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Archdeacon in sentence

163 examples of Archdeacon in a sentence

Gringoire explained them to the archdeacon, whom these details seemed to interest deeply.
The archdeacon dropped his chin into his hand, and appeared to reflect for a moment.
"Swear to me, by the body of your mother," repeated the archdeacon violently, "that you have not touched that creature with even the tip of your finger."
The archdeacon's pale face became as crimson as the cheek of a young girl.
He halted, turned his back to the bells, and crouched down behind the projecting roof of slate, fixing upon the dancer that dreamy, sweet, and tender look which had already astonished the archdeacon on one occasion.
Jehan, to whom his back was turned, could see only his shoulders and the back of his skull; but he had no difficulty in recognizing that bald head, which nature had provided with an eternal tonsure, as though desirous of marking, by this external symbol, the archdeacon's irresistible clerical vocation.
A glass mask, which Jehan noticed among the utensils of alchemy, and which served no doubt, to protect the archdeacon's face when he was working over some substance to be dreaded, lay in one corner covered withdust and apparently forgotten.
"The devil!" said Jehan, to himself, "'tis a long while to wait for a crown!""Others have thought," continued the dreamy archdeacon, "that it would be better worth while to operate upon a ray of Sirius.
"Let us see, let us try!" resumed the archdeacon briskly.
The archdeacon returned and seated himself in his armchair, and placed his head on both his hands, as a sick man does, whose head is heavy and burning.
Seeing that the archdeacon had fallen back into his former immobility, he withdrew his head very softly, and made some noise with his feet outside the door, like a person who has just arrived and is giving warning of his approach.
"Enter!" cried the archdeacon, from the interior of his cell; "I was expecting you.
"Monsieur," said the archdeacon, in a cold tone, "I am greatly displeased with you.""Alas!" sighed the scholar.
A malicious page amused himself by splashing the scholars, by making his horse gallop through the mire!""Who," pursued the archdeacon, "is that Mahiet Fargel, whose gown you have torn?
And the archdeacon remained silent.
The archdeacon's brow did not lose a single wrinkle.
At this audacious declaration, the archdeacon's visage assumed a thoroughly pedagogical and paternal expression.
This quotation, which the scholar borrowed with malice, perchance, from the wall of the cell, produced a singular effect on the archdeacon.
And here he burst into a laugh so droll and violent that it made the archdeacon smile.
The archdeacon promptly returned to his original severity.
The archdeacon surveyed him with a gloomy air.
"Silence!" said the archdeacon, laying his finger on his mouth, "here is Master Jacques.
"You must give it to me.""Take it, then!" said the archdeacon angrily, flinging his purse at him.
The archdeacon, in the meantime, had not even risen to receive this personage.
"Well!" resumed the archdeacon, after a fresh silence which Master Jacques took good care not to disturb, "how are you succeeding?""Alas!
"Give it here," said the archdeacon.
"Ah!" said the archdeacon, "a crucible for alchemy."
The archdeacon began an examination of the vessel.
The archdeacon was excessively pale.
The archdeacon, as though roused with a start, withheld his arm with convulsive violence.
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