Reverend in example sentence
a man is well helped of these lazy churchmen when he hath most to do!--But speak out, priest, and say at once, what doth thy master expect from us?""So please you," said Ambrose, "violent hands having been imposed on my reverend superior, contrary to the holy ordinance which I did already quote, and the men of Belial having rifled his mails and budgets, and stripped him of two hundred marks of pure refined gold, they do yet demand of him a large sum beside, ere they will suffer him to depart from their uncircumcised hands.