It was on the terrible Earthquake-day That the Deacon finished the one-hoss-shay.
Several heavy fists beat such a tattoo on his spine that the Deacon felt as if at least one of his vertebrae would come up.
Mr. Clement followed the Deacon into that sacred apartment.
At the Doctor's sharp appeal the Deacon lifted his head.
A very interesting young man, the Deacon said, much given to the reading of pious books.
Helped by a deacon named Franco he confined him in the same dungeon of Castel S.
John the Deacon has accepted it blindly in his description of the Lateran.
A cope of red worsted with flowers, and his vestment of the same, and a deacon of red damask, lacking an albe.
A cope and vestment (deacon and sub-deacon) of green velvet, with flowers of gold.
Deacon Deuteronomy--why Father Mapple himself couldn't beat it, and he's reckoned something.
Dorothy May Bradford, the daughter of Deacon May of the Leyden church, came from Wisbeach, Cambridge; she was married to William Bradford when she was about sixteen years old and was only twenty when she was drowned at Cape Cod.
Deacon Heedful arrived even sooner than she had anticipated--and most unexpected to her was his account of the spreading influence that had so mysteriously come to light.
The following, of similar character, is accompanied by the epitaph of 526 a deacon on the same stone, probably the husband who so tenderly lamented the loss of his faithful consort.
In 1725 John was ordained deacon of the Church of England.
The cross on the belfry glittered: this was the village: "the one at which the deacon ate all the caviare at the funeral.
And years had passed since then, the deacon had long been dead, but the caviare was still remembered.
When visitors asked what village this was, they were told: "That's the village where the deacon ate all the caviare at the funeral.
And every time the deacon boomed out something in his bass voice she fancied she heard "Ma-arya!
It seems that that gentleman's venerable father, Deacon Elisha English, lives in Scott County, Ind.
Deacon English readily signified his willingness to do his share toward the proposed improvements, and he led off the subscription list with the line: Elisha English $50.
The deacon shook his head reproachfully and mentioned the long-suffering of Job, how God had loved him, but turned him over to Satan to be tried, but later rewarded him an hundredfold for all his sufferings.
The deacon with a shiver, edges away on tiptoe, feels his way to the gate with his belly, and groping for the door emerges out of the altar enclosure.
With her wolfish eyes she coldly watched the fussydeacon and protested in a dry voice that was much like the voice of her father: "Don't bother, Father Deacon.
The deacon pulled out a handkerchief in order to wave the little traveler good-bye, but Nastya never turned around; and shaking his head reprovingly the deacon heaved a deep sigh, blew his nose and put the handkerchief back into his pocket.
The service was proceeding with a solemn simplicity; the aged deacon was coughing and clearing his throat before each sentence and warningly shaking a stubby fat forefinger whenever his gaze discovered a whispering pair in the throng.
And the good-natured deacon tried vainly to reason with him.
She's a stupid wench and deaf into the bargain," said the deacon when the wagon was out of sight and the dust which it had raised had settled.
He intoned the service awkwardly, without decorum: his voice was dry and indistinct, and he either hurried so that the deacon had a hard time to keep up with him, or he fell behind without rime or reason.
Even the unpretentious peasants who came to the priest for ministrations looked askance, in guilty embarrassment, upon the penurious furnishings of the priestly abode, and the deacon referred to it wrathfully as the "abomination of desolation.
In the brief interval between the mass and the allocution to the corpse, while Father Vassily was donning his black velvet cassock, the deacon smacked his lips and said: "A little ice would come in handy, for he smells rather strong.
And while the people watched the deacon plunging worriedly through the congregation, Father Vassily had come out into the chancel and stood eyeing the crowd.
People made their appearance in the garden: the deacon and his wife and many others.
The aged deacon had refused to officiate with him, and he was assisted by the lay-reader, a filthy and lonely old man who had been once deposed from the diaconate for drunkenness, and was now acting as verger.
A young man, small and thin, and well dressed, now approached, and grasped the deacon by the hand.
