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His eagerness for the adventure did not escape notice, however, nor his very unclerical delight at the prospect of confounding the French authorities, of giving them one in the eye, the devils.

The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

His eagerness for the adventure did not escape notice, however, nor his very unclerical delight at the prospect of confounding the French authorities, of giving them one in the eye, the devils.

The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

His eagerness for the adventure did not escape notice, however, nor his very unclerical delight at the prospect of confounding the French authorities, of giving them one in the eye, the devils.

The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

In my experience, the new pope -- a man who loves his priesthood and who believes deeply in the bishop's office as an office of paternity -- is strikingly unclerical: indeed, far less clerical than some mediagenic cardinals who seem to think of theirs as a splendidly exclusive men's club.

PERSPECTIVE: THE REAL BENEDICT 2007

I am a martyr to duty and to your odious unclerical habit of hunting,

Vanity Fair 2006

He looked active and unclerical, and her eyes rested with pleasure on his long firm face, so wrinkled and humorous.

Maid in Waiting 2004

So stiff-necked a man, so obstinate, so unclerical — so determined to make much of little!

Dr. Wortle's school 2004

English clergyman who should not be a bad man, but one led into temptation by his own youth and by the unclerical accidents of the life of those around him.

An Autobiography 2004

Mr. Doke, a Presbyterian clergyman, “was first seized by the jerks”, and the jerks laid hold of Mr. Doke in that unclerical way and with that scant respect for his cloth, that they

Contributions to All the Year Round 2004

Such recreations are now unclerical in the highest degree, or if not in the highest, they are only one degree less so than hunting.

Hunting Sketches 2004