41 Metaphors for clergymen

On the other hand, the clergyman was the recipient of one of the poet's many single-hearted acts of munificencea gift of 1000l., to pay off debts to which he had been left heir.

For such are nearly as unfit to be healers of the body, as mere professional clergymen to be healers of broken hearts and wounded minds.

A clergyman, his worldliness and vanity and the indecency of his writings were a scandal to the Church, though his sermons were both witty and affecting.

The clergyman in question is now a bishop, and is still living.

Two clergymen, the Rev. Leonard Isitt and the Rev. Edward Walker, were respectively the voice and the hand of the Prohibitionists.

Moreover, the clergyman and the school-teacher, the two beings who had done so much for colonial civilization on the seaboard, were already becoming important factors in the life of the frontier communities.

When the detective asked Jem Davies to watch the lawn, he never suspected that the clergyman was the villain who had been concerned in that explosion.

Many of the heads of country families round Edinburgh have been educated in England, and many of them have married in Englandboth circumstances tending to keep up their attachment to the Episcopal Church; and in their houses the scholarly, accomplished, agreeable clergyman of the Episcopal Church was a welcome guest, as well as an adviser and influential friend.

On the appearance of Adam Bede this claim was again put forward, and a local clergyman became the medium of its announcement to the public.

"The first clergyman that came among them was the Rev. Charles Cummings, an Irishman by birth but educated in Pennsylvania.

This clergyman is a native Persian, and the account he gives of his countrywomen, unbiassed and sorrowful, shows that the chances for romantic love are no better in modern Persia than they were in the olden times.

She thought, and perhaps rightly, that clergymen were marked objects.

The first church (St. George's) of the infant town was just then finished, and the clergyman was the Rev. James Marye, a native of France.

The good clergyman was the only old or middle-aged gentleman who did not take his place in the set, and he looked on and laughed.

"Well," said the clergyman, cheeringly, "it's not your husband, woman."

On this occasion the officiating clergyman was rather a slight man, and the lady to be baptized was extremely large and corpulenthe took her by the hands to perform the immersion, but notwithstanding his most strenuous exertions, he was thrown off his centre.

"I believe clergymen are usually the last people to hear the truth about themselves," continued Gerald.

A village clergyman is the narrator, and with his registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials open before him, looks through the various entries for the year just completed.

The clergyman was a middle-aged bachelor, a grandson of the Parson H mentioned by Mrs. T. He heard Miss Sophonisba's story in silence, but without any sign of dissent.

"A clergyman, it is said, is God's ambassador."

The clergyman was the Rev. C.P. Burney, who was not, however, vicar of St. Mildred's in the Poultry, but of St. Paul's, Deptford, in Kent.

The other clergyman was Dr. John Erskine, of whom Sir Walter has given an animated picture in his novel of Guy Mannering."

The clergyman and his sisters were all much my seniors.

In these discussions, the clergyman was good-natured and the soldier polite; circumstances that tended to render them far more agreeable to the listeners than they might otherwise have proved.

I know of a Lord Mayor who plays the trombone, a clergyman who plays the big drumthat's a nice unpretentious, giddy

41 Metaphors for  clergymen