Sample Sentences forabbot (auto-selected)
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No one knew why he was called Ab Sheehan, The Abbot, but all Limerick loved him.† (source)
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The abbot there was my father's old friend—very intellectual, but became a monk in his old age.† (source)
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With that, he instructed his men to drag the abbot up the belfry steps and hurl him from the steeple into the arms of his Maker.† (source)
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By May 29 the eight of us had flown off to Chicago to receive the Robert S. Abbot Award conferred by the Chicago Defender newspaper.† (source)
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The Gravesend dormitories were named after the long-ago, dead-and-buried faculty and headmasters of the school: Abbot, Amen, Bancroft, Dunbar, Gilman, Gorham, Hooper, Lambert, Perkins, Porter, Quincy, Scott.† (source)
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Neither have I. I haven't seen a first-class match for years— not since Father Graves took me when we were passing through Leeds, after we'd been to the induction of the Abbot at Ampleforth.† (source)
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Hold her arms, Miss Abbot: she's like a mad cat.† (source)
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Parisians on weekend holidays would drink aperitifs here, and before them the occasional emissary from the republic—ministers and vice ministers and abbots and admirals—and in the centuries before them, windburned corsairs: killers, plunderers, raiders, seamen.† (source)
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There's a ship leaving the harbor, its whistle resigned as an abbot in prayer, fracturing the dusk.† (source)
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At last in April 1897 the marriage took place—conventionally, ceremoniously, with bells ringing, and company collected, and silver engraved wedding invitations, at St Mary Abbots.† (source)
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Near the other end of Main Street he turned into the Abbot House bar.† (source)
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And yet they refuse to renew the floor for me because, if you please, those are the tombstones of the Abbots of Combray and the Lords of Guermantes, the old Counts, you know, of Brabant, direct ancestors of the present Duc de Guermantes, and of his Duchesse also, since she was a lady of the Guermantes family, and married her cousin.† (source)
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I was robbed off by Abbot's Ford, and I've been on foot ever since.† (source)
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Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very long.† (source)
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Ernie Macmillan and Hannah Abbot were swapping Chocolate Frog cards at a nearby table; both of them sporting Support Cedric Diggory!† (source)
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—The two Abbots and I ran into the front room and peeped through the blind when we heard he was going by, and Miss Nash came and scolded us away, and staid to look through herself; however, she called me back presently, and let me look too, which was very good-natured.† (source)
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