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Example sentences for "chief priest"

  • Then answered the Side or chief priest, "Prince!

  • In each of the sanctuaries presided a papa, or chief priest, to whom the education of the sons of the nobles was entrusted.

  • And there were some seven sons of Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest, who did this.

  • And Paul said, I knew not brothers that he was a chief priest; for it is written, You shall not speak evil of the ruler of your people.

  • And those standing by said, Do you revile God's chief priest?

  • Not different from him probably was the “chief priest of Alexandria and all Egypt,” of an inscription of the city of Rome from Hadrian’s time (C.

  • The priest standing at the head of the capital of the country might doubtless call himself “chief priest of Alexandria and all Egypt” (p.

  • The despatch was written by a certain Lu-enna, chief priest of the goddess Ninmar, and is addressed to Enetarzi, chief priest of the god Ningirsu.

  • The text in question is stamped upon the perforated relief of Dudu, chief priest of Ningirsu,[15] which at one time formed the support of a colossal ceremonial mace-head dedicated in the temple of Ningirsu at Lagash.

  • Entemena, patesi of Lagash, and in the priesthood of Enlitarzi, chief priest of Ningirsu.

  • The other is extracted from a letter from a chief Priest in Yezd, and cannot be trusted-- 'This is the simplest of religions.

  • Rahotep is chief priest of Amun and the keeper of the Book of Death.

  • If John the Baptist was really the son of a chief priest, the silence of the other gospels is unaccountable.

  • The Church of Jerusalem had its "chief priest," as we see from the First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians.

  • I was seized, my hands were pinioned behind my back, I was about being dragged before the chief priest’s widow to be exhibited, when my good planet came to my help and showed its ascendant.

  • He was not satisfied with killing the chief priest, but he must needs dress himself in his very clothes; and, not content with that, he also has stolen one of the chief executioner’s best horses and furniture.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    attach themselves; being minded; bring over; chief clerk; chief engineer; chief good; chief judge; chief magistrate; chief mate; chief mourner; chief part; chief pilot; chief priests; chief town; chief trader; chiefly applied; chiefly because; chiefly found; chiefly known; eternal damnation; ever knew; lovely maiden; mathematical demonstration; other fishes; seal meat; what precedes