659 examples of clerical in sentences

There were fifteen masters (maistres) or clerical councillors, and fifteen who were laymen, and these were annually approved by the King on the opening of the session.

The first president received 4 livres, 22 solis parisisabout 140 francsper day; a clerical councillor 25 sols parisisabout 40 francsand a lay councillor 20 solsabout 32 francs.

There are resemblances here to the constitution of the Southwark Chapter, consisting of four clerical and four lay canons, but at Coventry some of the lay canons are elective and for fixed periods.

From among clerical workers came into the League women who have left their mark, Helen Marot and Alice Bean, of New York, and Mabel Gillespie, of Boston, while Stella Franklin, the Australian, for long held the reins of the national office in Chicago.

The clerical work alone, involved in, registering and placing recruits was almost overwhelming.

"Perhaps"a septuagenarian, with snowy hair and a thin body, clad in the clerical guise of the old school, and who had made a fortune by inventing a hat-block, arose hastily to his feet, and said: "I cannot stay to listen to a dun!"

He adopted the clerical profession, in which he rose to high honours.

In moments of relaxation his wit and humour were the delight of his clerical friends, for he had the rare power of telling anecdotes effectively.

On the other hand, he was not prepared to live the life of almost puritanical strictness which was then considered essential for a clergyman, and he saw that the impediment of speech from which he suffered would greatly interfere with the proper performance of his clerical duties.

That his wig always sat straight and even around his ample forehead, not facetiously poked to one side, nor assuming rakish airs, unsuited to clerical dignity, was entirely owing to Mrs. Katy Scudder.

Her Scenes of Clerical Life were contributed to Blackwood's Magazine for 1857, and published in book form in the following year.

Scenes of Clerical Life, Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Adam Bede, Middlemarch.

The feeling of moral responsibility half consciously associated with the religious use of Sunday would also be so valuable an aid to reflection that the most determined anti-clerical might be willing to risk the chance that it would add to the political power of the churches.

Mr. Lewisham raised his mortar-board, and to his astonishment Mr. Bonover responded with a markedly formal salutemock clerical hat sweeping circuitouslyand the regard of a searching, disapproving eye, and so passed.

The ig is either a clerical error of the monkish scribe for y, or the g is a silent letter producing the quantity of the vowel.

When I was writing about the Art of Conversation and the men who excelled in it, I was surprised to find how many of the best sayings that recurred spontaneously to my memory had a clerical origin; and it struck me that a not uninteresting chapter might be written about the social agreeableness of clergymen.

Mr. Eyton's massive bulk and warm heart, and rugged humour and sturdy common sense, produce the effect of a clerical Dr. Johnson.

Though I trust there is some growth in my appreciation of others and in my self-distrust, there has been no change in the point of view from which I regard our life since I wrote my first fiction, the Scenes of Clerical Life.

Minnesota vocational test for clerical workers, D. M. Andrew under the direction of Donald G. Paterson & Howard P. Longstaff.

PATERSON, DONALD G. Minnesota vocational test for clerical workers.

ANDREW, DOROTHY M. Measured characteristics of clerical workers.

SEE Darley, John G. Measured characteristics of clerical workers.

There are a couple of clerical portraits in the book that seem to me as lifelike as anything of the kind since Barchester.

From time to time certain persons in clerical robes appeared in the audience; the austerity of their habit contrasting somewhat strangely with the attire of the elegant women, men of fashion and young actors in their apprenticeship around them; but matters always settled themselves.

One wonders he had the heart to do it, but the clerical mind is sometimes strangely insensitive to the privacy of thought.

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