'The clergy would have been dead against you.
They would have nipped the whole project in the bud without so much as making a noise in doing it.' 'That's true,' said Grealy.

'Remember, Miss Goold, it was the priests who cursed Tara, and the monks who broke the power of the Irish Kings.

I haven't worked the thing out yet, but I mean to show----' Finola interrupted the poor man ruthlessly: 'Let's try it, anyway.

Let's preach a crusade.' 'Not the least bit of good,' said Tim.

'Every blackguard in the country is enlisted already in the Connaught Bangers or the Dublin Fusiliers, or some confounded Militia regiment.