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Sentences starting with priests

Priests in their yellow robes and with bare shoulders went by, oblivious of all things. [11]
Priests swarmed in the Alcazar, and soldiers belonging to every branch of military service, daily guarded or marched by the palace. [10]
Priests and laymen retreated into the house, and so did Barbara and the marquise. [10]
Priests of any of the chapels and denominations in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre can visit this sacred grotto to weep and pray and worship the gentle Redeemer. [5]

Sentences ending with priests

Afterward, broil them with the priests. [5]
It was the tomtom calling him to duty, to the lecture on rhetoric which at this hour he had to deliver to the young priests. [10]
We staid at this great convent all night, guests of the hospitable priests. [5]
They could hear the ringing of the sistrum bells and the murmuring chant of the priests. [10]
For many minutes the lord and his servants remained on their knees in silence, their eyes fixed on the sacred star, and listening to the pious chant of the priests. [10]
To-morrow we will summon the astrologers, soothsayers and priests. [10]
Men are so stupid; they think they can defy all the laws of nature, especially priests. [4]
They watch my smallest actions and report them at once to the priests. [10]
She hallowed what she touched, far beyond priests. [5]
Well, I couldn't rack the executioner, neither would I overlook the just complaint of the priests. [5]

Short sentences using priests

The pagan priests were furious. [5]
We had two priests. [5]
Not so the priests! [5]
These priests are knaves! [10]

Sentences containing priests two or more times

The principals of the different orders of priests had also found places at the table, and among them the chief of the haruspices, while the rest of the priests, all in snow-white linen robes, sat, with much dignity, in a large semicircle, two rows deep. [10]
The Latin priests say it was stolen away, long ago, by priests of another sect. [5]
The two other members were chiefs of bureaus in his department; and all three were priests, of course; all officials who had to know how to read and write were priests. [5]

