priestlike

The young men of Montale were now on the other side of the window, stacked like silent acrobats, and a jigsaw of faces squirmed against the glass strangely noble, priestlike faces, nobly suffering.

'The Pregnant Widow' 2010

None of them was a reader, so I was mysterious and magical, almost priestlike, treated with a respect I was unused to in my old indoor life among bitter writers and overfamiliar readers, the well-meaning bores of literacy.

Beard 2010

'We live in a scientific age', she continued, 'yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated and priestlike in their laboratories'.

Rachel Carson's environmental ethics 2008

She is surrounded by about twenty priestlike figures all wearing hooded black robes and fearsome jackal masks of the Egyptian god Anubis.

Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006

She is surrounded by about twenty priestlike figures all wearing hooded black robes and fearsome jackal masks of the Egyptian god Anubis.

Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006

She is surrounded by about twenty priestlike figures all wearing hooded black robes and fearsome jackal masks of the Egyptian god Anubis.

Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006

She had seen his actions long enough to know that he was almost priestlike in his gentleness.

Enchantment Card, Orson Scott 1999

She had seen his actions long enough to know that he was almost priestlike in his gentleness.

Enchantment Card, Orson Scott 1999

Of his hasty promise to become honest and even priestlike, Loganaro thought not at all, save to smile at such foolishness.

Conan the Fearless Perry, Steve 1986

He had not forseen this profound and private grief in its priestlike austerity.

Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981