“He went to see the vicar at St Michaels, who just listened and smiled as he poured tea, then offered him a part-time job as a verger.”

“Seems yon vicar changed the water authority into a distillery overnight, producing the best-ever vintage to flow out of Chateau Accrington.”

“The reverend Nicolas Morgan, vicar of St George's Church in Lower Brailes, paid tribute to the hard work of villagers.”

“The vicarage was a charming, three-story house overlooking the church, serving as a residence for the minister of the local Anglican church.”

“Mr Finch said the scheme would also cut off the vicarage from the Methodist church in Stockbridge Road, which runs a joint Sunday school.”

“Police found the antique gun in a grandfather clock at Holy Rood vicarage in Swinton.”

“These reorganizations may underlie vicariation of lost functions following stroke.”

“He doling out fates with indecent vicariousness, reveling in his front-row seat at the parade of vices.”

“Of one part of His work, of the sacrifice which He offered for man's guilt, the essence was its vicariousness.”

“More subtly perhaps, the incamational model of the atonement undercuts the sense of vicariousness that underlies the satisfaction and penal models.”

“Female curates are acceptable in many parishes but not as vicars and that has to change.”

“By the early 1590s it was accepted that a full hierarchy was impossible and a more ad hoc system of vicars apostolic adopted.”

“His Scouse accent is resolutely unsoftened by regular contact with vicars and other representatives of the lecturing classes.”