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
Near him was a thick, short-necked, burly individual; his phisiog indicated at once that he was a priest-ridden.
From The Eureka Stockade by Carboni, Raffaello
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)
But he specialised as a lama, for in that character he would meet with the least interference in the priest-ridden country.
From The Jungle Girl by Casserly, Gordon
Already Germany had decided to conquer Russia, and already the far-seeing Kaiser had watched and recognised that he could use Rasputin's undoubted influence in our priest-ridden country for his own dastardly ends.
From The Minister of Evil The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia by Le Queux, William
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