| 1. | The aged ecclesiastic had turned his face towards me. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 2. | In this age there exist people who do not distinguish between the very great Saint Bernard and the Saint Bernard denominated of the poor Catholics, a certain good ecclesiastic who lived in the thirteenth century. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | The ecclesiastics recognized therein the token from above, and asked him on the spot if he would be pope. - from Grimms' Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm |
| 4. | of their revenue ecclesiastics from forty to forty-five per cent. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 5. | The other revenues of the ecclesiastics of both religions at fifty per cent. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 6. | "I have consulted upon this point many ecclesiastics laboring in Our Lord, who occupy themselves in the exercises of the clerical life, and who bear wonderful fruit.. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 7. | All the inferior ecclesiastical benefices comprehended within the diocese were collated by the bishop, who bestowed them upon such ecclesiastics as he thought proper. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |