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The two children nestled close to each other, Gavroche finished arranging them on the mat, drew the blanket up to their very ears, then repeated, for the third time, his injunction in the hieratical tongue: — “Shut your peepers!”

Les Miserables 2008

With his blaze of hair which even the arc-lights couldn't eclipse, and the strong bony face, he stood for a moment as rigidly hieratical as some mythical guardian of the gateway to Hell, needing only a gleaming sword to complete the illusion.

The Murder Room James, P. D. 1988

"Well, but you can't deny that this question of Scriptural exegesis is one of these dominant questions that must arrest the attention of all who are interested in ecclesiastical or hieratical studies," said I, trying to keep pace with him.

My New Curate P.A. Sheehan

They made innuendoes concerning the stability of the other articles of hieratical law.

The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller

The colonel followed slowly and his dressing-gown, his blue slippers, and his brick-coloured head on which a few long hairs were stirring in the wind made him look at once ridiculous and hieratical.

Maigret meets a Milord Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1931

Although still hieratical and archaic, Duccio's "Madonna", when compared, for instance, with that of Guido of Siena, painted in

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

But now, from beneath this opportunist, this hieratical _savant_, this toiler who accepted wealth and glory from all hands, there appeared a quiet yet terrible evolutionist, who certainly expected that his own work would help to ravage and renew the world!

The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871

But now, from beneath this opportunist, this hieratical _savant_, this toiler who accepted wealth and glory from all hands, there appeared a quiet yet terrible evolutionist, who certainly expected that his own work would help to ravage and renew the world!

The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete ��mile Zola 1871

But now, from beneath this opportunist, this hieratical/savant/, this toiler who accepted wealth and glory from all hands, there appeared a quiet yet terrible evolutionist, who certainly expected that his own work would help to ravage and renew the world!

The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 2 ��mile Zola 1871

The two children nestled close to each other, Gavroche finished arranging them on the mat, drew the blanket up to their very ears, then repeated, for the third time, his injunction in the hieratical tongue: --

Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis 1862