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  • Some of his friends said he was too mundane, and bowed to the pleasures of the world most unclerically.

    A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman

  • From below, strains of the jocund piano declared that the Olympians were enjoying themselves in their listless, impotent way; for the new curate had been bidden to dinner that night, and was at the moment unclerically proclaiming to all the world that he feared no foe.

    The Golden Age 1915

  • Peter opened the note and swore definitely and unclerically when he had read it.

    Simon Called Peter Robert Keable 1907

  • Life, to phrase it most unclerically, was distinctly a mess.

    The Brentons Anna Chapin Ray 1905

  • From below, strains of the jocund piano declared that the Olympians were enjoying themselves in their listless, impotent way; for the new curate had been bidden to dinner that night, and was at the moment unclerically proclaiming to all the world that he feared no foe.

    The Golden Age Kenneth Grahame 1895

  • Some Newbury church-members, in 1742, asserted that their minister unclerically wore a colored kerchief instead of a band.

    Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

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