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  • Besides herself the congregation consisted only of the parson, clerk, school-children, and three old people living on alms, who sat under the reading-desk; and thus, when Mr. Torkingham blazed forth the denunciatory sentences of the Commination, nearly the whole force of them seemed to descend upon her own shoulders.

    Two on a Tower 2006

  • Many Psalms may be described in this way, and in the Commination the 51st Psalm is used as a Prayer

    The Prayer Book Explained Percival Jackson

  • Commination: and 21 of those which are placed with the Epistles and

    The Prayer Book Explained Percival Jackson

  • A second Round Robin was drafted to the Englishman, beginning: 'O Scoffer,' and ending with a selection of curses from the Rites of Mizraim and Memphis and the Commination of Jugana, who was a 'fifth-rounder,' upon whose name an upstart

    Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • A papal excommunication is a _billet-doux_ compared to the Commination of Jugana.

    Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • A second Round Robin was drafted to the Englishman, beginning: "O Scoffer," and ending with a selection of curses from the Rites of Mizraim and Memphis and the Commination of

    Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • There were times when her subjects made use of language not precisely ecclesiastic, and not infrequently Mrs Pansey's name was mentally included in the Commination

    The Bishop's Secret Fergus Hume 1895

  • Trumbly herself, the archdeacon's widow said the whole Commination

    The Bishop's Secret Fergus Hume 1895

  • A second round robin was drafted to the Englishman, beginning: "Oh, Scoffer," and ending with a selection of curses from the rites of Mizraim and Memphis and the Commination of

    The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English Egerton Castle 1889

  • Besides herself the congregation consisted only of the parson, clerk, school-children, and three old people living on alms, who sat under the reading-desk; and thus, when Mr. Torkingham blazed forth the denunciatory sentences of the Commination, nearly the whole force of them seemed to descend upon her own shoulders.

    Two on a Tower Thomas Hardy 1884

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