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Example sentences for "priest"

Lexicographically close words:
pried; prier; priere; prieres; pries; priestcraft; prieste; priestes; priestess; priestesses
  1. So back the old father went, with the news to the mother and grandmother and the priest uncle, that Fran‡ois had begun his career.

  2. Millet had an uncle who was a priest and he did what he could to give the boy a start in learning.

  3. The priest rising from his chair and leaning over the table is watching the bridegroom sign his name.

  4. As a class long years of clerical assumption has sapped the humanness out of their nature, and only a priest is left in their skin.

  5. The difficulty is to convince the plain man that he understands the words of Jesus when he reads them, and that he feels his spirit touch the Spirit of the Saviour of his soul without a priest between to make the contact.

  6. When the priest consecrates the bread and wine on the altar for the Communion Service, sometimes a part of it is reverently kept back and is called the reserved sacrament; this reserved sacrament is conjured with.

  7. The gospel as revealed in the teachings of Jesus is entirely free from the sacerdotal imperative which nowadays imposes priest and ritual in the path of spiritual worship and blocks the fair-way to God.

  8. I am a priest when it suits me to be so, and for the rest a cavalier of the world, like my Jesuit brethren.

  9. A Christian priest and a woman," he cried, with derisive laughter.

  10. The paper was enclosed in a thin sheet of silver, which was easily opened, and the priest looked at the diagram and figures with wonder and admiration.

  11. It cannot be avoided, lady," said the priest and Ekhlas Khan, speaking almost together.

  12. His uncle had not returned, but was soon expected; and the sincere regard he had contracted for the priest made the prospect of his company the more acceptable.

  13. It will turn our thoughts away from the priest and the beautiful Maria, and thou hast not told me yet.

  14. She is but a child yet; and if thou dost not believe me, ask Maria and the priest about her, they perhaps will satisfy thee more than I.

  15. No; he would be but an ordinary individual priest as others: and his weapons should be but unaffected humility and unpretending love.

  16. A patient is dying: the priest wishes to be introduced, lest he should die without due preparation: the medical man says that the thought of religion will disturb his mind and imperil his recovery.

  17. And when the Priest reached the shore he saw the young Fisherman lying drowned in the surf, and clasped in his arms was the body of the little Mermaid.

  18. The Priest telleth me that the soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

  19. And when the third year was over, and on a day that was a holy day, the Priest went up to the chapel, that he might show to the people the wounds of the Lord, and speak to them about the wrath of God.

  20. And the priest besought me, saying, "Let my lord heal his servant, and I will show him the god.

  21. And the Priest trembled, and returned to his own house and prayed.

  22. And when he had finished his word the people wept, and the Priest went back to the sacristy, and his eyes were full of tears.

  23. And in the morning the Priest went forth to bless the sea, for it had been troubled.

  24. My desire is but for a little thing,' said the young Fisherman, 'yet hath the Priest been wroth with me, and driven me forth.

  25. Now early on the next morning, before the sun was the span of a man's hand above the hill, the young Fisherman went to the house of the Priest and knocked three times at the door.

  26. The priest rides by and tells his beads, and no man has care of us.

  27. Often did the old priest send for him, and seek to teach him the love of living things, saying to him: 'The fly is thy brother.

  28. Bear him through the chapel-door-- Let priest in stole Pace before the warrior Who led.

  29. For though no priest their solitudes had trod, The trees were vocal in their praise of God.

  30. But beneath the low arch Of its doorway there stood A pale priest of Rome, In his cloak and his hood.

  31. This is the cock that crowed in the morn, that wakened the priest all shaven and shorn, that married the man, etc.

  32. This is the priest all shaven and shorn, that married the man all tatters and torn to the maiden all forlorn, etc.

  33. They were undeceived, I was told, by seeing a priest run away from the Fenians in fear of his life.

  34. An annuity of from twenty to forty pounds was provided as a bribe for every priest who would become a Protestant.

  35. They could not marry Protestants, and if such a marriage were celebrated it was annulled by law, and the priest who officiated might be hung.

  36. The leader virtually acts the part of a priest of war protempore, in imitation of the Israelites fighting under the divine military banner.

  37. It is known that the Jews had so great and sacred regard for the four lettered, divine name, as scarcely ever to mention it, except when the High Priest went into the sanctuary for the expiation of sins.

  38. All the others were going off, the surplices of the priest and the choirboy disappeared between the green trees, while the straggling neighbours loitered reading the inscriptions on the surrounding tombs.

  39. The priest in his surplice and the choirboy carrying the holy water receiver, who had both alighted from the mourning coach, walked on ahead.

  40. The procession, preceded by the mourning coach in which the priest and the choirboy were seated, now descended the other side of the height, along winding streets as precipitous as mountain paths.

  41. There was no end to the matter, the funeral seemed likely to last for ever amid the impatience of the priest and the interest of the four neighbours who had followed on to the end, though nobody could say why.

  42. Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses?

  43. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?

  44. And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing?

  45. He recalled, painfully and unnecessarily, wax candles burning; the priest in his vestments; the ikon painted on the wall.

