Curates [noun]

The croupier announces, intoning as does a high-church curate, "There is seven hundred and forty pounds in the bank, gentlemen."

There is also one curate who has charge of the Indian natives of this city and the slaves and freedmen living within the city.

She again applied to the curate, who told her, "You have not observed well what the bells said; listen again."

A poor curate for his Sunday dinner sent his servant to a chandler's shop, kept by one Paul, for bacon and eggs on credit.

Each day Dr. Ashton did the whole duty; his curate, Mr. Graves, was taking a holiday.

"My dear Miss Warrender, my husband's curate considers himself as vowed to heaven," said Mrs. Dodd, who was present.

The curate sought an interview with the Reverend John Dodd and announced his decision.

The curate admired the fingers, and observed with satisfaction that they were undecorated by a prohibitive ring.

It is not over the virtues of a curate-and-tea-party novel that people are abashed into high resolutions.

In July of that year a rich vicar and a poor curate were condemned to pay into the hands of the proper officer a sum of 15l.