abbés
- plural of abbé.
Example Sentences
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The clergy nominated bishops and abbés attached to privilege, and curés favourable to the popular cause, which was their own; lastly, the third estate selected men enlightened, firm, and unanimous in their wishes.
From History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 by Mignet, M. (François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis)
The young abbés and priests were very good fellows, earnest believers, but so simple that conversations with them were only interesting because of their ignorance and lack of understanding.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen
The remarkable contrast between the high wages of the Athenian sophists and the low wages of modern abbés, Adam Smith accounts for principally by the many scholarships of modern times.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm
At their feet, on pillows resting, Or reclining on the greensward, May be seen abbés and gallants.
From The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays by Björkman, Edwin
In the literary coteries of the capital, in the incipient French Academy, over which the Protestant Conrart presided, abbés and pastors were reconciled in common admiration for an elegant alexandrine or a correct period.
From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Bastide, Charles
