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Sentences ending with clergyman

Tickets and fares were high, but I traveled for nothing by pretending to be the conscience of an editor, and got in for half-price by representing myself to be the conscience of a clergyman. [5]
Would he destroy, too, this clergyman? [9]
They send for the physician first, and not until he gives them up do they commonly call in the clergyman. [6]
Do you remember, the first time I met you, I told you I could not think of you as a clergyman. [9]
Before answering, he placed his visitor in the chair, and the deliberation of the act was a revelation of the unconscious poise of the clergyman. [9]
What would become of the clergyman? [9]
If I did not believe,--in spite of the evident fact which you point out of the Church's lost ground, that her future will be greater than her past, I should not be a clergyman. [9]
People do not know how beautiful, how powerful, is the burial service in the Book of Common Prayer, who have only heard it recited by a clergyman. [11]
They worked gaily in ordering and arranging their houses until noon, and then went to visit the clergyman. [12]
The Reverend said he would go, too; a good man, one of the best of men, although a clergyman. [5]

Short sentences using clergyman

Then came the clergyman. [9]
His father was a clergyman. [5]

Sentences containing clergyman two or more times

You, nor any other man, clergyman or no clergyman, have any right to be the judge of my conduct. [9]
One trip the captain had a clergyman on board, but did not know he was a clergyman, since the passenger-list did not betray the fact. [5]
One trip the captain had a clergyman on board, but did not know he was a clergyman, since the passenger list did not betray the fact. [5]

