| 单词 | priest |
| 例句 | Padre Leo gave up the two-bedroom priest’s apartment attached to the church so that female migrants would have a place to sleep. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It was the village priest, brought there by Horatio to forgive, as he was told, a poor soul near death. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z There is heavy breathing.The priest has his hand over his mouth and he’s making choking sounds and talking to himself, Mother o’ God. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The Solar Federation was controlled by a group of “priests,” who are described in Part II of the song, titled “The Temples of Syrinx.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z His foot slipped; his momentum carried him down toward the stream; and Balthamos, thinking of what Baruch would have done, kicked aside the priest’s hand as he flung it out for support. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “You are very cool! No! What! a novice not worship her priest! That sounds blasphemous.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I was fascinated with California missions and how the priests did such nice things for the Indians, civilizing them and all. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z A young girl saw me eating the corn in the garden and immediately reported my presence to the priest. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Other priests in town wear nice watches and rings and act important. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z As for my mother, she was tranquilized, and remembers only that the pressure in her eyes made Father Mike’s face appear oddly elongated, like a priest in a painting by El Greco. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z We all knew there were priests around who would report you to the SIM if you spoke against the regime. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, too, I had turned from the priest when he had asked me to church. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “If she wants to marry a priest,” Milton said, “let her marry a priest. The hell with her.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The priest had said she was a mother through a miracle. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There is no conviction in the old priests’ songs; there is only showmanship. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe this new young priest Padre de Jesus would have an answer for her. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My heart in my mouth, I wiped the rain from my eyes and looked again and saw that it was a priest. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The priests were dismayed to learn the Kongo already had their own Bible. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She found that the senior sisters monopolized the priests and bishops with biblical doubts more sophisticated than hers would ever be, and that it might be years before she got anywhere near Father Mulligan. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked carefully, concentrating on each step so as not to fall, the head priest guiding me with his steady hands. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The young priest was nearly weeping with pride. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Will gathered his cloak and the rucksack, and tried to walk straight as he left the priest’s house and took the road out of the village. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Father Amadi smirked and said, “We go mostly to Europe and America, where they are losing priests. So there is really no indigenous culture to pacify, unfortunately.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He yanked off his glove and shoved his bad hand at the priest’s face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Practicing how to walk like a priest, too. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The priest sat back and gave himself over to thought. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “And what did he say?” asked the priest. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Horatio jingled the coins in his purse, and the priest nearly dropped his Bible in his eagerness to comply. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The captain announces the tide will force us to drop anchor overnight opposite a place called, the priest spells it for me, Poughkeepsie. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Presently the housekeeper brought in some beetroot soup and dark bread, and after the priest had said a long grace, they ate. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The priest who delivered Holmes’s last rites was found dead on the grounds of his church of mysterious causes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He read books, slowly, mouthing words, holding them reverently like an altar boy the missal for the officiating priest. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Cows and sheep graze in the fields and 1 wonder if these are the beasts the priest was talking about. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The priest stopped right in the middle of the prayer and extended his right arm in the direction of my mother, who then started speaking in tongues. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Both the priest and his assistant were IN, the board informed me in gold letters, which I could plainly see. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I tell him a priest would have to come to the hanging. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z After three hours of wine and words, the priests took their leave ... all but the kindly man, the waif, and the one whose face bore the marks of plague. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The priest looked askance at both of them. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Two Soviets pulled a priest down the platform. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z An elderly woman talks to a priest for a while. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Before Ork has finished, the younger priest drops to his knees and throws his hands up, shaggy lips smiling, wild. fourth priest: Blessed! Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z She could feel the blood washing down her face, a rippling red curtain falling across her brow and cheeks and chin, and she understood why the priest had made her close her eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “There are rewards in caring for sheep, and there are rewards for tilling the soil, but the greatest calling is to be a priest,” he said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But I remember feeling uneasy when that priest was later excommunicated for having been secretly married. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest looked exhausted, far worse than he had just the week before. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z That’s how I’d tell it, if it were up to me: Daniel knew very well that the King’s high priests were sneaking in at night and taking all that food. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The rains would not come, and the powerful shaman priests and priestesses seemed to know this even as they prepared themselves that evening. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z By choice I am ruled by conscience rather than the authority of priests I consider my equals. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was nothing, Lupita. I like to hold him. I will go and get the priest for you now if you wish.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Once or twice a year I arranged for a priest to come and bless unions, animals, and machines, baptize children, and say a belated prayer for the dead. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I left you with a council to rule over you, Dany thought, a healer, a scholar, and a priest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Well, the lady appeared in the castle—as stated by the feigned priest—and she confirmed the story. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The panel slides back before my face and the priest says, Yes, my child? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z A priest who told an anti-Nazi joke was arrested and executed. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Finally, Mr. Alacran said a few words, and then the priest told everyone to file past to say their final goodbyes. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest was young and blushed easily and wore a uniform like the rest of us but with a cross in dark red velvet above the left breast pocket of his gray tunic. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The priest was pointing at the Black Wall behind the temple, gesturing up at its parapets, where a handful of armored guardsmen stood gazing down. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Tonight, his brother-in-law the priest, who spent his life in the fairy tale world of the Church, dressed up like Liberace, had figured things out for once. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Alex longed to pick up the priest and throw him across the hallway. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z By next summer she’d be a priest’s wife, living somewhere in Greece. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He was released under the custody of a priest from St. Joseph’s, which was why he was in the Morningside area. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “This is a church. You have violated this place. Release them!” the priest said. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Since our cottage was at the village fringe, the priest and I bore her remains along the narrow, rutted road that led to the cemetery. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z In the back, behind where a priest would have stood to lead vespers, was strung a banner. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There the procession stopped and waited for the priest to appear. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I cannot participate in a pagan funeral, but we can discuss with the parish priest and arrange a Catholic funeral.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “I wanted to be a doctor at first. Then I went to church once and heard this priest speak and I was changed forever,” Father Amadi said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z If it became a sacrament, Ben felt that he would be a high priest, a cardinal of the upward stroke, a pope of wasted seed. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He told Richard with unconcealed pride that he had formerly worked for the Irish priest Father Bernard and the American professor Land. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She understood that as I grew I would have to choose to be my mother’s priest or my father’s son. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest stood gazing down at the child in the crib. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Oh, they were only a collection of fiends, of course. The whole tower turned up-so-down and vanished immediately, and it turned out that they had been fiends all the time, including the priest.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The river nearby flowed, as the priest had said, from the northern part of the mountains in Tibet all the way to the Arctic. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Grandma said, Were you telling jokes to that priest in the confession box? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z "You were no priest when I was taken from Pyke.. I remember how you would sing the old reaving songs standing on the table with a horn of ale in hand." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was too much for the old priest’s intellects. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The priests were butting their way through the crowd. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z That is why the Tehlin priests wear robes of ashen grey. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A priest in scarlet robes stood on the temple balcony, haranguing the small crowd that had gathered around the flames. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Sit in a circle, please,” the priest said. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z "May the Drowned God bless our swords," the priest said. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The kings and priests of ancient Sumer wanted writing to be used by professional scribes to record numbers of sheep owed in taxes, not by the masses to write poetry and hatch plots. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “But when the priest named the courier that had come to them, I recognized the name.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Bells began to tinkle; at their sound the priests began intoning the prayers, one taking up where the other left off. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking down the street, I saw the distinctive grey of a Tehlin priest and decided to wait until he had passed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Then the priest quizzed us on some lessons we had already been through. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z MDR had claimed the life of a close friend, a priest named Jack Roussin, who had been living and working in a shantytown on the outskirts of Lima, the capital of Peru. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “Ah, ah. Si, si, si, ” the priest says, hastily pulling the zipper into place. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Would that we had the Damphair with us, or some other priest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z If the priest tries to take away their glue jars, they cry. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Priest to-day with girls,” the captain said looking at the priest and at me. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The priest finished his speech and blessed the two gold rings. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw the priest from town come, and he rubbed the holy oil at my feet and prayed. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z My heart raced at the thought of this religious center where only the holiest of priests and the most beautiful of Sun Maidens lived, always in prayer and praise to Inti and the other gods. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Why art thou sad, my soul, and why dost thou disquiet me, chanted the priest in his deep rich voice. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why, it’s a hole for priests, of course!” one said, which made the rest of them laugh even harder. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z This was partly due to ecclesiastical interference - priests, bishops and cardinals knowing better than composers which sounds were godly, pure and appropriate - and partly due, I suppose, to fear of the unknown. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Like so many country doctors, he was a combination doctor, priest, psychiatrist to his town. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “You could never be their priest,” he said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The onlookers seemed as interested in our answers as was the priest. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The priest faces the people, his back to the tabernacle. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He consulted a priest about the dream who told him that the iron wolf symbolized a large and formidable city, a city of opportunity. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Each night, the sorcerer priest would kindle a fire on the forecastle of the Iron Victory and stalk around the flames, chanting prayers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z You might also decide, since they had quite different attributes, that one of them was merely invented by the priests. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She ignored the warnings of a priest of her people who begged her to return to her gods; and she sang an aria of love for the Spaniard to the accompaniment of the flute. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Analogously, the priests of the Triple Alliance were probably all Mexica. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Two high-school altar boys accompanied the priest, one to hold the lighted candle and the other to hold the incense burner. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He danced right up to where the priest stood, and then, to my astonishment, halted and sank to his knees, pulling off his cap. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Then slowly, like the priest who sometimes visits this place, she moves one dry brown arm in a widening gesture to point out the dry brown landscape before us. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z A young lean priest in a discolored soutane came up to the car. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z At Maria Auxiliadora, many church members, including its priest, have been intimidated by police officers for helping migrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It reminded me of sermons I’d heard from priests and preachers about planting in dry soil. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z It is written that the old shall keep to the comfort of their beds! second priest: It’s a bad habit, beloved friend, this wandering about at night when monsters prowl. third priest: Senility. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z I swung the dark robe of the priest over my shoulders then lifted my hands in the air. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It moved into Latin and Middle English as jlamen, a pagan word for priest, and into Sanskrit as brahma, then “brahman.” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Twelve o’clock: I resumed my studies in the attic, reading about deans, priests, ministers, popes and...whew, it was one o’clock! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The priest had come to see other prisoners since then, but had not stopped to talk with him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It was the priest who said, ‘Credo... ’ using the first person singular. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I try to listen to Willie’s confession when he goes in but all I can hear is a hissing from the priest and when Willie comes out he’s crying. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z When he came out of the church Tenorio spoke to him and the priest answered. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I pleaded, hear me and I shall be your priest! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “There is no one like this man. He is too humble. Too humble,” she says of her priest. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Julian and he were talking—in jocular, mocking, pedantic Latin—like a couple of priests tidying the vestry before a mass. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Good afternoon, my name is Leonardo. Pm the new priest. Pm here to serve you,” he said. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He handed his cloak to the shorter, hooded priest. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Finally, when Dad was unable to stand it any longer, he’d shout out something to challenge the priest. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In the evenings, Enrique watches the priest return to the church on his bicycle, loaded down with bags of donated bread. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Maybe the priest, as payback for all those St. Vincent de Paul charity trips you’ve made?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The life of a priest’s wife had been even worse than Aunt Zo had expected. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Our priest heard there was a convent upstate that was taking in teenage girls. Bri left Thursday.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Again the priest offered interpretations, which were as meaningless to me as if he too were speaking in tongues. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z An elderly priest wearing white was standing at the top of the steps by the main door. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I smiled at the priest and he smiled back across the candle-light. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The priests can go to hell too and I won’t ask God to forgive me for saying the likes of that. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z A popular Polish Catholic priest urged calm, calling the riots a “black pogrom” and hinting that the Irish were the culprits, trying to draw the Lithuanians into the battle. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I believe we have all heard enough,” the taller of the two priests said with quiet severity. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Here dwelt the great and good dead, heroes, poets, priests, and all who had made men remember them by helping others. