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In short, give me a full account of yourself, in your unministerial character, your incognito, without your fiocchi.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

Prisoners 'bass seems a favorite boys' amusement, and ninepins, or, as we call it, bowls, are played by all classes freely, and it is not regarded as at all unministerial.

Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland Various

Near one of the tiny schoolhouses of the West is a carefully tended mound, the object of the tenderest interest on the part of a man known far and wide as "Preacher Jim," a rough, unministerial-looking person, who yet has reached the hearts and lives of many of the men and women in that region, and has led them to know the Master whom he serves in his humble fashion.

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In addition, a certain unministerial pride stirred him to action.

Burned Bridges Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

She liked him particularly because he looked so unministerial in his soft shirt and blue overalls.

Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party Edyth Ellerbeck Read 1924

The parson mounted a raw-boned, Roman-nosed pinto, whose vivid calico markings, together with the rider's brilliant scarf gave a most unministerial, not to say bizarre effect to the outfit.

The Gold Girl 1921

He wore his stylish derby tilted down over his left eye and slightly to one side in a most unministerial manner, showing too much of his straw-colored back hair, which rose in a cowlick at the point of contact with the hat, and he looked a small, mean creature as he drove off into the vast beauty of the plain.

A Voice in the Wilderness Grace Livingston Hill 1906

His case came before the Annual Conference Committee who agreed that the evidence offered did not sustain the charges, but that Dr. Scott deserved rebuke for unministerial conduct, and suspended him until the ensuing Annual Conference, when that body, adopting the

The Sons of Allen: Together with a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio. 1906

At that Mr. Brown retreated to the martyrs 'monument to meditate on the unministerial behavior of this minister and professor of Biblical criticism in the University.

Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

The minister seemed somewhat shocked at the unministerial gait of his horse, and looked anxiously after the animal, when, suddenly starting, he exclaimed --

The Planter's Northern Bride 1854