Meanings of poor curate in English

The poor curate said that this was the heaviest news of all.

But the poor curate worked on till he got the cholera himself.

My father ran off with a poor curate's penniless girl, for love.

She was a poor curate's daughter out of some little hole in Gloucestershire.

This eccentric son of genius was an Irishman; his father was a poor curate.

Was he really her stepfather, the once poor curate?

Harry Clavering had acknowledged to himself that it was impossible not to respect the poor curate.

A young person of the name of Rivers; the only daughter of a poor curate, in Derbyshire.

As the wife of a poor curate of high moral principles, would the same result have been secured?

He was a poor curate in the country where the lord of the manor chanced to be a lady.

He could preach there now and then, and put a poor curate in to take care of the daily ministry.

She went and married a poor curate, and became a stupid Mrs. Kirkpatrick; but we always kept on calling her 'Clare.'

Both are unnecessary, I think: but it will only be an honour to me to confess, that, poor curate as I am-

A poor curate saw a crowd of rough boys and men laughing and making fun of two aged spinsters dressed in antiquated costume.

A more remorseless foe, however, than Foote appeared in the person of Charles Churchill, the wild and unclerical son of a poor curate of Westminster.

Perhaps there cannot be a more forcible contrast than between the servile, dependent gait of a poor curate, and the courtly mien of a bishop.