Sentence examples of "попы" in Russian with translation "priest"

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Не получился из него поп, а казак он добрый. He didn't make much of a priest, but he's a fine cossack.
Гигантский скелет кита – очевидно, собственно Левиафана – выброшен на песчаный берег, к остовам старых лодок, под суровое серое небо, окаймляющее пейзаж политических злоупотреблений, измен, беззакония и цинизма всемогущих попов. The giant skeleton of a whale – possibly Leviathan itself – is beached on the shoreline, along with the carcasses of old boats, beneath a severe gray sky that frames a human landscape of political abuse, adultery, lawlessness, and the cynicism of all-powerful priests.
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