The pedant, the braggart, the hedge-priest, the fool and the boy: — ❋ Unknown (2004)
The Prior at length recollected himself sufficiently to be aware that he was compromising his dignity, by squabbling with such a hedge-priest as the ❋ Unknown (2004)
This worthy never prays, and can neither read nor write; but he knows a chapter or two of the Koran, recites audibly a long Ratib or task, morning and evening12, whence, together with his store of hashed Hadis (tradition), he derives the title of Widad or hedge-priest. ❋ Unknown (2003)
She smiled at me now, still with that half-amused look, and I preened myself - I was seventeen, remember - and sized up her points while the father got himself another glass and damned Arnold for a puritan hedge-priest. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1969)
As William Morris tells old John Ball, the 'rascal hedge-priest,' 'Mastership hath many shifts' before it finally goes down and out. ❋ William English Walling (N/A)
In fact, it would appear that St. Valentine was, literally, a hedge-priest. ❋ Richard Le Gallienne (1906)
He was a hedge-priest and wizard, not one of those who imbue men's minds with error by professing to teach their superstitions openly for money, but a hierophant of secret nocturnal mysteries. ❋ Unknown (1905)
The Prior at length recollected himself sufficiently to be aware that he was compromising his dignity, by squabbling with such a hedge-priest as the Outlaw's chaplain, and being joined by his attendants, rode off with considerably less pomp, and in a much more apostolical condition, so far as worldly matters were concerned, than he had exhibited before this rencounter. ❋ Unknown (1892)
` ` Thou be'st a hedge-priest, '' * said the Prior, in ❋ Unknown (1892)
Edmund's --- a sort of hedge-priest is the visitor, and kills half the deer that are stolen in the forest, who loves the tinkling of a pint-pot better than the sacring-bell, and deems a flitch of bacon worth ten of his breviary; for the rest, a good fellow and a merry, who will flourish a quarter-staff, draw a bow, and dance a Cheshire round, with e'er a man in Yorkshire. '' ❋ Unknown (1892)
But our hedge-priest was thoroughly terrified; "a coward body after a '," his face brightened when ordered to remain with the Gerad at Sagharrah, and though openly taunted with poltroonery, he had not the decency to object. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)
This worthy never prays, and can neither read nor write; but he knows a chapter or two of the Koran, recites audibly a long Ratib or task, morning and evening [12], whence, together with his store of hashed Hadis (tradition), he derives the title of Widad or hedge-priest. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)
"Why, a hedge-priest pretends to know Latin," said Sibyll, smiling; ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
This man was, like Mr. Maguire, what has been termed a hedge-priest -- a character which, as we have already said, the poverty of the Catholic people, during the existence of the penal laws, and the consequent want of spiritual instruction, rendered necessary. ❋ William Carleton (1831)
"Thou be'st a hedge-priest," Note H. Hedge-Priests. said the Prior, in great wrath, "excommuicabo vos." ❋ Unknown (1819)
I never saw but one specimen of Irish hedge-priest, and therefore do not credit the assertion; this one came out last year, and a more furious bigot or a more republican ultra I never met with, at the same time that he was as ignorant as could be conceived. ❋ Richard Henry Bonnycastle (1819)
Sacristan at Saint Edmund's -- a sort of hedge-priest is the visitor, and kills half the deer that are stolen in the forest, who loves the tinkling of a pint-pot better than the sacring-bell, and deems a flitch of bacon worth ten of his breviary; for the rest, a good fellow and ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
"Thou be'st a hedge-priest," [46] said the Prior, in great wrath, ❋ Walter Scott (1801)