Curates

Examples

• 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.
• The rectors, their curates, and their churchwardens now issued from the church porch. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The curates had good appetites, and though the beef was tough, they ate a great deal of it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The curates, herding together after their manner, made a constellation of three lesser planets. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• These questions were considered by all the curates as, to the last degree, audacious and impious. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It occurring to him, perhaps, that if they had been Curates, their wishes might have tended in the opposite direction. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The curates were not to them what they were to Caroline. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Making entrance without warning, he stood before the curates. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The Curates at Tea. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The curates were left to shift for themselves. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Boultby's spectacles and Helstone's Rehoboam were agitated; the curates nudged each other; Mr. Hall turned to the ladies and smiled. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Now, I shall teach my lasses to be as proud as Miss Shirley there, and my lads to be as proud as myseln; but I dare ony o' 'em to be like t' curates. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The curates, meantime, sat and sipped their wine, a liquor of unpretending vintage, moderately enjoyed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The curates began to exult, but Mr. Helstone presently put the curb on their innocent spirits. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Mr. Binny, one of the curates of Brompton. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Yet even in those days of scarcity there were curates: the precious plant was rare, but it might be found. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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