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Lexicographical Neighbors of Priest-ridden
Literary usage of Priest-ridden
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Indian Wars of New England by Herbert Milton Sylvester (1910)
"Such was the inglorious termination of the swart ambitions of the priest-ridden
Louis xiv., and the brutal and merciless inspirations of Count Frontenac, ..."
2. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1846)
"The only sincere religious character is Dagobert's wife, whom the reader is meant
to despise for a weak, superstitious, bigoted, priest-ridden ..."
3. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1869)
"They are priest-ridden, sen- ' sual, avaricious, and predatory ; and at the same
time they are ' faithless and blood-thirsty. Each tribe and section of a ..."
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