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Example sentences for "vicar"

Lexicographically close words:
vibrio; vibrios; vibrissae; viburnums; vicaires; vicarage; vicarages; vicaress; vicarial; vicariate
  1. Author The Vicar and His Duties, Study of In Memoriam, etc.

  2. But Genoa, exhausted by her costly victory, was willing to treat, and in 1299 the Imperial Vicar of Milan effected a peace between the Republics on honourable terms.

  3. The uncompromising Pope would abate no jot of his claims--the Emperor must solemnly recognise him as the true and only successor of Peter, God's vicar on earth, supreme over Caesar.

  4. The house of the vicar of Llandovery was among the best in the town; a well built strong mansion, distinguished from all others by a neat small cupola on the top, for a bell, to call the boys to school.

  5. I have in all things showed myself a friend, my lord; inasmuch that if I had not pointed the way with my finger, whereof I have yet good testimony, your lordship would have been still humble vicar of Llaurhaiader.

  6. A singular coincidence,—in the same week we lost the venerable Vicar Prichard, and your friend Sir George Devereaux.

  7. The lady named Ellen, was exceedingly beautiful, and beloved by the son of the venerable Rhys Prichard, the present vicar of Llandovery, whose curate I am now become.

  8. The worthy vicar received his visitors with a few brief but courteous sentences, in which he quietly yet earnestly expressed his gratification at their presence.

  9. We read the Vicar of Wakefield in youth; we return to it again and again, and bless the memory of an author who contrives so well to reconcile us to human nature.

  10. For several years he remained at Strassburg, lecturing at the Faculty and at the college of Juilly, but in 1840 he set out for Paris as vicar of the diocese.

  11. Several other similar messages were sent from other bodies, and the Vicar of Evesham was dispatched to London to interview the Home Secretary.

  12. The lesson is not so glaringly obvious in the Vicar of Wakefield, because this is a novel, and a very delightful one.

  13. I don't believe that the vicar of King's Warren would have changed places with the Mikado of Japan.

  14. Though the vicar denied himself this pleasure, he joined the shooting party, for his intense appreciation of the culinary art made violent exercise a necessity of his existence.

  15. I know it, my dear--I know it," said the vicar as he finished his coffee.

  16. The vicar of King's Warren was a High Churchman.

  17. The sudden chill set up some manner of disturbance in the bottle of sack which the Vicar had just been drinking with the town clerk, and an attack of gout set in which laid him on his back for a fortnight.

  18. Meantime the Vicar had begun to speak; but he suffered another interruption.

  19. He then departed, growling to himself and shaking his fists, in another awful silence; for the Vicar ceased when he rose, and not until Billy disappeared and his footfall was heard no more did the angry clergyman proceed.

  20. James Shorto-Champernowne, Vicar of Chagford, made an appointment to discuss the position with Mr. Lyddon and his daughter.

  21. Probably it was on this occasion that the Reverend John Becher, Vicar of Rumpton, Notts, expostulated with the poet for "Deigning to varnish scenes that shun the day With guilty lustre and with amorous lay.

  22. He desired, too, that the child's relationship to him should be proclaimed on a tablet to be set up in Harrow Church; but that was impossible owing to the prejudices of the Vicar and Churchwardens.

  23. I looked at him again, and now I could have taken my affidavit that he belonged to the Vicar of Wakefield's family.

  24. The venerable father, Fray Geronimo de la Resurreccion, the first vicar general, ended his exemplary life at the convent of Toledo.

  25. Giving an excellent account of what was in his charge, he was appointed prior vicar of the convent of Tago, where he comported himself to the great satisfaction of all, until he gave his life for the service of God, as has been related.

  26. With this honorable commission finally departed from Formosa, surrounded with a thousand perils, Father Juan de los Angeles, vicar and superior of the Dominican fathers who had in charge the spiritual administration of that island.

  27. Father Fray Jacinto de Jesus Maria, prior vicar of the convent of Tago (whom the rebellious Indians tried to kill in his cell at the convent of Cagaiang, as has been related) went as chaplain of that fleet.

  28. The father vicar of Therrenate got a report of that murder and martrydom from the Portuguese aboard that ship.

  29. In March, 1622, he was appointed guardian of the convent of Cavite, and in June of that same year was elected definitor and vicar of the royal convent of Santa Clara.

