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He came down and I talked to him -- a little man, regarding his situation as quite ordinary, and looking quaintly unpriestlike in his uniform of a Belgian officer with its tasselled cap.
Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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He was very good to me, and, while deeply lamenting my "perversion", held, by some strange unpriestlike charity, that my "unbelief" was but a passing cloud, sent as trial by "the Lord", and soon to vanish again, leaving me in the "sunshine of faith".
Autobiographical Sketches Annie Wood Besant 1890
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"He was the most unmilitary and unpriestlike man I met in the seminary," he said.
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He was very good to me, and, while deeply lamenting my “perversion ", held, by some strange unpriestlike charity, that my “unbelief” was but a passing cloud, sent as trial by “the Lord", and soon to vanish again, leaving me in the
Autobiographical Sketches Besant, Annie 1885
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