church-warden

Mr. Shiner, age about thirty-five, farmer and church-warden, a character principally composed of a crimson stare, vigorous breath, and a watch-chain, with a mouth hanging on a dark smile but never smiling, had come quite willingly to the party, and showed a wondrous obliviousness of all his antics on the previous night.

Under the Greenwood Tree 2006

“Understand me rightly,” he said: “the church-warden proposed it to me, but I had thought myself of getting — Miss Day to play.”

Under the Greenwood Tree 2006

I particularly wished to speak to Cheeseman, to ask him some questions about things I have observed, and especially his sad neglect of public worship — a most shameful example on the part of a church-warden — and I was thinking how to put it, affectionately yet firmly, when, to my great surprise, there was no

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

But ever since poor Mr. Cheeseman, our church-warden, tried to destroy himself with his own rope, all the parish began to doubt about the smuggling, because it pays so well and makes the people very cheerful.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

I was a bare-headed girl at the time, and lived in the neighbourhood, though I had little thought of marrying John then, who had a score of years the better of me — but he is a thriving man and a kind husband — and his father, as I was saying, died as fat as a church-warden.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

I thought this wrong; and as church-warden, begged that the money might be paid into mine own hands, when taken.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Uprightness of the most sensitive order — that which has slipped and strained its tendons — stamped all his dealings, even in the butter line; and facts having furnished a creditable motive for his rash reliance upon his own cord, he turned amid applause to the pleasant pastimes of a smug church-warden.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

There was another Jolyon born in 1680, evidently the father — he was church-warden from 1715 on; described as

Swan Song 2004

The work being thus happily completed, Sister Bourgeois, in the hope of making it contribute more effectually to the glory of God, requested the cure and church-warden of the parish to accept the new monument of piety for public use, and make it a perpetuity of the parish, in order to promote devotion to the Mother of God.

Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois Anonymous

The quartette party sat downstairs with open windows, each of the three seniors pulling gravely at a long church-warden, and the junior pretending to look at an old-fashioned book of beauty, in which a number of impossible ladies simpered on the observer from bowers of painted foliage.

Aunt Rachel David Christie Murray