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    In the confusion that followed, if the Archbishop of Canterbury had materialized in full regalia Jean Louise would not have been in the least surprised: the congregation had failed to notice any change in Mrs. Haskins's lifelong interpretation, and they intoned the Doxology to its bitter end as they had been reared to do, while Mrs. Haskins…†   (source)
  • It was to be led by Archbishop Tutu and the Reverend Allan Boesak.†   (source)
  • To become a priest in Ethiopia, it was enough for the archbishop in Addis Ababa to blow his breath into a cloth bag which was then carried to the provinces and opened in a church yard, allowing for the mass ordination of hundreds.†   (source)
  • She'd been very polite when she put the question to the archbishop, and in her opinion it had been really unreasonable for her grandmother to scream like a baboon and drag her out of the cathedral by her ear.†   (source)
  • Years afterward, recalling this juncture in his life, he would describe himself as looking rather like a short, thick Archbishop of Canterbury.†   (source)
  • Or consider this story: the Archbishop of Canterbury is actually the offspring of a little fox with pointy ears that lived in a tree!†   (source)
  • "Yes, they're …. they've gone with Marco just now to speak with the archbishop about the service."†   (source)
  • You know nothing and they must teach you," and Caleb had blessed him and ambled off, bare-headed in the rain, a man whose work on the coast was so legendary that it was said the Archbishop of Canterbury greeted him by his first name and a joke old between them, Tell me, Caleb, how's your trap line?†   (source)
  • A novel as good as, say, The Bridge of San Luis Rey or Death Comes for the Archbishop—something unpretentious but with a certain quality of near-perfection.†   (source)
  • JAILER The Secretary, the Duke, and the Archbishop.†   (source)
  • He turned to the Archbishop to tell him about the suicide, but he had already heard the news.†   (source)
  • The priests had decided they could not wait forever for the pope and the archbishop to come around.†   (source)
  • "Although an archbishop is, strictly speaking, bishop of his home see," said Mr. Red thoughtfully.†   (source)
  • Charlie, do you want to be an archbishop?†   (source)
  • "And there's one back there who could pass for the archbishop of Canterbury in a poor light.†   (source)
  • "That's why the archbishop of Canterbury is also the bishop of Canterbury.†   (source)
  • (No reply) NORFOLK Thomas, you insult the King and His Council in the person of the Lord Archbishop!†   (source)
  • People just turned up wanting to see me—government ministers, diplomats, politicians, even an envoy from the archbishop of Canterbury.†   (source)
  • The only thing he was not willing to do was speak to the Archbishop so that Jeremiah de Saint-Amour could be buried in holy ground.†   (source)
  • Down in the capital, somebody had tried to assassinate the archbishop in the cathedral while he was saying mass.†   (source)
  • The Archbishop was scandalized that a militant and educated Catholic would dare to think that a suicide was saintly, but he agreed with the plan to create an archive of the negatives.†   (source)
  • "It would be better for you to come to an understanding with me," she said, "because after me comes His Grace the Archbishop, and it is a different story with him."†   (source)
  • With the same serenity she opposed a vigil in the Cathedral, which the Archbishop himself had requested, and she agreed to the body's lying there only during the funeral Mass.†   (source)
  • The Archbishop did not come.†   (source)
  • She, along with almost the entire city, had been at the window since eleven o'clock, watching the largest and most sumptuous funeral procession that had been seen here since the death of Archbishop De Luna.†   (source)
  • At last he proposed that they both submit to an open confession, with the Archbishop himself if necessary, so that God could decide once and for all whether or not there had been soap in the soap dish in the bathroom.†   (source)
  • With the help of her daughters, who were cut from the same cloth, she did everything possible to keep the places at the table of honor in order, with Dr. Juvenal Urbino in the center and Archbishop Obdulio y Rey on his right.†   (source)
  • Although he was always considered a Liberal and was in the habit of voting for that party's candidates, it was more a question of tradition than conviction, and he was perhaps the last member of the great families who still knelt in the street when the Archbishop's carriage drove by.†   (source)
