Priest
in sentence
810 examples of Priest in a sentence
"You have been accused," said the priest, especially gently.
"Then you are the one I am looking for," said the
priest.
"I see," said K."I had you summoned here," said the priest, "because I wanted to speak to you.""I knew nothing of that," said K."I came here to show the cathedral to a gentleman from Italy.""That is beside the point," said the
priest.
"Put it down," said the
priest.
"Do you know your case is going badly?" asked the
priest.
asked the
priest.
Do you know?""I don't," said the priest, "but I fear it will end badly.
"That is true," said the priest, "but that is how the guilty speak."
"Do you presume I'm guilty too?" asked K."I make no presumptions about you," said the
priest.
"You don't understand the facts," said the priest, "the verdict does not come suddenly, proceedings continue until a verdict is reached gradually."
"What do you intend to do about your case next?" asked the
priest.
"I still need to find help," said K., raising his head to see what the
priest
thought of this.
"You look for too much help from people you don't know," said the
priest
disapprovingly, "and especially from women.
The
priest
lowered his head down to the balustrade, only now did the roof over the pulpit seem to press him down.
"I didn't mean to insult you," said K.At that, the
priest
screamed down at K.: "Can you not see two steps in front of you?"
In the darkness beneath him, the
priest
could not possibly have seen K. distinctly, although K. was able to see him clearly by the light of the little lamp.
Why did the
priest
not come down?
But the
priest
certainly seemed to mean well, it might even be possible, if he would come down and cooperate with him, it might even be possible for him to obtain some acceptable piece of advice that could make all the difference, it might, for instance, be able to show him not so much to influence the proceedings but how to break free of them, how to evade them, how to live away from them.
If the
priest
knew of such a possibility he might, if K. asked him, let him know about it, even though he was part of the court himself and even though, when K. had criticised the court, he had held down his gentle nature and actually shouted at K."Would you not like to come down here?"
asked K."If you're not going to give a sermon come down here with me.""Now I can come down," said the priest, perhaps he regretted having shouted at K. As he took down the lamp from its hook he said, "to start off with I had to speak to you from a distance.
While he was still on one of the higher steps as he came down them the
priest
reached out his hand for K. to shake.
"Can you spare me a little of your time?" asked K."As much time as you need," said the priest, and passed him the little lamp for him to carry.
Even at close distance the
priest
did not lose a certain solemnity that seemed to be part of his character.
I can speak openly with you.""Don't fool yourself," said the
priest.
"How would I be fooling myself?" asked K."You fool yourself in the court," said the priest, "it talks about this self-deceit in the opening paragraphs to the law.
"Don't be too quick," said the priest, "don't take somebody else's opinion without checking it.
"He didn't ask him before that," said the priest, "and don't forget he was only a doorkeeper, and as doorkeeper he did his duty."
"You're not paying enough attention to what was written and you're changing the story," said the
priest.
"Don't get me wrong," said the priest, "I'm just pointing out the different opinions about it.
"Their argument," answered the priest, "is based on the simplicity of the doorkeeper.
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