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Example sentences for "unfrocked"

Lexicographically close words:
unfrequented; unfrequently; unfriended; unfriendliness; unfriendly; unfrozen; unfruitful; unfruitfulness; unfulfilled; unfunded
  1. He did not aim its bright revealing beam into the half open door of the adjoining laundry and he was as unconscious of the proximity of Phelan as that unfrocked or de-uniformed officer was of the invader.

  2. The unfrocked policeman was anything but an imposing figure and the contortions of distress in his rubicund countenance were grotesque enough to kindle the sense of humor in a far less volatile mind than that of Whitney Barnes.

  3. The poor old unfrocked priest had been gathered to his rest, taking his secret with him--penitent, reconciled to the Church, and fortified with the Last Sacraments.

  4. I never knew his secret--except that rumor put him down for an unfrocked priest.

  5. Being an unfrocked ecclesiastic, he was elected president of the Club on June 6, as a protest against the clerical tendencies of Robespierre.

  6. The French admiral had an unfrocked Huguenot divine on board, who had been to sea in his youth, and was now infusing the revolutionary ardour into the fleet, as St. Just did with the army.

  7. Some dislike him because he was a priest, some because he was an unfrocked priest.

  8. Twet Nga Lu was an unfrocked monk, a native of Kengtawng, a sub-State of Mongnai, who signalized his return to a worldly life by making himself unpleasant to his neighbours.

  9. However that may be, she espoused Twet Nga Lu, and thereupon her minor son was appointed by the King to be magistrate of Kengtawng with the unfrocked monk as guardian.

  10. This parade of Isaiah for three years, unfrocked and barefoot, is another instance of that habit on which we remarked in connection with chap.

  11. Isaiah had already some years before this endeavoured to impress the popular imagination with the folly of an Egyptian alliance, walking unfrocked and barefoot three years for a sign and a portent upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia (see p.

  12. An unfrocked monk against us Leads rascal troops, a truant friar dares write Threats to us!

  13. I myself see 'tis needful to demolish The rumour spread abroad by the unfrocked monk; But for this end other and simpler means Will serve.

  14. This offspring of the devil, This unfrocked monk, has known how to appear Dimitry to the people.

  15. Some day, I am afraid, he will break the bounds altogether, throw away his gown, assume a breast plate and steel cap, and become an unfrocked monk.

  16. Oswald told us, in his letters, that you had been a monk; but had, with the consent of the abbot, unfrocked yourself.

  17. Whether a church more or less unfrocked his future son-in-law was small concern.

  18. Over the self-same ground the unfrocked monk of Crowland had wandered with his companion in misfortune, the monk Malcolm.

  19. He was one of those "unfrocked priests" whom people usually blame because they refuse to preach what seems to them a lie.

  20. There is no such uncompromising infidel as an unfrocked priest.

  21. His name is Grishka Otrepiev; it is the name by which he always has been known, and he is an unfrocked monk, all as I said, and the son of my brother's wife.

  22. When I denounced him the unfrocked monk Grishka Otrepiev, would not Sigismund have verified the statement had it been true?

  23. Nevertheless, he was Grishka Otrepiev, the unfrocked monk.

  24. It was reported that the Tsarevitch was a courtly, accomplished man, speaking Polish and Latin, as well as Russian, skilled in horsemanship and in the use of arms, and it was asked how an unfrocked monk had come by these accomplishments.

  25. Kingdom of Poland; and his denunciation was supported by a solemn excommunication pronounced by the Patriarch of Moscow against the unfrocked monk, Grishka Otrepiev, who now falsely called himself Demetrius Ivanovitch.

  26. This pretended Demetrius, this unfrocked monk, was a natural son of Stephen Bathory, and a Roman Catholic.

  27. He has been held by some to have been the unfrocked monk, Grishka Otropiev, by others to have been a son of Stephen Bathory, King of Poland.

  28. The unfrocked friar, the courtier out of service, had no home in Italy.

  29. The portrait, accompanied by a fiercely written broadsheet attacking the Remonstrant Church, had a great circulation, and deepened the animosity against the sect upon which the unfrocked preacher had sworn vengeance.

  30. A certain unfrocked preacher of the Remonstrant persuasion, who, according to the fashion of the learned of that day, had translated his name out of Hendrik Sleet into Henricus Slatius, was one of his most unscrupulous instruments.

  31. They are obliged, in order to supply their places, to hunt up unfrocked monks of a questionable character.

  32. The little old woman who had brought Benedetto to the unfrocked monk was there also.

  33. Without losing any time she had started for Villa Mayda, the elegant Pompeian villa, standing out white on the Aventine, among the beautiful palms, almost opposite the window of the old unfrocked monk.

  34. You are not one of those silly persons, wise in their own conceit, who wink at one another when my name is mentioned, and suggest that the unfrocked priest is making a very fair thing out of his young patron.

  35. The desertion of Sakamata, Yabolo, and three chiefs, had corroborated his suspicions of the unfrocked priest.

  36. But Marufa, recovering from the first shock, wrapped himself in his professional cloak of omniscient indifference as he recollected that Sakamata was an unfrocked priest of the craft.


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