  • The Archbishop commented to Dr. Urbino that in a sense this was a historic luncheon: there, together for the first time at the same table, their wounds healed and their anger dissipated, sat the two opposing sides in the civil wars that had bloodied the country ever since Independence.†   (source)
  • Juvenal Urbino greeted the members of the reception line with that naturalness so typical of him, which made everyone think the Doctor bore him a special fondness: first the ship's captain in his dress uniform, then the Archbishop, then the Governor with his and the Mayor with his, and then the military commander, who was a newcomer from the Andes.†   (source)
  • Then he spoke to the Archbishop of the lay saint he had known in their long twilights of chess, he spoke of the dedication of his art to the happiness of children, his rare erudition in all things of this world, his Spartan habits, and he himself was surprised by the purity of soul with which Jeremiah de Saint-Amour had separated himself once and for all from his past.†   (source)
  • For several years an Amazonian monkey, chained by his waist to the mango tree in the patio, elicited a certain compassion because he had the sorrowful face of Archbishop Obdulio y Rey, the same candid eyes, the same eloquent hands; that, however, was not the reason Fermina got rid of him, but because he had the bad habit of pleasuring himself in honor of the ladies.†   (source)
  • His religion would not permit it, of course: he had dared to broach the subject with the Archbishop, just in case, and his answer had been a categorical no. It was pure illusion, because the Church did not permit the existence of crematoriums in our cemeteries, not even for the use of religions other than Catholic, and the advantage of building them would not have occurred to anyone but Juvenal Urbino.†   (source)
  • But he did not want to contradict the Archbishop, although he would have liked to point out to him that guests were at that luncheon not because of what they thought but because of the merits of their lineage, which was something that had always stood over and above the hazards of politics and the horrors of war.†   (source)
  • On only one occasion did she hover on the edge of public scandal, when the rumor circulated that Archbishop Dante de Luna had not died by accident after eating a plate of poisonous mushrooms but had eaten them intentionally because she threatened to expose him if he persisted in his sacrilegious solicitations.†   (source)
  • Justifus called his son the Archbishop of Canterbury, and if these were words of reassurance, they did nothing for Thomas.†   (source)
  • …described the Parliament lined up to the right side of the choir, robed in scarlet and black, the Chambre des Comptes on the left, in robes of black and white; the bishops arriving two by two, "a purple kind of mantle over their shoulders," the Archbishop of Paris, "a mitre upon his head," and finally the arrival of the King…. and as soon as his Majesty had got to his place and fallen upon his knees, they began to sing the Te Deum, which lasted half an hour, and in which we heard some…†   (source)
  • The second was Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who selflessly fought the evils of racism during the most terrible days of apartheid.†   (source)
  • After the press conference, Archbishop Tutu's wife telephoned us from Johannesburg to say that we must fly there straightaway.†   (source)
  • "We were able to sip some cold drinks at Dullah's, but we had only been there a few minutes when Archbishop Tutu telephoned.†   (source)
  • But my colleagues and, later, my wife argued that for security reasons I should stay with Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Bishop's Court, a plush residence in a white suburb.†   (source)
  • I'm afraid the archbishop of Canterbury does not travel well, but he has sent instructions for the coronation."†   (source)
  • When I greeted Archbishop Tutu, I enveloped him in a great hug; here was a man who had inspired an entire nation with his words and his courage, who had revived the people's hope during the darkest of times.†   (source)
  • He winked his horrible wink, and Daphne, who had vowed not to rise to this sort of thing, heard herself say: "The archbishop of Canterbury, Mr. Cox, is not a cannibal!"†   (source)
  • "I deliberately confused 'a big sea,' that's with an a, with 'a big see,' with two es, meaning the area that comes under the jurisdiction of an archbishop."†   (source)
  • Thomas Cranmer"-Archbishop of Canterbury, (jerking thumb) that's the other one-"was burned alive on 21 March, 1556."†   (source)
  • CROMWELL Archbishop?†   (source)
  • Until that time the eminent dead were interred under the flagstones in the churches, in the exclusive vicinity of archbishops and capitulars, while the less wealthy were buried in the patios of convents.†   (source)
  • At the end of eight years, after having learned to write Latin poetry, play the clavichord, talk about falconry with gentlemen and apologetics, with archbishops, discuss affairs of state with foreign rulers and affairs of God with the Pope, she returned to her parents' home to weave funeral wreaths.†   (source)
  • While Fernanda was speaking to someone in the office next door, Meme remained in a parlor checkered with large oil paintings of colonial archbishops, still wearing an etamine dress with small black flowers and stiff high shoes which were swollen by the cold of the uplands.†   (source)
  • "You say," he demanded eagerly, "that the monks petitioned the archbishop?"†   (source)
  • Part 9 DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP Chapter 1.†   (source)
  • The Archbishop would send his new carriage to fetch him, as Father Latour had only an open buggy.†   (source)
  • Do you not know that the good Archbishop Is likely to arrive at any moment?†   (source)
  • Let us meet the Archbishop with cordial thanksgiving : Our lord, our Archbishop returns.†   (source)
  • … After his déjeuner the old Archbishop made a pretence of sleeping.†   (source)
  • The Archbishop shall be at our head, dispelling dismay and doubt.†   (source)
  • … The American doctor was consulting with Archbishop S—— and the Mother Superior.†   (source)
  • And when the Archbishop returns Our doubts are dispelled.†   (source)
  • What I have to say may be put in the form of a question: Who killed the Archbishop?†   (source)
  • And if the Archbishop cannot trust the King, How can he trust those who work for King's undoing?†   (source)
  • Go, tell the Archbishop We have no need of his hospitality.†   (source)
  • We rode hard, Took ship yesterday, landed last night, Having business with the Archbishop.†   (source)
  • Seven years since the Archbishop left us.†   (source)
  • If the Archbishop cannot trust the Throne, He has good cause to trust none but God alone.†   (source)
  • The good Archbishop would be vexed If we did not offer you entertainment Before your business.†   (source)
  • Thomas, return, Archbishop; return, return to France.†   (source)
  • I have consented, Lord Archbishop, have consented.†   (source)
  • 883 Seven years and the summer is over 4 Seven years since the Archbishop left Us, He who was always kind to his people.†   (source)
  • They talked too much at the mess and I drank wine because tonight we were not all brothers unless I drank a little and talked with the priest about Archbishop Ireland who was, it seemed, a noble man and with whose injustice, the injustices he had received and in which I participated as an American, and of which I had never heard, I feigned acquaintance.†   (source)
  • Presently he said: "If I was Rex"—his mind seemed full of such suppositions: "If I was Archbishop of Westminster,"†   (source)
  • Long shocked silences followed each of the Archbishop's questions, until finally one or the other mumbled an answer.†   (source)
  • An archbishop of Canterbury, having excommunicated all the prebendaries of St Paul's in a pet, rushed into the Priory of St. Bartholomew and knocked out the sub-prior in the middle of the chapel—which created such an uproar that his own vestments were torn off, revealing a suit of armour underneath, and he had to flee to Lambeth in a boat.†   (source)
  • When the Archbishop returned from a short trip to Spain, all Lima kept asking: "What has he brought?"†   (source)
  • The addition of the Archbishop to the suppers was so successful that Don Andres began to think of new names.†   (source)
  • The Archbishop enclosed in his wonderful and almost wooden vestments perspired upon his throne, lending from time to time a connoisseur's ear to the felicities of Vittoria's counterpoint.†   (source)
  • After his retirement, he went there to live, though he always kept his study unchanged in the house of the new Archbishop.†   (source)
  • After a time the Viceroy asked the Perichole whether it would amuse her to invite a few discreet guests to their midnight suppers, and he asked her whether she would like to meet the Archbishop.†   (source)
  • He had half expected to make some such arrangement the last time he was in Auvergne, just before his retirement from his duties as Archbishop.†   (source)
  • There was something in Lima that was wrapped up in yards of violet satin from which protruded a great dropsical head and two fat pearly hands; and that was its archbishop.†   (source)
  • This period of reflection the Archbishop spent on his little country estate, some four miles north of Santa Fé.†   (source)
  • The Archbishop of Lima, whom we shall know later in a more graceful connection, hated her with what he called a Vatinian hate and counted the cessation of her visits among the compensations for dying.†   (source)
