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Example sentences for "took orders"

  • When he came home he, it is said under Coleridgean influence, took orders, but soon developed heterodox views and gave up active duty.

  • He took orders, but was too eccentric for success in his profession, and his whole heart was set on literature and the drama.

  • I was against it for a long time, took orders; but I wanted something more stirring than a country parish.

  • Do you remember, before I took orders, asking whether I had ever had difficulties, and I told you that I had probably never gone deep enough.

  • What was especially present to him was a series of Liberal election meetings in which Grey had taken a warm part, and in which he himself had helped just before he took Orders.

  • He took orders, and was appointed by the Duke of Rutland his domestic chaplain, residing with him at Belvoir Castle.

  • He took orders, and became Rector of Whatley, Somerset, and in 1871 Dean of St. Paul's.

  • About the time of the Revolution he took orders, and was shortly afterwards made rector of St Austin's, London, and lecturer of St Dunstan's in the West.

  • He took orders; and his reputation for learning and piety attracted the notice of Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII.

  • Here he came under the influence of the new Methodist preachers, and in 1757 took orders, being ordained by the bishop of Bangor.

  • Young, after he took orders, became a very popular preacher, and was much followed for the grace and animation of his delivery.

  • I was against it for a long time; took Orders; but I wanted something more stirring than a country parish.

  • Do you remember, before I took Orders, asking whether I had ever had difficulties, and I told you that I had probably never gone deep enough.

  • What was especially present to him was a series of Liberal election meetings in which Grey had taken a warm part, and in which he himself had helped just before he took orders.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    consists essentially; not enough; replied the; rifle bullet; sore heart; such matters; took away; took boat; took bread; took down; took great; took hold; took horse; took orders; took out; took passage; took pity; took pleasure; took position; took possession; took refuge; took the; took them; took upon him the; will furnish; will put