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At sight of the Lord Bishop's signature and seal, the monk made deep obeisance, and hastened to call the Sacristan, bidding him attend the
The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century 1891
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To express his views on church-state affairs, he published a bi-weekly called Conversaciones del payo y el sacristan ( "Conversations between the Peasant and the Sacristan").
Mexico's Voltaire: José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776–1827) 2008
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To express his views on church-state affairs, he published a bi-weekly called Conversaciones del payo y el sacristan ( "Conversations between the Peasant and the Sacristan").
Mexico's Voltaire: José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776–1827) 2008
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Sr Sacristan had all the books prepared for me and I think I managed OK.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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The Sacristan also strongly remonstrated against the resolution of his
The Monastery 2008
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Sacristan met with his unhappy encounter with the spirit.
The Monastery 2008
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Sacristan, eminent for his aquatic excursion with the phantom of Avenel, and a third, the most recent of all, bore the outline of a mitre, and the words Hic jacet Eustatius Abbas; for no one dared to add a word of commendation in favour of his learning, and strenuous zeal for the
The Abbot 2008
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Hastily repeating his orders, that all the brethren should attend in the choir, arrayed for solemn procession, the Abbot ascended to the battlements of the lofty Monastery, by his own private staircase, and there met the Sacristan, who had been in the act of directing the tolling of the huge bell, which fell under his charge.
The Monastery 2008
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The paper which he gave, was, indeed, an attestation by Father Philip, subscribing himself unworthy Sacristan, and brother of the House of Saint
The Abbot 2008
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Will bell, book, and candle, drive back the English heretics? or will Murray care for psalms and antiphonars? or can I fight for the Halidome, like Judas Maccabeus, against those profane Nicanors? or send the Sacristan against this new Holofernes, to bring back his head in
The Monastery 2008
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