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- noun Plural form of
sexton .
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Examples
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In that case, as all my experiments emphatically declare, the fall of the stake undermined by the sextons is a pure matter of imagination.
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Sheridan interpreted these restrictions stringently, barring from registration not only all pre-1861 officials of state and local governments who had supported the Confederacy but also all city officeholders and even minor functionaries such as sextons of cemeteries.
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Sheridan interpreted these restrictions stringently, barring from registration not only all pre-1861 officials of state and local governments who had supported the Confederacy but also all city officeholders and even minor functionaries such as sextons of cemeteries.
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Sheridan interpreted these restrictions stringently, barring from registration not only all pre-1861 officials of state and local governments who had supported the Confederacy but also all city officeholders and even minor functionaries such as sextons of cemeteries.
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We see the huge figureheads that decorated old ships and learn how sailors navigated using the sun, the stars and sextons no GPS!
Eileen Ogintz: Boys Meet a Beluga in Mystic Eileen Ogintz 2011
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The Church sextons believe that his bones remain in a crypt below the beautiful cathedral that stands there today, but nobody knows for sure.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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The Church sextons believe that his bones remain in a crypt below the beautiful cathedral that stands there today, but nobody knows for sure.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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People connected to the end of life: undertakers, sextons, priests.
Astrology for Enlightenment Michelle Karén 2008
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At once Ross sent the son away, and when the sextons were about to use their shovels, he ordered them to desist, and descending into the grave, moved the body with his own hands into the new coffin in loving reverence.
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The church, filled with friends and relations, echoed with the roll of carriages, and the hum of beadles, sextons, and priests.
The Vendetta 2007
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