ecclesiast
Example Sentences
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A famous ecclesiast, when on his way to the coast, was forced to spend the night in the King's Lynn Inn, owing to a violent snowstorm.
From Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter by Elliott O'Donnell
It had evidently been passed on to him from a higher authority than the Abbot, for only the address was in the handwriting of that learned ecclesiast.
From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
He is no hypocrite, no weary "king ecclesiast," shaking his head over the orgies of sap and song in which he can no longer share.
From Vanishing Roads and Other Essays by Richard Le Gallienne
Not even the highest ecclesiast can be at his devotions always.
From Shandygaff by Christopher Morley
He was somewhat prominent as an ecclesiast, and he was a Sunday School worker in his ward.
From Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft by Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins
