Example Sentences

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"Well, what?" growled the Abb� John, most unclerically.

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

The masquerader grinned unclerically, his back being to the other occupants of the house, and whispered back, "Not much you won't, no nor the halfpenny tentiary either; bye-bye!"

From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by Campbell, John

He was most unclerically gallant, was tactless, was overready to take offense, and, his wrath once fully roused, was unrelenting.

From Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters by Bruce, H. Addington (Henry Addington)

Some Newbury church-members, in 1742, asserted that their minister unclerically wore a colored kerchief instead of a band.

From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Earle, Alice Morse

Life, to phrase it most unclerically, was distinctly a mess.

From The Brentons by Dexter, Wilson C.