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Archdeacon in sentence

163 examples of Archdeacon in a sentence

"Medicine!" said the archdeacon, tossing his head.
He bent down to the ear of Gossip Tourangeau, and said to him, softly enough not to be heard by the archdeacon: "I warned you that he was mad.
Then, addressing the archdeacon: "You are clever at your trade, Dom Claude, and you are no more at a loss over Hippocrates than a monkey is over a nut.
The archdeacon replied without perturbation: "There are certain things of which I think in a certain fashion."
"Monsieur the archdeacon is our friend."
"Monsieur," returned the archdeacon, "if that be your motive, you would have done as well not to put yourself out of breath climbing my staircase.
But have you reached the point, great savant as you are, of no longer believing in science?""No," said the archdeacon, grasping the arm of Gossip Tourangeau, and a ray of enthusiasm lighted up his gloomy eyes, "no, I do not reject science.
"Naught is your science of man, naught is your science of the stars," said the archdeacon, commandingly.
"Who doubts it?" said the archdeacon.
Tell me, reverend master, is your science inimical or displeasing to Our Lady?""Whose archdeacon I am?"Dom Claude contented himself with replying, with tranquil hauteur.
"'Tis you who are in error," replied the archdeacon, gravely.
what are your books, then?""Here is one of them," said the archdeacon.
"Master," said Gossip Tourangeau, as he took leave of the archdeacon, "I love wise men and great minds, and I hold you in singular esteem.
It is asserted that after that epoch the archdeacon had frequent conferences with Louis XI., when his majesty came to Paris, and that Dom Claude's influence quite overshadowed that of Olivier le Daim and Jacques Coictier, who, as was his habit, rudely took the king to task on that account.
Our lady readers will pardon us if we pause for a moment to seek what could have been the thought concealed beneath those enigmatic words of the archdeacon: "This will kill that.
In this connection the archdeacon's vague formula had a second sense.
I'll be my brother the archdeacon, if that keeps me from gaming; gaming by day, gaming by night, living at play, dying at play, and gaming away my soul after my shirt.
In the meantime, Jehan Frollo, elevating his curly blonde head above the crowd (he had mounted upon the shoulders of Robin Poussepain for the purpose), shouted: "Come and look, gentle ladies and men! they are going to peremptorily flagellate Master Quasimodo, the bellringer of my brother, monsieur the archdeacon of Josas, a knave of oriental architecture, who has a back like a dome, and legs like twisted columns!"
I have been told that by birth he is the bastard of an archdeacon and a devil.
Our readers have not forgotten the mysterious cell which the archdeacon had reserved for himself in that tower.
Every day, an hour before sunset, the archdeacon ascended the staircase to the tower, and shut himself up in this cell, where he sometimes passed whole nights.
From the moment when the archdeacon caught sight of this stranger, his attention seemed divided between him and the dancer, and his face became more and more gloomy.
At the end of a few minutes, the anxious archdeacon entered upon the Place from the door at the base of the tower.
In the place of the gypsy, on the carpet, whose arabesques had seemed to vanish but a moment previously by the capricious figures of her dance, the archdeacon no longer beheld any one but the red and yellow man, who, in order to earn a few testers in his turn, was walking round the circle, with his elbows on his hips, his head thrown back, his face red, his neck outstretched, with a chair between his teeth.
exclaimed the archdeacon, at the moment when the juggler, perspiring heavily, passed in front of him with his pyramid of chair and his cat, "What is Master Pierre Gringoire doing here?"
The archdeacon was the first to break the silence.
"'Tis a fine profession that you are engaged in!" replied the archdeacon.
"What do you mean?" demanded the archdeacon, who had been gradually appeased by this recital.
The archdeacon pressed Gringoire with questions.
The mention of this last circumstance disturbed the archdeacon greatly, though Gringoire paid no attention to his perturbation; to such an extent had two months sufficed to cause the heedless poet to forget the singular details of the evening on which he had met the gypsy, and the presence of the archdeacon in it all.
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