“One young acolyte has such a rictus from grinning at his master's jokes that it looks like a physical affliction.”

“But Lowell remains a more audacious, more unpresentable maker than even the most sympathetic acolyte can allow.”

“I remember seeing her praying in the back pews of our church on Sunday afternoons when I served as an acolyte at benediction.”

“Sure, you can steal the photocopying toner from work and queue-jump at the bakers, but the Dark One is fickle with his acolytes.”

“In Africa it is sacred to the priesthood or acolytes, in America it has become generalized.”

“It is daft only because the politicians, their acolytes and braindead supporters will label it daft.”