Friars
['fraɪɚ]
Examples
- In that country the preachers are not like our mendicant orders of friars--they have two or three suits of clothing, and they wash sometimes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- An abbot and a dozen beggarly friars is all we have. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- When at last a pope was appointed, he despatched two Dominican friars to convert the greatest power in Asia to his rule! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This was already beginning in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries with the appearance of the Black and Grey Friars (chap. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was joined by great multitudes of disciples, and so the first Friars of the Franciscan Order came into existence. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I speak of the Dominican friars--men who wear a coarse, heavy brown robe and a cowl, in this hot climate, and go barefoot. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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