and the friends, who attend his funeral, are marshalled by lazaretto-guardians, so as not to touch each other.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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Many a worthy clergyman, who passes his life in admirable works of kindly charity, lives and dies unnoticed and unknown; but it is sufficient for some shallow uneducated passman out of either University to get up in his pulpit and express his doubts about Noah's ark, or Balaam's ass, or Jonah and the whale, for half of London to flock to hear him, and to sit open-mouthed in rapt admiration at his superb intellect.
Intentions
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“Poor as I am,” said Mr. Twemlow, now consulting with her, “and poor as every beneficed clergyman must be, if this war returns, I would rather have lost a hundred pounds than have heard what you tell me, Maria.”
Springhaven
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In English cities and towns, the minister of religion has been tamed: so many weapons are bared against him when he obtrudes his office in a dictatory manner, that, as a rule, there is no more quiet and modest member of society than the urban clergyman.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)
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After the bishop or his commissary has instituted the presentee, he issues a mandate under seal, addressed to the archdeacon or some other neighbouring clergyman, authorizing him to induct the clerk into his benefice.
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“Barnes the blacksmith is the biggest and strongest man for forty miles round,” said the clergyman sternly.
The Complete Father Brown
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Cargrim was not ill pleased at this obstinacy, as it gave him an opportunity of entering into conversation with the so-called decayed clergyman, who was as unlike a parson as a rabbit is like a terrier.
The Bishop's Secret
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For I am far from thinking that a prudent regard to worldly interest misbecomes the character of a good clergyman; and I wish all such were set above the world, for their own sakes, as well as for the sakes of their hearers; since independency gives a man respect, besides the power of doing good, which will enhance that respect, and of consequence, give greater efficacy to his doctrines.
Pamela
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Mr Yarrell, a cautious unimaginative man, accustomed to quote Shakspeare as if the bard of Avon had been some quiet country clergyman who had taken his share in compiling the statistical account of Scotland, confines their saltatorial powers only within ten or twelve perpendicular feet.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
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He said something about tradition; more of the many learned men who by their practice had confirmed the present arrangement; then went at some length into the propriety of maintaining the due difference in rank and income between a beneficed clergyman and certain poor old men who were dependent on charity; and concluded his argument by another reference to the archdeacon.
The Warden
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A leading clergyman who has bounced back after a transplant operation and surgery for cancer is facing a third major operation this week.
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Turning aside from the principal entrance, he conducted Jeanie towards a sort of portal connected with the older part of the building, which was chiefly occupied by servants, and knocking at the door, it was opened by a servant in grave purple livery, such as befitted a wealthy and dignified clergyman.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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It was important, the president and the clergyman said, that they hear from a representative woman.
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Green, at Ushaw; there was nothing of that smoothness, or mannerism, which is commonly imputed to them, and they were more natural and unaffected than many an Anglican clergyman.
Apologia Pro Vita Sua
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In the report of that case we find that the plaintiff's counsel informed the court that Mr. Justice Buller had recently tried on circuit a case of the King v. Sparkes: that the prisoner, in that case, was a "papist" and that it came out at the trial that he had made a confession of his crime (a capital one) to a Protestant clergyman: that this confession was received in evidence by the judge: and that the prisoner was convicted and executed.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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And her mum and dad shook the hand of a senior clergyman and thanked him.
The Sun
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Mrs. Newcome can scarcely be called his grandmamma, I suppose; and I daresay her Methodistical ladyship will not care to see the daughter and grandson of a clergyman of the Church of England!
The Newcomes
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These two volumes belonged to clergyman and poetaster John Lea Simcox, who died in July 1840 at the age of 26; they were taken as a memorial by a friend, Laura Price, from Birmingham. eBay
The Little Professor:
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The Vicar in question was an old clergyman who had spent nearly fifty years in the silent, ecclesiastical-atmosphered small house.
Robin
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Professor Whedon was a Methodist clergyman, lank and angular in form and feature with a "considerable sprinkling of vinegar at times in his ways of expressing himself," but, according to our oldest living graduate, "his commanding presence, imperative logic and _sesquipedalia verba_, always used with mathematical precision, hammered truth into us and clinched it.
The University of Michigan
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He can imitate any actor, tragic or comic; any known Parliamentary orator or clergyman; any saw, cock, cloop of a cork wrenched from a bottle and guggling of wine into the decanter afterwards, bee buzzing, little boy up a chimney, etc.
The Newcomes
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The self - styled ` Reverend 'Harper is not a real clergyman at all.
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"I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain" - from British writer Samuel Johnson.
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A new clergyman appointed to a York parish is well-equipped to heal the sick without the power of prayer.
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Although - as a beneficed clergyman - he has the Lowick living, he lets the rectory and lives in the nearby manor-house (inherited on the death of his elder brother).
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Anglophobiac clergyman gave of the familiar scripture, "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
The Art of Public Speaking
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Having divorced his mentally unstable wife, he finds that his interest in the life of the clergyman has waned.
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One such man was the local clergyman, who was moved to see the frantic young mother in such despair.
PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
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* A clergyman who had associated himself with H.J. Prince and some others, and founded the “Agapemone” at Spaxton, near Bridgewater.
From Death into Life
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A clergyman friend of the family conducted the funeral.
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It was commissioned by a Dominican priest from Newbridge College, who was a non-practising clergyman.
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A Baptist clergyman from Boston said it was a man's Christian duty to make money because of the good you can do with the money earned.
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The widespread practice by which lay owners of advowsons nominally appointed a clergyman to several benefices at the same time, while the income from the benefices remained almost totally in their own hands, became illegal.
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The Modernist clergyman who had led the revolt, found himself defrocked and excommunicated.
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The self - styled ` Reverend 'Harper is not a real clergyman at all.
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Oscott, at Old Hall Green, at Ushaw; there was nothing of that smoothness, or mannerism, which is commonly imputed to them, and they were more natural and unaffected than many an Anglican clergyman.
Apologia pro Vita Sua
