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clerical immorality but regard it as natural
[18] There are other indications of some improvement in this matter, but an Anglican resident in Italy, quoted by the Review of Reviews as "a painstaking and fair-minded" witness, says, "People are not shocked by clerical immorality, but regard it as natural and inevitable."
— from A Year in Europe by Walter W. (Walter William) Moore

clapped into Bridewell recorded in a novel
I would be sacrificed to the lawless, not to the laws, dungeoned in the holy Inquisition, not clapped into Bridewell, recorded in a novel, not in the Newgate Calender.
— from The Heroine by Eaton Stannard Barrett


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