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Sentences starting with priest

Priest as he was, it is possible that De Casson shared the young man's feeling, though chastening years had overcome impulses of youth. [11]
Priest though he was, he was also an expert river- man, and his vast strength served him royally. [11]

Sentences ending with priest

The victory was with the priest. [5]
Every detail connected with the matter costs something, and helps to fatten a priest. [5]
Thou hast told us faithfully all that thou hast heard, and thereby proved that thou canst obey--the first virtue of a priest. [10]
Father Peter claimed trial by the ecclesiastical court, but our other priest, Father Adolf, said an ecclesiastical court hadn't jurisdiction over a suspended priest. [5]
He was admitted to Joan's prison by night, disguised as a cobbler; he pretended to be from her own country; he professed to be secretly a patriot; he revealed the fact that he was a priest. [5]
His reply to this generous offer was almost brusque, but it did not deceive the priest. [9]
To Ruth Leigh this experience of love was as unexpected as it was to the priest. [4]
When he turned there was another expression in his eyes and a note of tenderness in his voice that contradicted the severity of the priest. [4]
The chief of the taricheutes asked him whether he had opened the body of the dead priest. [10]
A flush passed swiftly across his face and faded away, as, with quick sensitiveness, he glanced at Nicolas and another passenger, a fat priest. [11]

Short sentences using priest

There is the priest, Monsieur. [9]
Fetch hither the priest! [5]
The priest stood listening. [11]
Now the priest interrupted him. [10]
The priest hesitated. [9]
A severe priest! [4]
The priest sighed. [11]
A priest? [11]

Sentences containing priest two or more times

Armand nodded to Medallion, and Medallion to the priest, but the priest nodded back again. [11]
Right did the holy Franciscus say, 'If I should meet a priest and an angel at the same time, I should salute the priest first, and then the angel; because the priest is possessed of far higher might and holiness than the angel. [4]
He's the greatest crony with one of their preachers; he dresses just like a priest, and he says he is a priest. [8]
A priest you came into my kingdom, and a priest you shall remain; but you shall preach good English doctrine and no Popish folly. [11]
He had found awaiting him, on his return to Quebec, a priest bearing messages and a chart from another priest who had died in the Spaniards' country. [11]

