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
I told him some things I knew of that hopeless land, that priest-ridden, king-ridden country—my own land.
From 54-40 or Fight by Hough, Emerson
"What is a poor man to do, whose wife is priest-ridden, and got to be no company—except for angels?"
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 by Various
He was no milksop, or, as people would say now-a-days, priest-ridden king, but he did not look upon it as an unmanly thing.
From Boys their Work and Influence by Anonymous
England is no longer priest-ridden, sir; but she is worse, she is law-ridden.
From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick
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