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Out of jails all over Spain and across frontiers they poured last week. 9,000 monarchists, clericals, politicians.

From Time Magazine Archive

His own Christian Democrats include monarchists and republicans, rebels and traditionalists, free enterprisers and welfare staters, clericals and anticlericals.

From Time Magazine Archive

That is when Beaumont, 33, puts on his clericals and drives to St. Stephen's Church in Westminster to deliver the sermon or officiate at Holy Communion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Haunted by France's humiliating defeat in the war of 1870 enraged clericals and anticlericals, lurking royalists and Bonapartists, wild radicals and Republicans turned the parliamentary process into a dismal puppet show.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Cooper had to cough so he could pretend not to be laughing, and he winked at Johnny in spite of the dignity of his black clericals, white bands, and great woolly wig.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes




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