  • Wrapped in his Indian blankets, the old Archbishop sat for a long while, looking at the open, golden face of his Cathedral.†   (source)
  • The Archbishop came in for a few moments, when he was at home; the Mother Superior, the American doctor.†   (source)
  • The Viceroy, the Archbishop, and the few men at court who had been her sincerest admirers besieged her door still with messages and gifts; the messages were ignored and the gifts were returned without comment.†   (source)
  • Since this tree grew against the hill-side, the Archbishop concluded that the exposure there must be excellent for fruit.†   (source)
  • The Archbishop was delighted.†   (source)
  • Bernard returned that afternoon to say that the Archbishop would be delighted if Father Latour would remain the rest of the winter with him.†   (source)
  • The Archbishop of Lima was something of a philologist; he dabbled in dialects; he had even evolved quite a brilliant table for the vowel and consonant changes from Latin into Spanish and from Spanish into Indian-Spanish.†   (source)
  • Out on the Colorado Chiquito he had heard the word, passed on from one trading post to another, that the old Archbishop was failing, and the Indian came to Santa Fé.†   (source)
  • Horses and coaches and chairs had to go down hundreds of feet below and pass over the narrow torrent on rafts, but no one, not even the Viceroy, not even the Archbishop of Lima, had descended with the baggage rather than cross by the famous bridge of San Luis Rey.†   (source)
  • How clearly the old Archbishop could recall the scene; those two young men in the fields in the grey morning, disguised as if they were criminals, escaping by stealth from their homes.†   (source)
  • Eusabio and the Tesuque boys went quietly away to tell their people; and the next morning the old Archbishop lay before the high altar in the church he had built.†   (source)
  • Some of the Tesuque Indians, who had been his country neighbours, came into Santa Fé and sat all day in the Archbishop's courtyard listening for news of him; with them was Eusabio the Navajo.†   (source)
  • Now the worthy Archbishop, whose 'good qualities I very much admired, has throughout been pre sented as the under dog.†   (source)
  • His successor, the second Archbishop, was also an Auvergnat, from Father Latour's own college, and the clergy of northern New Mexico remained predominantly French.†   (source)
  • Thomas, Archbishop, leave us, leave us, leave sullen Dover, and set sail for France, Thomas our Archbishop still our Archbishop even in France.†   (source)
  • You know the Archbishop's hospitality.†   (source)
  • The story of the old Archbishop's life, often told in the cloisters and class-rooms at Montferrand, had taken hold of this boy's imagination, and he had long waited an opportunity to come.†   (source)
  • After keeping quietly to his bed for a few days, the Bishop called young Bernard to him one morning and said: "Bernard, will you ride into Santa Fé to-day and see the Archbishop for me.†   (source)
  • I therefore ask you to consider soberly: what were the Archbishop's aims? and what are King Henry's aims?†   (source)
  • The Chancellorship that you resigned When you were made Archbishop that was a mistake On your part still may be regained.†   (source)
  • All his relatives at home, and his friends in New Mexico, had expected that the old Archbishop would spend his closing years in France, probably in Clermont, where he could occupy a chair in his old college.†   (source)
  • Thomas Archbishop, set the white sail between the grey sky and the bitter sea, leave us, leave us for France.†   (source)
  • … When that devout nun, Mother Superior Philomène, died at a great age in her native Riom, among her papers were found several letters from Archbishop Latour, one dated December 1888, only a few months before his death.†   (source)
  • When a company of new priests arrived (they never came singly) Archbishop S—— sent them out to stay with Father Latour for a few months, to receive instruction in Spanish, in the topography of the diocese, in the character and traditions of the different pueblos.†   (source)
  • INTERLUDE THE ARCHBISHOP preaches in the Cathedral on Christmas Morning, 1170 'Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.'†   (source)
  • You will agree with me that such interference by an Archbishop offends the instincts of a people like ours.†   (source)
  • He came back to Santa Fé to recuperate from the illnesses and accidents which consistently punctuated his way; came with the Papal Emissary when Bishop Latour was made Archbishop; but his working life was spent among bleak mountains and comfortless mining camps, looking after lost sheep.†   (source)
