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Usage examples of clergymen.

He had obtained a living at an age when other young clergymen are beginning to think of a curacy, and he had obtained such a living as middle-aged parsons in their dreams regard as a possible Paradise for their old years.

You clergymen like to keep those long subjects for your sermons, when no one can answer you.

If there be one class of men whose names would be found more frequent on the backs of bills in the provincial banks than another, clergymen are that class.

Two clergymen came in and drank soup here very early, as soon as the shutters were taken down.

Or, in case I do not make myself clear, what is the mystical association which connects the idea of nuts marked as oranges with the idea of two clergymen, one tall and the other short?

Was it not, as a rule, of those clergymen who had shown themselves able to perform their clerical duties efficiently, and able also to take their place with ease in society?

This was Archdeacon Grantly, a gentleman whom we have mentioned before, and who was as well known in the diocese as the bishop himself, and more thought of by many clergymen than even that illustrious prelate.

On what principle the remuneration of our parish clergymen was settled when the original settlement was made, no deepest, keenest, lover of middle-aged ecclesiastical black-letter learning can, I take it, now say.

Let those who know clergymen, and like them, and have lived with them, only fancy it!

A utilitarian age requires the fatness of the ecclesiastical land, in order that it may be divided out into small portions of provender, on which necessary working clergymen may live,--into portions so infinitely small that working clergyman can hardly live.

And then the breakfast was over, and in a few minutes the two clergymen found themselves together in the parsonage study.

Of course, you are a very young man, Mr Robarts, and these things have generally been given to clergymen more advanced in life.

But even the liberal stipend of a hundred and thirty pounds a year--liberal according to the scale by which the incomes of clergymen in our new districts are now apportioned--would not admit of a gentleman with his wife and four children living with the ordinary comforts of an artisan's family.

It was hard, the former said, to feel herself so different from the wives of other clergymen around her--to know that they lived softly, while she, with all the work of her hands, and unceasing struggle of her energies, could hardly manage to place wholesome food before her husband and children.

Nobody liked clergymen better than Lady Lufton or was more willing to live with them on terms of affectionate intimacy, but she could not get over the feeling that the clergyman of her own parish,--or of her son's,--was a part of her own establishment, of her own appanage--or of his,--and that it could not be well that Lord Lufton should marry among his own dependants.