  46. And the dark, broad silhouette of the priest moved back silently and quickly and disappeared.

  47. The services of the priest were also declined by them all.

  48. He is a young priest who often comes to me.

  49. There was nothing that smacked of the priest in his talk.

  50. We talked of the sea, of poetry; and, what will surprise you much in a priest of Noirmoutiers, he talked well.

  51. A mayor puts on a tricoloured sash, and a priest a stole, and behold, the noblest of girls may be dedicated to the Minotaur.

  52. The priest passed our door this morning on his horse Piero.

  53. The priest bowed down to the ground, profuse in apologies, and a moment after I saw him go into the Aldobrandi palace.

  54. This truth is not for the hermit alone; it concerns every human being, priest and layman alike.

  55. When Bhagavat dwelt at Savatthi in the Jetavana, he went out with his alms-bowl to beg for food and approached the house of a Brahman priest while the fire of an offering was blazing upon the altar.

  56. Saint-Priest was the successful candidate, two members of the Academy again voted for Balzac at the first round of the ballot, but at the third and deciding round his name was not included at all.

  57. So the priest and the profiteer walked on, but when they had gone a little way, they turned round, and there was the fool sitting at her feet and looking into her eyes as she sang and combed her hair.

  58. The fool and the profiteer raised their eyebrows, and passed on, but the priest of Nebt-het touched his forehead and made certain strange signs with his hands, to which Death replied in like manner.

  59. BOYLE (Priest in attendance upon Major Wirz) Some parties came to the confessor of Wirz, Rev.

  60. Just as the priest enters, her earrings fall to the floor and her stay-laces burst.

  61. He acted as high priest at the consecration of this temple; and made a practice of attending divine service there, in the humble dress of a Fakeer.

  62. From Orcus, High Priest of Memphis, to Decius, the Praetorian Prefect.

  63. High Priest of Apollo to a Virgin of Delphi, From the.

  64. How sweet to behold him when borne on the gale, And brightening the bosom of morn, He flings, like the priest of Diana, a veil O'er the brow of each virginal thorn.

  65. Murtagh, that priest of puff and pelf, May come in for a honey-moon, And be the man of it, himself!

  66. By ties all other ties above, For I have wed it at a shrine Where we have had no priest but Love.

  67. I agree with you in saying: All that is typified by the high-priest in the Old Testament must be fulfilled in the New, as St. Paul says in I.

  68. The modus confitendi, or "way of confession" is the teaching of what sins are to be confessed to the priest and how they are to be confessed.

  69. Thus it becomes clear that it is not the priest alone who offers the sacrifice of the mass, but every one's faith, which is the true priestly office, through which Christ is offered as a sacrifice to God.

  70. If He is a priest forever, then He is at all times a priest and is offering sacrifices without ceasing before God.

  71. Thus the power is centralized in the pope, and is delegated for exercise in ordinary cases to each particular parish-priest within the limits by which he is circumscribed, but no farther.

  72. Intended to guard against the idea that the validity of the sacrament depended on the character of the priest or of the recipient, it gave rise to the notion that the sacrament worked a sort of sacred magic.

  73. The Old Testament high priest was a subject.

  74. Again, there is no priest who does not confess that he was distracted, or failed to read his Preparatoria, or other old-womanish trifles of the kind.

  75. For He is also a priest, as Psalm cx says: "Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek" [Ps.

  76. Again, in the time of the Old Testament high-priest there were many holy men who were not under him, such as Job and his family--for he was not alone.

  77. There was one who, even when he was at the altar celebrating, called a priest three times and confessed that something had happened.

  78. Sidenote: Worldly Pretensions] Again, the Old Testament high-priest was a subject under the rule of the kings.

  79. The Old Testament high priest was not permitted to have his head shorn.

  80. But if this type is to stand, the new high-priest must be spiritual, and his graces and adornment likewise spiritual.

  81. Dying men, three of them, and the rest in jeopardy, it was a solemn company there assembled as the officiating priest proceeded with the ancient ritual.

  82. By one after the other, their abjuration had been made, and the priest present had offered what comfort he might to the men appointed to die.

  83. Emboldened by the Requiem celebrated in the Tower, a priest had taken courage, and had said Mass in the Church of St. Bartholomew in the City.

  84. Returning to the Tower, he had afterwards followed his father’s example in abjuring Protestantism, and had listened, with the older victims, to the words addressed by the priest to the men appointed to die.

  85. I could only hear, now and then, the distant voice of the priest repeating the evening service and the faint responses of the choir; these paused for a time, and all was hushed.

  86. The well-fed priest moved but a few steps from the church door; his voice could scarcely be heard at the grave; and never did I hear the funeral service, that sublime and touching ceremony, turned into such a frigid mummery of words.


  87. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "priest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acolyte; apostle; cantor; cassock; celibate; clergyman; deacon; divine; doorkeeper; elder; exorcist; father; lector; minister; misogynist; monastic; monk; nun; pastor; patriarch; penitentiary; priest; reader; scribe; single; teacher; unmarried


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    priest for ever after the order; priest named; priests and