Priests

Examples

• Let England's priests have their due. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He entered the town (538 B.C.), probably as we have already suggested, with the connivance of the priests of Bel. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• So it was that the priests of Egypt conquered their conqueror, and an Aryan monarch first became a god. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Afterward, broil them with the priests. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The palish, gnarled trunks showed ghostly, and like old priests in the hovering distance, the fern rose magical and mysterious. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It tells you about those priests. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Even then--in the palace of the Sultan himself--the three guardian priests still kept their watch in secret. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Whenever he printed a new book Gutenberg took it to the Cathedral to show the priests. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The Latin priests say it was stolen away, long ago, by priests of another sect. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There was a time when very few priests in Britain or Gaul could read the gospel or their service books. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The early priests were also doctors and magicians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Nay, the high priests of this worship had the man before them as a protest against their meanness. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It had no temples, and since it had no sacrifices it had no sacred order of priests. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Whether their fanaticism for number was owing to the influence of Egyptian priests or had an Oriental origin, it gave to the Pythagoreans an enthusiasm for pure mathematics. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The magicians usually believed more or less in their own magic, the priests in their ceremonies, the chiefs in their right. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Confusedly in response to that demand, bold men, wise men, shrewd and cunning men were arising to become magicians, priests, chiefs, and kings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But generation after generation the spirit was abused by priests and rulers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But the god of the priests remained as the real overlord of the land and of priest and king alike. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The only priests of these Aryans are the keepers of shrines and sacred places. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And it had a rapidly developing organization of deacons, priests, and bishops. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Moreover, there is little evidence that the commonalty felt cheated by the priests, or had anything but trust and affection for the early priesthoods. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They were probably always more or less of an annoyance to the priests. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Where be these dog-priests now, growled the Baron, who set such price on their ghostly mummery? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I can preserve myself from priests, and from churches; but love steals in unawares! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Three hundred happy, comfortable priests are employed in that Cathedral. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The leaders under whom men fought in war were often the same men as the sacrificial purifiers who were their early priests. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Mendicant priests do not prowl among them with baskets begging for the church and eating up their substance. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The priests then search into the records of the time, and find that it returned precisely at the end of five hundred years. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Do not Saxon priests visit this castle, then? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• In Venice, today, a city of a hundred thousand inhabitants, there are twelve hundred priests. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Editor: Noreen