Sunday-schools

She enlarged upon the benefits that the town would derive from it, spoke of Sunday-schools, sweet spiritual instruction, and the duty of all well-minded persons to give aid to the scheme.

The Bedford-Row Conspiracy 2006

"What can the theistic Sunday-schools, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teaching?"

American Theocracy & Persecution Sam Norton 2006

He had heard something of Mrs. Proudie and her Sunday-schools, both from Dr. Grantly and Mr. Harding.

Barchester Towers 2004

My opinion is that all this trash about the Sunday-schools and the sermons has originated wholly with Slope and Mrs. Proudie and that the bishop knows nothing about it.

Barchester Towers 2004

The late bishop had really not thought of Sunday-schools as he should have done.

Barchester Towers 2004

Lord Cashel would talk Church and ultra-Protestantism to him, and descanted on the abominations of the National system, and the glories of Sunday-schools.

The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

Really more ought to have been done as to Sunday-schools — Sabbath-day schools Mr. Slope had called them.

Barchester Towers 2004

On Sunday morning Col. John Robards escorted him to the various churches and Sunday-schools.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Her efforts toward better things were not confined to her own class; she started Sunday-schools in the neglected district near which she lived, and was soon the centre of a system of classes, clubs, and the benevolent activities that now characterise a well-ordered parish.

Woman's Progress a Comparison of Centuries 1996

The windows, including a very brilliant oriel, are finely stained: the font is a delicate piece of carving, the organ is grand, and the accommodations for Sunday-schools and lectures are of singular perfection.

Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Various