Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary

Father Perefixe [...] sat at a plain pine table, writing a warning to New England Catholics that though the Corpos had, unlike the Nazis in Germany, been shrewd enough to flatter prelates, they had lowered the wages of French-Canadian Catholic mill hands and imprisoned their leaders just as severely as in the case of the avowedly wicked Protestants.

Sinclair Lewis. It Can't Happen Here

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SUB. Nor shall you need to libel 'gainst the prelates,

 And shorten so your ears against the hearing

 Of the next wire-drawn grace.