More example sentences with the word clergyman in them

Within a few years a distinguished Scotch clergyman made a fortune by diluting a paragraph written by Saint Paul. [4]
With all the will in the world, their souls lost touch, though the sense in the clergyman of the other's vague yearning for human companionship was never absent. [9]
The shrewd clergyman, whose creed could be lax enough on occasion, had provided himself with authorities of all kinds to meet these awkward questions in casuistical divinity. [6]
And the clergyman, when he knew all, said that he would come. [11]
Beyond that, there were a few gifts to hospitals and for the protection of horses, while to the clergyman of the parish went one thousand dollars. [11]
John Lothrop Motley was the grandson of the clergyman after whom he was named. [6]
For now he was sure that Mrs. Falchion meant to make his position as a clergyman impossible; to revenge herself on him for no wrong that, as far as he knew, he ever did directly to her. [11]
I recollect it was said by a witty lady of a handsome clergyman well remembered among us, that he had dressy eyes. [6]
He said he was not more particular than other people, but he had noticed that a clergyman at dinner without any breeches was almost sure to excite remark. [5]
Just as I was losing sight of the skirt of trees at Grand Pre, a gentleman in the dress of a rural clergyman left his seat, and complimented me with this remark: "I perceive, sir, that you are fond of reading. [4]
In short, you want a level-headed clergyman about thirty-five years old who will mind his own business" The smiles on the faces of the vestry deepened. [9]
The clergyman let us know that we were encouraging idolatry, and he himself took the chief in hand. [9]
Two men more unlike than he and his great artist-neighbour can hardly be imagined, though their cradles were not far apart, for the painter was born in Dusseldorf, and the clergyman at Iserlohn, in Westphalia. [10]
He had only two minutes to live, so he sent for a clergyman and asked him, "Where is the best place to go to? [5]
No other clergyman to whom he had spoken on this subject had given evidence of this strong feeling, and the rector of St. John's was the last man from whom he would have expected it. [9]
He carried me to the house of a worthy and benevolent clergyman of the German Reformed Church, where I was to take tea and pass the night. [6]
The clergyman decided to make a collection for the survivors, if any. [5]
I want you to maintain your dignity always with such persons, and I beg you not to go to the study of this clergyman, unless some older friend goes with you on every occasion, and sits through the visit. [6]
There were only to be the officiating clergyman, the bride and bridegroom, the bridesmaid, and Miss Wooler present. [14]
There must be times--extenuating circumstances--and I believe the canons make it optional for a clergyman to marry the innocent person. [9]
Dear Dr. Gilman, they said, had had neither the strength nor the perception of 'modern needs; and McCrae, the first assistant clergyman, while a good man, was a plodder and lacking in imagination. [9]
The heart of the young clergyman, tortured by anxious doubts, swelled at the sight of this magnificence, and Froebel, seeing what was passing in his mind, exclaimed: "Come, comrade, let us have one of our old war-songs. [10]
At sight of the tall clergyman, an expression of relief came into his face. [9]
Being admitted to the presence he sat down before the clergyman, placed his fire-hat on an unfinished manuscript sermon under the minister's nose, took from it a red silk handkerchief, wiped his brow and heaved a sigh of dismal impressiveness, explanatory of his business. [5]
Ann McDonald was the only daughter of a clergyman of the Scotch Church, and brought up in the literary atmosphere common in the most cultivated Edinburgh homes. [4]
I hope that the good clergyman, if he ever happens to see what I am writing, will pardon me for making mention of his hidden retreat, which he himself speaks of as "one of the remoter nooks of the old country. [6]
It had struck the clergyman, leaving a scar. [11]
To my amazement the clergyman said quietly:-- "Now what was the trouble, David? [9]
Very different from the clergyman on the boat was the old lady at table-d'hote in one of the hotels on the lake. [4]
Both he and the captain were in my dressing-room before I was up, ahead of that scurrilous clergyman, who was for pushing his way to my bed-curtains. [9]
The clergyman said that he had felt uneasy about her, had gone to her room, and was just issuing in search of her. [11]
Yet I wish that a clergyman were here, that he might listen to one thing I have to say. [9]
Wouldn't you have supposed that the adventurous linguist who framed the card would have known enough to submit it to that clergyman before he sent it to the printer? [5]
This clergyman had suddenly accomplished the surprising feat of reviving the Church as a burning, vital factor in the life of the community! [9]
The odd thought struck the clergyman that this man had made his own Tower of London, had built with his own hands the prison in which he was to end his days. [9]
One evening, however, soon after we had left Aden, we were sitting in my cabin, and the conversation turned upon a recent novel dealing with the defection of a clergyman of the Church of England through agnosticism. [11]
He was the son of a clergyman in a neighboring town,--in fact I may remark that I knew a good many clergymen's sons at Andover. [6]
Gaston resigned her, softly advised not waking her, and bade the clergyman good- night. [11]
Because a clergyman should choose to be quixotic, fanatical? [9]
Not only did she seem indifferent to her father's feeling--which incidentally added fuel to it--but her splendid disregard of him, as a clergyman, had made an oddly powerful appeal. [9]
The old clergyman seemed to have renewed his youth since the misfortune of his colleague had incapacitated him from labor. [6]
These people likewise saw good Mr. Moncrieff, the clergyman, take a book from his pocket that he never had leisure to open, and heard him commence a prayer for mercy which he was not permitted to conclude. [5]
He began by riding thirty miles and back to ask the young clergyman at Purple Hill to come and bury Blanche. [11]
She became a regular attendant on the ministrations of a very worthy clergyman, having been attracted to his meetin' by witnessing a marriage ceremony in which he called a man and a woman a "gentleman" and a "lady,"--a stroke of gentility which quite overcame her. [6]
The clergyman even reads the hymn through--a relic of an ancient time when hymn-books are scarce and costly; but everybody has a hymn-book, now, and so the public reading is no longer necessary. [5]
Besides Guida and Ranulph, Jean and Jean's wife, there was a young English clergyman of the parish of St. Michael's, who had come from England to fill the place of the rector for a few months. [11]
It becomes a question of casuistry with a clergyman whether he may shoot at a mark on Sunday, if none of his congregation are present. [4]
Did he not preside at the council held in the town of Tamarack, on the other side of the mountain, which expelled its clergyman for maintaining heretical doctrines? [6]
We used to play it in this simple way, and the one who used to bring in the crown on a cushion--he was a little fellow then--is now a clergyman way up high--six or seven feet high--and growing higher all the time. [5]
