pharisee
Example Sentences
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Above all, do not act like the two men in the parable: 'Two men went into the temple to pray, the one was a publican, the other a pharisee.
From The Silver Cross or The Carpenter of Nazareth by Eugène Sue
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
There was Rogers puffed out with pride; Christy, pharisee and humbug, superbly satisfied with himself.
From The Loom of Youth by Alec Waugh
He, too, had taken the part of the lowly and oppressed, and against all the established power of priest and pharisee.
From The Iron Heel by Jack London
“Yes; but, grandmother, if the pharisee really was a good man, it wasn't right for him to thank God for it?”
From Caleb in the Country by Jacob Abbott
