| 1. | This every lewed vicar and parso. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 2. | As if the vicar meant to cozen him. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | unless it please He hath thee made vicar and mistres. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 4. | He was named prior of Manila in , and provincial vicar i. - from Doctrina Christiana by Anonymous |
| 5. | Bates, the widow of a former vicar of Highbury, was a very old lady, almost past every thing but tea and quadrille. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 6. | the vicar of the next village, who hath promis'd to meet me i. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | Elton is a very good sort of man, and a very respectable vicar of Highbury, but not at all likely to make an imprudent match. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 8. | In the midst of it all the worthy vicar was very pluckily holding an early celebration, and his bell was jangling out above the excitement. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 9. | John Coleridge, vicar of the parish church and master of the local grammar school. - from English Literature by William J. Long |