Science is always perfectly serious to him; and he would no more laugh over anything connected with his study, than a clergyman would laugh at a funeral. [6]
The story may or may not be literally true, but it illustrates the popular belief of those days, that the clergyman saw a good deal farther into the councils of the Almighty than his successors could claim the power of doing. [6]
The clergyman, at one of the dinner parties, gravely asked a blessing as upon an Institution that included and absorbed all other institutions in its being.... [9]
Take the case of a clergyman of stainless private morals who votes for a thief for public office, on his own party's ticket, and against an honest man on the other ticket. [5]
Here was testimony of a clergyman against the testimony of mere worldlings--interested ones, too. [5]
A clergyman here, not long ago, undertook to visit some of these cabins and carry his message to them. [4]
But he could not forget that his boarder had betrayed him into a breach of the fourth commandment, and that the strict eyes of his clergyman had detected him in the very commission of the offence. [6]
The clergyman was not aware of any particular affliction among his parishioners which was likely to be made the subject of a request of this kind. [6]
It was quite needless, for the clergyman had promptly taken the case in his own hands. [11]
The clergyman at my left was an old acquaintance of mine--clergyman now, but had spent the first half of his life in the camp and field, and as an instructor in the military school at Woolwich. [5]
One of the most inspiring books he read was by an English clergyman of his own Church whom he had formerly looked upon as a heretic, with all that the word had once implied. [9]
This is no more than every clergyman does habitually, and it would be hard if I could not have the same license which the professional preacher enjoys so fully. [6]
In a few moments I had made the great vow, and had put on Alixe's finger a ring which the clergyman drew from his own hand. [11]
A friend of mine, a clergyman, came one evening and said-- 'I have a most remarkable letter here, which I want to read to you, if I can do it without breaking down. [5]
It is not merely unnecessary, it is generally painful; for the average clergyman could not fire into his congregation with a shotgun and hit a worse reader than himself, unless the weapon scattered shamefully. [5]
The clergyman who married us is a prisoner among the French, and the strong-box which held the register of St. Michael's Church was stolen. [11]
And the young man, glancing down the long board at the clergyman, became as red as the carnation in his buttonhole, and in his extremity gulped down more champagne. [9]
There was a lovable English clergyman who did not get to the table d'ho^te at all. [5]
There was a little clergyman who was prone to jump at conclusions sometimes. [5]
Its schools, its library, its poor,--and perhaps the new clergyman who has succeeded his grandfather's successor may be one of them,--all its interests, he shall make his own. [6]
Nick had his lessons from the clergyman in the winter time. [9]
And suddenly, overcome less by the physical power than by the aspect of the clergyman, an expression of bewilderment came into his eyes, and he was quiet. [9]
As a clergyman, it would interest you. [9]
Unless a clergyman is present and makes a point of it, I think it will hardly be expected. [6]
In the hotel is a handsome little chapel where an English clergyman is employed to preach to such of the guests of the house as hail from England and America, and this fact is also set forth in barbarous English in the same advertisement. [5]
Far and wide in the West Riding had spread the intelligence that Currer Bell was no other than a daughter of the venerable clergyman of Haworth; the village itself caught up the excitement. [14]
There was something in the eyes, in the powerful features of the clergyman that kept him still, that made him listen with a fascination which had he taken cognizance of it--was akin to fear. [9]
The average clergyman, in all countries and of all denominations, is a very bad reader. [5]
It seems as if a thoroughly honest, straight-collared clergyman would say frankly to his restless parishioner: "You do not believe the central doctrines of the church which you are in the habit of attending. [6]
Mr. Nicholls, too, hoped that he might be able to add some comfort and pleasure by his ready presence, on any occasion when the old clergyman might need his services. [14]
The clergyman, still holding him with one hand, took out his handkerchief with the other and wiped his brow. [9]
But gradually--" she hesitated, and looked at the motionless clergyman --"gradually I began to see Gertrude's point of view, to understand that she had made a mistake, that she had been too young to comprehend what she was doing. [9]
However this may have been, the good man he celebrated was a notable instance of the Angelical Conjunction, as the author of the "Magnalia" calls it, of the offices of clergyman and medical practitioner. [3]
Perhaps we should have been fighting still had not some one pulled us apart, and when my vision cleared I saw Nick, struggling and kicking, held tightly in the hands of the clergyman. [9]
The close-communion clergyman handles the arch-heretic as tenderly as if he were the nursing mother of a new infant Messiah. [6]
A certain clergyman had prayed to be delivered from the Irish, the Dutch, and the Devil. [9]
The constraint which had characterized their conversation continued, yet there was a subtle change in the attitude of the clergyman. [9]
If this character had an original, it was in the person of a clergyman who died some years since at the advanced age of eighty. [14]
With their arms gathered to their sides they ran for quite two miles without a word, until the heavy breathing of the clergyman brought Pierre up suddenly. [11]
John Sylvester John Gardiner, once a pupil of the famous Dr. Parr, was then the leading Episcopal clergyman of Boston. [6]
Drive a clergyman from my house gentlemen? [9]
I got it from a clergyman who was an instructor at Woolwich forty years ago, and who vouched for its truth. [5]
I got it from a clergyman I know who is spending the winter in Santa Barbara. [9]
Men were waiting for him, anxious to know if the clergyman was coming. [11]
Remark.--This moral vegetable figure is at the service of any clergyman who will have the manliness to come forward and help me at a day's hoeing on my potatoes. [4]
And the blue eyes rested on the clergyman with a benevolence unfeigned. [9]
The little man's eyes rested admiringly, and not without emotion, on the salient features of the tall clergyman. [9]
Unfortunately, I have entirely forgotten what the Eichfeld clergyman taught us, but Middendorf's lessons made all the deeper impression. [10]
For an instant Eldon Parr, as he stared at the clergyman, tightened his lips,--lips that seemed peculiarly formed for compression. [9]
Every few hours, during same three or four days, a very prim and devout-looking Episcopal clergyman, with a cast in his eye, had visited Alonzo. [5]
But at the door of the hotel she said cheerfully: "Of course, Dr. Marmion will find it necessary to call on his patients to-morrow--and the clergyman also on his new parishoners. [11]

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