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  • This week marks my return to churchwork after a three week paternity leave.

    Philocrites: And now for something completely different. 2005

  • This week marks my return to churchwork after a three week paternity leave.

    Philocrites: July 2005 Archives 2005

  • But from a sister-in-law who only has you in to tea occasionally as a matter of duty, and who is prominent in churchwork, one may, of course, expect anything.

    Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918

  • She was strong-minded, much given to churchwork and committees.

    New Faces Myra Kelly 1893

  • Currently, he oversees a web-basedconference management company, which he started, and which continues tobe a flexible way to support my family while providing time for churchwork and seminary studies.

    News from SVOTS.Edu 2009

  • So I'll have the opportunity to do schoolwork (and churchwork) during working hours; and I might even sneak in a few trips to the Temple, after chauffeuring Mom around maybe for a day or two.

    Muslihoon 2008

  • For thirty-odd years old Major Burnley lived on one side of his house and his wife lived on the other, neither of them ever crossing an imaginary dividing line that ran down the middle of the hall, having for their medium of intercourse all that time a lean, spinster daughter, in whose gray and barren life churchwork and these strange home duties took the place that Nature had intended to be filled by a husband and by babies and grandbabies.

    The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights 1910

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