Tristram Shandy that the writer was a cynic who deserved to be unfrocked. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference
Verity (etc) the erstwhile "admirer" of Israel, also unfrocked out of her own mouth. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
But more than the others he suspected the motives of Sakamata, the man whom he had unfrocked. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
HE is traite en subalterne, and is jealous of a frocked or unfrocked manant like Maitre Francoys!. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to Dead Authors] Reference
‘The unfrocked villain destroys more venison than half the country besides,’ says one keeper. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe] Reference
He had shrugged and gone back to work, an unfrocked physician whose services were temporarily welcome. From Wordnik.com. [Time Enough For Love]
Like Mr Gladstone he did all he could to catch fallen women, but his motives were misunderstood and he was unfrocked. From Wordnik.com. [The Rector of Stiffkey] Reference
If he admitted his guilt, he would be unfrocked; he would show like a chanticleer stripped of his hackles before his hens. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
I remembered my intellectuals and idealists, my unfrocked preachers, broken professors, and clean-minded, class-conscious workingmen. From Wordnik.com. [What Life Means to Me] Reference
Bishop, and unfrocked himself; possibly he found himself in a Court of Law, where an unsympathetic jury recorded a painful verdict against him. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 25, 1891] Reference
Battista had been quietly ridded the very next morning: unfrocked, he took the way of the Brenner and the mountains, and Veronese history knows nothing further certainly of him. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
The unfrocked friar, the courtier out of service, had no home in Italy. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference
They are obliged, in order to supply their places, to hunt up unfrocked monks of a questionable character. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 1] Reference
Chile and Peru for South American independence, and was aided in his struggle by Louis Beltran, an unfrocked friar. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three)] Reference
A large portion of Paris cabmen are unsuccessful students in theology and other professions and also unfrocked priests. From Wordnik.com. [Pushing to the Front] Reference
I remembered my intellectuals and idealists, my unfrocked preachers, broken professors, and clean-minded, class-conscious working-men. From Wordnik.com. [Revolution, and Other Essays] Reference
'Suppose a rural dean to be unfrocked, does he fall to be a major? suppose a captain were cashiered, would he fall to be a puisne judge?. From Wordnik.com. [The Dynamiter] Reference
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