spoiled priest
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He later described himself as "a spoiled priest".
From BBC
Homelier touches include Hadrian giving an audience to a charwoman who had once befriended the "spoiled priest" and who now brings him a jar of her own pickled onions.
From Time Magazine Archive
He turns pro, pilfering privileged homes and allying himself with a series of outcasts: a spoiled priest, anarchists, and demimondaines who find him criminally good-looking.
From Time Magazine Archive
She tells him, too, his being a spoiled priest will cost his brother his bride and her fortune that would help them to pay off their debts.
From Project Gutenberg
Its theme is allied, unquestionably, to that theme so much larger in its relations than that of the spoiled priest, the theme of the rebellious son, the son who will live his own life no matter what may be his parents' will.
From Project Gutenberg
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