  30. The vicar you know, Mary, and the doctor, and poor Sir Edward.

  31. She talks to our good vicar as if he were a boy at school--and tells him how to manage the parish.

  32. It was by our captured crusader that the vicar found us.

  33. In the early eighteenth century the vicar was rather under than over the house-steward, and was deemed a fitting match for the housekeeper or any not too morally discredited discard.

  34. The old vicar read on, there came a mumbled response--and so on to the end.

  35. Worshipful the Mayor of Market Milcaster (Alderman Pettiford), the Vicar of Market Milcaster (the Rev.

  36. Walsh, the Vicar Apostolic of the central district, immediately after his reception into the Church, placing himself as a subject at his lordship's disposition.

  37. Pope; "I have desired the Cardinal-Vicar to recommend the work to Rome, and Cardinal Fornari is a Roman.

  38. This shorter one was prepared at the express desire of the Cardinal-Vicar of Rome, and distributed by his order through all the religious houses of the city.

  39. I returned to Rome alone on January 18, to prepare for my departure, leaving the other Fathers to begin a second mission at Albano; and it struck me my week's work for the Cardinal-Vicar need not be altogether its own reward.

  40. As he now ceased to style himself a vicar apostolic, the Federal council removed the decree of banishment as the occasion of it had ceased, but left each canton free as to whether or not it should accept him as bishop.

  41. He had already been for some years prior at Erfurt and provincial vicar of Thuringia.

  42. Even Catholic princes would not be dictated to on political matters by the vicar of Christ.

  43. I well remember that the vicar called one day to see us, and the governess, hearing our voices uplifted in a pious measure, drew him under the window to listen.

  44. For three whole years she realized the story of the Vicar of Wakefield, and was able to convert many of the worst women about her.

  45. Our dear vicar was the priest at Mortagne who gave the last sacraments to the Baronne des Tours-Minieres; he had the courage to go with her to the scaffold, and to him she gave her farewell kiss.

  46. Though he was a young man, the four old men and Madame de la Chanterie rose, and the vicar accompanied him to the portico.

  47. The vicar has known how to make us more religious than we were at first, by showing us the necessity of being virtuous ourselves in order to inspire virtue; in short, to preach by example.

  48. The vicar of Cheriton was considered a wonderful man in his day,-- almost as as venturous as we should now regard a traveller in Arabia.

  49. Not for thirty years later (1718) is another attempt made in the Batanes, when Fray Juan Bel being appointed vicar of the Babuyanes, visits them.

  50. The provincial chapter was held after that, and in it the said father Fray Domingo Perez was elected vicar of Samal.

  51. There the venerable father, Fray Geronimo Ulloa, vicar of the village of Tuguegarao, filled with zeal for the reduction of those infidels, had made various raids in those mountains.

  52. In that year Fray Matheo Goncalez is again appointed vicar of the Babuyanes, and given Fray Diego Pinero [18] as associate.

  53. After his term as provincial he was appointed vicar of the beatas and president of the college of San Juan de Letran.

  54. Such was the one of which the father vicar provincial, Fray Domingo Perez, made use, to banish homicide.

  55. To another place called Balacbac, which is located behind the mountains of Abucay, he sent the father vicar of the said village, namely, Father Domingo Perez.

  56. The vicar of the house of Binmaley was given a vote in the provincial chapters, and the vicar of the island of the Babuyanes was given a vote in the intermediary assemblies.

  57. In the following year of seventy-eight, a chapter was again held in this province, and the said father Fray Pedro Ximenez was reelected vicar of Cabagan.

  58. But scarcely have the three fathers begun their labors when sickness causes the death of the father vicar and his latest associate, whereupon Fray Diego Pinero, notwithstanding the murmurs of the natives, returns to Cagayan to seek more aid.

  59. Consequently, as it is the time for the intermediary chapter the vicar returns to Cagayan for help, leaving Fray Diego Pinero alone.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vicar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    advocate; alternate; alternative; analogy; archbishop; backup; canon; champion; change; changeling; chaplain; clergyman; coadjutor; comparison; copy; counterfeit; curate; deputy; double; dummy; equal; equivalent; exchange; exponent; fake; figurehead; ghost; imitation; lieutenant; makeshift; metaphor; minister; papa; pastor; patriarch; penitentiary; personnel; phony; pleader; pontiff; prelate; priest; primate; procurator; proxy; rector; relief; replacement; representative; reserves; ringer; secondary; sign; spare; sub; substitute; substitution; surrogate; symbol; token; understudy; vicar; vice


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    vicar general; vicarious atonement; vicarious suffering