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  • Nearly two years ago, he was appointed agent for the Colony, to collect funds to build a meeting-house, to endow schools, &c. In less than one year he received more than two thousand dollars, which he squandered; and we have neither _meeting-house_ nor _schools_, nor never

    Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West Austin Steward

  • Their flat became a meeting-house for climbers from all over the world, testament to the ability of both men to make friends wherever they went.

    Kurt Albert obituary Ed Douglas 2010

  • I joined them, and thereby was led into the great meeting-house of the Quakers near the market.

    Please Come to Boston? (Memoir) Rick Rofihe 2011

  • He and I-330 manage to meet in a somewhat secret meeting-house outside the city and sometimes in their quarters in the city.

    No Dystopia Like a Russian Dystopia Karen Burnham 2010

  • He and I-330 manage to meet in a somewhat secret meeting-house outside the city and sometimes in their quarters in the city.

    Archive 2010-07-01 Karen Burnham 2010

  • Dolley Madison thought nothing of finding jobs for Quakers seeking work (although expelled from the sect for marrying "out" she remained close to many friends from her meeting-house).

    Carl Sferrazza Anthony: Michelle Obama Breaks Precedent, Honors Tradition 2009

  • The present-day building is on the site of an earlier Congregationalist meeting-house that the British Army demolished at the time of the Revolution and is the smaller, lower steeple in that drawing.

    Listen, My Children, And You Shall Hear 2007

  • It is to this part of the text, my brethren, that I propose to address myself particularly, and if the remarks I make are offensive to any of you, you know the doors of our meeting-house are open, and you can walk out when you will.

    Roundabout Papers 2006

  • They went to that Baptist meeting-house in Finsbury Fields, and on the sly to see Mr. Garrick once or twice, or that funny rogue Mr. Foote, at the Little

    The Virginians 2006

  • Well says Thoreau, speaking of some texts from the New Testament, and finding a strange echo of another style which the reader may recognise: ‘Let but one of these sentences be rightly read from any pulpit in the land, and there would not be left one stone of that meeting-house upon another.’

    Lay Morals 2005

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