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In the abandoned Latin service it was the priest alone who spoke the affirmation of faith. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z So again the power of the priest has failed, I thought. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She was absorbed in the task of tracking down the disappeared, comforting the victims of torture who returned with their backs flayed and their eyes unfocused, and searching for food for the priests’ soup kitchens. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps a Shao Lin priest could have anticipated some of the more exaggerated movements, but these men were hardly trained adversaries. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Then Hamlet instructed the priest, taking his Bible and showing him which passages to read. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Your Drowned God is a demon,” the black priest Moqorro said afterward. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He also mentioned counseling a guard who had put his finger on a sad truth that priests seem to understand better than doctors or social workers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Like Voltaire, Jefferson longed for the day when the last king would be strangled with the entrails of the last priest. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Outnumbered, the Hitler Youth fled and the priest was unharmed. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Then the church door opened, a priest came out, and the ghosts, haunts, and corpses vanished, and only the priest and the drunk were left alone in the graveyard. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I will need a letter from the parish priest and a physical examination by my family doctor. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z An old priest, palsied, walking with a cane of ash. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The priests who painted her each year always cried when they stood back from the cliff and saw her. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The priest looked at Bear, then at me, then at Bear again. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for his love is better than wine,” the priest intoned, while Hamlet kissed me most tenderly. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Inside the main office sat a priest in a long burgundy robe wearing a giant pointed hat, or crown. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z And we heard a priest say that it was a mortal sin to read newspaper accounts of a Billy Graham sermon. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My former classmates would call the abbey, wondering how I was doing, and the priest would answer the phone. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Nobody pitied him for being a priest, whereas later on in America his parishioners always treated him with a slight but unmistakable condescension, like a crazy person whose delusions had to be humored. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Across Europe, prophets and priests portrayed it as the wrath of God and a foretaste of an imminent Armageddon. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z For the young priest in training, life at the monastery soon settled into a predictable routine. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Whenever I can, I bring a priest in to say mass for them, so I don’t see why the priest comes to talk to me about justice. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Not a single story has a magical priest who is terribly to be feared because he knows ways of winning over the gods or alienating them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “The priest was right in not passing Florence, because he doesn’t believe!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As at the Lyceum, there would have been a sanctuary for the Muses, and an altar for sacrifices, as well as a head priest, in this case appointed by Ptolemy. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z He had the air of a doctor, a teacher, even a priest, anxious to explain and persuade rather than to punish. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The acolytes were clad in robes of pale yellow and bright orange, priests and priestesses in red. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The priest told me he had nodded, listened, and prayed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “My mother wants me to become a farmer, or a priest,” I said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She doesn’t want to be a priest’s wife or move to Greece. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I read somewhere in India there are priests who can will their heart to stop beating. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I tell him it is and he says it’s not a sin and I don’t have to tell the priest. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Will and Lyra had returned to the village that afternoon by a different route and hadn’t seen it; the priest lay undisturbed where Balthamos had laid him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Terrified, I made a short and desperate prayer to Saint Giles, imploring his blessings on the priest and on myself. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Ken and Toby won and got to be the high priests of Anubis. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s what the priests and the masters tell you, everything is a mystery and you have to believe what you’re told. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The priest measured him with a pitying look. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z My mother had said prayers and begged for an audience with the priest. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z He had been full of arrogance; he had always been the cleverest, the most eager—always a step ahead of the others, always the learned and intellectual one, always the priest or the sage. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z During the sermon, the priest discussed the miracle of Immaculate Conception and the Virgin Birth. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The priest holds up a flat round bread on a silver plate, a symbol of Christ’s body. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Written by their priest, it was short, but still long enough to make Lupita content. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Psalms sung by the priests of King David, who united the kingdoms of Israel and Judaea in 1003 bc, are riven through with references to instruments and to singing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Carvajal went on to achieve modest renown as a priest in Lima, dying peacefully at the age of eighty. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A community of farmers ruled over by a priest, she firmly believed, was the true way of life. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The sorcerer priest was garbed in somber black, but for a hint of golden thread at collar, cuffs, and hem. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was right after the time our priest said—I swear to God—that women should obey their husbands. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z As they toured Cange in the priest’s pickup, the treeless, dusty landscape struck Farmer as “amazingly, biblically dry and barren.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Though upset, I was resolved to do as the priest had instructed. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z He went to Saint Augustine’s Church and gave his presentation to a priest he seemed to know. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z They were made to have separate churches, with separate services, and separate priests. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest had nothing to say to that. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The priest was suspicious, and Balthamos whispered so quietly that only Will could hear: “Be careful.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z To be locked within boundaries plotted by priests and politicians would be the only thing more intolerable. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, there was a brother school run by priests. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The priest’s eyes lighten then, with a touch of regret poured gently into them. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z ‘Oh, I’m not a lord.'. Octavian’s eyes crinkled. ‘Just a centurion, an augur and a humble priest doing his best to serve the gods. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “The priest and...the body. Henry is not able right now. You will watch the babies, ¿sí? Just until I come back. Then we will talk.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The visiting priest said Mass in a red robe that seemed too short for him. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps God will bless our family and make the baby a priest. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest runs to his closet and pulls one out. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z There was no church yet, and no priests either. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I longed for a confessional, for the safety of the wood cubicle and the green curtain that separated priest and penitent. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “So are they all, at the beginning,” said the priest, “but you cannot know that she is lovely unless you have seen her with your own eyes, and you have none. Who are you, child?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Titid was young then, just a young priest starting out, not a famous Monsieur le President. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Softly, God grew in the hands of one priest; in the womb of his hands the Christ grew. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest was an immense, gray-bearded man, wearing a black cassock, with a crow dæmon on his shoulder. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Up to that time, Roman priests decided when extra days would be added to the lunar year. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z I wonder if this priest is asleep because he’s very quiet till he says, My child, I sit here. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She can smell what the priest had for lunch. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z So when Papa finally decided to, after extensive talks with the parish priest and insisting that all pagan undertones be removed from his title-taking ceremony, it was like a mini New Yam festival. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He hears a priest with no tongue say, The keeper of the stone will live forever. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Like my parents, the priests remembered what it was like to have been Catholic in villages and cities where everyone else was a Catholic. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Many “resettled” Poles—especially priests, teachers, and other leaders—were executed. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Like Farmer, the priest believed in liberation theology as a “powerful rebuke to the hiding of poverty,” and he worked diligently to bring public awareness to the plight of rural Haitians. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The Catholic priest shook his finger at the drunkenness and lust, but the people felt something deeper: they were losing her, they were losing part of themselves. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “Why should a well-dressed woman care enough to argue with a priest for the sake of kids she doesn’t know?” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z She caught the mingled odors of incense, candle wax, flowers, and the good black cloth and shaving lotion of the priest. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The bridegroom arrived; his parents, his relatives, our friends, the priests. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh why did my mother dream for me to be a priest! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Something about my father. And mother. So I think his death was my doing. God was punishing me. “By killing His priest? Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z One of the priests led our procession; my mother came next, then my father, me, the other priest, and Lin Nai-Nai. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “You have to believe in God to be a priest.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “The Devil has indeed been here,” cried the priest, “and he has tempted our miller into theft! But let us deal with this thief mercifully, for which of us could withstand the Devil?” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But everything stopped when a door opened and the officiating priest entered. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest was at the far end of the railing; the girls were getting the communion first. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest is a friend ofMoushumi’s parents, an anesthesiologist who happens to be a Brahmin. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z When the priest moved on Horse leaned on me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Starving men take a hard view of priests too fat to walk, Tyrion reflected. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z We hear of a three-volume Babylonian history, derived directly from the cuneiform records at Babylon, by a Chaldean priest named Berossus. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z A choir of pink-cheeked boys lift their voices as a priest seems to pull the music from their throats with the urging of his hands. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “Yes, that is what I heard,” said the priest, to Will’s relief. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Mrs. Nolan can tell you more than I can,” said the priest. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Marjory told me all about how you tricked her into stealing that book,” said a man in a priest collar, who Kyle figured had to be Father Mike, chaperone for the Midwest team. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z “Let us remember the life of our companion,” the priest said in a deep, impressive voice. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z This enabled her to stock the priests’ kitchens for a time, which, however, seemed all too brief to her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The altar boys stood in an arc around the priest as he recited a list of a hundred twenty-nine names, Haitian refugees who had drowned at sea that week. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z It’s a gray day, the church is gray and the small crowd of people outside the door of the priests’ house is gray. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “You want to talk to the priest. 1 have to go in the town,” Rinaldi said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Then there was an interlude of silence while the priest and his attendants moved to the second station, Christ receiving the cross. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At last only two of that roistering, impudent band were left, the priest of the suitors and their bard. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She’ll go now and tell on us and before we know it we’ll have the priests of the world banging on the door and disturbing us. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z My friend saw the priest from our mess going by in the street, walking carefully in the slush, and pounded on the window to attract his attention. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “He said that he was the son of the Sun,” according to the report of two Spanish priests who investigated the valley's history in the 1550s. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “And the priest keeps touching my mouth and it nauseates me,” Jaja said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z "The Milk Men shun him. Khaleesi, do you see the girl in the felt hat? There, behind the fat priest. She is a—" "—cutpurse," finished Dany. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Great spirit,” the chief of the priests wails, “ghostly Destroyer, defend the people of Scyld and kill their enemy, the terrible world-rim-walker!” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z They were going lower still, down to the third level, to the secret chambers where only the priests were permitted. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “You will be like my brothers. You will be a Luna, Antonio. You will be a man of the people, and perhaps a priest.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest sprinkled the door with holy water and threw it open. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She made it her business to read that poem so she did and I’d be well advised to tell the priest in confession. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It was my sacred duty to help the head priest pull the Sun God back to the world. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The priest cared more about making lasting changes in his country than about his own life. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I compare a psychiatrist to a Catholic priest hearing Confession. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The major shook his head at the priest. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Civilization came to the people, and Cuzco was the center of it all, a thriving city of nobles and priests. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “Last month,” Nathan continued, “a Spanish priest from this place called Fort Mose came through here, trying to teach my daddy the ‘one true faith.’ Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did you call a priest to give him extreme unction?” he asked. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She ran out of that rectory before the priest could return, and arrived at the clinic while Dofta Beldn was still struggling with the buttons of her dress. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Once I had told my mother about my dreams, and she said they were visions from God and she was happy, because her own dream was that I should grow up and become a priest. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z While the priest and the Nordic ambassador discussed the international situation, the family said goodbye. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest seemed to be asking for forgiveness, or explaining his actions. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The President opened a drawer and handed the young priest a folded packet of papers. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The priest seemed to be only too happy to take Hirohito’s flyer. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Was it possible that there was more power in Ultima’s magic than in the priest? Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to guess what the priest was going to tell me about my father. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z She'd mentioned our neighbors, the priest, and several of the actors we saw each week on television. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Tyrion wondered, when he realized the huge red priest was gone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z One of them was holding a censer, and the priest was leaning toward him, adjusting the length of its silver chain. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z As soon as he heard it, Toby remembered reading something about the Egyptian priests making predictions, but he just hadn’t been thinking about the oracles in connection with the Egypt Game until that moment. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew why the priest put glistening oil on my grandmother’s forehead the night she died. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The thin priest was asleep on a mat on the raised stone verandah. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Again a woman was the reason, Chryseis, daughter of Apollo’s priest, whom the Greeks had carried off and given to Agamemnon. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But Isabel takes my hand and says in earnest, “Ophelia, you shall be my priest, for you are as secret as an effigy on a tomb.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The priest proceeded to interpret my mother’s prophesy, but I was too anxious about her well-being to pay any attention to what he was saying. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And I also wondered, why doesn’t the priest fight against the evil of the brujas. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Cardinal Bellarmine himself looked through Galileo’s telescope and appointed what we would now call a scientific subcommittee of learned priests to examine Galileo’s claims for the instrument. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z By extending a low platform from one side, they created a stage for priests to perform ceremonies in full view of the public. