pharisee

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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 Zeitlin, Jacob

Two men went up into the temple to pray: the one a pharisee, and the other a publican.

From The first New Testament printed in English by

"That's all very well, Micky," Dick had replied with a remonstrating bellow of a laugh, "but I'm not enough of a pharisee for that, you know, for I'm no total abstainer myself."

From The Lash by Lyman, Olin L.

Above all, do not act like the two men in the parable: 'Two men went into the temple to pray, the one was a publican, the other a pharisee.

From The Silver Cross or The Carpenter of Nazareth by Sue, Eugène

The self-applauding bird, the peacock see:—   Mark what a sumptuous pharisee is he!

From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by Hazlitt, William