  • I fear for the Archbishop, I fear for the Church, I know that the pride bred of sudden pros perity Was but confirmed by bitter adversity.†   (source)
  • And if you ask me, I think the Lord Archbishop Is not the man to cherish any illusions, Or yet to diminish the least of his pretensions.†   (source)
  • Thomas Archbishop, save us, save us, save yourself that we may be saved; Destroy yourself and we are destroyed.†   (source)
  • Let us give the Archbishop welcome !†   (source)
  • What does the Archbishop do, and our Sovereign Lord the Pope With the stubborn King and the French King In ceaseless intrigue, combinations.†   (source)
  • MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL 901 When you come to the point, it does go against the grain to kill an Archbishop, especially when you have been brought up in good Church traditions.†   (source)
  • Whatever you are afraid of, in your craven apprehension, Let me ask you at the least to put on pleas ant faces, And give a hearty welcome to our good Archbishop.†   (source)
  • Servants of God, and watchers of the temple, I am here to inform you, without circumlocution : The Archbishop is in England, and is close outside the city.†   (source)
  • At another time, you would condemn an Archbishop by vote of Parliament and execute him formally as a traitor, and no one would have to bear the burden of being called murderer.†   (source)
  • Now the King intended that Becket, who had proved himself an extremely able administrator no one denies that should unite the offices of Chancellor and Archbishop.†   (source)
  • What, is the exile ended, is our Lord Archbishop Reunited with the King? what reconciliation Of two proud men? what peace can be found To grow between the hammer and the anvil?†   (source)
  • While the late Archbishop was Chancellor, he wholeheartedly supported the King's designs: this is an important point, which, if necessary, I can substantiate.†   (source)
  • It is common knowledge that when the Archbishop Parted from the King, he said to the King, My Lord, he said, I leave you as a man Whom in this life I shall not see again.†   (source)
  • From the moment he be came Archbishop, he completely reversed his policy; he showed himself to be utterly in different to the fate of the country, to be, in fact, a monster of egotism, a menace to society.†   (source)
  • Thomas Archbishop, Thomas our Lord, leave us and leave us be, in our humble and tarnished frame of existence, leave us; do not ask us To stand to the doom on the house, the doom on the Archbishop, the doom on the world.†   (source)
  • You are the Arch bishop in revolt against the King; in rebellion to the King and the law of the land; You are the Archbishop who was made by the King; whom he set in your place to carry out his command.†   (source)
  • And even when reasonable people come to see that the Archbishop had to be put out of the way and personally I had a tremendous admiration for him you must have noticed what a good show he put up at the end they won't give us any glory.†   (source)
  • I am the Archbishop's man.†   (source)
  • PART II CHARACTERS THREE PRIESTS FOUR KNIGHTS ARCHBISHOP THOMAS BECKET CHORUS OF WOMEN OF CANTERBURY ATTENDANTS The first scene is in the Archbishop's Hall, the second scene is in the Cathedral, on December %&th, 1170 Chorus.†   (source)
  • MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL PART I CHARACTERS A CHORUS OF WOMEN OF CANTERBURY THREE PRIESTS OF THE CATHEDRAL A HERALD ARCHBISHOP THOMAS BECKET FOUR TEMPTERS ATTENDANTS The Scene is the Archbishop's Hall, on December 2nd, 1170 Chorus.†   (source)
  • I have spoken to you today, dear children of God, of the martyrs of the past, asking you to remember especially our martyr of Canterbury, the blessed Archbishop Elphege; because it is fitting, on Christ's birth day, to remember what is that Peace which He brought; and because, dear children, I do not think I shall ever preach to you again; and because it is possible that in a, short time you may have yet another martyr, and that one perhaps not the last.†   (source)
  • Archbishop, secure and assured of your fate, unaffrayed among the shades, do you realise what you ask, do you realise what it means To the small folk drawn into the pattern of fate, the small folk who live among small things, The strain on the brain of the small folk who stand to the doom of the house, the doom of their lord, the doom of the world?†   (source)
  • Am torn away, subdued, violated, United to the spiritual flesh of nature, Mastered by the animal powers of spirit, Dominated by the lust of self-demolition, By the final utter uttermost death of spirit, By the final ecstasy of waste and shame, Lord Archbishop, Thomas Archbishop, forgive us, forgive us, pray for us that we may pray for you, out of our shame.†   (source)
