pharisee
Example Sentences
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Two men went up into the temple to pray: the one a pharisee, and the other a publican.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
Nicodemus, a night professor, and Simon the pharisee, with his fifty pence; and their great ignorance of the methods of grace, we have now and then touched upon.
From The Jerusalem Sinner Saved; or, Good News for the Vilest of Men by John Bunyan
When about leaving it, a pharisee through pure curiosity invited him to dinner.
From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Paul Henry Thiry Baron d' Holbach
The reader may recollect the parable of the pharisee and the publican.
From Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published by Maria Monk
"That's all very well, Micky," Dick had replied with a remonstrating bellow of a laugh, "but I'm not enough of a pharisee for that, you know, for I'm no total abstainer myself."
From The Lash by Olin L. Lyman
