Clergyman

Examples

• Why can you no longer be a clergyman? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• At length, after a short pause, Miss Crawford began with, So you are to be a clergyman, Mr. Bertram. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• What business had she, a renegade clergyman's daughter, to turn up her nose at you! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• You, sir, as a clergyman, said he, may feel it disagreeable to be present amidst scenes of hurry and flurry, and, I may say, peril. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I conceived the idea that the time when the banns were read and when the clergyman said, Ye are now to declare it! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• And your mother, and the clergyman, and all of 'em? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• My mother's name was Eyre; she had two brothers; one a clergyman, who married Miss Jane Reed, of Gateshead; the other, John Eyre, Esq. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It was this intensely interesting side of bee life that attracted the attention of a clergyman in failing health, forced to seek out-of-door occupation, in the early forties. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Even after I became suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind old clergyman. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The clergyman stayed to exchange a few sentences, either of admonition or reproof, with his haughty parishioner; this duty done, he too departed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It was a little too bad, Fred began to think, that he should be kept in the traces with more severity than if he had been a clergyman. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I don't mean that I want to be a bad fellow in any way; but I've no taste for the sort of thing people expect of a clergyman. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Very well, I said shortly; under the circumstances, quite as well as if I were either your real sister, or a man and a clergyman like yourself. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• There is the parsonage: a tidy-looking house, and I understand the clergyman and his wife are very decent people. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• You must ask our friend opposite about that,' said the host knowingly, indicating the clergyman by a nod of his head. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• You said, according to him, that he would be one of those ridiculous clergymen who help to make the whole clergy ridiculous. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But why should you dislike clergymen? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I should not like to marry a clergyman; but there must be clergymen. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Your uncle, and his brother admirals, perhaps knew little of clergymen beyond the chaplains whom, good or bad, they were always wishing away. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Though _I_ have not seen much of the domestic lives of clergymen, it is seen by too many to leave any deficiency of information. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I don't like the other clergymen's neckcloths, because it is they who wear them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• You abuse soldiers almost as much as you abuse clergymen. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It is only clergymen like Mr. Tyke, who want to use Dissenting hymn-books and that low kind of religion, who ever found Bulstrode to their taste. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The proud mother's world was not their world of Harley Street gentilities on the one hand, or country clergymen and Hampshire squires on the other. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Thing our clergymen wear, you know,' explained Miss Jenny, in consideration of his professing another faith. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Their father is a clergyman, and their brother is a clergyman, and they are all clergymen together. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Pennington, among clergymen, Douglas and Ward, among editors, are well known instances. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• There are such clergymen, no doubt, but I think they are not so common as to justify Miss Crawford in esteeming it their general character. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Don't the clergymen's ladies discourse about Sunday-schools and who takes whose duty? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

Editor: Stanton