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Shall really have to consider whether there would be anything unepiscopal in negotiating a little loan, or effecting a mortgage on the Palace.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 13, 1891 Various
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With that, he went tottering over to the elevator, stumbling on the way and making an unepiscopal remark.
Four-Day Planet H. Beam Piper 1934
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And this was not unpleasant; for she, in turn, liked looking at his face, which had what is called "charm" -- that something light and unepiscopal, entirely lacking to so many solid, handsome, admirable faces.
Beyond John Galsworthy 1900
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And this was not unpleasant; for she, in turn, liked looking at his face, which had what is called "charm" -- that something light and unepiscopal, entirely lacking to so many solid, handsome, admirable faces.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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The Bishop's temper, roughly waked up by the unwilling and unepiscopal war-dance just executed, fell back into its chains.
The Militants Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews 1898
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M. de Jarente understood the joke, and was the first to jest upon his own unepiscopal conduct, replying to the duc de Choiseul,
Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry, with minute details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV. Written by herself Etienne-L��on Lamothe-Langon 1825
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Whatever may have been the nature of the slight put upon him, he seems to have felt it keenly; for Palladius, St. John's biographer, records a most unepiscopal saying of the injured prelate to the effect that he would one day give his brother of Constantinople a taste of his own hospitality -- ego auto artouo chytran (Pallad.,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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