More example sentences with the word priests in them

In Chennu, as you know, besides the quarries there is the great college of priests, which is in close alliance with the temple of Seti. [10]
Secondly, these missionaries would gradually, and without creating suspicion or exciting alarm, introduce a rudimentary cleanliness among the nobility, and from them it would work down to the people, if the priests could be kept quiet. [5]
The priestesses--some of whom, with garlands on their flowing hair, were already shaking the sistrum of Isis--mingled with the line of priests, their high voices blending with the deep notes of the men. [10]
Their priests too, whom they call Magi, are here with them. [10]
A few priests whom he passed turned their backs upon him, others looked down at their dinners, eating noisily, and making as if they did not see him. [10]
It is doubtful whether Kamehameha approved of the plan of the chiefs and priests to sacrifice men, as he was known to say, 'The men are sacred for the King;' meaning that they were for the service of his successor. [5]
The old kings were the hands, but we, the priests, were the head. [10]
The remaining ceremonies were hasty and incomplete, since the priests who were indispensable to their performance had not made their appearance. [10]
Among the prisoners were a number of priests, and Joan took these under her protection and saved their lives. [5]
The steps are well worn, and must have been trodden for ages, by nobles and robbers, peasants and sailors, priests of more than one religion, and traders of many seas, who have gone, and left no record. [4]
If they come, we'll say the Lord's Prayer, and make the sacred gesture, and if it goes not, we will have one of your good priests to drive out this whining spirit. [11]
The priests were well pleased to hear this, and they absolved him unconditionally and completely; then, after blessing him fervently, they quitted the room. [10]
The old paraschites watched the priests disappear behind the tamarisk bushes. [10]
When the battle was over, the Persians returned in triumph to their tents, to be warmly welcomed by Croesus and the warriors and priests who had remained behind, and to celebrate their victory by prayers and sacrifices. [10]
I supposed he was at least an archbishop, from the retinue of priests who attended and served him, and also from his great size. [4]
In the midst was an open court, on to which opened the doors of the rooms of the priests and philosophers. [10]
Oh no; it was a great bench of priests and monks--profoundly leaned and astute casuists--renowned professors of theology! [5]
To this the voice of the priests directed him and the cries of the sacred animals were believed to prove a divinity at hand. [10]
The multitude gave vent to their impatience by shouting, singing, and quarrelling; but the priests and magnates on the steps preserved a dignified and solemn silence. [10]
Nitetis, however, had understood him thoroughly, and answered: "My mother Ladice was the pupil of Pythagoras, and has told me something like this already; but the Egyptian priests consider such views to be sacrilegious, and call their originators despisers of the gods. [10]
Now he said, turning to the priests from Chennu-- "Gagabu is a foolish, hot-headed old man, and you have heard from his lips just such a sermon as the young scribes keep by them when they enter on the duties of the care of souls. [10]
At last she turned, and said, "You must come at once, for soon the priests will be at the church. [11]
The priests will try to keep you back--the Greeks to urge you forward. [10]
She must be tried by priests for crimes against religion. [5]
There is Archias, too; there are the artists and the famous gentlemen of the Museum, the members of the Ephebi, and the priests of the great gods. [10]
They could see too the seats of the grandees, and the barriers which kept the people at a distance from the Regent, the priests, and the nobles. [10]
Only"--and he turned to Timotheus--"this house of your god, which has given me shelter, with the priests and the treasure of great Serapis, are spared. [10]
I should like to sell him my picture of Alexander saluted by the priests in the temple of Jupiter Ammon. [10]
He was lenient to his conquered subjects, and, probably in order to secure his position as the lawful Pharaoh, yielded to the wishes of the priests, was even initiated into the mysteries and did much for the temple of Neith. [10]
The lowing, bleating throng which the priests had imagined to be the souls of the damned was the Hebrew host, departing by night from their old home with all their flocks under the guidance of Moses. [10]
I should have thought that your own father was example enough of the shameful way in which those lying priests deceive their best friends. [10]
All India flocks thither on pilgrimage, and pours its savings into the pockets of the priests in a generous stream, which never fails. [5]
As soon as they were alone Ameni asked the poet "Why did you refuse to announce to the people the miracle, which has filled all the priests of the Necropolis with joy? [10]
You see what these priests say under oath--picked men, men chosen for their places in that terrible court on account of their learning, their experience, their keen and practised intellects, and their strong bias against the prisoner. [5]
By divine commission there were bishops, priests, and deacons in the new hierarchy, and it was through the Apostolic Succession that he, their rector, derived his sacerdotal powers. [9]
The priests told them that death and everlasting punishment would overtake any who violated the oath, and the march was resumed. [5]
The priests with their sacrifices and automatic rites, the logicians, have crowded him out. [9]
The initiated bowed their heads till they touched the pavement, and the priests and scholars bent their faces down to the earth, when they beheld their haughty master so filled with humility and devotion. [10]
The people of Thebes are led by the priests, and tomorrow Ameni will point out to them who is their legitimate king, who will put an end to the war and release them from taxes. [10]
None could explain the vision, till at last the priests of the Libyan Ammon gave me the following interpretation 'Tentcheta will die in giving birth to a son. [10]
The brethren in the temple of Anion, on the other shore, have fallen off from what must always be the Holiest to us white-robed priests, and will stand in our way when the time for action is arrived. [10]
Orion assisted at the service in the place reserved for the men of his family, close to the hekel, or holy of holies, where the altar stood and the priests performed their functions. [10]
Just then, too, the sacred bull at Memphis died and the priests could discover no heart in his entrails, which they interpreted as prognosticating evil to our country. [10]
While listening to the resurrection hymn of the priests of Serapis, she had asked herself if it might not be possible to give Antony, when he had been roused to fresh energy, the son of Caesar as a companion in arms. [10]
He could see the procession form, with priests and mourners, and move solemnly away, bearing the secret with them. [5]
Caesar mingled with the priests, and her guide told her that the corridor was now free. [10]
I don't think the priests will be able to help much in the end, and if it is to be Manitou against Lebanon, you can't expect a great deal. [11]
The seats for the priests were of ivory, and garlands of lilies and roses hung round the vessel, from its masts and ropes. [10]
At eight o'clock, the priests were chanting vespers to a larger congregation than many churches have on Sunday: their voices were rich and musical, and, joined with the organ notes, floated sweetly and impressively through the dim and vast interior. [4]
We will ask the priests to-morrow morning what sacrifice may redeem us. [10]
During the offering the priests sang prayers in a loud voice, enumerated the virtues of their king, and, that blame might in no case light on the head of their ruler, made his bad advisers responsible for every deadly sin committed in ignorance. [10]
