curé
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But the good curé gently but adroitly parried his ingenuity, and blandly screwed him up to the market price.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
The parish was small, the parishioners greedy; and never gave their curé a doit more than he could compel.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
"He is more churchman than layman, being convent bred, and in the lesser orders," said the ready curé.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
By this an old friend of ours, the curé, profited in hard cash; for which he had a very pretty taste.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
He wished to rest in his own churchyard, and let the abbé Gaultier and the curé de St. Sulpice squabble as to who should have, the honor of his conversion.
From Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works by Foote, G. W. (George William)
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