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Example sentences for "subprior"

Lexicographically close words:
subperitoneal; subpoena; subpoenaed; subpoenas; subprefect; subprovince; subquadrate; subs; subscapular; subscribe
  1. Brother John is dead, and the holy subprior is dead, and the Devil is loose in the five-virgate field!

  2. Amazed at such a sight, I stood without movement and had said a credo and three aves, when the Devil dropped the subprior and sprang upon me.

  3. Then, seizing the good subprior in his teeth, he rushed round the field, swinging him as though he were a fardel of old clothes.

  4. If the subprior and Brother John be indeed dead, then it would seem that if the horse be not the Devil he is at least the Devil's instrument.

  5. Horse or Devil, holy father, I heard him shout with joy as he trampled upon Brother John, and had you seen him tossing the subprior as a dog shakes a rat you would perchance have felt even as I did.

  6. Then in turn each high officer of the Abbey from below upward, the almoner, the lector, the chaplain, the subprior and the prior, swept to their wonted places.

  7. The French subprior in charge had not only refused leave to the Government to connect the Isle of Cobras (an important military station) with the mainland, i.

  8. Hugh de Balsham,[73] subprior of Ely, was made tenth bishop of the diocese; and it was then that he placed and endowed at S.

  9. Subprior here fell in coaxingly, telling her a number of cases where Christian kings and princes had done the same.

  10. The subprior can discuss the sickness of certain pigs on the farms, and the saints know how much personal gossip can be tossed about.

  11. At the end of his term in that office, he was chosen subprior of the Manila convent, visitor, and finally definitor.


  12. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subprior" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.