Sample Sentences for
archbishop
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  • The Archbishop knew that most of the priests of Peru were scoundrels.  (source)
    Archbishop = bishop of highest rank
  • The question is, what did the archbishop find?  (source)
  • My name had been put forward by Archbishop Desmond Tutu from South Africa.†  (source)
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  • People often compared him with his fellow man of the cloth Archbishop Desmond Tutu, but of course that didn't mean anything to me.†  (source)
  • They were both cardinals and archbishops of Rouen.†  (source)
  • My father telephoned the archbishop and next thing you knew, done and dusted, they'd shipped him off to Uruguay.†  (source)
  • In the sacred college, you know, of cardinals and archbishops and bishops there were two men who held out against it while the others were all for it.†  (source)
  • 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 romped madly ahead like something out of Salisbury Cathedral.†  (source)
  • I saw, besides, many old sailors, with rings in their ears, and whiskers curled in ringlets, and tarry pigtails, and their swaggering, clumsy sea-walk; and if I had seen as many kings or archbishops I could not have been more delighted.†  (source)
  • Presently he said: "If I was Rex"—his mind seemed full of such suppositions: "If I was Archbishop of Westminster,"†  (source)
  • "Oh, I know he's very clever," meaning by that 'very cunning,' "but that makes no difference; fancy a Jew here, and she the sister and sister-in-law of two Archbishops."†  (source)
  • Elizabeth's 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)
  • 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)
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