pharisee
Example Sentences
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The self-applauding bird, the peacock see:— Mark what a sumptuous pharisee is he!
From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Jacob Zeitlin
But you and I, and every pharisee, publican, and sinner in the world, are equally the children of God to begin with.
From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by George MacDonald
He was not, however, a hypocrite or a pharisee, but was simply indifferent to religious dogmas, and secretly averse to the society of priests.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 09 European Statesmen by John Lord
Nicodemus, a night professor, and Simon the pharisee, with his fifty pence; and their great ignorance of the methods of grace, we have now and then touched upon.
From The Jerusalem Sinner Saved; or, Good News for the Vilest of Men by John Bunyan
“Yes; but, grandmother, if the pharisee really was a good man, it wasn't right for him to thank God for it?”
From Caleb in the Country by Jacob Abbott
