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- The rest of the priestly train bore in their hands manuscripts, sacred vessels, standards, and wreaths. [10]
- The intellect, say the priestly sages, is a vivifying breath of the eternal spirit, and our soul is the mould or core for the mass of matter which we call a human being. [10]
- Naturally most of the doctors lived on the east bank of the Nile, in Thebes proper, and even in private houses with their families; but each was attached to a priestly college. [10]
- And we learned that up at the castle things were going very badly, indeed; that there was a great mob gathered there who considered the relapse a lie and a priestly trick, and among them many half-drunk English soldiers. [5]
- Perhaps there was something in the priestly dress that affected not only the congregation in the chapel, but all the neighborhood in which Father Damon lived. [4]
- The crews of rowers and steersmen who were attached to priestly brotherhoods or noble houses, were enjoying a rest till the parties they had brought across the Nile drew towards them again in long processions. [10]
- Father Clement will remain safely concealed at my sister's, and you will accompany me in priestly costume. [10]
- By the ancient priestly law a dentist is not allowed to treat a deaf man, nor a surgeon for broken bones a patient who is suffering from a disease of the bowels, even though he should have a first rate knowledge of internal complaints. [10]
- At length Abelard offered to marry Heloise --but on a shameful condition: that the marriage should be kept secret from the world, to the end that (while her good name remained a wreck, as before,) his priestly reputation might be kept untarnished. [5]
- The one ideal of his life, the unlimited dominion of the priestly idea over the minds of men, and of the priesthood over the king himself, had hitherto remained unintelligible to this singular young man. [10]
- No circumstance in nature remained unobserved by the priestly guides of the Egyptian people. [10]
- I have found more noble humanity among sinners, than in many just men in priestly garb. [10]
- The first churches, like those of Corinth and Ephesus and Rome, were democracies: no such thing as a priestly line to carry on a hierarchy, an ecclesiastical dynasty, was dreamed of. [9]
- This in a land which has groped in the midnight of priestly superstition for sixteen hundred years! [5]
- So the Government intends to take to itself a great portion of the revenues arising from priestly farms, factories, etc., and also intends to take possession of the churches and carry them on, after its own fashion and upon its own responsibility. [5]
- She was dressed in priestly robes and wore a costly head-dress with the winged disc and the Uraeus. [10]
- This time they had assembled to bid a last farewell to their king's daughter, and in this hour the people gave clear tokens that, in spite of all the efforts of the priestly caste, their hearts remained loyal to their monarch and his house. [10]
- He who had formerly led troops in the field, had assumed the command of this pursuing expedition ordered by the gods and, though clad in priestly robes, he also wore the helmet and battle-axe of a general. [10]
- They have an expert by them, armed with spiritual specifics, in which they both, patient and priestly ministrant, place implicit trust. [6]
- You, when you enter your priestly life, put all your past behind you. [11]
- The most priestly countenances soon beamed with cheerfulness, and the officers and courtiers outdid each other in audacious jokes. [10]
- Glancing round the circle of courtiers, and casting a grateful look at his priestly patron, he said: "It would be asking too much of your Roman table-companions that they should know a philosopher. [10]
- Nor shall a brilliant audience be lacking, for my complimentary visitors with their priestly splendor and array of arms will, it is to be hoped, arrive punctually. [10]
- The good old bishop walks humbly in the rear, in full canonical rig, with crosier and miter, his rich robes upborne by priestly attendants, his splendid footman at a respectful distance, and his roomy carriage not far behind. [4]
- When they were alone, Nitetis drew a breath of relief and said: "Give me your priestly blessing on my long journey into the nether world, and prepare me for my pilgrimage to Osiris. [10]
- Gift after gift, addresses of congratulation from every district of the country, priestly decrees drawn up in his honor and engraved on tablets of hard stone, lay on every table or leaned against the walls of the vast ball which the guests had just quitted. [10]
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