clergyman
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A clergyman I met at Reagan National Airport recently told me that our world is as filled with corruption as a Latin American animal shelter is filled with fleas.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
One character we haven’t cracked as successfully as our U.K. cousins, however, is the clergyman detective — odd, given our culture’s puritanical bent.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026
The parsonage between the village and the moors where the Brontes lived with their clergyman father and brother, Branwell, is now a museum dedicated to their memory.
From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026
It turns out that each of them has some tangled history with the deceased clergyman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
But maybe she had reason—maybe another clergyman was in the offing.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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The researchers say the register lays bare the breadth of which individuals contributed financially to the slave trade - from monarchs and politicians, to plumbers and clergymen.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Fabien Albertin, a French legislator, in 1932 revealed on the floor of the National Assembly leaked banking details of French politicians, clergymen, celebrities and industrialists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
Normally, avant-garde financial tools might come from, well, the financial avant-garde -- bankers, merchants, and investors hunting for short-term profits, not clergymen.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2024
Safronov was among the clergymen who signed a public letter calling for the remains to be returned to his family.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
Their presence marks the beginning not of discovery itself but of a culture of discovery, a culture which was now shared by government-office holders and sophisticated clergymen.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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"The Red Shoes" by Hans Christian Andersen
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