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Example sentences for "young priest"

  • When a young priest, I was the chaplain, confessor and intimate friend of the Duchesse De Berry, the mother of Henry V.

  • It does not do for a young priest, as I am, to criticise those whom God has put so much above him by their science, their age and their virtues.

  • In 1830, a young priest of Quebec, called Derome, had fallen in love with one of his young female penitents of Vercheres, where he had preached a few days, and he had persuaded her to follow him to the parsonage of Quebec.

  • She confessed that my wife and girl were living there--the wife had become housekeeper for a young priest--the girl was in the convent.

  • Then, one morning, her attention was attracted by a newspaper report of the farewell address of a young priest about to leave his flock.

  • At the river's edge a group of ragged urchins were romping noisily; and on a bench near them a young priest sat, writing in a notebook.

  • The distribution of the cards began, a young priest at the same time entering each patient's name and address in a register.

  • She barely listened to him, however, engaged as she was in a quarrel with a young priest belonging to the management with reference to a deficiency of certain utensils.

  • Thereupon it was at once settled with Don Vigilio that the latter would put down the young priest's name for an audience on the following morning at ten o'clock.

  • Then a young priest came up to question me, and to ask me if I could say "Omito Fo.

  • A young priest, dressed in a fantastic costume, advances to the foot of the ladder, chanting incantations, and making passes with a knife which he holds in his hand.

  • Side note: By foreign Canons you will be judged] The fatal mistake on the part of a young priest would be to take Irish opinion as the standard by which he will be judged outside Ireland.

  • Side note: Culture necessary for domestic life] In dealing with this question a young priest is to consider more than his flock.

  • The high and mighty princess Bent-Anat, the daughter of Rameses, is said to have an open love-affair with a young priest of the House of Seti.

  • A young priest whispered to his neighbor, "He is praying--" and Anana noticed with silent anxiety the strong hand of his teacher clutching the manuscript so tightly that the slight material of which it consisted threatened to split.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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