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They had the education of the country in their hands, and from the confessor's closet they pulled the wires which moved courts.

Voltaire 2007

If a confessor's crime had been perpetrated under the direction of an organisation, the victim should claim compensation only from that organisation, which could be the State.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

She had thought his gentleness was as imperturbable as a confessor's.

Speaker for the Dead Card, Orson Scott 1986

A number of wild beasts then gathered round them, and at first it looked very dangerous; but these beasts were not at all evil, but looked at them in just the same friendly way as my confessor's old dog used to look at me when he came up to me.

The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1774-1824 1954

Dame Fothergill, the late confessor's mamma; others, St. Bridget herself; others thought it was nobody at all, but only a phantom conjured up by conscience.

Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers Various

The early confessions were in fact no more than expressions of more or less intelligent expectation that Jesus would fulfil the confessor's hopes.

The Life of Jesus of Nazareth Rush Rhees

This circumstance frightened Sister Bourgeois very much, as she found herself alone, and without escort, in the midst of a troop of soldiers, Her modesty was alarmed, and she sought her confessor's advice in the new danger.

Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois Anonymous

But it is not Nature's generous impulses, its tender yearnings, its noble aspirations, that the stricken conscience pours into the confessor's ear.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Various

The whole thing appeared to me only a question of time, a few days or weeks at most -- so long on the husband's account, so long on the father confessor's account.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

After we had drunk chocolate, he asked me my age, my confessor's name, and many intricate questions about religion.

Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe