A dignitary of his rank and profession cannot lend himself to shaming a helpless woman without reason or excuse.
Stephen rejoiced to see the stranger turn his back on the manager of Carvel & Company before that dignitary had time to depart, and stand unconcernedly there as if nothing had occurred.
An ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.
Upholder of the Faith," that dignitary replied after examining his memoranda, "they are in numbers as the leaves of the forest!
The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace; that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field, or wayside.
Fifty years ago the provincial merchants vied with each other in their desire to entertain any great dignitary who honoured their town with a visit, but now they seek rather to avoid this expensive and barren honour.
The Princes gradually arrogated to themselves the right of choosing the Metropolitan of Kief--who was at that time the chief ecclesiastical dignitary in Russia--and merely sent their nominees to Constantinople for consecration.
Suppose, for instance, that the Tsar granted to a Boyar or some lesser dignitary an estate on which were settled twenty peasant families, and that afterwards ten of these emigrated to neighbouring proprietors.
I have met at least with one example of a great dignitary voluntarily mutilating his hand in order to escape the necessity of serving under a man whom he considered his inferior in family dignity.
A general who would not attend to the police regulations was fined like an ordinary workingman, and in a dispute between a great dignitary and a man of the people the two were treated in precisely the same way.
A dignitary of the Greek Church may certainly be considered as much more fortunately situated than any other official in Europe.
The income of this dignitary is derived from two sources—voluntary offerings and tithes, and sums paid for dispensations, marriages, and masses.
This dignitaryhas his head-quarters in the monastery of Lebanon, and holds the title of Patriarch of Antioch, and by adopting the name of Peter, claims to be the successor of that apostle.
Imagine a poor Frenchman ignorantly intruding upon a public rostrum sacred to some six-penny dignitary in America.
The event proved that whether they could read or not the immeasurable majority did not wish to read the life of the Pope, though it was written by a dignitary of the Church and issued to the world with every sanction from the Vatican.
As he is a highdignitary of the Church, it is all the more puzzling.
On his return, this leading dignitary of the Polish Church presided over the proceedings of the Synod of Kalish (1420), which had also been convened in connection with the Huss movement.
The religion of Jesus was very simple; that of a modern churchdignitary is very complex.
Others asked as to the nature of his wares, and one dignitary called and asked, "Is Herr Pestalozzi in?
Perhaps instead of, or at least beside, Archdeacon Grantly I should have mentioned a more real dignitary (as some count reality) of the Church, Charles Kingsley.
On his arrival, after having put up his caballejo, or little pony, at a posada, he proceeded to the alcalde for the purpose of asking permission to sell the books, which that dignitary immediately granted.
Whereupon he conducted me across the plaza, to the house of the alcalde, where I found the rustic dignitary seated in the passage, enjoying the refreshing coolness of a draught of air which rushed through.
The fourth dignitary is the treasurer (custos, sacrista, cheficier).
Vergniaud laughed as he looked,--he knew the pictured dignitary well.
The youthful dignitarysurrounded himself with artists, poets, and learned men.
The dignitary who had betrayed his trust was punished in an exemplary manner and degraded from his post.
The attendants of this mock dignitary had their proper dresses and equipage, bearing the same burlesque resemblance to the officers of the Convent which their leader did to the Superior.
The mock dignitary was a stout-made under-sized fellow, whose thick squab form had been rendered grotesque by a supplemental paunch, well stuffed.
His civil list was twenty-five million francs; the income of each "arch" dignitary was a third of a million.
His near relationship with an ecclesiastical dignitary did not tend to weaken the bonds which tied his government to the religious sentiment of the common people.
Expectant of a humble native carrying the usual bundle, we were much impressed when, in due time, a dignitary drove up in a remarkably well turned out carriage and pair.
An appeal to the Tehsildhar was no use, as that dignitary had gone to Atchibal in the Court train.
Just behind the elder lady stood a silk-hatted dignitaryin the prime of life, and behind him a footman or valet, to whom the porter was handing Miss Ray's belongings.
That high dignitary told me that many priests of the diocese of Chicago had already brought the same complaints before him, and exposed the infamous conduct of their bishop.
The intemperance of that high dignitary and his priests filled me with an unspeakable horror and disgust.
Though I knew that that high dignitary was a monster of hypocrisy, injustice and tyranny, he had, among the masses, the reputation of a saint.
The position of that high dignitary and his vicar was not then a very agreeable one.
For that unprincipleddignitary is the cause that our holy religion is not only losing her prestige in the United States, but is becoming an object of contempt where-ever those public crimes are known.
The King of Naples shall be in perpetuity a grand dignitary of the Empire, we reserving to ourselves the right of creating him a Prince instead of Grand Elector.
Here follows an elaborate panegyric of the virtues of the new King, and of the measure, by which he retains the title of Grand Dignitary of the Empire.
There'll be immense scope for language in the argument which follows and they'll all feel freer to speak out if there isn't a church dignitary standing there listening.
A church dignitary has to consider appearances, and it does not do to stand talking to an intoxicated man in a public street, especially early in the day.
