These priests will hearken to no medium,--either you are a true believer or you are not.
The priests rule, and frequently administer punishment, with their own hands, to either sex, of which an instance will be cited hereafter.
This may be true of the native padres; but I myself never saw, in any of the households of the numerous Spanish priests I visited, anything that could possibly cause the least breath of scandal.
The exaggerated praise of its admirers raised a bitter opposition amongst the opponents of the new drink; and the priests raised conscientious scruples against the use of so nourishing an article of food on fast days.
The younger priests pass their existence like the lords of the soil of old; the young girls consider it an honor to be allowed to associate with them; and the padres in their turn find many convenient opportunities.
Among them was not a single European; but there were many mestizos, of whom several were priests and lawyers.
Under the tutelage of the priests of the neighbouring Zen temple he learned all that they chose to teach, far outstripped his fellows, and in class room and in sport was their natural leader.
These priests of the Dendzu-In, in the shadow of whose temple rested so many of the Tokugawa dead, were famed for learning and for piety.
With the first watches of the stormy night the Sho[u]nin and some thirty priests were assembled about the well curb.
However it was not one of their resident priests who stood at the ro[u]ka of the incumbent cleric seeking a night's lodging.
Stricken with fear the priests stopped all reading of the holy writ.
You know what my feelings are, that we ought to have the priests with us and not against us--I have had a letter written to Abbe Froment in order that he may call here this morning, as I shall have no other visitors.
At night, sometimes as late as the tenth hour, they would bring up priests to me, who were exceeding rude and devilish.
I went to a great inn, and there disputed the thing with the priests and professors, who were all on fire.
The priests and magistrates were in a great rage against me in Westmoreland, and had a warrant to apprehend me, which they renewed from time to time, for a long time; yet the Lord did not suffer them to serve it upon me.
I had not fellowship with any people, priests or professors, or any sort of separated people, but with Christ, who hath the key, and opened the door of Light and Life unto me.
This very much confirmed Judge Fell in the persuasion he had that the priests were wrong; for he had thought formerly, as the generality of people then did, that they were sent from God.
I had also great openings concerning the things written in the Revelations; and when I spoke of them the priests and professors would say that was a sealed book, and would have kept me out of it.
But exceeding rude and envious were the priests and professors about this time in these parts.
But at last I went into the steeple-house yard, where the two priests were; and they had gathered abundance of people.
This at first seemed a strange word, because both priests and people used to call their temples, or churches, dreadful places, holy ground, and the temples of God.
Now, after I had received that opening from the Lord, that to be bred at Oxford or Cambridge was not sufficient to fit a man to be a minister of Christ, I regarded the priests less, and looked more after the Dissenting people.
In using steel traps, care should be taken to wrap the jaws with cloth, so as to prevent injury to the legs of the bird captured.
In addition to sewing on the inside of the wing, stitch the wing firmly to the inside, by sewing over the outer primary into a pinch of skin on the side, thus the wing is fastened in two places.
I have seen birds filled with many varieties of material, from cotton to plaster, and have even seen cases where the skin is drawn over a block of wood carved to imitate the body removed.
The Duke of Duras and the Viscount of Chaila advised him to flee from the hatred of the priests and the revenge of the physicians.
This work, which was bound to displease men who by their position are declared enemies of the progress of human reason, roused all the priests of Leyden against its author.
The majority of priests examine all works of literature as if they were treatises on theology, and filled with this one aim, they discover heresies everywhere.
The author underwent a frightful persecution, and the priests claimed that a doctor accused of heresy could not cure the French guards.
The priests offered sacrifice in the temple of Volupia, the goddess of pleasure, in which stood a statue of Angerona, with a finger on her mouth, which was bound and closed (Macrobius i.
The merchants of love philters and of poisons and the priests of satanic rites saw their clients increasing in number year by year.
And, what is more horrible, fashion will not suffer the priests to preach penitence (Letter of July 12th).
He employed for this work his mission priests and his sisters of charity.
The anger of the priests and medicine man at a certain heresy, according to which the new moon is but the offspring of the old one, is excellently given.
But the manner in which he drags in immortality, and sets the priestsat me, and leaves me to their mercies, is base.
The priests naturally multiplied religious ceremonies, and made ritual the soul of worship.
But the priests went in by night, according to their custom, with their wives and their children: and they eat and drank all up.
And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.
And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, and with him great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.
And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people: And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.
Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem: and here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name.
And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the Lord?
Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said, He saved others: himself he cannot save.
Now the priests of Bel were seventy besides their wives and little ones and children.
The priests chanted their wild hymns, and the light at last began to break and to crown the mountains and be scattered over the blue river.
