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Churchwoman, and the archdeacon was the very type of that branch of the Church which she venerated.
Framley Parsonage 2004
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Like most people in these days, she was a good Churchwoman without being in any sense a Christian.
The Heavenly Twins Madame Sarah Grand
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On the day on which I write this I have listened to the conversation, in a train, of a wealthy, refined, and cultivated Churchwoman.
The War and the Churches Joseph McCabe 1911
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Yours is a wonderful sphere of usefulness, Miss Marvin; and may I say what pleasure it gives me to learn that you are a Churchwoman.
Shining Ferry Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Churchwoman, and I, Micah Clarke, was the first pledge of their union.
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Churchwoman was every whit as decided as the fanatical Independent.
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Lady Mary was annoyed, or, more properly speaking, she was "moved in the spirit," which in a Churchwoman seems to be the same thing as annoyance in the unregenerate or unorthodox mind.
The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers Mary Cholmondeley 1892
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Churchwoman by practice, her own religion was a kind of undefined
Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences George William Erskine Russell 1886
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I said that a neighbouring clergyman had been several times to see her, since, as he probably knew, she had been a Churchwoman for years.
The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885
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'Pray for me in your churches,' she said to the priests -- to those priests and to the Church that had deserted and condemned her; for in spite of all that she had endured at the hands of those Churchmen, Joan of Arc remained to the end as fervent and loyal a Churchwoman as she had been throughout her life.
Joan of Arc Ronald Sutherland Gower 1880
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