livings

There are the Holy Roman Bootstrap-lifters, whose priests are fed by Transubstantiation; the established Anglican Bootstrap-lifters, whose priests live by "livings"; the Baptist Bootstrap-lifters, whose preachers practice total immersion in Standard Oil.

The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition Upton Sinclair 1923

About six thousand of these "livings" are in the gift of great land owners; one noble lord alone disposes of fifty-six such plums; and needless to say, he does not present them to clergymen who favor radical land-taxes.

The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition Upton Sinclair 1923

He saw, or thought he saw, English religion milked for the benefit of Oxford and Cambridge graduates needful of "livings"; and Darwinism and the new sciences generally being swept into the maw of the same professionally intellectual class.

Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Henry Seidel Canby 1919

There are the Holy Roman Bootstrap-lifters, whose priests are fed by Transubstantiation; the established Anglican Bootstrap-lifters, whose priests live by "livings"; the Baptist Bootstrap-lifters, whose preachers practice total immersion in Standard Oil.

The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation 1918

About six thousand of these "livings" are in the gift of great land owners.; one noble lord alone disposes of fifty-six such plums; and needless to say, he does not present them to clergymen who favor radical land-taxes.

The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation 1918

He was the sole owner of one of the smallest 'livings' in England, -- an obscure, deeply-hidden, but perfectly unspoilt and beautiful relic of mediaeval days, situated in one of the loveliest of woodland counties, and known as the village of St. Rest, sometimes called 'St. Est.'

God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

He was the sole owner of one of the smallest 'livings' in England, -- an obscure, deeply-hidden, but perfectly unspoilt and beautiful relic of mediaeval days, situated in one of the loveliest of woodland counties, and known as the village of St. Rest, sometimes called 'St. Est.'

God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

He was the sole owner of one of the smallest 'livings' in England, -- an obscure, deeply-hidden, but perfectly unspoilt and beautiful relic of mediaeval days, situated in one of the loveliest of woodland counties, and known as the village of St. Rest, sometimes called 'St. Est.'

God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

He is equally impressed with the momentousness of death and of burial fees; he languishes at once for immortal life and for "livings;" he has a vivid attachment to patrons in general, but on the whole prefers the Almighty.

George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy George Willis Cooke 1885

My father had the patronage of some valuable "livings," and good interest with more than one member of the government.

Basil Wilkie Collins 1856