  • One man only is allowed to enter the convent,— the archbishop of the diocese.†   (source)
  • And the two children followed him as they would have followed an archbishop.†   (source)
  • The prioress could do nothing; the archbishop had spoken.†   (source)
  • Helen and I had got it into our heads that there was a grand old cathedral at Speyer—the Archbishop of Speyer was one of the seven electors—you know—'Speyer, Maintz, and Koln.'†   (source)
  • I remained here last evening, partly because I have a great admiration for the French archbishop Bourdaloue.†   (source)
  • …in his vanity to assume the title of Formosus, and whose tiara, valued at two hundred thousand florins, was bought at the price of a terrible sin; Gian Maria Visconti, who used hounds to chase living men, and whose murdered body was covered with roses by a harlot who had loved him; the Borgia on his white horse, with Fratricide riding beside him, and his mantle stained with the blood of Perotto; Pietro Riario, the young Cardinal Archbishop of Florence, child and minion of Sixtus IV.†   (source)
  • The other guests were ex-President Benjamin Harrison and Archbishop Ireland, who were in Paris at the time.†   (source)
  • The Archbishop paled, then flushed, and passed the hose to the Lord High Admiral, whispering, "See, my lord!"†   (source)
  • The Archbishop of Canterbury lifted up the crown of England from its cushion and held it out over the trembling mock-King's head.†   (source)
  • "Bourdaloue, the archbishop, would not have spared a man like me," Keller continued, "but you, you have judged me with humanity.†   (source)
  • The First Lord of the Bedchamber received the hose and was about to encase Tom's legs in them, when a sudden flush invaded his face and he hurriedly hustled the things back into the hands of the Archbishop of Canterbury with an astounded look and a whispered, "See, my lord!" pointing to a something connected with the hose.†   (source)
  • …who passed it to the Chancellor Royal of the Duchy of Lancaster, who passed it to the Master of the Wardrobe, who passed it to Norroy King-at-Arms, who passed it to the Constable of the Tower, who passed it to the Chief Steward of the Household, who passed it to the Hereditary Grand Diaperer, who passed it to the Lord High Admiral of England, who passed it to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who passed it to the First Lord of the Bedchamber, who took what was left of it and put it on Tom.†   (source)
  • The Archbishop of Canterbury made report of the decree of the Council of Executors concerning the obsequies of his late most illustrious Majesty, and finished by reading the signatures of the Executors, to wit: the Archbishop of Canterbury; the Lord Chancellor of England; William Lord St. John; John Lord Russell; Edward Earl of Hertford; John Viscount Lisle; Cuthbert Bishop of Durham— Tom was not listening—an earlier clause of the document was puzzling him.†   (source)
  • Then he added, with a smile, "To him who contents himself with the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop."†   (source)
  • "Not so," answered Fitzurse; "I will take sanctuary in this church of Saint Peter—the Archbishop is my sworn brother."†   (source)
  • Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon, Archbishop and Comte of Lyon, Primate of the Gauls, was allied both to Louis XI.†   (source)
  • What is the Archbishop of Savesoul's income of L100,000 seized from the scant bread and cheese of hundreds of thousands of broken-backed laborers (all sure of heaven without any of Savesoul's help) what is that globular L100,000 but a Fast-Fish?†   (source)
  • Here and there a Hatchment, with the whole science of Heraldry in it, loomed down upon the street, like an Archbishop discoursing on Vanity.†   (source)
  • And he would say to her in confidential moments, "By Jove, Beck, you're fit to be Commander-in-Chief, or Archbishop of Canterbury, by Jove."†   (source)
  • …Pocket was the only daughter of a certain quite accidental deceased Knight, who had invented for himself a conviction that his deceased father would have been made a Baronet but for somebody's determined opposition arising out of entirely personal motives,—I forget whose, if I ever knew,—the Sovereign's, the Prime Minister's, the Lord Chancellor's, the Archbishop of Canterbury's, anybody's,—and had tacked himself on to the nobles of the earth in right of this quite supposititious fact.†   (source)
  • You wouldn't cut the Archbishop of Canterbury, I suppose, because the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have a few publicans and sinners among their tenants.†   (source)
  • There are the names, in the sweet old visionary connexion, David Copperfield and Dora Spenlow; and there, in the corner, is that Parental Institution, the Stamp Office, which is so benignantly interested in the various transactions of human life, looking down upon our Union; and there is the Archbishop of Canterbury invoking a blessing on us in print, and doing it as cheap as could possibly be expected.†   (source)
  • The Moslem Archbishop had been emphatic and over-arrogant; the young prince was merely sulky at the curtailment of his privileges, but there was no need he should continue a correspondence which might some day compromise him.†   (source)
  • 'Then are you any relation to the Archbishop of Canterbury?' inquired the old gentleman with great anxiety, 'or to the Pope of Rome?†   (source)
  • There had been at one time malicious rumors which had even reached the Archbishop (not only regarding our monastery, but in others where the institution of elders existed) that too much respect was paid to the elders, even to the detriment of the authority of the Superior, that the elders abused the sacrament of confession and so on and so on—absurd charges which had died away of themselves everywhere.†   (source)
  • …spirits were so high on this occasion, that though she did not often speak unnecessarily to Mr. Collins, she could not help asking him whether he intended to accept Mr. Bingley's invitation, and if he did, whether he would think it proper to join in the evening's amusement; and she was rather surprised to find that he entertained no scruple whatever on that head, and was very far from dreading a rebuke either from the Archbishop, or Lady Catherine de Bourgh, by venturing to dance.†   (source)
  • He clung to one idea—that of his happiness, destroyed, without apparent cause, by an unheard-of fatality; he considered and reconsidered this idea, devoured it (so to speak), as the implacable Ugolino devours the skull of Archbishop Roger in the Inferno of Dante.†   (source)
  • "I swear to you," replied Phoebus, somewhat embarrassed by the question, "that you are beautiful enough to set an archbishop to dreaming."†   (source)
  • Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him: and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable—†   (source)
  • The lama, of course, would no more have parted with his chart to a casual wayfarer than an archbishop would pawn the holy vessels of his cathedral.†   (source)
  • Thinkest thou, Waldemar, that the wily Archbishop will not suffer thee to be taken from the very horns of the altar, would it make his peace with King Richard?†   (source)
  • But in vain he cried out against the enormity of turtle and champagne that was fit for an archbishop.†   (source)
  • It appears that there is sorcery at the bottom of it, the archbishop and the official have intervened in the case, and my brother, who is the archdeacon of Josas, can think of nothing else.†   (source)
  • "His lordship is a man to whom I owe much, everything in life," said the Right Reverend Doctor Trail, thinking that the Archbishop was rather shaky, and Mrs. Trail and the young ladies would as soon have missed going to church as to one of his lordship's parties.†   (source)
  • Monseigneur the archbishop interested himself in the child of Egypt, exorcised it, blessed it, removed the devil carefully from its body, and sent it to Paris, to be exposed on the wooden bed at NotreDame, as a foundling.†   (source)
  • He adored that girl who had just gone out; he had broken her heart, he knew he had, by his conduct; he would marry her next morning at St. George's, Hanover Square; he'd knock up the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth: he would, by Jove! and have him in readiness; and, acting on this hint, Captain Dobbin shrewdly induced him to leave the gardens and hasten to Lambeth Palace, and, when once out of the gates, easily conveyed Mr. Jos Sedley into a hackney-coach, which deposited him…†   (source)
  • At that epoch he had just been made, while waiting for the episcopate, vicar-general of the Archbishop of Paris.†   (source)
  • As Cardinal Fesch refused to resign, M. de Pins, Archbishop of Amasie, administered the diocese of Lyons.†   (source)
  • With the exception of the archbishop and the gardener, no man entered the convent, as we have already said.†   (source)
  • The archbishop, the kislar-aga of heaven, locked up and kept watch over this seraglio of souls reserved for God.†   (source)
  • On leaving the convent, the archbishop mentioned it with approval, and in a whisper to M. de Latil, Monsieur's confessor, afterwards Archbishop of Reims and Cardinal.†   (source)
  • Saint Didorus, Archbishop of Cappadocia, desired that this single word might be inscribed on his tomb: Acarus, which signifies, a worm of the earth; this was done.†   (source)
