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But the beginning of the end of this priestridden world has at length come.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various
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The Conservative party today is the only one that's not priestridden -- excuse the expression, Father [Father Dempsey nods tolerantly] -- cause it's the only one that has established its Church and can prevent a clergyman becoming a bishop if he's not a Statesman as well as a
John Bull's Other Island George Bernard Shaw 1903
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Alas, poor devil! spectres are appointed to haunt him: one age he is hag-ridden, bewitched; the next, priestridden, befooled; in all ages, bedevilled.
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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