pharisee

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The self-applauding bird, the peacock see:—   Mark what a sumptuous pharisee is he!

From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by Hazlitt, William

Gordon chanced to come in that day and light upon Ernest, and the fury into which he worked himself ill beseemed so respectable a pharisee.

From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

But the attempt was fruitless: he succeeded no better in curing a dropsical person that chanced to be in the house of a pharisee who gave the Saviour a dinner.

From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Holbach, Paul Henry Thiry Baron d'

His whole heart would respond to the cry of sad publican or despairing pharisee, 'How am I to be good?'

From Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. by MacDonald, George

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 Sue, Eugène