priest-ridden
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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The Cock, said O'Casey, represents "the joyful, active spirit of life as it weaves a way through the Irish scene," and it spreads terror among the crabbed codgers and priest-ridden puritans of the countryside.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dante broke in angrily: —If we are a priest-ridden race we ought to be proud of it!
From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, James
Politicians say that they want us in their country, that they are priest-ridden, and hate and fear their Lamas.
From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Candler, Edmund
Although he was a wild youth, full of deeds of adventure and daring, he was destined by his priest-ridden father for the Church; but the boy's desire for a sailor's life could not be resisted.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10 European Leaders by Lord, John
Except poor priest-ridden Mary, who had a Spanish mother and a Spanish husband, they did not brook control, and no one was ever more conscious of being a king than Henry VIII.
From The Life of Froude by Paul, Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield)
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