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The director was telling me that the hearse was waiting out in the road and at the same time I could hear the priest beginning his prayers. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Of course they would exalt the priests and rulers who promised to maintain this miracle. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In Brazil, when word came that the harvest was about to begin, a priest came to bless the mill—and the workers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The priest’s huge face darkened, and he crossed himself with a delicate flick of the wrist. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z After the priest left some of the kids left, too, and some of the adults got up and started to talk again. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “That priest. It isn’t me that makes fun of him. It is the captain. I like him. If you must have a priest have that priest. He’s coming to see you. He makes big preparations.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I tried to shut my ears, I tried to hear the priest, but he was moving away, moving to where Simon helped Christ carry the cross. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Easter is better than Christmas because Dad takes us to the Redemptorist church where all the priests wear white and sing.They’re happy because Our Lord is in heaven. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Out in front of the building stood the priest and two altar boys. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z In his public school, nuns and priests taught the Catholic prayers. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z I remembered the Italian priests and bishops blessing Italian boys who were on their way to Ethiopia. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z She screams at me like a banshee and jumps around the kitchen and threatens to drag me to the priest, the bishop, the Pope himself if he lived around the corner. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The story of a prince who could not be killed, a priest who warned of a goddess’s wrath, a French prelate who believed he’d bought the same stone centuries later. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Preserved Maya writing was similarly devoted to propaganda, births and accessions and victories of kings, and astronomical observations of priests. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Maybe after many, many offerings a priest noticed that if the juice of the cane was boiled in the right way, it crystallized into sweet, dark brown clumps. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z There were not many who paid attention to his apocalyptic talk, for the town was convinced that the priest was rambling because of his age. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The speaker was the priest he had seen leading the horses along the shoreline. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was said that he had once been a great priest in the capital city of Cuzco, that he had worked for the mighty Sapa Inca himself. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “They are migrants. We are going to feed them here,” the balding priest tells the police, who, so far, haven’t raided the church. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Dad said, No, no, this is a priest. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Had the priest felt insulted and left the house in disgust? Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Then the village priest enters, dressed in a brown cloak and carrying a shovel like our ancestor Adam. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Toby presided again as the high priest, and his ceremony was almost exactly the same as the day before. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Then suddenly the priest was in front of me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘It’s hidden in the cellar of the priest’s house,” she told him. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Think to yourself of the people you have loved and lost,” the priest said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I am not a priest, I cried, I too have sinned! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest told Farmer stories of the dam, about the chaos and instability it had created almost overnight. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “Shouldn’t we go to church first? Maybe a priest should bless me or something, you know, to make me holy.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “The boy has not even been through his catechism. And it is not the priest who will decide when the time comes, but Tony himself!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The government forbade any trafficking in Indian antiquities and had given the priest a general concession, authorizing him to catalogue whatever he found and hand it over to the museum. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’d take warm and snug to strung up by priest killers any day,” said another. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z But a cry came from the priest and they looked up to see a marvel hardly to be believed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Furthermore, the parish priest arranged for her to travel under the care of a group of Franciscan nuns who were going to Toledo, where they hoped to find dependable people to accompany her to Belgium. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In his study they prayed together for an hour, and then Father MacPhail granted the young priest the preemptive absolution that would make his murder of Lyra no murder at all. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A foul-smelling migrant with badly swollen feet also needed to talk to the priest. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z At the Mass people go up to the altar and the priest puts something into their mouths.They come back to their seats with their heads down, their mouths moving. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z At the temple the priest—or priestess, he added graciously—would pass the paper over the sacred fire, and do whatever other stuff he could think up. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “There has been a convulsion in the earth,” the priest said. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Here, with a Scandinavian conquest, had sprung up a wooden long-house—there, the original stones of the curtain wall had been pulled down to build a round tower for priests. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The humiliation of being a priest in a market economy didn’t plague Father Mike while he was in Greece. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But what I kept pondering endlessly were the priest’s revelations about my mother. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Everywhere else in northwestern Europe the early records, the traditions, the songs and stories, were obliterated by the priests of Christianity, who felt a bitter hatred for the paganism they had come to destroy. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I could see the priest was disappointed but he said, “That’s all right. It’s no matter.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Moving back and forth, the priests looked like men at a hammam. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The hushed journeyers with Christ answered the priest’s prayer. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We knew the priest would not let her be buried in the holy ground of the campo santo next to the church. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I could catch a glimpse of a deep cowl like some priests wear, but underneath the shadows were so deep it was like looking down a well at midnight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Elizabeth and Marshall were languishing in the dungeon, tied hand and foot, victims of the priests of Set. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the priest prayed to the mighty god he served and Phoebus Apollo heard him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew we were really high when the priest behind me called out to the priest in the front of the line. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He buttonholed a priest who was coming back with one of the returning streams of pilgrims. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Then Mikey tells me I’ve committed a sin by listening to a story that has that word in it and when I go to my First Confession I’ll have to tell the priest. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I will go unto the altar of God, chanted the priest. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest is like the First Confession priest. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “There’s no way he can know! The ballots are secret,” the false priest argued back. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When he was drunk he called priests “women,” and made fun of the long skirts they wore. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest raised his eyes to the place where he thought the angel’s face would be, and saw him for the first time: just a shimmer in the air, but there was no mistaking it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “He is a good priest,” said the major. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Farmer moved on, to the town of Mirebalais in Haiti’s central plateau, where he would eventually meet the Haitian Anglican priest Father Lafontant and discover just how poor the poor could be. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “The day I was born they saw the color of my eyes, and they took me from the village. The Spaniards in the town looked at me, and the Catholic priest said, ‘Let her die.’ Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “So the priest wanted to take her away,” she said, “and the nun showed him the wrong child? D’you think she just didn’t know herself which was the right one?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z On the altar the priest began the ceremony of changing the bread into flesh and the wine into blood. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered if there were any unreal Catholic priests. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Farmer had first met Father Jack when the priest was at St. Mary’s parish in Roxbury, one of Boston’s run-down, largely African American neighborhoods. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He could hear most every word the priest was saying, but that was not to say he understood them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z This man was the Villac Uma, the head priest and highest sorcerer of the entire empire? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I wondered if it was because the priest was helping me, or if it was because he was about to tell me about my father or something more about my mother. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Finally the door opened farther, very slowly, and the young priest Brother Louis stepped in. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “The priest came and blessed the house, but you know that priest at El Puerto, he does not want to pit his power against those brujas! He washes his hands of the whole matter.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She makes the single exception of confessing her sins to a Catholic priest. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Many Germans joined with priests, bishops, and other clergy to lobby against the euthanasia action. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “His priest’s dress!” he shouted, and the others followed. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Out.You should be running to the priest and confessing your sins. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Enrollment at churches and synagogues rose as never before, the requests for wine overwhelming some priests and rabbis. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “Did you have a priest?” the brother wanted to know. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The priest was blessed with a long, incriminating finger, which he used to point out sinners in public, and a tongue well schooled in arousing emotions. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Around us proud parents smiled at each other, waiting for the priest to open the doors. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest whispers to me again, Bad women, bad women, occasion of sin, and I don’t know what to say to him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z As for the priest, his mind was working quickly. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The priest gazed around my cell and answered in a voice that sounded very weary to me. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z I rest my hands on the altar, feeling the linen cloth only meant for a priest’s fingers. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z If the priest, who had for so long been unwilling to condemn the Trementinas’ doings, had taken a stand then surely that would lend courage to the villagers. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He pointed to the church where the priest desecrated the altar by pouring the blood of dead pigeons into the holy chalice. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Mostly, however, I kept marveling at the priest s revelations about my mother. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to say something, to remind this handsome priest that Papa wasn’t just Aunty Ifeoma’s brother or the Standard's publisher, that he was my father. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “We are the priests of power,” he said. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The priest had white hair and a white collar. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The priest shook his head and backed away. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Father was the name for the priest at church. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, in a burst, I recalled my mothers death and burial, my leaving the cemetery and the priest, my plunge mto the woods. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Finally he turned his head to the second priest who stood back from the bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Lord Roke prepared to spring, but the priest merely listened to Mrs. Coulter’s steady breathing, looked closely to see whether she was asleep, and then turned to the bedside table. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They were accustomed to poking and fixing, unlike the priests and scribes of other nations, who, raised in luxury, were reluctant to dirty their hands. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s blood now,” Abel whispered when the priest raised the chalice with the wine, and his thin voice mixed mysteriously into the ringing altar bell. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z One is a priest, still wearing the black cassock. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Parish priests recognized and encouraged my fascination with the liturgy. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The arm the priest had healed was hideous to look upon, pork crackling from elbow to fingertips. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The priest kept leaning forward to look closely at him, and felt his hands to see whether he was cold, and stroked his knee. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A little while after they were gone a steward went through announcing the first service, and pilgrims, with their priests, commenced filing down the corridor. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z A priest would make an exception for her. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “We do not want you for our priest!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I would like you to go to Abruzzi,” the priest said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z By placing offerings in a special fire, a priest could turn them into smoke and send them on to the gods. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z As for the two roads that passed through Stromford, all I knew was that they led to the rest of England, of which I had no knowledge. our priest called it. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “I begin to find reason in this, as the priest said when he discovered the dead rat under the altar. How is it your hand is so practiced, friend? Someone has taught you well.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Nuns and priests were enforcers of a classroom absolutism that tolerated no opposition. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Think we should get a priest?” the other high school boy asked worriedly. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest shook his head and went on. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z There is an arm around my shoulders, a brown robe, click of black rosary beads, a Franciscan priest. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “He said none of this,” the priest said. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Horse never prayed all of the stations, he waited until the priest came near, then he prayed the one he happened to be sitting by. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The first day the weather lifted a little, a chopper came in with a priest. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Maya priests tracked the movements of Venus, which they regarded as a powerful portent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was, after all, a car chase between a Greek Orthodox priest and a middle-aged Republican. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The wings of his nostrils flared and quivered like an outraged priest’s. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Although training to become a priest, the courses Kepler was required to attend in his first two years at Tübingen included mathematics, physics and astronomy, in all of which he was an outstanding pupil. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The same man that play the killer is playing the priest And look at these shoes they making now, she say. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A priest at a Texas shelter says they often bring pictures of themselves in their mothers’ arms. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I’ll have to wait till I go to America where there are priests like Bing Crosby in Going My Way who won’t kick me out of the confessional like Limerick priests. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Tía Carmen lifts her open hands to heaven, a gesture she no doubt picked up from one of her priest friends. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The priest was fond of chewing orange rinds to sweeten his breath, whenever he could get them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The sad priests’ voices muffled by mud and wood. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They sighted her in the narrows between the Isle of Cedars and the rugged hills of the Astapori hinterlands, just as the black priest Moqorro had said they would. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The priest crossed himself again, for he was going to have to touch her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z In much the same way that priests and sorcerers have created gods and demons throughout history, and in which thousands of French curés were still creating Christ’s body every Sunday in the parish churches. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest sits at the end of a sofa which they call a couch and two women talk to him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Mallister or no, he was a more amiable riding companion than this sour old priest that his uncle Aeron had turned into. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I would be in black, with my dead white face, and I would throw myself at this priest's feet and say, "O Father, help me." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The child of the union, me, had poured salt in the wound by baptizing the priest in reverse. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z As they walked I saw a flash of grey robe beneath their cloaks: Tehlin priests. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She suffered like the martyrs in olden times and God knows that’s penance enough.You can be sure the sisters in the hospital didn’t let her die without a priest. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Its purpose was to keep records: the purchase of grain, the sale of land, the triumphs of the king, the statutes of the priests, the positions of the stars, the prayers to the gods. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The bishop looked just like Father Baraga, the priest who walked miles in his snowshoes to baptize, stealing souls from the other mission and also from the manitous. