Thou conclud'st like the sanctimonious pirate that went to sea with the Ten Commandments, but scrap'd one out of the table.
His sense of humor tempted him to the sanctimonious suit of your out-and-out Parliament man; his love for finery and the high horse lured him to lovelocks and feathers.
To avoid trampling on the caste prejudices, or the sanctimonious religious feelings of the natives, everybody drinks from his hands, or from a cheap earthenware dish that may afterward be smashed.
Shortly after parting company with thesanctimonious seyud, I encounter a prosperous-looking party of dervishes.
The sanctimonious woman accepted as facts these hints, which unluckily were not merely hypothetical, and Madame de Granville was stricken as by a thunderbolt.
Who do you think you're kidding, Bev, you sanctimonious hypocrite--me?
Perdita; “and you do not affect the sanctimonious hypocrite, who frowns even before he has heard the argument broached.
Cut along, old fellow,” whispered Frank Curtis, giving the sanctimonious dissenter a hearty pinch on the leg as he passed by.
One great hindrance to Sunday school work is its pious and sanctimonious tendency.
Not alone that of a sickly-sentimental or sanctimonious kind which in its place is all right, but such a variety as will best stimulate the mind in a well-rounded, liberal education.
In fine, I can say that nothing is developed there but a long face and a sanctimonious soberness.
He shook his head wearily when she called him a sky-pilot and declared right out that all this sanctimonious stuff was damned rot, and that the main thing was to have a fat wallet.
When sects and Creeds are the standards of preferment, those with whom preferment is the great object, are made to add the sin of sanctimonious hypocrisy to that of Ecclesiastical covetousness and Ecclesiastical ambition.
This Chronicle was merely a sanctimonious and prosaic version of the Songs of Roland and of Roncesvalles.
Italy; the sanctimonious tone of its frigid octave stanzas fails to impose on our credulity.
He had one son, Matthew, who seems, from what I can gather, to have been a wild sort of fellow in the early part of his career, and not to have been at any time on the best possible terms with the sanctimonious dad.
I maintain that what sanctimonious fools call filthy lucre may be a potent element of morality.
He has set his heart on making his wife a rationalist,” they said, “and that is as absurd as a sanctimonious man would be.
An epigram on the hypocritical, lustful, and sanctimonious priestly rabble, that with blasphemous hypocrisy fawn about the king, and are ever watchful how they can set a trap for one of us honorable and brave men?
That life full of sin, full of blood and crime, full of treachery and cunning, full of hypocrisy and sanctimonious cruelty--that life was at last lived out.
Now, permit me to ask, if the sanctimonious hypocrite is not a more odious character than the profligate player?
There is not a trace in Hölderlin of the sanctimoniouspiety developed by the other Romanticists, who, to begin with, were far more decided free-thinkers than he.
In Werner's writings we have exactly this same mixture of impudent lust and sanctimonious mystery; and we know that with Werner's mother it became a fixed idea that she was the Virgin Mary and her son the Saviour of the world.
His sanctimonious snuffle is audible still, in his remark to Throckmorton at the time when the Englishman probably saved the life of the Queen from the Lords.
Take your sobbing, sniveling, trembling, dolorous, sanctimonious voice down into some dismal swamp and bury it.
Naturally, too, the more he hangs over his own moral beauty, the more pharisaical andsanctimonious he becomes in his opinion and treatment of others.
Thus then the Roman "high church" was ready, a sanctimoniousbody of priests and Levites, and an unbelieving people.