This was from the priests of Osiris-Apis who were performing the sacred mysteries of their god, at midnight, on the roof of the temple. [10]
A smile which the priests of lower rank who surrounded his litter knew not how to interpret, flitted over his shrewd, defiant countenance. [10]
One would expect the priests and the soldiers to multiply the river's dimensions by ten--the Spanish custom of the day-- and thus move other adventurers to go at once and explore it. [5]
The priests on the other bank of the Nile were Bent-Anat's counsellors, and he had heard the princess spoken of as a devout and gifted maiden. [10]
A strange lady, the one who had been talking to the priests, rose and offered him her seat; an aide-de-camp picked up and returned a glove Pierre had dropped; the doctors became respectfully silent as he passed by, and moved to make way for him. [2]
These priests make the king's life burdensome to him; they persecute and injure us in every possible way; and indeed, if it had not been for the king's protection, I should long ago have been a dead man. [10]
The nobles and the King and the priests were always suspending little rags here and there and yonder, to give notice to the people that the decorated spot or thing was tabu, and death lurking near. [5]
As soon as the king and his retinue had departed, the priests selected, for themselves, the best pieces of the flesh which had been offered in sacrifice, and allowed the thronging crowd to take the rest. [10]
For here was the Host itself, flower-decked in white and crimson, its gold-tasselled canopy upheld by four tonsured priests, a sheen of purple under it,--the Bishop of Louisiana in his robes. [9]
The priests of the highest rank were seated there on stone benches. [10]
Joan rode at the head of it with her personal staff; then came a body of priests singing the Veni Creator, the banner of the Cross rising out of their midst; after these the glinting forest of spears. [5]
Flaming soldiers of the Governor's guard, two by two; sober, sandalled friars in brown, priests in their robes,--another batch of color; crosses shimmering, tapers emerging from the cool darkness within to pale by the light of day. [9]
The Chaldaean priests, the earliest astronomers, would have allowed him to take his observations from the summit of the great temple of Bel, their own observatory, but he refused this offer decidedly, and persisted in his haughty reserve. [10]
He had met the cure, first accidentally on the shore, and afterwards in the cure's house, finding much in common--he had known many priests in the North, known much good of them. [11]
Every one in the Convent of St. Cecilia, from the abbess down to the youngest novice, knew that the Patriarch had sent word by a carrier pigeon forbidding the Bishop to allow the priests to take part in the ceremony. [10]
So long as the Church had the upper hand, she burned and quartered you, now you have the power here, our priests are persecuted and scorned. [10]
It looks like that, for the legends are built on so vast a scale that it does not seem reasonable that plodding priests would happen upon such colossal fancies when awake. [5]
I am sure that your advisers, the priests, only desire what is good; but . [10]
When she learned that the court was made up of ecclesiastics in the interest of the English, she begged that in fairness an equal number of priests of the French party should be added to these. [5]
Following the battalion that marched along the dusty road came priests in their vestments--one little old man in a hood with attendants and singers. [2]
We are more than a match for the priests of Anion. [10]
Some of the temple-servants took their places to keep watch over the body, and after many questions addressed to Publius, and after examining too the body of the assassin who had been slain, the priests returned to the temple. [10]
The priests hold strange nightly festivals there, at which every one but the initiated is strictly forbidden to appear. [10]
Close by him stood the vacant, highly-ornamented chair of the high-priest, and next to him sat the priests arrived from Chennu, two tall, dark-colored old men. [10]
By the chair stood the priests, their long hair falling over their magnificent glittering vestments, with lighted tapers in their hands, slowly and solemnly conducting the service. [2]
The embers were stirred from time to time by the priests and augurs of every god of the East and West, who also superintended the sacrifices, while warriors of every province of the empire stood round in prayer. [10]
The streets are sprinkled from end to end with shovel-hatted, long-robed, well-fed priests, and the church bells by dozens are pealing all the day long, nearly. [5]
Where are there so many gods and priests, where do they sacrifice so often, where do they fast and apply themselves so assiduously to repentance and the cleansing of the soul? [10]
The most splendid sight of all was the procession of priests, with Timotheus, the high-priest of Serapis, at their head, and by his side the priest of Alexander, both marching with dignity under a canopy. [10]
On the eastern side of the camp stood a canopy, under which the standards were kept, and there numbers of priests were occupied in their office of blessing the warriors, offering sacrifices, and singing hymns and litanies. [10]
His glance never shifted from the choir, where the priests slowly entered and took their places, the aged and feeble bishop going falteringly to his throne. [11]
It had no sheath and was very rusty, but the priests polished it up and sent it to Tours, whither we were now to come. [5]
Many of the sharers in this feast wore long, snowwhite garments, and were of the class of the Initiated into the mysteries of the faith, as well as chiefs of the different orders of priests of the House of Seti. [10]
At the great service which had been performed before him in the Greek Serapeum, Ptolemy Philometor had endowed the priests not with the whole but with a considerable portion of the land concerning which they had approached him with many petitions. [10]
The priests who served it were endowed with peculiar chartered privileges, which hitherto had been strictly respected. [10]
The priests of Serapis are for the most part Greeks, and the high-priest is a Hellene. [10]
And in this self-same spot the priests of the Temple beheaded him for those blasphemous words he had spoken. [5]
His intercession had secured Mesu's pardon; but when the latter returned to Egypt and the change had occurred which other priests termed his "apostasy," the old man had grieved even more keenly than over his flight. [10]
The priests then search into the records of the time, and find that it returned precisely at the end of five hundred years. [5]
Finally, the priests sang a choral hymn to the Sun-god Ra, and to his son and vicar on earth, the king. [10]
But for the sake of the priests he dare not leave me unpunished. [10]
Already in the sacred grove he noticed that he was being followed, but on seeing that the men behind him stopped before the temple of Ptah and entered into conversation with the priests, he felt perfectly reassured and went on. [10]
The Church had risen on the ruins of the Temple, and monks had forced the sacrificing priests into the background. [10]
With regard to religion, Napoleon ordered the priests to be brought back and services to be again performed in the churches. [2]
Under the old regime it required sixty priests to engineer it--the Government does it with five, now, and the others are discharged from service. [5]
After this he raised his hands to heaven, and, while the other priests continually fed the flames into a wilder blaze by casting in fresh butter, sang a long prayer out of the sacred books. [10]
They would be quite as useful as the priests. [10]
My wise countryman, Pythagoras of Samos, came to Egypt, and after submitting to some of your ceremonies, was allowed to attend the lessons given in the schools for priests. [10]
No captain, no prophet, no comforter had come to revive their courage and hopes; for Olympius and his guests, the leaders of the intellectual life of Alexandria--and among them the chief priests of the sanctuary--were tardy in making their appearance. [10]

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