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  • The Churchman is a megalomaniacal Religious extremist.

    English Passengers - Matthew Kneale (2000) JB 2007

  • It was not so in my youth: a Churchman was a Churchman, and a clergyman, you might be pretty sure, was a gentleman, if nothing else.

    Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900) 1871

  • It was not so in my youth: a Churchman was a Churchman, and a clergyman, you might be pretty sure, was a gentleman, if nothing else.

    Middlemarch 1871

  • This roused the brother of the culprit, a certain Mr. Patrick Lindsay, otherwise described as a Churchman, who was by no means content to see the head of his house thus described, nor yet that Lord Lindsay should come "in the King's will," thus accepting forfeiture or any other penalties that might be pronounced against him.

    Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets George Reid 1862

  • It was not so in my youth: a Churchman was a Churchman, and a clergyman, you might be pretty sure, was a gentleman, if nothing else.

    Middlemarch George Eliot 1849

  • Socialists, who, as the "Churchman" reports, "make a creed out of materialism."

    The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition Upton Sinclair 1923

  • And it is so dreadful about the French and German Socialists, who, as the "Churchman" reports, "make a creed out of materialism."

    The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation 1918

  • "Churchman" and later of the "Constructive Quarterly," an old friend of ours, Dr. Silas McBee.

    A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Wilfred Thomason Grenfell 1902

  • "Although I wrote the 'Churchman' article, I wrote also the 'Eagle' editorial," was the reply.

    The Puritans Arlo Bates 1884

  • He had just promised to write an article for the 'Churchman' advocating Father Frontford from the point of view of a layman; and of course until that is in print it is necessary to be gracious to him.

    The Puritans Arlo Bates 1884

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