Apostle

(noun.) (New Testament) one of the original 12 disciples chosen by Christ to preach his gospel.

(noun.) any important early teacher of Christianity or a Christian missionary to a people.

(noun.) an ardent early supporter of a cause or reform; 'an apostle of revolution'.

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• During the Tudor and Stuart reigns a fashionable gift at christenings was the apostle, so called because at the end of the handle was the figure of an apostle. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Gregory, not the founder but the apostle of the scientific method. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The mosaic portrait of an Apostle who was writing with a pen six feet long seemed only an ordinary Apostle. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Yes, my boy, I'm sorry for you, now; it's a bad case--very bad; but the apostle says, 'Let everyone abide in the condition in which he is called. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• While Mrs. Snagsby, drawing her breath, looks hard at Mr. Snagsby, as who should say, You hear this apostle! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• So were the sick brought out and laid in the track of the Apostle--who had _not_ got into the good society, and had _not_ made the money. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• We could not help admiring the Apostle's modesty in never once mentioning in his writings that he could paint. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He often reminds me of the Apostle Paul. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Rosamond a sufferer, a labourer, a female apostle? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• But I was no apostle,--I could not behold the herald,--I could not receive his call. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• There is no evidence that the apostles of Jesus ever heard of the Trinity--at any rate from him. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There was among the twelve apostles one traitor, who betrayed with a kiss. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• It sounded to me much more like settling his co-apostles. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Portraits of the twelve apostles in wood, and not a whole nose among 'em. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Twelve cannon cast by Louis VII were named after the twelve peers of France, and Charles V gave twelve others the names of the twelve apostles. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• But we must refer the reader to the Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline Epistles for an account of Paul's mission and teaching. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• His position is not quite like that of the Apostles: he is only a parson among parishioners whose lives he has to try and make better. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The Apostles' Creed? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Neither of Peter nor of Paul nor of any of the other saints nor apostles. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.

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