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He saw priests, also, and people he assumed were ministers and rabbis and Muslim clergy. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I felt lightened, transparent as sky, after confessing my sins to a priest. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The god’s will was revealed by the rustling of the oak leaves which the priests interpreted. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z When they came out in the morning and saw what I’d done, no one was especially bothered except the priests. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh I love to tease you, baby. With your priest and your English girl, and really you are just like me underneath.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The priest entered, followed by the altar boys. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as he was sure, Balthamos hauled the body out of the stream and laid it carefully on the grass, folding the priest’s hands over his breast and closing his eyes. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The priest whispers to me, These are bad women. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The priest gave him a piece of paper with the words to a hymn on it and asked him to sing. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The day after my mother died, the priest and I wrapped her body in a gray shroud and carried her to the village church. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The clouds hung thick and heavy as a priest’s black wool robe. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He is a powerful priest who has returned to the capital city and is treated with the utmost honor and respect for having found the Marked Girl. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z With the lay staff gone and only three elderly priests left on the faculty, education at St. Vincent de Paul Academy consisted mostly of theology, Latin, and church history. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Perhaps the greatest gift has come from the church’s priest. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The priest recites the Latin prayers and sprinkles the coffin with holy water. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Poppy had done his homework on the wall outside the door when he was a boy and once saw two priests have a fistfight, rolling in the dust. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Well, there’s this priest, and—” “He isn’t one of those Chesters, is he?” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z From then on, concerned about his own faith, the priest did not come back to visit him and dedicated himself to hurrying along the building of the church. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z To ask forgiveness, repeatedly, was what congregations were mosdy expected to do, all the while listening to choirs and priests singing at great length about the same sentiment. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The things he did seemed right, as he imagined with his heart the rituals the cloud priests performed during a drought. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The priest drew his chair up to the table and licked his fingers before turning the pages of the great atlas. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I can see the priest doesn’t believe her and I can’t stop the way the heat is coming and going in my face. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “If you need more water, you can find it along the way. The priest told me so. This food will be your breakfast tomorrow morning. Do not forget the sack when you go away.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z All of a sudden, the doctor recalled two things; he remembered that the priest was a member of the hospital board and he remembered that he liked being head doctor at that particular hospital. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The church hierarchy consisted of a priest, whose duties included interpreting dreams. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z They turn their heads, looking at the younger priest in annoyance. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of them wore the heavy iron chains of penitent priests. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z So were the priests from Vincent de Paul, the lay teachers, and the rest of the school staff. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z He felt so much restored by this that he called on the parish priest, half-way up the village street, and invited him to dinner. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Babulya said a long, long time ago, everyone had given some of their food and harvest to the high priests in the temple. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “I think you should be Chief Justice,” he said to the elderly priest. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z She wanted a priest to watch over the farmers of the valley; he wanted a son to travel with him to the vineyards of California. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest smiled and blushed and shook his head. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z For a bull to be chosen as the Buchis bull, it had to be a specific color and have special markings on it, and when a Buchis bull died, priests gave it a sacred burial. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Once he obtained all the information that he needed, he organized teams of Indians to dig up whatever might have escaped the priest’s zealous archaeological notice. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have not sinned!” he shouted, looking me square in the eyes, challenging me, the priest. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The old priest, kneeling, has one knee on his beard and is unable to lift his head. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest put his hand on my shoulder. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “The Father is coming— the priest is coming.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to get God down with my tongue but the priest hissed at me, Stop that clucking and get back to your seat. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z If he had chosen priests and Boy Scouts as his companions, I'm sure we wouldn't be here today. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z Four priests provided spiritual guidance, Padre de Jesus among them. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The man had his back to him, but he had no difficulty recognizing the Jesuit priest who had helped officiate at the funeral mass of old Pedro Garcia. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “It tells you about those priests. You will like it,” he said to me. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The swordpoint is my priest The dance of death is my prayer. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The priest knocked on every door in the neighborhood. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The red priest rested by day but kept vigil through the dark horns, to tend his sacred flames so that the sun might return to them at dawn. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A priest had supplied a rosary, with instructions; day after day, Ralph fingered the beads, moving his lips. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Unless I got impaled on a tomato cane, like the priest in The Omen who gets spiked by a falling lightning conductor. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “Just don’t let your mum and dad hear, or I’ll have the priest and constable after me both.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z She wants prayers from all the priests but the Jesuits. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z My visit to the priest would have to wait until the night. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The priests here were famous for arguing to get the best altars for their own services. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z "Oh, yes, this is it. Fifteen days after death. Prayers. Oldest son shaves head and recites after priest." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The man they inspired was sacred far beyond any priest. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest’s house was older than most, and made of costly bricks. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “I guess it must be a lot harder to be a priest over here in America, huh?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “So we can give thanks this priest didn’t accuse us of stealing and send us to a policeman?” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z So he raves, overflowing with meadbowl joy, and the older three priests look down at him as they would at a wounded snake. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z There would be no time to go for the priest. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z According to this story, if a Catholic priest dressed in his sacred garments solemnly said the right words at the right moment, mundane bread and wine turned into God’s flesh and blood. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon the priests were holding mass baptisms on shore and marching their converts onto ships bound for sugar plantations in Brazil, slaves to the higher god of commodity agriculture. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest asked, “Why does the boy not want to see the captain?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z She puts money in envelopes and sends me to churches around the city to knock on priests’ doors, hand in the envelopes with the request for Masses. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I surprise even myself, that I would dare to dispute with a priest during the Mass. Five months of convent life have, in their way, furthered my education, if not my humility. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The First Officer and the Wireless Officer return from their tours of the house and the garden and they don’t look at the priest. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He did not suggest, as all the other visiting priests had, that God’s presence dwelled more in St. Agnes, that the iridescent saints on the floor-to-ceiling stained-glass windows stopped God from leaving. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The snow falls on them softly. first priest: Ork, what are you doing here? Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Given that poisoned whiskey had been one of the killers’ preferred methods, the priest sent word back warning Mollie “not to drink any liquor of any kind under any circumstances.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Where, desperate as he was, he took to stealing from others, one of them a young priest who saw something to salvage and took him to a Catholic orphanage. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Mary Rommely had taken the scapulars to be blessed by the priest before she brought them over. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t look for her,” the priest told her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The anointment is done, and the priest moves on, only the dull feeling of helplessness remains. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Go to some noble, then, or seek an audience with a priest of Amon? The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z “Another rosary for daring to touch the priest!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was dusk and the red priest had lit his nightfire in the great iron brazier amidships as the crew gathered round to pray. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His face looked strangely melancholy and sallow; his hands might have been candles, he might have been about to bless her like a priest on Ash Wednesday. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest looked up, flung oil, and made the sign of the cross as our train rolled away. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “Its not for men to know what God does or does not will. What I do know is that you must leave/’ Frustrated, I rose up, only to have the priest hold me back. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Did you hear the one about the minister, the priest, and the rabbi? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I jammed my fingers in beside hers, and together we lifted a small section, revealing a hole about the width of my shoulders: the priest hole. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z We know of a three- volume history of the world, now lost, by a Babylonian priest named Berossus. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is a filthy and vile book,” said the priest. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z At the head priest’s words, she looked up. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z A priest, I thought, that was her dream. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Remember what the priest said about putting aside sorrow.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A priest in a black robe entered behind the last altar boy. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The priest leaned in closer yet to me. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The music stopped and the guests gathered in the main hall where a small, innocent priest, adorned with the vestments of high mass, read the complicated sermon he had written exalting confused and impracticable virtues. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z One of my favorites was about something said by the old priest, Father Duffey. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Lombardy, the large, pale, and intense Roman Catholic priest, was perhaps the chief supporting actor in the drama at Reykjavik. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z After dinner we all went to the front room where the priest took a small book from his jacket to recite some prayers, consecrating our house and our family. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A simpler model, however, was proposed in 1514 by a Polish priest, Nicholas Copernicus. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Father Mike was the assistant priest at Assumption. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Early kings were themselves the head of the state religion or else had separate high priests. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Of course,” he said agreeably, cool as a priest in his dark suit and ascetic spectacles. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “I went to the priest’s school. To learn to read the chimookoman’s tracks. That way they can’t cheat us with the treaties.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “The only ones trying to help are the priests,” Amanda said. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest had watched every inch of the way, and he was sure now where the angel was standing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “The rest of us are priests and attendants of the Oracle. And I’m the high priestess who is the only one who can go into the altar room where the oracle gives out the answers.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Nor did I request a dispensation from a priest when a non-Catholic friend asked me to be his best man. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon after arriving in the deserted village Capricorn had had gratings fitted over the narrow niches where long-dead priests slept in their stone tombs. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Alex couldn’t remember the last time the priest had looked so satisfied. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The priest says good night and goes below and the First Officer follows him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Tall and thin, with fierce black eyes and a beak of a nose, the priest was garbed in mottled robes of green and grey and blue, the swirling colors of the Drowned God. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Former high school athlete and runaway parent, now Father Anthony, a priest at Saint Therese’s near Boston. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z When the priest finally declared his candidacy for president, Farmer wrote in a journal, “Perhaps this is a singular chance to change Haiti.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He died alone and without the priest’s last absolution for all of his sins. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “That priest also said Lord Furnival was their master. How can that be?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I discovered the details from Kathy, who had been given the information from a visiting Hindu priest. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One afternoon, on a visit to his family, he had summoned up the courage to tell his father that he didn’t want to become a priest. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In a thick drawl, more ponderous than his low mass responses, the priest spoke the Latin phrases with a sonorous, dramatic discernment. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest Laocoön, when the horse was first discovered, had been urgent with the Trojans to destroy it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z A white priest had tried to persuade him to pray and he had thrown a cup of hot coffee into his face. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Lord Roke, as quick and as quiet as a mouse, was out of the door before the priest had turned around. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z When the priest had built his first school, it had only a thatched roof, and classes that couldn’t fit inside were held under a mango tree. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Balthamos seized the moment to stumble forward again, and the priest felt himself dragged after him as another brutal pang wrenched his heart. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Though trees ringed the hill on all sides, its peak was bald as a priest’s head. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Tonight the old priests would be praying for the force to continue the relentless motion of the stars. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The priest looked down at the drunk disdainfully, and backed through the open door, which closed behind him, leaving the drunk on his own. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The priests of Limerick have no patience with the likes of me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The priest took the mercenary’s remains off to the church. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And he watched Elisha, who was a young man in the Lord; who, a priest after the order of Melchizedek, had been given power over death and Hell. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The priest lifted his hands toward the Sacred Rock in reverence. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “A stone of no great size which the priests of Delphi anoint every day with oil.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Death row prisoner number five forty-one, you have a visitor. “Please make this a short visit, ma’am, the priest will be here any minute to give the prisoner his last meal and his last cigarette. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then you must come inside and have some refreshment,” said the priest, and put a heavy arm around Will’s shoulders, pulling him in through the doorway. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Sí,” the man answered, “blessed just last Sunday by the priest.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z For old times’ sake, for the old priest’s honor, I would have to kill the stranger. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z You are innocent until you understand, the priest of the church said, and you will understand good and evil when the communion is placed in your mouth and God fills your body. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am Ork,” he says uncertainly, “eldest and wisest of the priests.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z A priest sprinkles her daughter with holy water. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z His lords pleaded with him to build inland; his priests told him he must placate the gods by giving Elenei back to the sea; even his smallfolk begged him to relent. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Singing and bearing candles, the nuns leave the choir and follow the priest to the sepulchre. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z A priest at Yambuku decided to try to take her to the city of Kinshasa, the capital of Zaire, in order to get her better medical treatment. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And every fourth Sunday, God and the weather willing, a Catholic priest says mass in the schoolhouse. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A pageant float of priests went by slowly, pulled in their cart by a group of beasts. