ecclesiastic
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Moore recounted how an agent codenamed Ecclesiastic, who penetrated German intelligence for MI6 in 1944, was looked after by the service until her death, aged 100.
From Washington Times • Jul. 19, 2023
This exhibition has three acts: Secular, Ecclesiastic and, for lack of a better word, Miraculous.
From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2018
Another record was the Mingus Oh Yeah album, particularly Ecclesiastic, which I drew an enormous amount of pleasure from.
From The Guardian • Jun. 12, 2012
I felt the force of this pointed reply: and was resolved never again to ask an Ecclesiastic to part with a black-letter volume, even though it should be printed by "my old friend Guido Mercator."
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
Can Courts Ecclesiastic, then, toast free English folk to death?
From The Lady of Blossholme by Haggard, Henry Rider
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