Curate

Examples

• Mr. Casaubon, who had risen early complaining of palpitation, was in the library giving audience to his curate Mr. Tucker. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The bells were still ringing when he got to Lowick, and he went into the curate's pew before any one else arrived there. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He alluded to the part himself and curate had taken in the defence of the Hollow. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• A curate's daughter, was she not? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The pay of a curate or chaplain, however, may very properly be considered as of the same nature with the wages of a journeyman. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• She herself had taken up the making of a toy for the curate's children, and was not going to enter on any subject too precipitately. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It would be indecent, no doubt, to compare either a curate or a chaplain with a journeyman in any common trade. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Miss Keeldar, desirous of being impartial, offered the curates flowers. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I'm stalled o' t' curates, and so is t' wife. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The curates, sir. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Let us turn to the curates--to the much-loved, though long-neglected. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Having a contempt for curates, whom he always called understrappers, he was resolved to be buried by a beneficed clergyman. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• How they will gabble when the curates come in, and how weary I shall grow with listening to them! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• And how the curates will hammer over their prepared orations! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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