Priests and warriors with torches had conducted the maiden to the fatal spot, and stood at a little distance from the victim, waiting for the sunrise.
Priests in glittering garments were kneeling before the cupola-crowned altar; there rose a cloud of incense from silver censers, and the organ thundered again, like the storm gathering over the woods.
It has two religious, priests of the order of St. Francis.
He reminds Salazar that encomiendas and tributes were established in the land as soon as the Spaniards had obtained a foothold there, when only some half-score priests were to be had.
Your Lordship also suggests where the priests may be placed.
In another letter (dated March 19) Dasmariñas makes suggestions to the bishop regarding the best means of meeting the religious needs of the Indians with the small number of priests who can be thus employed.
Four religious of the order of St. Francis-three priests and one lay brother-live there.
There is one Franciscan convent, which generally contains four priests and seven or eight brethren, counting the teacher and the novitiates.
It is unfortunate that so many rural priests place but little value upon religious antiquities other than images and relics which have a legend.
I have several times met priestson horseback in the Quercy, but never without thinking that they would look better if they used side-saddles.
The churches are well filled, and the clergy are as comfortably off as French priests can expect to be in these days.
Then followed the professional mourners, hired for the occasion from the temple of Libitina, the priests of which were the licensed undertakers.
The populace laughed and commented on the images, without the least reverence; and the priests and their assistants laid the dishes before the puppets, then whisked them off and carried them without the barriers.
Meanwhile, the priestswere endeavoring to remove the gods, and met with the greatest difficulty.
She saw the attendants of the priests untie the thongs and the unfortunate woman was raised to a sitting posture, yet still her face was veiled, and her hands were held by servants of the pontiff.
At the present day in Papal Rome the priests may be seen behind glass doors in little chapels annexed to S.
A procession of priests was advancing in silence, and an enormous crowd followed through the gate, pouring forth like water from a sluice, yet without a word spoken.
They said that even wicked priests could perform this great miracle.
The eleventh declares that the denial of the cup is opposed to Scripture; and the twelfth, that the prohibition of marriage to priests is also unscriptural.
As to doctrine, the articles of the mass and the marriage of priestscontinued to be the points on which they could not agree.
The coffin was first taken to the parish church, where it was set down before the altar, on the very spot where Melanchthon had been in the habit of kneeling when priests were ordained.
In speaking of the two kinds, he referred to the history of the sons of Eli, that they would ask the priests for a piece of bread, and proved from this that laymen should only receive the bread.
It adheres to the celibacy of the priests and monks, and maintains the mass, with all its antiscriptural characteristics.
God willing, this Reformation will do the same, and will serve to destroy and to disgrace the venomous priests before the world, and his Imperial Majesty also.
In that most singular vein of latent humor which pervaded his nature, he enjoined that the French priests should make remuneration for this hospitality in prayers and masses, at the regular market price.
Priests crowded the churches, praying to God to save them from the horrors of democracy.
In case of a breach of the treaty the priestsat Olympia have arbitrators' powers.
The inscription, of about the third century after Christ, tells us that it was dedicated to Sextus Pompeius Maximus by priests of Mithras.
Among the Romans the processions of the Salii or dancing priests of Mars are among the best-known examples of religious dancing.
Bishops have entered the lists against Bishops, priests have written against their own and against other chief pastors, and won commendation from the supreme authority for doing so.
Weekly Register, the fact has lately several times come to light, that English priests who utter a word against infallibility are promptly reduced to silence by threats of suspension and deprivation.
However, Italian priests and prelates feel and know right well what every nation and national Church owes to itself.
It placed the Bishops in the same relation to the Pope as priests occupied towards Bishops, which was unheard of.
The Roman parish priests have already presented an address in favour of the dogma, but not--as I hear--till after the opposition among them had been put down by the highest authority.
It is related by his early biographer, Thomas Cooke, that he was induced by some Jesuit priests to leave the university.
And I suppose you've always known how to do those corking fine embroideries that the priests are so stuck on?
The Congregation of the Mission, scarcely restored at this epoch, counted at its Mother House but nine priests in all, and at least half that number were in the Seminary.
He was a rough, blunt man, who wanted to hear nothing about priests or Sacraments.
Three years later, the Sovereign Pontiff extended a similar favor to the youths educated by the Priests of the Mission; also, to the little boys in charge of the Daughters of Charity.
Etienne, Superior General of thePriests of the Mission and daughters of Charity, M.
One of the priests creeping forward on the ground brought Anneka's flowers and laid them reverently on the grave of the Soenan, and after that on the other graves.
We went there with a band of priests to the holy grave, and we took flowers and incense with us.
There was a stir among the crowd of men, and the priests rose from their knees.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "priests" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
