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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)
  • Monseigneur the Bishop, a sainted pontiff;†  (source)
  • They are not that at all, not at all....They are simply the Romish army for the earthly sovereignty of the world in the future, with the Pontiff of Rome for Emperor ...that's their ideal, but there's no sort of mystery or lofty melancholy about it....It's simple lust of power, of filthy earthly gain, of domination—something like a universal serfdom with them as masters—that's all they stand for.†  (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)
  • The lot o' them been lording the big secret over folk for half a year, smug as pontiffs.†  (source)
  • He believed the reforms of the new Pontiff impractical and dangerous, and had withdrawn from politics, confining his activities to work for the Society for the Propagation of the Faith—that organization which had been so fostered by Gregory.† 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)
  • 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)
  • "Towards the Temple," the pontiff replied.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Mr. Monday, the distinguished evangelist, the best-known Protestant pontiff in America, had once been a prize-fighter.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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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