1 Yet so loose were the ideas of the times respecting the conduct of the clergy, whether secular or regular, that the Prior Aymer maintained a fair character in the neighbourhood of his abbey.
2 This excuse she stated before a great council of the clergy of England, as the sole reason for her having taken the religious habit.
3 The clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier.
4 He made, however, a last vigorous attack on Athelstane, and he found that resuscitated sprout of Saxon royalty engaged, like country squires of our own day, in a furious war with the clergy.
5 It is not there that respectable people of any denomination can do most good; and it certainly is not there that the influence of the clergy can be most felt.
6 The clergy are lost there in the crowds of their parishioners.
7 It is impossible that your own observation can have given you much knowledge of the clergy.
8 She was afraid she had used some strong, some contemptuous expressions in speaking of the clergy, and that should not have been.
9 They ran the three churches to which they belonged, the clergy, the choirs and the parishioners.
10 I say it only shows his foolish, impious pride, and abominable, devilish rebellion against the reverend clergy.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 83. Jonah Historically Regarded. 11 O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors.
12 First send the chief magistrate, then the clergy, then the merchants.
13 The clergy resumed the services in many churches that had not been burned.
14 Meanwhile the officiating clergy had got into their vestments, and the priest and deacon came out to the lectern, which stood in the forepart of the church.
15 the Prior and Vicar-General of Saint-Germain des Pres ordered a solemn procession of all his clergy, in which the Pope's Nuncio officiated.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER X—ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION