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The overwhelming disparity between the position of host and guests is painfully apparent, and that "drop-down-dead-ativeness" of manner which Sydney Smith quizzed still characterizes the demeanour of the unbeneficed clergy.

From Collections and Recollections by Russell, George William Erskine

He was unbeneficed, having no time for parish work.

From Dangerous Ages by Macaulay, Rose, Dame

He dismissed his curates when they married, having decided views on the celibacy of the unbeneficed clergy.

From Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

The king ordered the bishops to find a remedy; and they reported Islip’s constitution, which was thus turned into a parliamentary statute, a kind of “Statute of Labourers” for the unbeneficed clergy.

From The English Church in the Middle Ages by Hunt, William

As yet he is unbeneficed; but his books are his only joy.

From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Harper, Charles G.