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1. Through the greater part of Europe, the pope gradually drew to himself, first the collation of almost all bishoprics and abbacies, or of what were called consistorial benefices, and afterwards, by various machinations and pretences, of the greater part of inferior benefices comprehended within each diocese, little more being left to the bishop than what was barely necessary to give him a decent authority with his own clergy
2. But the power of the pope, in the collation of the great benefices of the church, seems, before the reformation, to have been nowhere so effectually and so universally restrained as in France and England
3. Gathandrian men were, in her experience, usually better suited to active pursuits than they were to the collation of their people’s stories
4. Oh! I had to admire the Leonardo’s subtlety to bring up the subject to collation with such delicacy
5. Detective Superintendent Demery was at the centre of, and responsible for the collation of all information on the case that DI Morton had been investigating, as well as the incident with Vicky’s car
6. Specifies the character collation
7. Evidently the little monks were having a collation prior to their time in the temple and breakfast
8. To put the writing date of the Qu’ran into perspective, the Qu’ran was penned about 400 years after the collation of the writings of the New Testament Gospels and Letters, and many more centuries after the writing of the Old Testament
9. The collation and collaboration of these frightening verses, are obviously calculated to inflict the inducement of maximum fear on the believer, enforcing strict adherence and obedience to the rules and laws of these particular religious faiths
10. In the country, an unpremeditated dance was very allowable; but in London, where the reputation of elegance was more important and less easily attained, it was risking too much for the gratification of a few girls, to have it known that Lady Middleton had given a small dance of eight or nine couple, with two violins, and a mere side-board collation
11. He had prepared a collation for me in the Barnwell parlor, and he too ordered his shopman to "come out of the gangway" as my sacred person passed
12. This collation disposed of at a moderate price (considering the grease, which was not charged for), we went back to Barnard's Inn and got my little portmanteau, and then took coach for Hammersmith
13. gastric relief in an innocent collation of staggering bob, reveals as nought else could and in a very unsavoury light the tendency above alluded to
14. It would be an canvas, and a collation that made her mouth water in anticipation
15. A modest collation awaited on it: petite roasted scratchers, a cold haunch of red-tailed springer, goat cheese, flat bread, and bowls of fruit
16. After the business of arriving was over, it was first necessary to eat, and the doors were thrown open to admit them through one or two intermediate rooms into the appointed dining-parlour, where a collation was prepared with abundance and elegance
17. "There were no workmen in the house, he had sent them all away; he had himself prepared the coffee and collation
