Dudley Senanayake is a priestlike fellow, who is advocating prohibition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ceylon and the Colombo Plan] Reference

He had not forseen this profound and private grief in its priestlike austerity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funeral Games]

She had seen his actions long enough to know that he was almost priestlike in his gentleness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Enchantment]

Of his hasty promise to become honest and even priestlike, Loganaro thought not at all, save to smile at such foolishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Fearless]

The young men of Montale were now on the other side of the window, stacked like silent acrobats, and a jigsaw of faces squirmed against the glass strangely noble, priestlike faces, nobly suffering.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Pregnant Widow'] Reference

None of them was a reader, so I was mysterious and magical, almost priestlike, treated with a respect I was unused to in my old indoor life among bitter writers and overfamiliar readers, the well-meaning bores of literacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beard] Reference

Again he struck his priestlike attitude and invoked me to follow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference

Colleagues and students often describe him as a priestlike figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Pindar is more priestlike than patriarchal, more epic than lyrical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations] Reference

Not with priestlike oil anoint him, but a stronger-smelling chrism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heptalogia] Reference

The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pale ablution round earth's human shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Priscilla's Spies] Reference

He stood there facing the east, priestlike in venerable and solemn worship of the coming sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darkness and Dawn] Reference

Upon this topic his voice descended to tones of priestlike awe: for are we not the envy of the world?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference

He would also have had another manner of cap of me, but I had none but priestlike, such as his own was.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)] Reference

Poor Mr. Cole, priestlike in his tippet, cuts a meeker figure than another Merstham rector, James Samborne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways and Byways in Surrey] Reference

The words of Keats concerning the ocean's "priestlike task of pure ablution" often come to my mind in this deserted Cornish bay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impressions and Comments] Reference

The answer, then, lies in a different definition of "contribution" -- thinking beyond the gloried professor path, which demands a priestlike devotion to the sciences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Technology Review RSS Feeds] Reference

Instinctively the priestlike worship of the sun, old when the world was still in infancy, surged back to him again after the long, lost centuries of darkness and oblivion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darkness and Dawn] Reference

To Harold, however, for whom the gods had always cherished a special tenderness, it was granted, not only to witness, but also, priestlike, to feed the sacred fire itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dream Days] Reference

Where Homer's sea loses his keen breath, hemm'd what place rebellious piles were driven down - the priestlike waters to this task condemn'd to wash the roots of the inhuman town!.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

'We live in a scientific age', she continued, 'yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated and priestlike in their laboratories'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference

On the table was neither wine nor food, but there was a great book, silver covered and golden lettered, and it was open at a place where a wondrous picture in many hues showed a king who seemed to humble himself in fear before a long-robed man priestlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford] Reference

And there, too, was seen the jolly parson, priestlike even over his cups, filled with wonder and joy to see the tide of mirth run so in the flood; ever and anon turning, with bewildered eagerness, from one to another of his compotators, in doubt as to which pleased him most.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.] Reference

His face and hands must be washed, his hair and teeth brushed: many, indeed, will perform all over what Keats, thinking of the ocean eternally washing the land, has called a 'priestlike task of pure ablution'; but others, faithful to tradition and Saturday night, will dodge this as wasteful.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Perfect Gentleman] Reference

For, if the function of a critic be merely to perform the office of a sign-post, pointing out what he personally likes and stimulating for that as much enthusiasm as possible, his task is clearly something less priestlike than it would be if, beauty being absolute, it were his to win for absolute beauty adequate appreciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Since Cézanne] Reference

A special tenderness, it was granted, not only to witness, but also, priestlike, to feed the sacred fire itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dream Days] Reference

He had a gentle, priestlike voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Ill Fate Marshalling]

Shadows made him priestlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diverse Tongues: A Sketch] Reference

“Who for thy drowsy priestlike rede.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine] Reference

'Who, for thy drowsy priestlike rede.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Children's Garland from the Best Poets] Reference

The moving waters at their priestlike task.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative] Reference

The moving waters at their priestlike task5.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art] Reference

"Moving waters at their priestlike task.    From Wordnik.com.  [My New Curate] Reference