"Cleric" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in the cloister on the side warmed by the sun at that early hour, the cleric had put away his ticket books, and his eyes were fixed on Gabriel, who thought that to smile in his enigmatic way, which Don Antolin accepted as assent, quite met the situation, and it encouraged ...
— The Shadow of the Cathedral • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... who, in the fervour of her affection for her herculean cleric, gave no thought to such trifles as head-dresses, and not much to ...
— The Hawk of Egypt • Joan Conquest
... University I had the good fortune to come immediately under the influence of a brilliant and inspiring young scholar. Gaston Cleric had arrived in Lincoln only a few weeks earlier than I, to begin his work as head of the Latin Department. He came West at the suggestion of his physicians, his health having been enfeebled by a long illness in Italy. When I took my entrance examinations he was ...
— My Antonia • Willa Sibert Cather
... while he was knitting socks for the poor of his parish. Better known, of course, than this character of Father MacTurnan is that of Father Gogarty in "The Lake," but for all his sympathetic elaboration of this bemused and distraught cleric the character is never wholly opposed to that of Mr. Moore himself as is the character of ...
— Irish Plays and Playwrights • Cornelius Weygandt
... directed by a manager and twelve deputies with the same rules as that of Lisboa; its mission is to aid the poor. In the best part of the city is another seminary for the shelter of girls, with its church of Santa Potenciana, served by a cleric. There are two hospitals—the royal, for the soldiers; and that of the Misericordia, for the other poor. There are two others in the environs—one of San Juan de Dios for the Spaniards; and another for the Indians in Dilao. There ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXXVI, 1649-1666 • Various
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