"Curate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Vicar! Here is a barrister who ought to have been a curate, and become enthusiastic over worked slippers: there is another thrust into a Government appointment, not out of respect to him, the Minister doesn't know him, but to serve a political friend, or to place an investment in the hands of a political rival, who will ...
— The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit • Richard Harris
... Knitters' Company owes its existence to an ingenious curate, one William Lee, of Calverton, who invented the stocking-loom in 1589. We should like, if space permitted, to dwell on his romantic story, but in this brief sketch it is impossible. The company of Framework Knitters sprang into being in the time of Charles II., and was then extremely prosperous, ...
— Memorials of Old London - Volume I • Various
... it do you, miss"; and didn't I tip her a word of Irish, which delighted her.... Our dinner-party were mamma and the two young ladies, two itinerant preceptors, a writing and elocution master, and a dancing-master, and Father Murphy, the P.P.—such fun!—and the Rev. Mr. Beaufort, the curate ...
— Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century • George Paston
... the present day[15] are apt, I know not why, to look somewhat down on incident, and reserve their admiration for the clink of teaspoons and the accents of the curate. It is thought clever to write a novel with no story at all, or at least with a very dull one. Reduced even to the lowest terms, a certain interest can be communicated by the art of narrative; a sense of human kinship stirred; and ...
— Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson • Robert Louis Stevenson
... curate, looking from him to Philip, and then to the guide, who poured out a whole stream of explanation before Philip had ...
— The Chaplet of Pearls • Charlotte M. Yonge
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