More example sentences with the word priest in them

In the cities you will see a dozen civilians for every soldier, and as many for every priest or preacher. [5]
If you go you will reach the priest, if you stay here where I shall leave you, you will see me taken perhaps, and it may be fightin' or death; but you will be safe with them. [11]
It was Sunday; yet at Canterbury the streets were empty; strangest of all, there was not even a priest in sight, and no stroke of a bell fell upon my ear. [5]
He rubbed his wrist, which had been squeezed by Pentaur's iron fingers, and said in a tone which betrayed all the bitterness of his feelings: "Thy hand is hard, Priest, and thy words hit like the strokes of a hammer. [10]
My father was wounded, and then the priest frightened them, and they gathered their dead together and buried them. [11]
Still the matron would not allow herself to be persuaded, and after the chief priest had been called away to the service of the god, Euryale reproved her sister-in-law for her too great zeal. [10]
In Spain there would always be some woman whom he could cajole; some comrade whom he could betray; some priest whom he could deceive, whose pocket he could empty by the recital of his troubles. [11]
Ah, priest and worldly saint, how subtle and enduring are the primal instincts of human nature! [4]
They had vowed without priest or witness. [11]
It was filled with worshippers, and when, in his resolute manner, he told the curator and the officiating priest that he wished to enter the cella, and asked for a ladder to feel the goddess, he was most positively refused. [10]
She was alone, with the exception of the priest in charge. [10]
He always remembered with satisfaction that once when the Cure was absent and he was supposed to be dying, a priest from another parish came, and, the ministrations over, he had made an offering of a gold piece. [11]
I will speak with him alone.--You, my friends, withdraw with our idiologos, the priest of Alexander, who is well known here, and visit the city. [10]
You, not he, will be priest at the altar. [11]
The priest to whom she was taken was a frequent visitor at the Schurstab house, and she would have died ere she would have confided to him the secret of her heart. [10]
Several young courtiers who were walking in front of their chariots, surrounded them and joined in the laughter and merry conversation, in which the vivacious wife of the chief priest shared, having left her large travelling-chariot to be carried in a litter. [10]
Even the priest who visited him several times was by no means kindly disposed towards her. [10]
The priest Pentaur, who is now present, has been appointed speaker at the festival to-morrow. [10]
All the people who had collected round the priest, broke out into a far-sounding cry of woe, in which he himself and Rui's widow vehemently joined. [10]
The high priest who came forward upheld his subordinates and, after a short dispute, Hermon left the sanctuary with his wish unfulfilled. [10]
A young priest whispered to his neighbor, "He is praying--" and Anana noticed with silent anxiety the strong hand of his teacher clutching the manuscript so tightly that the slight material of which it consisted threatened to split. [10]
In the hush which followed, our crime was recited, the death warrant read, then everybody uncovered while a priest uttered a prayer. [5]
Do you remember when we stopped those Dutchmen on the Richelieu, and you--" The priest interrupted with a laugh. [11]
In the spring, when the new leaves were green on the slopes of Coniston, Priest Ware ended a life of faithful service. [9]
The maidservants who were opening the shutters glanced gaily out into the streets, and arranged the flowers in front of the windows or bowed reverently as a priest passed by on his way to mass. [10]
Then the priest went up to him, and said: "You said you were ready to take the consequences of your folly, and a prince's word must be kept. [10]
One penny every week the good priest that teacheth me shall have; mother, Nan, and Bet the other four. [5]
His tall figure was now resplendent with rich ornaments, and a priest, who walked before him, held the vessel high above his head. [10]
The priest even was in readiness to marry them privily, and they would have won the day in spite of me. [10]
A third servant was handing him the crosier, the insignia of his dignity as a prelate, when a priest entered and announced the scribe Pentaur. [10]
His sinful eye was dazzled and he hid himself behind an altar, with an evil purpose in his heart, but a priest discovered him and turned him out. [5]
His later history was called for, and when he said he had 'accidentally' killed a man, considerable satisfaction was expressed; when he added that the man was a priest, he was roundly applauded, and had to take a drink with everybody. [5]
First, the man was a priest in the days when the Huguenots were scattering to the four ends of the earth. [11]
In the eye was a penetrating but abstracted look, and the countenance had the gravity of a priest lighted by a cheerful soul within. [11]
Once within its walls, and confession made to the priest and absolution obtained, the wretch with a price upon his head could go forth without fear and without danger--he was tabu, and to harm him was death. [5]
As Ingolby now walked in the woods towards Gabriel Druse's house, he recalled one striking phrase used by the aged priest in reference to the closing of the railway offices. [11]
I have to walk before the sacred images in full ceremonial vestments, and accompanied by the priest of Alexander. [10]
But when, after waking the priest, she had asked how much a goat might cost for sacrifice, her countenance cleared, for her savings were enough to pay for it and for a young cock as well. [10]
It was the village priest in his robes. [9]
These not proving very satisfactory, he managed to fall in with Father McShane, the Catholic priest of the Rockland church. [6]
The priest told us that St. Sebastian lived under ground for some time while he was being hunted; he went out one day, and the soldiery discovered and shot him to death with arrows. [5]
As she looked up a perfectly radiant smile illuminated her usually plain face, an unworldly expression of such purity and happiness that she seemed actually beautiful to the priest, who stopped, hesitating, upon the threshold. [4]
The priest soon united Heinz and Eva, but the celestial pilgrim willingly resigned the power formerly exerted over the maiden to the husband, who clasped her to his heart with tender love. [10]
And as I turned from the machinery, I saw the young priest coming at me through a doorway! [11]
Each in his turn went up to the priest (they were all within a large circular railing) and bowed profoundly and then went spinning away deliriously and took his appointed place in the circle, and continued to spin. [5]
Why should he turn priest now? [11]
After that dark town-meeting day some of those stern old fathers became broken men, and it is said in Coniston that this calamity to righteous government, and not the storm, gave to Priest Ware his death-stroke. [9]
