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