  • Upon the occasion of the archbishop's next visit, the prioress recounted the affair to his Grace, making something of a confession at the same time, and yet boasting of her deed.†   (source)
  • It was the opening of the door of seclusion, a frightful sheet of iron bristling with bolts which only turned on its hinges in the presence of the archbishop.†   (source)
  • One day Monseigneur the Archbishop while making his pastoral visit saw a pretty little rosy girl with beautiful golden hair enter the class-room through which he was passing.†   (source)
  • He caught sight of a corner of the wall on which was placarded the most peaceable sheet of paper in the world, a permission to eat eggs, a Lenten admonition addressed by the Archbishop of Paris to his "flock."†   (source)
  • The chest was opened; it contained a cope of cloth of gold, a mitre ornamented with diamonds, an archbishop's cross, a magnificent crosier,—all the pontifical vestments which had been stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d'Embrun.†   (source)
  • When the moment came, as the archbishop was passing in front of the pupils, Mademoiselle Bouchard, to the indescribable terror of her companions, stepped out of the ranks, and said, "Monseigneur, a day's leave of absence.†   (source)
  • Once—it was at the epoch of the visit from the archbishop to the convent— one of the young girls, Mademoiselle Bouchard, who was connected with the Montmorency family, laid a wager that she would ask for a day's leave of absence—an enormity in so austere a community.†   (source)
  • During breakfast, it was said that Wellington had been to a ball two nights before, in Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's; and Soult, a rough man of war, with a face of an archbishop, said, "The ball takes place to-day.†   (source)
  • One day the pulpit was occupied by a young priest of high rank, M. Le Duc de Rohan, peer of France, officer of the Red Musketeers in 1815 when he was Prince de Leon, and who died afterward, in 1830, as cardinal and Archbishop of Besancon.†   (source)
  • A bishop who understands how to become an archbishop, an archbishop who knows how to become a cardinal, carries you with him as conclavist; you enter a court of papal jurisdiction, you receive the pallium, and behold! you are an auditor, then a papal chamberlain, then monsignor, and from a Grace to an Eminence is only a step, and between the Eminence and the Holiness there is but the smoke of a ballot.†   (source)
  • He distinguished, here and there in that swarming and formless mass, now near him, now afar off and on inaccessible table-lands, some group, some detail, vividly illuminated; here the galley-sergeant and his cudgel; there the gendarme and his sword; yonder the mitred archbishop; away at the top, like a sort of sun, the Emperor, crowned and dazzling.†   (source)
  • Lastly, two cardinals, M. de la Luzerne, and M. de Cl T. The Cardinal of Luzerne was a writer and was destined to have, a few years later, the honor of signing in the Conservateur articles side by side with Chateaubriand; M. de Cl T was Archbishop of Toul, and often made trips to Paris, to his nephew, the Marquis de T, who was Minister of Marine and War.†   (source)
  • In the dining-room, a long and superb gallery which was situated on the ground-floor and opened on the gardens, M. Henri Puget had entertained in state, on July 29, 1714, My Lords Charles Brulart de Genlis, archbishop; Prince d'Embrun; Antoine de Mesgrigny, the capuchin, Bishop of Grasse; Philippe de Vendome, Grand Prior of France, Abbe of Saint Honore de Lerins; Francois de Berton de Crillon, bishop, Baron de Vence; Cesar de Sabran de Forcalquier, bishop, Seignor of Glandeve; and Jean…†   (source)
  • …Frayssinous, who was not, as yet, either count, or bishop, or minister, or peer, and who wore an old cassock whose buttons were missing, and the Abbe Keravenant, Cure of Saint-Germain-des-Pres; also the Pope's Nuncio, then Monsignor Macchi, Archbishop of Nisibi, later on Cardinal, remarkable for his long, pensive nose, and another Monsignor, entitled thus: Abbate Palmieri, domestic prelate, one of the seven participant prothonotaries of the Holy See, Canon of the illustrious Liberian…†   (source)
  • , married a silly jade of fifteen when he was eighty-five; M. Virginal, Marquis d'Alluye, brother to the Cardinal de Sourdis, Archbishop of Bordeaux, had, at the age of eighty-three, by the maid of Madame la Presidente Jacquin, a son, a real child of love, who became a Chevalier of Malta and a counsellor of state; one of the great men of this century, the Abbe Tabaraud, is the son of a man of eighty-seven.†   (source)
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