A chaplain in one of the military services.
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Examples for "padre"
Examples for "padre"
1The padre and Valois commune with the frightened lady of the hacienda.
2He asks the padre if the Gringos can ever reach the Pacific.
3Only the voice usually said What can I fit you for, padre?
4The padre stared long and gloomily at the flags of the corridor.
5Maxime sits; catechizes the Don, the anxious Donna Juanita, and the padre.
1Why did you become a military chaplain if you don't agree with what they do?
2There could be no doubt that the homeless man in the dark was a military chaplain.
3He was an aged gentleman, formerly a military chaplain, and a man of high spirit and honour.
4Fr Willie Doyle, the Jesuit military chaplain who died 100 years ago this year, is one such figure.
5Instead, I argued that military chaplain positions should be advertised publicly and awarded to the best candidate for the job.
1We'll stand up before a sky pilot and have this done right.
2She must have been willing to murder the sky pilot after his sermon.
3Say, what do you think I'm bringing that sky pilot in here for?
4Ain't things bad enough without you croaking like a sky pilot?
5If they don't hurt my old sky pilot, I don't care.
1After all, Holy Joe is Holy Joe; and boys will be boys.
2This man would be smiling and he would say, Holy Joe, boys!
3For Nils was dying, and Holy Joe was praying for his soul.
4I found Newman in the port foc'sle, talking to Holy Joe.
5I was in far better case, they told me, than poor Holy Joe.
6The squareheads knew why Holy Joe had suffered-becauseof them, because of Nils.
7For an instant I forgot Holy Joe, and his evil plight.
8But Holy Joe likes it: fairly laps it up like a kitten, poor old dear.
9But Holy Joe checked the movement with a word.
10He pointed to the bunk that held Holy Joe.
11Yet the stiffs were not much impressed by what Holy Joe did to the mate.
12The big man glanced at Holy Joe, and smiled.
13Broken bones were being promised to poor Holy Joe.
14When Fitzgibbon was beyond ear-shot, Cockney began to damn Holy Joe for spoiling his aim.
15But just then I thought about Holy Joe.
16It was Holy Joe who spoiled Cockney's knife-play.
Translations for Holy Joe