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How to use pardoner in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word pardoner? Here are some examples.

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Basically if you knew that you had sinned you would wait until a pardoner was in your region selling an indulgence and purchase one.
There's a prim prioress, a pardoner in shabby green velvet, an enigmatic woman in fur-trimmed crimson.
That wartime summer, the film's locations came haunted by the ghosts of the pardoner, the falconer, the garrulous wife of Bath.
Scattered references to the Tales include Chaucer's declaration that he will use his verse to vilify a summoner and a pardoner who have cheated him.
This last deals with a debate between a Palmer, a Pardoner, an apothecary and a Pedlar.
Chaucer's Pardoner openly admits the corruption of his practice while hawking his wares.
The Monk and the Prioress, on the other hand, while not as corrupt as the Summoner or Pardoner, fall far short of the ideal for their orders.
Two characters, the Pardoner and the Summoner, whose roles apply the Church's secular power, are both portrayed as deeply corrupt, greedy, and abusive.
Examples from Classical Literature
The pardoner is of higher intelligence, and while we condemn him we recognise his ability.
Here is the pardoner jesting with the merry Wife of Bath, with his finger on his lips to keep their scandal private.
Enraged both at himself and the pardoner, he would gladly have strangled the fellow, had he but come upon him at that instant.
The complete pieces are the tales of the pardoner, and of the Nun's Priest.
It is not in the least such a tale as the pilgrims expect from the pardoner.
Having got well into his stride, the pardoner passes on to the promised tale.
He was a much-hated person, and both he and the pardoner were great rogues and cheats and had no love for each other.
Death the liberator, the deliverer, the pardoner, the peace-maker!
Here follows, at considerable length, the adventure of the pardoner.
The pardoner has fallen unconsciously into his professional manner.
The Pardoner was so ready to tell some 'mirth or japes' that the more decent folks in the company try to repress him.
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