The old priest was the favorite confessor of the town because of his sincerity and kindness. From LearnThat.org.
"Speak, my child; you know that a confessor is a father.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Remember, one tells one's creed only to one's confessor, that is sub sigillo. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference
Grouped behind the confessor were the fathers who were in the quarters on that occasion. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
His confessor was a clergyman who was residing as chaplain to a man of rank in the west of. From Wordnik.com. [Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft] Reference
My confessor was a Capuchin, and perhaps I should have waited for his advice before going farther. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal City] Reference
"The last person who will mount the scaffold in France with a confessor will be the King of France.". From Wordnik.com. [The Queen's Necklace] Reference
But afterwards he always maintained that his confessor was the only person who could have betrayed him. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Crimes (Complete)] Reference
This personage was called a confessor but, according to the anonymous writer, he had bought himself off. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
The confessor was a Lollard, and was therefore not deterred by any fear of her becoming acquainted with forbidden books. From Wordnik.com. [The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time] Reference
Even Mr. Walpole, who had been sent to the Tower for a piece of bribery proved upon him, was called a confessor to the cause. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Mary Wortley Montague]
"A cast of their office, and a cast of mine," answered the bailie; "a cord and a confessor, that is all thou wilt have from us.". From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
For Alfred is generally stiled by the same historians the legum Anglicanarum conditor, as Edward the confessor is the restitutor. From Wordnik.com. [Top-Meldungen - JuraBlogs.com] Reference
The confessor is the master, the ruler, the king of the soul; the husband, as the grave-yard keeper, must be satisfied with the carcase!. From Wordnik.com. [The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional] Reference
“A cast of their office, and a cast of mine,” answered the bailie; “a cord and a confessor, that is all thou wilt have from us.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
As a poet, I love how the word "confessor" expresses this potential. From Wordnik.com. [Michele Somerville: Test Driving The New Catholic Confession App] Reference
So while you don't get no attorney privilege with me, you may be able to claim some kind of confessor confidentiality. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: March 25, 2001 - March 31, 2001 Archives] Reference
It may very well be, as Gordon suggests, that Aygan lives now only to bear witness but I consider him a typical "confessor". From Wordnik.com. [Rastî] Reference
Bishop, he called with my father and my confessor to see me. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
"" The eraser is our confessor, our absolver and our time machine. ''. From Wordnik.com. [The Power Of Big Ideas] Reference
But the Jesuit confessor attached to the prison is ever on the alert. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
He had a slightly - seductively - ravaged face and the look of a defrocked confessor. From Wordnik.com. [The Bradlee Treatment] Reference
I will have this confessor dismissed, Joseph; he is an enemy to the State, I see it clearly. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Yet, obedient to the inspirations of grace, she first consulted her confessor, Father Pizart. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
M. Havard, who was confessor to the community, answered the call and bore witness to the fact. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
But her confessor soon found out that some change was going on in her mind, and told her father. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
At tea-time I was not allowed to sit at table with father, mother, and the confessor, as formerly. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
Samuel Dash, an icon from Watergate days who had served as Starr's legal father confessor, suddenly quit. From Wordnik.com. [The Starr Chamber] Reference
He was our confessor, knew the secrets and sins, and all the weak points of every mind in the whole household. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
It was solely at the recommendation of the confessor, that I was imprisoned four years in the Ursuline Convent. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
The vice president tends to be more comfortable in the role of tough-guy enforcer than favor-dispensing father confessor. From Wordnik.com. [What Bush Needs To Learn] Reference
At these words, the eyes of the confessor flashed like lurid lightnings; his very frame shook, as though he had the fever and ague. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
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