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People aren't ordinarily carried in chairs in New Hampshire, and as they raised him up he looked very strange to me, like some tragic and exalted personage, a stricken pontiff.† (source)
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I'm a woman, the Pontiff is not; he's merely medieval.† (source)
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Ursula felt tormented by grave doubts concerning the effectiveness of the methods with which she had molded the spirit of the languid apprentice Supreme Pontiff, but she did not put the blame on her staggering old age or the dark clouds that barely permitted her to make out the shape of things, but on something that she herself could not really define and that she conceived confusedly as a progressive breakdown of time.† (source)
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He already had been through this on numerous occasions with the new pontiff, who, to Aringarosa's great dismay, had turned out to be a distressingly fervent voice for liberal change in the Church.† (source)
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The lot o' them been lording the big secret over folk for half a year, smug as pontiffs.† (source)
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At midnight we had a pile of torn papers, like the ballots of the cardinals whose smoke announces a new pontiff.† (source)
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He believed the reforms of the new Pontiff impractical and dangerous, and had withdrawn from politics, confining his activities to work for the Society for the Propagation of the Faith—that organization which had been so fostered by Gregory.† (source)
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The man called Florentino was their maternal grandfather, so that the name had come down to the son of Transito Ariza after skipping over an entire generation of pontiffs.† (source)
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Monseigneur the Bishop, a sainted pontiff;† (source)
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Against the oak paneling of the walls were portraits of the pontiffs of science, in crimson robes, with a vast mural by Maxfield Parrish, and above all was an electrolier of a hundred globes.† (source)
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"Towards the Temple," the pontiff replied.† (source)
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I had leads from Mrs. Ruber, into hotels, where she claimed to be better known than she actually was (or managers would not acknowledge her till they knew my business); and, moreover, these were not easy people to lay hold of, in the backstairs and workshops of the cream, noble marble, footmanned, razmataz, furnished-for-pontiffs lakeside joints.† (source)
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His day began with an heroic offering of its every moment of thought or action for the intentions of the sovereign pontiff and with an early mass.† (source)
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Only can he be blamed for the election of Julius the Second, in whom he made a bad choice, because, as is said, not being able to elect a Pope to his own mind, he could have hindered any other from being elected Pope; and he ought never to have consented to the election of any cardinal whom he had injured or who had cause to fear him if they became pontiffs.† (source)
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Mr. Monday, the distinguished evangelist, the best-known Protestant pontiff in America, had once been a prize-fighter.† (source)
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Alexander the Sixth arose afterwards, who of all the pontiffs that have ever been showed how a pope with both money and arms was able to prevail; and through the instrumentality of the Duke Valentino, and by reason of the entry of the French, he brought about all those things which I have discussed above in the actions of the duke.† (source)
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