They were walking towards Fourth Avenue one evening--the priest could not resist the impulse to accompany her a little way towards her home--after a day of unusual labor and anxiety. [4]
Flattery from man to woman is expected: it is a part of the courtesy of society; but when the divinity descends from the altar to burn incense to the priest, what wonder if the idolater should feel himself transformed into a god! [6]
Although the conversation to which he subjected her had resulted in her favour, he had deemed it beneficial to place a priest who was devoted to him among the ecclesiastics in the little castle. [10]
The priest turned to the door, and called, "Madame Lucette! [11]
The priest went to the door of the but and called him. [11]
Kutuzov's adjutant whispered to Prince Andrew that this was the wife of the priest whose home it was, and that she intended to offer his Serene Highness bread and salt. [2]
The Irish got to piling up hacks so, on their funerals, that a funeral left them ragged and hungry for two years afterward; so the priest pitched in and broke it all up. [5]
Come with it to my shore, as of old the priest of far-darting Apollo carried his rage and anguish to the margin of the loud-roaring sea. [6]
The priest whispers to him: "Be strong, be just, be merciful. [11]
Paaker went up to him, and abused him violently, and threatened him with his fist; the priest raised his arms in prayer, just as I saw him yesterday at the festival--but not in devotion, but to seize Paaker, and wrestle with him. [10]
I was sent to Domremy, to the priest, whose housekeeper became a loving mother to me. [5]
We have agreed to combine to ask for him to be recalled; Anana is drawing up a letter to the chief priest, which we shall all subscribe. [10]
Call a priest to bless our union!--Is it not so--am I not right? [10]
I must speak to a priest, and that man drives me away and says you none of you have time to attend to me! [10]
Wriggling my way through the people, I had barely reached the gate when I saw Monsieur Vigo and the priest, three Creole gentlemen in uniform, and several others coming out of the door. [9]
If you were three feet taller, and the son of a priest, you might have gone far. [10]
The priest obeyed this instinct, as if it were possible to walk away from himself, and went on, at first with almost no sense of weariness. [4]
The name of this ceremony is uko; and when the sacred hog was baked the priest offered it to the dead body, and it became a god, the King at the same time repeating the customary prayers. [5]
But scarce could they have reached the street and we have broken ranks, when we saw them coming back again, the priest leading them as before. [9]
The priest added, 'These are proper places for the King's residence; but he must not remain in Kona, for it is polluted. [5]
The young priest there, who seems so fond of gardening, has other fruit in his mind besides the half-ripe figs that he is so slowly dropping into his basket. [10]
Besides the three, there was a priest and a young soldier. [11]
But when lived there a holy priest who could not set so simple a trouble as this at rest? [5]
Ameni nodded, and the young priest who had talked with the princess Bent-Anat at the temple-gate came into the room. [10]
A priest pronounced the words, "They shall lay their hands on the sick, and they shall recover. [5]
He knew that the will would most probably be found there, but was anxious to have the priest complete the consecration of his mistress undisturbed. [10]
Cleopatra had sought the venerable Anubis, who now, as the priest of Alexander, at the age of eighty, ruled the whole hierarchy of the country. [10]
Gabord looked at the soldiers, looked at the wife, at the priest, then spread out his legs and stuck his hands down into his pockets, while his horse rubbed its nose against his shoulder. [11]
The chanting of the service ceased, and the voice of the priest was heard respectfully congratulating the dying man on having received the sacrament. [2]
Behind him appeared the quaternary number of prophets, whose head, the chief priest, moved with stately dignity beneath a canopy. [10]
When he saw the priest, he raised his hat respectfully, yet with an air of equality. [11]
Colonel Clark plied the priest with questions of the French towns under English rule: and Father Gibault, speaking for his simple people, said that the English had led them easily to believe that the Kentuckians were cutthroats. [9]
He thought, as the priest went on with the solemn liturgy, how all the world must come together in that peace which, struggle and strive as we may, shall claim us at last. [8]
The face of the priest was calm and grave, but in his eyes was a deep fire. [11]
At the tavern the priest told him what he had beheld with his own eyes. [10]
The horoscope which the priest of this temple has drawn up for you only confirms me in my purpose. [10]
What interpretation did the priest give you? [10]
It was not the priest and my wife that I had killed; but my wife and her brother. [11]
Therefore Siptah and the powerful priest who was to proclaim him king were urged to the utmost haste. [10]
It has played the part of the unwedded priest, who marries a pair without taking a fee or having any further relation with the parties. [3]
In 1673 Joliet the merchant, and Marquette the priest, crossed the country and reached the banks of the Mississippi. [5]
Finally he persuaded the leader of the lepers, who had once been an Egyptian priest, to keep at least half the distance demanded. [10]
The priest took the instrument and tuned it softly. [11]
In vital things the instinct becomes abnormally acute, and, one day, when the priest looked at her commiseratingly, she had divined what moved him. [11]
We were in the heart and home of priest craft--of a happy, cheerful, contented ignorance, superstition, degradation, poverty, indolence, and everlasting unaspiring worthlessness. [5]
The priest took the handsome lad by the chin, bent his head back, looked Adam also in the face, and exclaimed: "His mouth, nose and eyes he has inherited from your wife, but the shape of the brow and head is exactly like yours. [10]
The sacrifice of the good priest had not been in vain, and he came back with the joyous news of a peaceful conquest. [9]
The pure enjoyed the gifts of paradise in peace and contentment.--All this was explained to me by a priest of the Fire-worshippers. [10]
But now came the fight between the priest and the mad waters. [11]
In one of the few rooms of his vast palace which the chief priest had reserved for the accommodation of the members of his own household, the youth was received by Melissa, Timotheus's wife Euryale, and the lady Berenike. [10]
As soon as the door was shut behind him, the old priest from Chennu spoke. [10]
This happened on the day before the collision between the railway-men and the river-drivers, and the old priest already knew what trouble was afoot. [11]
She looked at the Cure, where he knelt praying, and wondered how much of this tragedy the anxious priest would lay at his own door. [11]

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