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    Use "friar" in a sentence

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    friar


    1. The rich man turned a deaf ear to the friar


    2. the small wooden cross of a deceased friar


    3. forbid, a Friar) would look in on her, she’d be asleep in her bed


    4. The friar came to the sacrist's aid


    5. Alice turned to the friar


    6. 'Had not the good friar chanced upon the brothers they might still be there, hiding in a ditch, clothed only in rude cloaks made of leaves and straw


    7. 'You say the summoner was there?' Friar Ashley said


    8. Friar Ashley reconsidered the proposal


    9. A Dominican, whom he recognised as Friar Ashley, sat beside the driver


    10. Richard watched as the friar climbed into the cart and handed a huge copper cauldron to the driver and his boy

    11. At first, the friar ignored his audience


    12. He listened as the friar brought his sermon to its inevitable end and heard the clink of coins as they fell into his bowl


    13. They were so naïve as to think that the creator of the universe would listen to a fat friar praying for their souls


    14. Even with the air full of brimstone and the foul odours of a farting friar, I couldn't miss your evil stench


    15. He waited for complete silence then raised his arms in the gesture of love and compassion that he'd learnt from Friar Ashley


    16. Richard heard Walter Gallor's voice but the words could have come from Friar Ashley


    17. He guessed the friar was up there on the scaffolding, behind Ralph Knowles' painting, whispering in the bailiff's ear


    18. You've got a farting friar and a bunch of eunuchs pretending to be archers


    19. the hot grease friar and starts cooking him


    20. Emory bent over the gypsy, pressing down the wounded man’s shoulders while the friar cut away the rags that had presumably once been the gypsy’s clothes

    21. The friar muttered something


    22. The friar took a clean cloth from the bag lying beside the cot and folded it


    23. The friar and Emory looked at each other and then the friar looked up and directly into Petra’s eyes


    24. Confident that the friar and Emory had gone, she went to the wounded man


    25. Would she be invited to attend services? Would Emory and The friar be there? She had plenty of questions for them both


    26. He’d administered some sort of prayer or blessing on the wounded gypsy and he had found peace as quickly as if the friar had pressed a button


    27. Outside on the steps of the chapel, the late morning sun streamed through the shade of a maple tree and cast a dappled sunlight on Anne’s face as she chatted with the friar and the priest


    28. The friar laughed till he had to wipe his eyes


    29. Over the next few minutes it was agreed Fu would meet Teller in the Friar Tuck, an English pub in Canton Road


    30. 'Monk? What monk was this then? Friar Tuck?' Rafferty was beginning to wonder if the low-wattage light bulb of his cousin's intelligence hadn't finally flickered out altogether

    31. bandits would target Friar Tuck? For the very same reason that the Vikings targeted churches and


    32. To the OIympiad, Damned Friar or B


    33. Sancho Panza, when he saw the friar on the ground, dismounting briskly from his ass, rushed towards him and began to strip off his gown


    34. The muleteers, who had no idea of a joke and did not understand all this about battles and spoils, seeing that Don Quixote was some distance off talking to the travellers in the coach, fell upon Sancho, knocked him down, and leaving hardly a hair in his beard, belaboured him with kicks and left him stretched breathless and senseless on the ground; and without any more delay helped the friar to mount, who, trembling, terrified, and pale, as soon as he found himself in the saddle, spurred after his companion, who was standing at a distance looking on, watching the result of the onslaught; then, not caring to wait for the end of the affair just begun, they pursued their journey making more crosses than if they had the devil after them


    35. So that, senor, it is better to be an humble little friar of no matter what order, than a valiant knight-errant; with God a couple of dozen of penance lashings are of more avail than two thousand lance-thrusts, be they given to giants, or monsters, or dragons


    36. One of these believers in omens will get up of a morning, leave his house, and meet a friar of the order of the blessed Saint Francis, and, as if he had met a griffin, he will turn about and go home


    37. It is a work such as one might expect to have been written by a philosopher and man of genius who was also a friar, and who had spent twenty-seven years of his life in a prison of the Inquisition


    38. "Send one of your men, disguised as a penitent friar, and I will give it to him


    39. "A pardon for Peppino, called Rocca Priori," said the principal friar


    40. 'Twas murmur we did for a gallus potion would rouse a friar, I'm thinking, and he limp with leching

    41. There's a great big holy friar


    42. Before Godwyn could begin to eat, he was prevented by Friar Murdo


    43. Friar Murdo has accused her of heresy


    44. Nell was dragged into church by John Constable and Friar Murdo


    45. It was disgraceful that Richard was going along with Friar Murdo’s ridiculous accusation


    46. Suddenly Friar Murdo was on his feet


    47. At that point, Friar Murdo shouted: “I see it! I see it!”


    48. There was a dosshouse in Marlborough street, Mrs Maloney's, but it was only a tanner touch and full of undesirables but M'Conachie told him you got a decent enough do in the Brazen Head over in Winetavern street (which was distantly suggestive to the person addressed of friar Bacon) for a bob


    49. “Friar Murdo is asking to see the earl,” he said


    50. “Good!” Petranilla had spoken to the friar last night, and this morning Godwyn had instructed Philemon to lurk near the hospital and watch out for Murdo




















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    Synonyms for "friar"

    friar mendicant holy man monk pilgrim

    "friar" definitions

    a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms