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He has a smooth-shaven, quasi-clerical face and goggle eyes.

From The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 by Verrall, A. W. (Arthur Woollgar)

She is credited with a quasi-clerical character, and regarded as having received a sort of semi-ordination.

From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert

His woebegone face and the quasi-clerical cut of his dust-stained, filthy costume caught my humour.

From Twelve Stories and a Dream by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)