Sample Sentences for
ecclesiastical
(editor-reviewed)

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    "Of course," the Bishop replied with an ecclesiastical smile.†  (source)
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    There were also ecclesiastical reformers who chose to remain within the Roman Catholic church.†  (source)
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    The rector appeared to consider whether the time was right for ecclesiastical debate; Barb Wiggin appeared to consider throttling Owen with my mother's scarf.†  (source)
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    There are no such things as marble kisses or ice kisses, or I should say my ecclesiastical cousin's salute belonged to one of these classes; but there may be experiment kisses, and his was an experiment kiss.†  (source)
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    Ossuary annexes were a cheap ecclesiastic fix to an awkward dilemma.†  (source)
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    he had friends in the Vatican and could talk at length of policy and appointments, saying which contemporary ecclesiastics were in good favor, which in bad, what recent theological hypothesis was suspect, and how this or that Jesuit or Dominican had skated on thin ice or sailed near the wind in his Lenten discourses;†  (source)
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    The spacious ends of the building, answering ecclesiastically to nave and chancel extremities, were fenced off with hurdles, the sheep being all collected in a crowd within these two enclosures; and in one angle a catching-pen was formed, in which three or four sheep were continuously kept ready for the shearers to seize without loss of time.†  (source)
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    ...'Beware the pitfalls of ecclesiastical presumption and self-absorbed thought.†  (source)
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    He was driven on, and other carriages came whirling by in quick succession; the Minister, the State-Projector, the Farmer-General, the Doctor, the Lawyer, the Ecclesiastic, the Grand Opera, the Comedy, the whole Fancy Ball in a bright continuous flow, came whirling by.†  (source)
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    In pretty much all of these dreadful stories, ecclesiastics were the hardy heroes, but that didn't worry the chaplain any, he had his laugh with the rest; more than that, upon invitation he roared out a song which was of as daring a sort as any that was sung that night.†  (source)
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    He did not shrug his shoulders; and for want of that muscular outlet he thought the more irritably of beautiful lips kissing holy skulls and other emptinesses ecclesiastically enshrined.†  (source)
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    With that small amendment your wonderful pun will be an absolute hoot in ecclesiastical circles.†  (source)
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    Carried away by vocational zeal, the priest had all he could do to avoid openly disobeying the instructions of his ecclesiastic superiors, who, shaken by the winds of modernism, were opposed to hair shirts and flagellation.†  (source)
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