priest-craft

Evidently familiar with the plan of the caverns by hearsay or by maps handed down in the priest-craft, he had entered the cave after the others, carrying the goddess, followed a circuitous route through the tunnels and chambers, and ensconced himself and his burden on the balcony while Gorulga and the other acolytes were engaged in their endless rituals.

The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

Evidently familiar with the plan of the caverns by hearsay or by maps handed down in the priest-craft, he had entered the cave after the others, carrying the goddess, followed a circuitous route through the tunnels and chambers, and ensconced himself and his burden on the balcony while Gorulga and the other acolytes were engaged in their endless rituals.

The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

Religion is one of their favorite topics; it is all priest-craft; and an invention contrived and carried on by priests of all religions, for their own power and profit; from this absurd and false principle flow the commonplace, insipid jokes, and insults upon the clergy.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

The king dwelt at more ancient Luxur, but in Khemi reigned the priest-craft; though men said the center of their dark religion lay far inland, in a mysterious, deserted city near the bank of the Styx.

The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

Only the inner circle of the priest-craft know of the black stone corridor carved in the black heart of Mount Golamira, by unknown hands, or of the tomb with the phoenix brooding over it, where Epemitreus was laid to rest fifteen hundred years ago.

The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

Only the inner circle of the priest-craft know of the black stone corridor carved in the black heart of Mount Golamira, by unknown hands, or of the tomb with the phoenix brooding over it, where Epemitreus was laid to rest fifteen hundred years ago.

The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

The king dwelt at more ancient Luxur, but in Khemi reigned the priest-craft; though men said the center of their dark religion lay far inland, in a mysterious, deserted city near the bank of the Styx.

The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

Thence onward my gaze fluttered like a butterfly, and rested upon a leering corbel, which seemed to scoff at priest and priest-craft with protruding tongue.

Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

He presents them as liberated from priest-craft, and ready for drinking the cup of a "Wizard old," attached to the suite of the goddess.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various

Those pictures of Beard's in that book-oh, from the first page to the last is one vast sardonic laugh at the trivialities, the servilities of our poor human race, and also at the professions and the insolence of priest-craft and king-craft-those creatures that make slaves of themselves and have not the manliness to shake it off.

Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells. 1910