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z It also reminded me of my wedding, when I had repeated endless Sanskrit verses after the priest, verses I barely understood, which joined me to my wife. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z A young priest, she thought with another pang of unease. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In addition to taking slaves and booty, wartime victors in central Mexico often burned their enemies’ codices, the hand-painted picture-texts in which priests recorded their people’s histories. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “They took it to the priest. He did all the right things for all the wrong reasons.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It would not be to Bast’s credit to say that he was afraid of nothing, as only fools and priests are never afraid. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z We settle again into our cross-legged positions at Ma's feet, facing the young priest. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Amaka says people love priests because they want to compete with God, they want God as a rival. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z At Mass, Benediction, novenas, we huddled in great damp clumps, dozing through priest drone, while steam rose again from our clothes to mingle with the sweetness of incense, flowers and candles. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “What is your son doing going to temple?” asked the priest. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Bobby’s aide or so-called second at the tournament was his close friend and fellow Jack Collins student William Lombardy, a portly twenty-year-old seminarian who was studying to become a Roman Catholic priest. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Theon seldom prayed at all, but that was not something you confessed to a priest, even your father's own brother. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She had grown up believing that priests could tell whether someone was telling the truth or not, but Father Stylianopoulos had only nodded and written their names into the church register. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Verily, you are not Saint Elizabeth. And most certainly you are not the Blessed Virgin!” the priest whispers, and the hissing of his voice carries throughout the chapel. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “About Rinaldi and the priest and lots of people I know. But I don’t think about them much. I don’t want to think about the war. I'm through with it.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He had not started out on a clerical career, but he had been ordained deacon in 1690 and was later ordained as a priest. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The priest said, “It is pleasant to see that your first thoughts are good thoughts. God bless you, my children.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z “And since your steward tried to kill you, your priest was proved right.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Upon reaching the church, I knocked on the door to the priest’s room. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Occasionally someone passes through the courtyard, mostly other priests, but I remain quiet. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z A young priest came in and started saying the rosary with everybody. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When he was a boy, even his mother questioned whether he was priest material. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I wasn’t going to start blubbering for the local sports guy like he was my priest or something. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Dressed in a cassock like a priest’s I assisted at the performance of mass on the altar. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He waited for her to walk toward him, and then he turned and they started to walk to the priest’s house. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z This time, I brought from New York with me some photographs of Floyd Patterson and Sonny Liston in their fight camps, with white priests as their “spiritual advisors.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Balthamos said softly, “The priest. You will have to be polite to him. Turn and bow.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A priest in the college cellar scatters holy water on the walls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z "You are the priest, Uncle, I leave the god to you. Do me the same kindness and leave the battles to me." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The priest picked up the coin and tossed it into the pool. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In the Odyssey when a priest and a poet fall on their knees before Odysseus, praying him to spare their lives, the hero kills the priest without a thought, but saves the poet. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z When the last priest had left, harangued back to Athens after a mere three months, the family had hoped that Father Mike might be promoted. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z As if fired from a cannon, the priest himself came hurtling out, with his pelican daemon in a wild flutter of feathers and injured pride. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I can’t think of anything more depressing than to be an Egyptian high priest on display next to a set of vintage wagon wheels and a two-headed chicken. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z But then the nuns and priests had gotten to him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Robert and Thomas and the priest, whispering paternosters, followed the prints all the way to the mill where, crossing themselves, they unlatched the door. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been easy to transfer his developing hatred to the teacher who disciplined him and the police- man who chased him and the priest who lectured him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Even priests are men, León smiled, and every man is delivered of woman, and must be fulfilled by a woman. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, he was host and priest as well, so when he pressed me to confession, I couldna well refuse. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Anya watched Yedsha continue to receive praise for saving the priest, and she followed her mother back to the onion booth with a scowl. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z They use the front door only for visits from the priest or funerals. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The priest was bent, in black, very old. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Cortes was constantly preoccupied by the search for gold, but he also had to be restrained by the priests accompanying him from promulgating the Gospel in circumstances sure to anger native leaders. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This priest must be from the country and if he is he’s opening up new worlds to me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Olanna was disappointed, but he was a priest after all and this had to be his solution: Seek God. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It was to be said after one made his confession to the priest, and as the last prayer before death. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest came in—a graying, aging man with an old skin and a young sharp eye. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z A skeleton wedding, complete with priest and flower girls, marched across a lawn. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest sat on my cot that the orderly had set up. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z One Sunday it would be an Anglican priest, the next a Dutch Reform predikant, the next a Methodist minister. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My father was an unofficial priest and presided over ritual slaughtering of goats and calves and officiated at local traditional rites concerning planting, harvest, birth, marriage, initiation ceremonies, and funerals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The things the priest had said made my heart feel like a city under siege. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The first thing Toby did as high priest was to announce that the whole thing was going to take a long time. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The fearless priest had already survived several assassination attempts, including the firebombing of his church, which had been arranged by the mayor of Port-au-Prince. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z "And that red priest with him, he paid for all they took." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “What did the priest mean—that I’m an unbaptized limb of Satan?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “An education will make him a scholar, like—like the old Luna priest.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “The priest’s a nice guy, and I think it might be good, even just for a laugh.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z There was the low murmuring of a priest as the pallbearers began to lower the coffin from their shoulders. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z At ten I knew the meaning of the many ritual gestures the priest makes during the mass. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Kino opened his hand and held it out, and the priest gasped a little at the size and beauty of the pearl. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Mam is gone when I wake but there’s movement in the room and it’s the priest, Father Gorey, from the Confraternity saying Mass at a table in the corner. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “No she isn’t. She told the priest we weren’t thieves, remember?” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z We cross through the church, the priest acknowledging our presence with a nod but not stopping from his work. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The priest saw it and leapt forward, and felt the brush of feathers on his hand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He took my glass and filled it, looking at my eyes all the time, but not losing sight of the priest. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The shorter priest’s voice had an unpleasant edge. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z High priests in journalism and culture are fond of fussing that the Internet is dislocating, isolating, dangerous. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t hear the words over the fan and the priest’s voice, but I read his lips. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z They lamented and tore their hair, the priests, as fraught and rhetorical as they were when they prayed, and after a few days their outcries made people uneasy. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z She continued to do so for the next three nights, until the priests departed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She sipped her chocolatl, which was thin and weak; how like these wretched priests, she thought, to take their self-righteous abstinence out on their visitors, too. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Yet our priests fast, and inflict on themselves severe punishments, and we are taught to bear our sorrows in silence, and all this is so that the soul may be cleansed.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z A wisp of scented smoke hung in the air, drawing her down the winding path to where the red priests had fired the great iron braziers outside the house of the Lord of Light. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Once, the local director of la migra threatened to lock up the priest for several years on smuggling charges if he didn’t bar migrants from entering his church. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z We had made friends on the boat with two young Catholic priests from New Jersey who were also going to Kuling, so we included them in our party. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In six years, the priest has seen twenty-six die from drugs. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I never confused my teachers or the priests with actual family members; in fact they were most awesome for being without families. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z That is why my mother dreamed of me becoming a priest, because there had not been a Luna priest in the family for many years. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I no longer wonder if I chose St. Andrews church in Enugu as my new church because the priest there is a Blessed Way Missionary Father as Father Amadi is; I just go. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z As the first one reached the shore, it lumbered up through the dry sand, making directly for the priest. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The people who went up to the altar knelt in front of the priest so he could put something into their mouths. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z It was there the priest and I dug her grave, in water-laden clay. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z One of the priests who taught at the school turned up at our classroom door and talked to our teacher for a minute, then started taking students from the classroom three at a time. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Only in a world where everything is patently being lost can a priest stir men’s hearts as a poet would by maintaining that nothing is in vain. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z If the Virgencita didn’t think it was time for my girl to magnify the Lord, I certainly couldn’t talk her into a retreat with “old ladies” and a bunch of bad-breath priests. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “He don’t look like a priest,” Peewee said after Lieutenant Carroll had left. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Antonio, who had arrived earlier, stayed to speak to Mamá, and in a few minutes the young priest to whom Salvador had been dispatched came in. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I cried to appease them, “I shall be your priest!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He did a good job, too, except that he wouldn’t put Security down, not even to be a high priest. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t go far from them, just closer to the entrance right as a priest is escorting a crying woman out the church. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He takes the part of the priest for he has the whole Mass in his head and I have to know the responses. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z They were in one of those long breaks in the sermon that the priest, a connoisseur of unbearable silences, used with frequency and to great effect. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A handful of people had gathered in the courtyard, where a priest was waiting. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z She had the priest’s potion in her pocket, and she didn’t want it to break when Ivan’s brothers inevitably tackled her to the ground. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z His parents had wanted him to become a priest, and thereby a source of pride for a simple farm family. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I embroidered Hari in his bridegroom’s headdress as the two of us sat before the priest. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Not the priest, but the poet, had influence with heaven—and no one was ever afraid of a poet. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Malachy, fresh from the speakeasy himself, felt insulted and wanted to argue with the priest, one sacrilege on top of another. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “I don’t know,” I say, and the priest laughs, more to himself than anyone else. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Butchers and brewers, peasants and priests, knights and nobodies. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z She wrote, “Church and state, priest and legislators, all political parties and religious denominations have alike taught that woman was made after man, of man, and for man, an inferior being, subject to man.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z After a time the priest raised his eyes to meet the dwarf’s. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The priest said something, and Balthamos murmured, “He’s asking where you come from. Say whatever you like.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Behind the priests' refusal is an implied request: You know what it is like to be in our shoes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Both of them cried for mercy, but the priest, clasping Odysseus’ knees in his agony of supplication, met with none. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z And last of all came the two high priests of Anubis, carrying on a flower-strewn plank the dead body of Prince Pete-ho-tep. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The seriousness of what had happened was that if word of their daughter’s powers reached beyond the walls of the house and the priest began his own investigation, all their neighbors would find out. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The holiest of temples were his to command, as well as the Sun Maidens and all other shaman priests. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z His central role as priest—intermediary between congregation and God—is diminished. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Cousin Eunice fluttered in the background making little protests to tell Dicey she shouldn’t talk like that to a priest. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z My parents, the imam and the priest looked astounded. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The priest will come soon to examine us on the catechism and everything else. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Healed in both body and soul, Pedro Tercero Garcia made his way to the capital with a bundle of clothes and a few coins the priest had taken from the poor box. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Hence, after Italy came almost entirely into the hands of the Church and of several republics, those priests and other citizens who were not accustomed to bearing arms began to hire foreigners. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z They go to the nuns and priests and they get Education. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “I just want to be a parish priest. Married with kids.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z This priest’s frankness had touched me more than a decree. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It took all my control to face the powerful head priest at such a moment. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “He not only can do that,” a soldier answered him, “but we're fighting this war against the priests so that a person can marry his own mother.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z It was hard to connect this torture scene with the priest in the rectory. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z And now, even though there was no more temple and no more high priests, they still left a little piece. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Daft Donald saw some of the bodyguards scoop some up and hide them in their pockets.The priest performed the funeral rites. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He is now a Catholic priest presiding over the very same parish where he had once desecrated the host.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Those are closets for telling the priests your sins. You go in there and kneel down and tell all the sins you committed during the past week.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z As soon as the priest gets here today, the shradh ceremony can start. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “There’s a priest. He’s praying. A man is holding a large crucifix.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The priests there could perform the ancient coronation rites to install Cleopatra as pharaoh. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z When Partners in Health was created, he put the priest on its board of advisers. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The priest hung the lantern j from a hook, slipped a hand inside his robe, and produced an ornate key. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There were those special mornings when the priest would come over from church to take the boys to the cafeteria, while the nun remained with the girls—‘the young ladies’—in the classroom. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest enrolled her, though she wasn’t even one-fourth or one-eighth Armenian. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I think, Mrs. McCourt, you might have a future priest on your hands and I will light a candle in hopes it comes true. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z In the records at Vallombrosa Abbey, Galileo Galilei became officially listed as a defrocked priest. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I believe I’m approximately right. first priest: The theory’s ridiculous. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The mermaids were dancing and singing in Latin like the priests do at the cathedral during Mass. You were there with me too, at the bottom of the sea. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I’m dragged through the church’s back door, which is only ever used by the priest and the choir during service and leads out to the courtyard and classrooms. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Winnie would discuss “the church” in appropriate terms, and I might then ask, “How are the priests? Are there any new sermons?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "The Lord of Light would hold our city walls against a million Dothraki, or so the red priests promise . . . yet why take chances, when their friendship comes so cheap?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The same man that play the killer is playing the priest. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At the top, the priest hesitated, and called: “Bear, don’t lose heart. Put your faith in mighty God and me. We’ll meet again tonight at the White Stag.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z He was an Episcopalian priest, and his wife, Julie, was a music teacher. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After a prayer was said, Sourmelina brought the priest a candle burning on a plate. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Her teacher had lifted her arms through the air like a priest ordering a congregation to stand, so that her slip showed, gray and raggedy. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “A priest” he said mockingly, gripping me tighter. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The flower child of a priest smiles at her. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “The curse was lifted when the priest blessed the house with holy water—” she did not finish. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder how Lily knows a priest in an ancient mission so far from Boston. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z We had not gone in Abba because Papa did not like to make his confession in Igbo, and besides, Papa said that the parish priest in Abba was not spiritual enough. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z My mother can easily speak to a priest in a darkened confessional; can easily make an act of self-revelation using the impersonal formula of ritual contrition: ‘Bless me, Father, for I have sinned....’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest isn’t supposed to repeat what you say in confession.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The priests filed out to the god-ring to do their devotions. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest, his acolytes, the director and I all went outside. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z The priest’s refusal meant the church was taking its stand and that the evil ways of the Trementinas were known to all. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And something told me that they probably liked their own ways and religion just as much as the priests liked theirs. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Finally it was over, and the priest stepped back and pushed him away. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z As the priest chanted the Latin prayers, whose meaning I barely understood, I knelt by his side and knew that God had taken away the one person I could claim as my own. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z After the priest sprinkled holy water over Anna’s casket, Mollie guided her family and the other mourners to a cemetery in Gray Horse, a quiet, isolated spot overlooking the endless prairie. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Wearing a dhoti and a saffron-colored scarf draped around his shoulders, the high-caste Hindu priest had accompanied us to the crematorium. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The priest ascended the curved steps to the pulpit. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Aristotle was still taught by rote, and the only thing a Cambridge education fitted anyone for was to be a competent priest or a bad doctor. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “That was another age. Come, we’d best hear what that priest is going on about. I swear I heard the name Daenerys.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then there was the strange, whispered riddle of the first priest who went to El Puerto. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “No one knows where he’s fled,” the priest said. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I could not help staring at him, because his voice pulled me and because I did not know a priest could play football. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The man I work beside, Pe Pierre, is a Belgian priest, a Man. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest could get a splinter that would make his tongue swell to the size of a turnip and that’s enough to choke you and kill you entirely. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Sometimes the grey-robed priests tried to get me to come into the church to say the prayers, but I’d heard rumors and ran away whenever I was asked, whether I had my loaf or no. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The priest’s creaking smile made her remember the potion, and she pulled it from her pocket. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z They would answer him that they had been many years without a priest, arranging the business of their souls directly with God, and that they had lost the evil of original sin. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The warrior snarled again and lifted the priest up, bringing his feet completely off the ground. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “In no way, madam, unless you be a priest, a magician, or a man of medicine. My wife is being devoured by a stomach worm.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll turn you into butter on a summer day. I’ll turn you into a poet with the soul of a priest. I’ll fill you with lemon custard and push you out a window.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Even though Father Benedict had been at St. Agnes for seven years, people still referred to him as “our new priest.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z No. She gets a letter from the parish priest. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z With many gracious words, Bear took leave of the priest. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The victor was the red priest, Thoros of Myr, a madman who shaved his head and fought with a flaming sword. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The priest broke it when he said, with pride in his voice, “Piscine is a good Christian boy. I hope to see him join our choir soon.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “I know something worth two of that. Good old priest,” he said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z In other neighborhoods, a quarter attend Mass. Neighbors confronted the priest. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “The red priests light their nightfires at sunset. The High Priest will be speaking. I would avoid it if I could, but to reach the Long Bridge we must pass the red temple.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Dylan Parker walked past dressed as a priest, of all things. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It came to the priest walking in his garden, and it put a thoughtful look in his eyes and a memory of certain repairs necessary to the church. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Enrique will have to trust the priest to find him if his aunt and uncle call back. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Père Lafontant—père is the French word for “father” or “priest”—was a small but imposing man with a forceful manner, especially when he spoke of life in the central plateau. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z After mass, long after the priest’s words stopped echoing against the cement walls, she remained in church, inspecting the pews for forgotten veils or rosary beads. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “There was a girl, too?” said the priest, trying not to seem too interested. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Ben’s great aunt told him the truth about priests and nuns. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The first English-speaking dinner guest at our house was a priest from Sacred Heart Church. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He said, “Then I could not be a priest.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z My teacher slipped away from the head priest’s side and returned holding a long rope. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I’d argue with the nuns and the priest all the time. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The extra they produced fed the tiny minority of elites—kings, government officials, soldiers, priests, artists and thinkers—who fill the history books. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ignatius won’t listen to no priest. He calls the priest in our parish a heretic. They had a big fight when Ignatius’ dog died.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest usually ignored Dad and tried to go on with his sermon, but Dad persisted. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Las Casas, a conquistador who repented of his actions and became a priest, spent the second half of his long fife opposing European cruelty in the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The church contained a single, open space where we villagers knelt on the rush-strewn floor to face our priest and altar during mass. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Many priests and the bishop admire and support Padre Leo. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I had been thinking how the medicine of the doctors and of the priest had failed. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I used to play pranks on the priests, too. So they cursed me,” he went on. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Besides, he could not bind all that he had in his nature—the rover, the aspirant, the poet, the priest—in the limits of a single passion. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Father Joseph, Cousin Eunice’s friend, was a priest, a slender, restless man with thick gray hair and deep lines in his forehead. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z A huge man, taller than Ser Jorah and wide enough to make two of him, the priest wore scarlet robes embroidered at sleeve and hem and collar with orange satin flames. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z So when Moqorro said, “Your lost lambs will return to the flock off the isle called Yaros,” the captain said, “Pray that they do, priest. Or you may be the next to taste the whip.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The priest took the Bible from Hamlet and considered the passage, stroking his bearded chin. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Only two hanging on it today: one Catholic, not a priest though, placarded with an upside-down cross, and some other sect I don’t recognize. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The sad priests dusted out their curly beards with goldringed fingers as though hidden spiders had spun sudden cobwebs in them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest had changed, so perhaps his religion could be made to change. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “So my father’s a priest. What —” “My father was big shot.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Dany could hear the singing of the red priests as they lit their night fires and the shouts of ragged children playing games beyond the walls of the estate. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z On the cog, alas, everyone was just who they appeared to be, no one was particularly congenial, and only the red priest was interesting. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And thus, from the ambitions of the priests are born the disorders and the quarrels among the barons. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z But it was true, the priest that came with the first colonizers to the valley of El Puerto had raised a family, and it was the branches of this family that now ruled the valley. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Corrupt priests and bishops must be expelled from our churches. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “Ah, English!” cried the priest gleefully in English. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z His robes made him look like a priest, though Piper couldn’t remember which rank of priest wore purple. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I would go to friends for advice when I was troubled; I didn’t go to priests anymore. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The guard cranked the handle of a telephone, and under a minute later a fresh-faced young priest came hastening into the gatehouse, wiping his palms on his robe in case she wanted to shake hands. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Mr. Robichaux, unable to think of anything to say, asked, “Why don’t you get a priest to talk to your boy?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as Ken had written his question, Toby grabbed the folded paper, and, stepping up to the new altar, he started right in being the priest of the oracle. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Shep’s body was covered with a blanket and prayed over by the priest. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A red priest swept past, his scarlet and crimson robes snapping in the wind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Even me. But,” he went on seriously, “your priest told you to flee.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “It’s good for a priest to be older. ” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a tall box made from black wood, draped with dark red curtains and with a door in the middle, which the priest used for slipping into the tiny space behind. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The priest looked up from the stew and smiled at me. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The priest and a brave band of villagers armed with rakes and pitchforks and sticks tied into crosses hurried to the barn. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I like the sermons, when the priest tells a story about how the Bible relates to life. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Other than the priest, my mother had no friends. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I ring the bell at the priests’ house and a big man answers,Yes? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Ben swung his body toward the priest and the middle of the altar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “It feels terrible to have a great scholar like Graetz call Hasidism vulgar and disgusting. I never thought of my father as a priest of Baal.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z People crowded close among snowcapped stones while a priest with chattering teeth held his Bible and tried to speak. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z By accepting the Bible, the priests explain, the Mexica “will be able to cool the heart / of He by Whom All Live, / so He will not completely destroy you.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I did not yet know the full story of the first Luna priest. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d seen Father Franco at Mass just two days earlier, but already the priest looked years older. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The priest at El Puerto did not want the people to place much faith in the powers of la curandera. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Matt had never seen a priest except on TV. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Happy after all these years to discover someone interested in his work, the priest had no misgivings about revealing his vast knowledge. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z So, to keep him happy, they let him start being a sort of junior high priest. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z In dozens of tiny local parishes throughout the archdiocese, priests preach and practice what Matthew said. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The priest didn’t answer, but Liyana felt proud of Poppy for saying it. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Well, it’s a good thing that priest showed up,” I said, “or we’d have spent every last coin on candles.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “Well, ladies, sometimes...young ladies...Sometimes an old priest or bishop, maybe. I think they come here for a rest.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The school’s instructors were priests from the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, an order dedicated to a seventeenth-century French cleric known for his sunniness and kindness who is sometimes called the “gentleman saint.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Coach had become, like, the priest of basketball, and I was his follower. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Lots of hymns, and the Catholic priest saying Hail Marys, and the first-class salon which had really looked a lot like this: dark wood, potted palms, rose silk lampshades with their swaying fringe. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The priest wants to point out things but he doesn’t have to. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The time we spent in church reminded me of how Cuba used to be, before the priests and nuns were kicked out. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z It seemed to him that the prophecy that drove the red priests had room for just one hero. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was a priest’s job to comfort a family. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The head priest announced for all to hear, “Welcome, Yachachisqa, Apprentice Girl. It is good that you are here.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The priests with curly beards swung pots of frankincense on chains and never smiled at babies the way they did on usual Sundays. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest had seen it too, but it was his job to see demons. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Still, I imagined myself going to some Boston priest—it would have to be Boston, because I didn't want any priest in my home town to know I'd thought of killing myself. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He works hard, the priest says, to keep police officers on his side. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Why didn’t that priest just shut up and pray? Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest’s feet hardly touched the ground; he pointed his toes in an effort to support himself somehow. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z More than fifty church members had gathered around their priest. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z We were standing now, the priest was talking to us. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There are telegrams for the houses of priests and nuns and they have maids, too, even if they say poverty is noble. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The priest reached across to the shelf beside his chair and took down a bottle and two small glasses. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Francie’s hands flew to cover her ears so that at confession she would not have to tell the priest that she had stood and listened to a bad word. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Her father, Salvador, is a santeria priest, an unassuming, soft-spoken man, black as the blackest Africans. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Movements were made without flourish, and the ten shaman priests and priestesses focused more on one another and the quiet world of the inside than on the outside appearance of the ceremony. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Aru had to do that when she went to the temple and ran into the priest or someone much, much older and well respected. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z They reported teachers, priests, religious leaders, and other adults who made derogatory remarks against the Nazis. