Abbe in example sentence

I have found another father in you, Sir.''Good, good,' said the abbe, with embarrassment; then remembering most opportunely a phrase from the vocabulary of a Director of a Seminary: 'You must never say fortune, my child, always say Providence.'

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This young cleric was sent from Besancon, some years ago, to keep an eye upon the abbe Chelan and certain parish priests of the district.

He had known the abbe Chelan for thirty years.

What a rebuff that would be!'I am dishonoured here and at Besancon,' replied the abbe Maslon, 'if he appears among my clergy.

A Jansenist, great heavens!''Whatever you may say, my dear abbe,' M. de Renal assured him, 'I shall not expose the municipal government of Verrieres to the risk of an insult from M. de La Mole.

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