Cordelier

Word CORDELIER
Character 9
Hyphenation cor de lier
Pronunciations N/A

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The word "cordelier" in example sentences

Apropos of citing an author, I must amuse myself with relating a singular mistake of the reverend Father Viret, cordelier and professor of theology. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A cordelier, who was my confessor, easily seduced me; the consequences proved terrible. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The cordelier, before he was hanged, acknowledged that he had stolen them, and described the persons, and the road they had taken. ❋ Unknown (2007)

“Alas!” said the old woman, “I have a shrewd suspicion of a reverend father cordelier, who lay last night in the same inn with us at Badajoz; God forbid I should condemn any one wrongfully, but he came into our room twice, and he set off in the morning long before us.” ❋ Unknown (2007)

A history of the Low Countries, composed by Meteren, relates that a cordelier named Adriacem, a great preacher at Bruges, used to whip his female penitents quite naked. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A woman, in the sacrament, declares, or pretends, before a carmelite, that a cordelier has seduced her; and the carmelite must denounce the cordelier. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The reverend father Viret, cordelier, theologian, and preacher, all humble as he is, will always firmly believe that he knows more than those who learn to read and write; but his Christian humility, his modesty of soul, will oblige him to confess in the bottom of his heart that he has written nothing but nonsense. ❋ Unknown (2007)

She then reviled him for presuming to affront her before strangers, and gave the company to understand, that the young ladies would wait upon them as soon as they could be confessed and receive absolution from a worthy cordelier, who was now employed in performing that charitable office. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I fancy, when the affair of the cordelier was on the carpet, as shown in its place. ❋ Various (N/A)

It was further appointed by Faustus, that the devil should usually attend him in the habit of a cordelier, with a pleasing countenance and an insinuating demeanor. ❋ Various (N/A)

Yon cordelier will show you the bay, where his vessel took refuge in its distress; and will tell you, that yon jagged rock first gave its dangerous welcome, to the bark of his patron saint. ❋ A Bushman (N/A)

J'avais tout de suite aimé ce cordelier qui, blanchi dans l'étude, gardait l'humeur riante et facile d'un ignorant. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)

Thenceforth, if I saw any cowl of a cordelier as I walked, I even turned and went the other way. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

None the less I hoped in my heart that his secret tidings of the Burgundian onfall had not come through a priest, and namely a cordelier. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

"Mayhap you were fevered," he said, "when you lay in the casement seat, and saw the Maid taken by device of the cordelier." ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

One priest there is in Compiegne who takes no keep of his life, a cordelier. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

I had laid my face on my hands, being so weak, and was weeping for very rage at that which my unhappy eyes had seen, when I heard the laugh, and lifting my head and looking forth, I beheld the hood of the cordelier. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

Townsfolk, too, were mingled in the throng, men who had come but to gape as curious fools, and among them I saw the hood of a cordelier, as I glanced from the fight to mark how the Maid might force her way within. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

For this cordelier was not to be respected, I deemed, like others of the Order of St. Francis, and all men of Holy ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

Lorrainer, but one who had come to them, they said, now some weeks agone, in the guise of a cordelier, though he did not fight in that garb, but in common attire, and ever wore his vizor down, which men deemed strange. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

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