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She heard the priest say, “Breathe, child. Breathe out the fear. Shake off the shadows. He is dead. She is dead. Her pain is gone. Breathe.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I thought she was going to bust out a story about her cussing out some priest. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z It makes me put my clothes on wrong, and scramble the service, and eat incorrectly— third priest: Lunatic priests are bad business. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been blessed by priests back home—the Enlighteners, they were called, because their monastery was the Place of Full Enlightenment. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The smell of incense and lilies, the candles lit for loved ones passed away, the throaty intonations of the priest, and the majestic trumpeting of the organ. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The royal procession gave her a chance to honor an ancient rite, which helped her win over the priests and landholders. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The priest sagged faintly: he had hoped his task was over. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z At this point the priest left and I told the story about the travelling salesman who arrived at five o’clock in the morning at Marseilles when the mistral was blowing. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Many a priest and priestess before her had been brought down by false visions, by seeing what they wished to see instead of what the Lord of Light had sent. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The priest took down the lantern once again and led the way. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then he realized none of the three priests on the faculty were there. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z But in the end another new, foreign-born priest, Father Gregorios, had been given the post. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There was happiness in his father’s heart because of his son who was intelligent and thirsty for knowledge; he saw him growing up to be a great learned man, a priest, a prince among Brahmins. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z When he saw her appear in a madapollam nightshirt and with her hair loose over her shoulders, the decrepit parish priest thought that it was a trick and sent the altar boy away. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z But you have the blood of the Luna priest, they persisted, but touch our foreheads and we shall be saved! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest could trace fiery letters in the air as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Seeing that the priest had properly and assiduously observed all the procedures, millions of devout French Catholics behaved as if God really existed in the consecrated bread and wine. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z There were also a great variety of priests, nuns, and monks. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The lizard dragged the priest’s body back to her nest, and her children feasted very well. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Christianity and totemism and ancestor worship . . . extinct languages, such as Zuni and Spanish and Athapascan . . . pumas, porcupines and other ferocious animals . . . infectious diseases . . . priests . . . venomous lizards ...” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest stood atop a red stone pillar, joined by a slender stone bridge to a lofty terrace where the lesser priests and acolytes stood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When she and Lefty became members of his congregation, the old priest had asked, as a formality, if they had received an Orthodox wedding. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He looked at the priest and shouted, “Every night priest five against one!” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He was a priest who insisted on getting involved in the real world. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “I would like you to see Abruzzi and visit my family at Capra- cotta,” said the priest. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The altar boy assisting the priest plucked the infant from the font and restored him to Angela, who sobbed and clutched him, dripping, to her bosom. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The Handdara is a religion without institution, without priests, without hierarchy, without vows, without creed; I am still unable to say whether it has a God or not. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Explained, too, were why the telephone calls had come on Sundays, whenever Tessie was at church, and the music in the background, which Milton now identified as the priests chanting the liturgy. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In changing over to the solar calendar, Caesar took away the priests’ power. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z He did this hoping Tehlu would delay so he could make his escape, but the Walking God paused only to appoint priests who cared for the people of the ruined town. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They used a truck they were lent by the parish priests. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Hunt managed to sell only a few of his captives before local Roman Catholic priests seized the rest—the Spanish Church vehemently opposed brutality toward Indians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And in the years since coming to Washington, George Pocock had quietly become its high priest. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The priests walk slowly around the pyre, saying antique prayers, and the crowd, all in black, ignoring the black priests, keens. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z There is Benediction and hymn singing in English, Irish and Latin and best of all the big powerful sermon Redemptorist priests are famous for. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Well, if not, they could have the priest fix it later. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the priest and the Levite in the biblical story, they choose to pass by on the other side and to see nothing. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z For more than two decades, the church members have been led by priests who have fought for the rights of workers and the poor. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “The priests say even first cousins never should marry,” she said. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z We could see over a low white wall and right into the pillared room where a newlywed couple sat cross-legged opposite the priests. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “I’ve remembered something else. Before I left, the priest told me my mother could read and write.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I tried to pull their hands away from him to relieve the pain I saw in his face, but the trappings of the priest’s costume entangled me and so I could do very little. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It came of not having priests, Theon supposed, but whatever the reason it seemed to him a mercy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “The black priest is calling demons down on us,” one oarsman was heard to say. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The bearded priests had drilled him on the Common Speech of Westeros before they sent him forth, but the Domishmen all spoke too quickly for him to understand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I always thought priests lived at the churches so people could go there if they needed help or advice. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z I had heard this all before, how hard he had worked, how much the missionary Reverend Sisters and priests had taught him, things he would never have learned from his idol- worshiping father, my Papa-Nnukwu. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z As she listened to the consecrations, one for His Body and one for His Blood, she believed that the words of the priest were a sword which mystically separated the Blood from the Body. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “When Mamá is ready she will send Salvador for the priest. I will go to Uncle Antonio’s and tell him.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z An altar had been erected, and the priest was prowling back and forth to one side. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “So you see, my child,” the priest concluded, “there’s no reason to lose hope. You’ll see Blanca again, the day you least expect to.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Was it the steward or the priest who carried the news? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The priest was sufficiently alarmed that he had broken the tenet of parishioner confidentiality. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “You going to be a priest or something?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z A moment later he said, “Here’s the priest from Marengo already. He’s early.” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z “This does not belong here!” the priest thundered. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “They are golden calf lovers. They kneel before cows,” the priest chimed in. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z This maddened Malachy again and he wanted to jump at the priest for calling the child some class of a Protestant. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I told the priest what had happened when I ran from my mother’s burial—my fall, my waking to witness the meeting in the clearing, Aycliffe’s attempt to kill me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I kicked a rock that skidded to a stop just in front of the priest. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z As a group, throughout mass, the congregation responds to the priest with various prayers; one listens to a steady flow of prayers said in English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “But you want to be a priest, eh? A—rabbi, you call it.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z At the baptismal font I watched a baby cry out as the priest trickled a few drops of cold water on his tiny red forehead. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “You tell me I don’t need a church. Then you talk like a priest. What are you?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z It was such a long list that the aged priest, used to going to bed at six o'clock, fell asleep in his chair before it was over. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Writing was no longer a monopoly of the priests and scribes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest sits beside me at the table of the First Officer, who tells us ship’s orders have been changed and instead of sailing to New York we’re bound for Montreal. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z They consulted their village priest, and the result was that Elizabeth Lavenza became the inmate of my parents’ house—my more than sister—the beautiful and adored companion of all my occupations and my pleasures. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z Crispin, as Jesus is my witness, churches, priests—they’re all unneeded. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Both a priest and a Levite — worthy, pious men — came upon the man but did not stop, “passing by on the other side.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As was customary, high priests subjected this choice to a divination. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The priest who was the college chaplain would regularly say in his sermons that a Catholic must rely upon conscience as his ultimate guide. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He wished then they had taught him more about the clouds and the sky, about the way the priests called the storm clouds to bring the rain. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “At a village north of here, I’m not sure which, a boy went mad. After robbing the manor house, he killed a priest.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Thus, there gathered a loud convocation of such of our number as claim familiarity with appropriate rites of burial—a meeting of palaver-men, Christian New Lights, obeah priests, and new-made cunning-workers. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “But I am telling it for our priest here. It is very informative. He is a priest; he will appreciate it.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Here was a real sin to confess to the priest next week. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest listened passively, with the bland expression of one who has heard it all before. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I can have no priest who has golden idols before him, God answered, and the flames roared and consumed everything. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A horse-loving priest from the church across the street opened his yard to let fans park there for free. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Olive was going to be a teacher, an honor like having a priest in the family in Ireland. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z How proud Mami would be to have a priest, the acting head of St. Vincent de Paul Academy, chaperoning her daughter’s party. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “But still a priest. I try to make the mess like the old days. I want to make Federico happy. To hell with you, priest!” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z These clothes are usually the shirts, pants, shoes, and jackets the members of the church’s eight study groups have given the priest for his birthday, to tide him over for the year. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Waker, his junior by some twelve minutes, was a Roman Catholic priest, and in November, 1955, he was in Ecuador, attending a Jesuit conference of some kind. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z His brown robes and tonsured hair showed him to be a priest. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “God’s blessings will go with you,” the priest said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Even Satan was described in his most intimate perversions in the Galician accents of this priest whose mission in this world was to rouse the conscience of his indolent Creole flock. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Every man there understood what that meant; they knew how Apollo’s priest had been treated. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Kneeling there with her head bowed, she was not aware that the priest was left with the choice of placing the wafer on her hat or skipping her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest led him into a parlor heavy with tobacco smoke, where a cast-iron samovar steamed quietly on a side table. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Fresher than the day they were born — and fat as priests. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z We were finishing the spaghetti when the priest came in. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “If it’s church it’s got to be high church. He was talking about how priests shouldn’t be married.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Now he looked like some kind of priest come to preach to a group of circus performers. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Four of them were shaman priests, the last a priestess. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Prosper carefully opened the door meant only for priests and slipped inside. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Its priests and nobles would be fed the last grains of the storehouses. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z "Whatever you want. This won't take long. No son, so no immersion, no priest, no prayers." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A priest I once heard in a white middle-class parish defended the reformed liturgy by saying that it had become necessary to ‘de-Europeanize’ the Roman Catholic Church. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z One of our first ministers was an Anglican priest by the name of Father Hughes, a gruff, burly Welshman who had served as a chaplain in the submarine corps during the Second World War. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Each week the priest asks church members to feed migrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Fully half the villagers ran away from the manor road, but the other half ran toward it, making sure the priest and the holy water preceded them. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In their place will stand true and holy priests who shall have no wealth or rights above the common man. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The red priest spoke of ancient prophecy, a prophecy that foretold the coming of a hero to deliver die world from darkness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The red priest stood on the forecastle facing the storm, his staff raised above his head as he boomed a prayer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Soon after, the priest reported that he had received a secret message from Mollie: she was afraid that someone was trying to poison her. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I saw a picture of the Sacred Heart in the grammar school classroom I entered two years after the priest’s visit. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “And where will you be going next?” the priest asked afterward. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Outside in the square, the nightfire was still burning, but the priest was gone and the crowd was long dispersed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Yes, because that priest had gone to see her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, I was planning to attend a meeting in a distant area of Johannesburg and a well-known priest arranged with friends of his to put me up for the night. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Everything was in order for the people to know who was in control,” the Spanish priests wrote. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Using a network of concealed vents and channels, priests piped loud, roaring sounds at those who entered the temple. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z One Redemptorist priest barks at us all the time about the Sixth Commandment. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z When I went to church the priest glared at me so that I could not feel the peace of Christ. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z A few moments later the priest must have been over the edge. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have come here this far, from the shackles of the old Africans,” read the priest in Creole. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Even as we approached it, a priest emerged, no doubt alerted by the child. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Translation: We priests are in the same business as you Franciscans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Led by the priest—who was nothing but smiles now—we entered the church. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Arthur and Harold made their way to Swaziland disguised as priests, then flew to Tanganyika. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Child like you drunk as a lord ringing for a priest at this hour. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z In fact, Toby, who always had to be right in the middle of everything, insisted right away that he and Ken—Horemheb, that is—were going to be the high priests of Anubis. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother of God, make my fourth son a priest. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “They spend their lives fighting against priests and then give prayerbooks as gifts.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “His father is the priest of my newest cathedral in Rostov. Alyosha is not only a mighty bogatyr but a devout and dedicated man of God.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “There are many villages here about,” the priest informed us. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Why, she had corrected the priest who prepared her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When the priest asked me to read something to our group, I suddenly started crying again. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “You sound like a priest,” I told him. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “I’ve been talking to the priest lately. He’s been helping me understand all of this better.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The red priest lifted his staff, and inclined its head toward the west. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They’re waiting to beg for any food left over from the priests’ dinner. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It seems like a return to the days of the priests of Baal, so vulgar and disgusting do these perversities appear.’” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z My parents had much in common with the Irish-born priests and nuns. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z On the altar die priest was cleaning the chalice and the platters. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a scholarly-looking priest whose dæmon had the form of a frog. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Punish the priest!” they shouted and they engulfed me like a wave. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As the priest was about to strike her, anguish troubled every man there and all bowed their heads. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Tell the priest if you like but the Angel on the Seventh Step said that only because you didn’t tell me first. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The colony had first settled there under a land grant from the Mexican government, and the man who led the colonization was a priest, and he was a Luna. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no doubt about it, Toby made a great high priest. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1848, Mendel began work as a parish priest in Brno. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z All are repentant, all are preparing themselves for the shock of the laying of the ashes on the forehead and the priest’s agonizing words, “Thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no telling what Tenorio would do at this insult; everyone knew he was crazy enough to assault the priest. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As he said the words, the priest tied together a corner of my sari and a bit of Hari’s shirt. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Housewives, priests, doctors, lawyers, traders, students, and workers took their place in the front lines of the protest. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He had never used the priest’s given name before. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Stay,” said the priest in a low voice. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The lecture starts with some priest named Greg who studied vegetables, and ends up with an argument about blue eyes. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I will always be grateful to the parish priest who forced a mortician to remove an elaborate arrangement of flowers from a coffin: ‘Don’t hide it!’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest is too stunned to answer me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The incensed priest, a crowd of a hundred around him, demanded that they let the migrants go. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Like I’d talk to a priest, someone who’s vowed to love only God forever and ever, about the way I’m feeling. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He shrugged and said, “You might not believe it, but I was fated to be a priest. In the City of York. That’s far to the north.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z It was Amanda who first put her in touch with the priests. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest murmured Latin words of forgiveness in the confessional box. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, in late 1925, the local priest received a secret message from Mollie. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Only priests and fools are fearless, and I’ve never been on the best of terms with God.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “It has been a terrible summer,” said the priest. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He wiped his robe’s sleeve across his forehead and said something to Mama that Anya never expected from the priest. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z I want to go to the priest, to Mr. and Mrs. Carmody. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z On top of all the other oppositions, there may have been this final one: bartender, priest. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Even the Vole, who had fished the red priest from the sea, had urged Victarion to give him to the Drowned God. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Townspeople screamed for the warrior to release the priest. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z A priest stands at the podium and thanks everyone for coming. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Back home, they still think I might become a priest,” Javi said. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z As far as I could tell, what happened every Sunday at Assumption Greek Orthodox Church was that the priests got together and read the Bible out loud. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was even harder to keep my mind on Mass because the priest, who spoke Igbo throughout, did not talk about the gospel during the sermon. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z How can I go to the priest and tell him this terrible thing in my First Confession? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I leaned against her side as the priest announced the next hymn. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z We can try to find our cousin of a cousin, Jorge, who often has a couple of joints and knows a voodoo priest who will tell us our futures after performing a scary animal sacrifice. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Malachy says I should make sure I’m in a state of grace because it might be hard to find a priest to come to my hanging. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I was always a penitent when I was close to a priest at confession. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “What was the thing the steward read?” the priest asked. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The priest was calling from the church steps, so they ran off to confession. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The holy woman told Xuthus that the priest wished to speak to him, and when he was gone she held out to Ion what she was carrying. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “What it comes down to,” the priest put out with cool rage, “is whether Piscine wants real religion—or myths from a cartoon strip.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z When the priest stepped down and walked around the coffin sprinkling holy water at the four corners of it, a woman sitting across the aisle sobbed wildly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Whenever the archdiocese learns something, it will inform the parish priests so that we can inform our congregants.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z For it is written— second priest: Please do come in with us, beloved friend. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z She favored a black Brazilian priest who, she claimed, was especially efficacious. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z That night the priests snuck in as usual through a secret stairway under the altar. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t bother asking the priest if there was any more word from Puerto Rico. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z At the church all the kids were gathered around the steps, waiting for the priest to call us. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did you go to the priest?” my mother asked. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides her, the House of Black and White was home to two serving men, three acolytes, Umma the cook, and the two priests that she called the waif and the kindly man. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The priest’s vestments shone with the white and gold jubilation of the church celebrating the birth of its redeemer. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you want me to get a priest or any one to come and see you?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Turner watched a small yellow hornet buzz listlessly around the pulpit as the priests of the Hebrew host organized their march. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Once the priest had preached in Spanish against the women who lived in Rosie’s house and so I knew that her place was bad. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest is rarely seen and is never of importance. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z With all the energy and love I could offer from my being, I pulled alongside the head priest, pleading for Inti to rise and join us in another year. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z He turns and walks away, and for the first time, I see him not as a priest. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Another kid ratted me out in confession, and the priest turned me in. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z A whisper passed over the crowd, and the priest signaled everyone to stand. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “They wanted me to be a priest, but I decided to become a shepherd.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And he asked King Charles V of Spain for some priests to do the job. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There had been many other visiting priests through the months, but I knew it was him. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z That night at the mess 1 sat next to the priest and he was disap-pointed and suddenly hurt that I had not gone to the Abruzzi. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The priest invites me and we climb down a ladder to the small boat with the First Officer and the Wireless Officer. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Ten or twelve of us women got up and formed a cordon around our priest. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course they were religious people, and the men who could read and write, who kept the records and drew the maps, were the tough untiring priests who traveled with the soldiers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z There were men passing through in both directions: crew members, technicians, priests. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Every eye was on the high priest, save theirs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I still have the sin in me, the abscess, and I hope it doesn’t kill me entirely before I see the American priest. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Ugwu felt stained and unworthy as he went about his new duties after the priests left—distributing garri, breaking up fights, supervising the scorched and failing farms. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The priest finished the station where Veronica wiped the bloodied face of Christ, and he moved to Christ’s second fall. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As we walk, we pass sculpted tributes of wood and copper to a priest from Auschwitz, and also St. Therese of Lisieux, who was known as “The Little Flower of Jesus.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Eyes that came to life in the moonblaze of sacristies and witnessed the birth of the world struggled to open against the priest’s grip. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Witnessed,” said the second priest from within his hood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The vestibule had clean, white walls; the table and benches were of dark wood; and the priest was dressed in a white cassock—it was all neat, plain, simple. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Scott took refuge with us in Orlando and brought along an African priest named Dlamini, who also had a wife and children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then don’t wear yourself out searching,” the priest exclaimed with final conviction. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The priest genuflected and prayed at the first fall of Christ. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Listening to a priest I could often grasp the general sense of what he was saying—but I didn’t always try to. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But where were the Brahmins, the priests, the wise men, who were successful not only in having this most profound knowledge, but in experiencing it? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike others who have described their Catholic schooling, I do not remember the nuns or the priests to have been obsessed with sexual sins. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z From the plaza, Woods pointed out, the priests at the summit could not be seen. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Dionysus himself was supposed to be present; his priest had the seat of honor. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “We make a special call today for a young woman whose name we don’t know,” the priest said after he had recited all the others. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “Ifeoma did not have the sense to call a priest before he died. He might have converted before he died.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The priest stayed with the dead woman so that the mice wouldn’t treat her disrespectfully. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Mamá said, “Salvador, there is no harm in going to see Captain Ortega. The priest may be right.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z That in itself surprised me, because Bear had told me he had little faith in priests. “. . . and the city apprentices,” I heard Bear say, “what of them?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I notice, with surprise, that the priest’s blind eyes are brimming with tears. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Hitler’s secret police, the Geheime Staatspolizei, or Gestapo, hounded Catholic priests, nuns, and other church officials, instructing priests what to say in their sermons and classrooms. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Seeing him lost in the labyrinths of kinship, trembling with uncertainty, the arthritic priest, who was watching him from his hammock, asked him compassionately what his name was. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Some thought the priest was crazy to attract what they saw as bums and delinquents to their neighborhood and objected to helping migrants at all. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Every few weeks the old priest hears my confession and mumbles that I should pray for him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z My mother brought a note from the priest, Dr. Cowpar, and there’s supposed to be a job. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “They’ll believe whatever stories the priests tell them. Here it’s different. You can go to college and learn to think for yourself.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I started the national anthem, but the priest waved his hand quickly in front of my chest. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Another time, sleeping in different quarters in Cange—the patriarch of the place was, after all, a priest—Ophelia was determined to rise early in the morning, ahead of Paul. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The black priest pointed to one golden band. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The altar boy held the gold platter under each chin, the priest mumbled something in Latin and placed the host on the tongue. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let us be your priests, guarding this temple for you—and oh, since we have lived so long together, let neither of us ever have to live alone. Grant that we may die together.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The priests had decided they could not wait forever for the pope and the archbishop to come around. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When another priest called the race hatred of the Nazis immoral, the Hitler Youth demonstrated in front of the priest’s house. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It was only midday, and the red priest and his men did not normally emerge till dusk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But there were the butcher priests, too, performing divination of animal entrails, and the Doomsayers on their stilts, crying End Times from behind their skeleton masks. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z And the best part of the market—and I know this personal—is there ain’t no lords nor priests as to tell you what to do. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He says,That’s the worst thing that can happen to a priest. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It makes her so happy to think of priests saying Masses for her years and years after she’s dead and buried. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The priest was sewing a button on his threadbare cassock when they arrived with the news of Ferula’s death. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Tehlu gathered the people who were watching and chose a priest among them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The parish priest writes the letter on the spot. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The priest ultimately bribed a Haitian army colonel to remove Farmer’s name from the list. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The priest spoke in Spanish, and she was able to light a candle at the altar for Papá’s soul, as she was certain Mamá was doing this morning in Ensenada. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z For the greater number of her twenty-nine years, Bibi Haldar suffered from an ailment that baffled family, friends, priests, palmists, spinsters, gem therapists, prophets, and fools. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Be still,” said the priest to the children’s choir. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes widened at the sight of the nurse cooking his baby in the oven, but, rather than protest, he repeated his question about fetching the priest. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So it was not a good feeling my father had for priests. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z An ordained priest now, he presented a dignified, benevolent figure, but by the second hour of the reception it was clear he was crushed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The eyes of the priest and the imam properly popped out of their heads. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Three years later, Dasch went back to school, but he soon changed his mind about becoming a priest and quit. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “I know this man,” she did hear a priest with the face of a plague victim say. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z These they take away and apply with devotion, like a healing penance from a priest. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Tell me something that I do not know, priest.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Alex Morales, who had never missed a day of school, who had never talked back to a teacher, let alone a priest, had just defied the headmaster. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Clad in black from head to heel, with a mask of red-and-orange flames tattooed across his face, the priest appeared more sinister than ever. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I don’t doubt you,” the priest said, gently putting his hand to my face to keep me calm. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Creüsa, leaving her husband in the town with one of the priests, went on up to the sanctuary by herself. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The priests assembled the tenants and the visitors in the little schoolhouse to read through the forgotten gospels and say a mass for the eternal rest of the soul of Pedro Garcia. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked again and saw the flat round piece of bread the priest held up. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest laughed, said he had never seen the likes, that the child was a regular little Baptist now and hardly needed a priest. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I’m going to America till one priest catches my attention. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “The conserve is to sweeten the tea,” said the priest. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Florence said it’s wine, and the priest drinks it because he’s a wino,” Lloyd said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z After several hymns the priest fell into a long prayer. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The gods had to be propitiated, and a vast industry of priests and oracles arose to make the gods less angry. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The team discovered three surviving nuns and one priest, along with a few devoted African nurses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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