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Example sentences for "priests and"

  • Some were on priests and monks--sharp biting satires on their evil side, and by no means showing abject faith in monkhood.

  • That is, if priests and bishops, the very lights, run in the dark way of the world, how dark must the lay-people be!

  • Thereat King Robert muttered scornfully, "'T is well that such seditious words are sung Only by priests and in the Latin tongue; For unto priests and people be it known, There is no power can push me from my throne!

  • Procession of Priests and people, with citherns, harps, and cymbals.

  • Priests and peasants in long procession come forth and kneel on the arid plain.

  • He summons forth the Pope of Rome With all his diabolic crew, His shorn and shaven retinue Of priests and children of the dark; Kill!

  • They are ever denouncing the ignorance and the blind superstition of priests and people.

  • Many of those who charge bad faith and trickery on the “priests and monks” officiating at the expositions, maintain that it is by an adroit application of heat that the liquefaction is brought about.

  • Israel is being taught falsehoods by priests and prophets!

  • Priests and elders, dressed in spotless white and led by the high priest, Amaziah, himself, awaited Jeroboam and his generals just outside of the city and preceded them to the gates.

  • He could no longer stand aside and see rulers, priests and "all the mighty men of wealth" despoiling his well-beloved fatherland.

  • To enforce his will he had an army of priests and monks, the sanctity and prestige of Peter's Chair, and the formidable weapons of excommunication and interdict.

  • Among the pilgrims were found all classes--kings and beggars, male and female, priests and laity.

  • As frequently described to me by priests and by others who claimed to have seen them, these foul spirits are human in all other respects except that they are unusually tall, 2 fathoms being the average height accorded them.

  • It may be said that any disease attributed to the displeasure of the blood spirits falls within their jurisdiction as priests and may be cured by a sacrifice or by other ceremonial methods.

  • These are the báilan or priests and priestesses of Manóboland.

  • As a further precaution against the suspicions of doubting Thomases, great care was exerted in the selection of priests and of their assistants.

  • Priests and professors, magistrates and people, were all like a sea when I came to proclaim the day of the Lord amongst them, and to preach repentance to them.

  • After I had done so, I went into the steeple-house yard, and many of the people of the fair came thither to me, and abundance of priests and professors.

  • The body of the victim was divided and the pieces distributed to a fixed number of priests and chieftains, who partook of them as sacred food.

  • Subsequently a fortress was established at Taytay, where a number of priests and laymen in a few years succeeded in forming a small colony, which at length shared the fate of Labo.

  • On the way many Spaniards--priests and laymen--were killed.

  • But generation after generation the spirit was abused by priests and rulers.

  • From the first, the attention of priests and people, including the official prophets, would be attracted by the ritual and ceremonial precepts, rather than by the earnest moral teaching of Deuteronomy.

  • Priests and religious of both sexes who were in S.

  • Bishops are nominated by their predecessors from the body of Rambans, who are men selected by priests and elders in advance to fill the Episcopate.

  • The Pulluvans of Malabar are astrologers, medicine-men, priests and singers in snake groves.

  • Pandaram is, in fact, a class name rather than the name of a caste, and it consists of priests and beggars.

  • Offering of multitudes of quails, incense-burning, and the significant dance of priests and virgins, followed.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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