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  • The savage circle laughed derisively, and in the ear of Gnob whispered Madwan, the shaman, high-priest of the tribe and maker of medicine.

    KEESH, SON OF KEESH 2010

  • Limbaugh is the high-priest of ignorance he is also a drug addict who in 2006 was stopped en route from the Dominican Republic with someone else's Viagra.

    Lorelei Kelly: Boehner's Dilemma: Decency vs. Depravity Lorelei Kelly 2010

  • Limbaugh is the high-priest of ignorance he is also a drug addict who in 2006 was stopped en route from the Dominican Republic with someone else's Viagra.

    Lorelei Kelly: Boehner's Dilemma: Decency vs. Depravity Lorelei Kelly 2010

  • In a state that had been dominated by politicians catering to an alliance of the Muslim and middle-caste Yadav vote, Kumar set out to build a "coalition of extremes" that includes the high-priest and warrior castes and voters from among the erstwhile untouchables.

    From Worst to Near First 2010

  • Limbaugh is the high-priest of ignorance he is also a drug addict who in 2006 was stopped en route from the Dominican Republic with someone else's Viagra.

    Lorelei Kelly: Boehner's Dilemma: Decency vs. Depravity Lorelei Kelly 2010

  • "Whereas the four traditional elements air, water, fire, and earth… have dominated various epochs in the past," said Mayan spokesperson and high-priest Carlos Barrios, "there will be a fifth element to reckon with in the time of the Fifth Sun: ether."

    Ervin Laszlo / HEALING THE PLANET AN INTEGRAL DIAGNOSIS AND PRESCRIPTIONS FOR THE CURE 2009

  • "Whereas the four traditional elements air, water, fire, and earth… have dominated various epochs in the past," said Mayan spokesperson and high-priest Carlos Barrios, "there will be a fifth element to reckon with in the time of the Fifth Sun: ether."

    Archive 2009-02-15 2009

  • The bells were likely included as part of high-priest Aaron's vestments for two reasons.

    Archive 2009-07-01 elena maria vidal 2009

  • Oh, alright, mebbe it's the feast fitz for a beaut and a critically lauded high-priest to say the least.

    Oops ... Frank Wilson 2008

  • Jonathan Freedland's article today does, however, lead us to have some sympathy for the Left: Liberal activists in the US rocked on their heels last month when they saw Obama hand the two top economic posts to Larry Summers and Tim Geithner, disciples of Robert Rubin, the Clinton-era high-priest of deregulation whose shredding of FDR-era rules bears partial blame for the current mess.

    Change we can believe in? Depends on the 'we' ... Burke's Corner 2008

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