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Example sentences for "glebe"

Lexicographically close words:
gleaning; gleanings; gleann; gleans; gleba; glebes; gled; glede; glee; gleeful
  1. Italy Have any glebe more fruitful than these fellows, I am deceived.

  2. Patient of toil, and used to scanty cheer, Our youths with rakes the stubborn glebe reclaim, Or storm the town.

  3. By fishful Lerna he had earned his gain, Hired was the scanty glebe his father sowed with grain.

  4. When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain pant.

  5. When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain plant.

  6. The glebe and house, or the house only, owned by a parish or ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the maintenance or use of the incumbent or settled pastor.

  7. Obedient to the yoke, Five hundred oxen turn'd the furrow'd glebe Where agriculture hides his buried seed Waiting the harvest hope, while patient wrought An equal number of that race who share The labor of the steed, without his praise.

  8. By extension it might also be assumed that the job had been completed a comparatively short while before the building of the glebe house was proposed.

  9. But while the measurements are stated to be those of the Porteus House, it does not necessarily follow that the elevation of the glebe house on blocks also drew its precedent from that source.

  10. His eloquence, legal knowledge and labors resulted in the return of the Glebe lands to Christ Church.

  11. Glebe lands were property belonging to the Church of England, and used for the support of the rector and the needs of the parish.

  12. Lee is remembered in his native city for saving the Glebe lands for Christ Church.

  13. Glebe Lands") says: "Every church of common right is entitled to house and glebe, and the assigning of them at the first was of such absolute necessity that without them no church could be regularly consecrated.

  14. Ecclesiastical Leases) glebe land and buildings may be let on lease for farming purposes for fourteen years or on an improving lease for twenty years.

  15. The house and glebe are both comprehended under the word manse, of which the rule of the canon law is, sancitum est ut unicuique ecclesiae unus mansus integer absque ullo servitio tribuatur.

  16. But the parsonage house and ten acres of glebe situate most conveniently for occupation must not be leased.

  17. In the technical language of English law the fee-simple of the glebe is said to be in abeyance, that is, it exists "only in the remembrance, expectation and intendment of the law.

  18. In Scots ecclesiastical law, the manse now signifies the minister's dwelling-house, the glebe being the land to which he is entitled in addition to his stipend.

  19. Gideon's fleece, on another occasion was dry, when all the glebe was dripping.

  20. Three pieces of glebe land, nineteen acres, between the school land and Sheepcoat-lane.

  21. Many of his evenings were spent in the society of John Wigham, whose father occupied the Glebe farm at Benton close at hand.

  22. When I'm tired I shall go into Mrs. Townsend's; the glebe is not ten minutes' drive from Berryhill.

  23. Indeed, during the winter months the drawing-room of Drumbarrow Glebe was only used for visitors, and for visitors who were not intimate enough in the house to be placed upon the worn chairs and threadbare carpet of the dining-parlour.

  24. The price of each issue of THE GLEBE will vary with the cost of publication, but the yearly subscription, including special numbers, is three dollars.

  25. THE GLEBE is indebted to Mr. Herts and “The International” for the permission to publish the diary.

  26. The December issue of THE GLEBE will present “The Azure Adder,” a one-act comedy by Charles Demuth.

  27. Thus, THE GLEBE can promise the best work of American and foreign authors, known and unknown.

  28. Something like it; at any rate, not to put it out of my own hands till I see the best way, and that there will be time to do while it is putting the church and the Glebe cottages into a proper state, and setting the Vicarage to rights.

  29. Major and Mrs. Harewood meant to move off to their lodgings at the Glebe Farm on the Monday, for even these two days showed that Theodore and Kit were incompatible elements in the household.

  30. I think that, with the Glebe Farm, your income as Vicar will be quite as much as is good for a parson.

  31. Not only were they to assist in the taking possession, but they had secured lodgings for three months at the Glebe Farm.

  32. But if I live with you, could you not keep the rent of the Glebe farm as my board?

  33. The great tithe and the rent of the glebe land being accounted for in the spiritual part of the valuation.

  34. If the glebe land is proportionate, it may yield two potatoes.

  35. Many of his evenings were now spent in the society of John Wigham, whose father occupied the Glebe Farm at Benton, close at hand.

  36. The crews of three lost vessels, cast away upon the rocks of the glebe and elsewhere, are laid at rest in this safe and silent ground.

  37. The water for baptisms at Morwenstow is always drawn from this well, which Hawker won for the glebe by a law-suit soon after his appointment to the living.

  38. The glebe whereon I write has been the scene of many an unavailing contest in the cause of morality between the clergyman and his flock.

  39. Or make that morn, from his cold crown And crystal silence creeping down, Flood with full daylight glebe and town?

  40. It was to serve them that the Reverend William Cooper had been appointed to the living by the Bishop of the Diocese, and the house and the garden and the glebe and the substantial income were to be the reward of his service.

  41. Later, where glebe was allotted for the parson's benefit, the poorer parts were apparently considered good enough for the purpose, so that we generally expect to find the glebe on somewhat inferior land.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glebe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acres; alluvium; charge; clay; clod; country; crust; curacy; cure; deanery; dirt; dust; earth; freehold; grassland; ground; incumbency; landholding; living; mold; mould; moulder; mouldy; parsonage; pastorate; rectory; region; sod; soil; subsoil; terrain; territory; topsoil; vicarage; woodland