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Example sentences for "kirk"

  • In another letter, which he wrote to the Kirk Session of Edinburgh, Kirkcaldy gave his version of what had happened, throwing all the blame on the Duries, and protesting his innocence of any intention to cause the death of Seton.

  • A few days later they drew up a formal protest in which they stated that the Capital was occupied by companies of soldiers and townsmen, who kept watch and ward day and night, and continually used the Kirk and Tolbooth as guard-houses.

  • Subscribed in name of the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland by the Moderator of the Assembly.

  • Kirk of Mordington, to the visitation of Dunse and Chirnside, Ib.

  • For so much as the neighbour Kirk in England, is understood to bee heavily troubled, for maintaining of the true Discipline and government: whose grieves ought to move us.

  • Knapp's Life, is an essay on Kirk Yetholm in Romano Lavo-Lil.

  • Aruthur, which appear on the beautiful cross which stands nearly opposite the door of Kirk Braddan.

  • They 'had a lad with the gift who would do the preaching fine,' and as there was no police-station within forty miles it seemed fairly long odds on the Free Kirk recalcitrants.

  • I drew doctors to witness that I was of sound and disponing mind, and I've since been thrice to kirk and market.

  • There was something about having been thrice at kirk and market since he made his will; and something about not having smelled appleringie for forty years.

  • Why the hounds have heard that the old nobleman has been thrice to kirk lately.

  • She did not usually go to the Catholic chapel; to be sure, in the conditions prevailing at the Free Kirk place of worship, she had no alternative if she would not abstain wholly from religious privileges.

  • After the meal they call luncheon, I thought it well before recreating myself with the sights of London, to attend first to the crying necessities of the kirk and the manse.

  • An architect from Edinburgh asserts his resolution to repair the kirk and the manse.

  • You were kind enough some time ago to recommend him to my notice," Kirk went on, as if feeling his way.

  • The fellows are beginning to say that Dunstan Kirk manages the Yale ball-team, and Frank Merriwell manages Dunstan Kirk.

  • I have promised Dunstan Kirk to let Badger pitch next Saturday in that game against Hartford.

  • That Crested Foam affair is the cause, I fancy," Dunstan Kirk went on, breaking a cracker and helping himself to some cheese.

  • Frank saw that Dunstan Kirk was edging toward some kind of a request.

  • I was talking with Dunstan Kirk about you awhile ago, and he agrees with me.

  • Kirk grumbled, as the cab rattled on down the street.

  • Kirk thinks it will brace Badger up a little, and perhaps it will.

  • Kate took the chance to rush round the kirk in search of her messenger.

  • No further step towards any authorized hymnody was taken by the kirk of Scotland till the following century.

  • Let the sofa be mountains, the carpet be sea, There I'll establish a city for me: A kirk and a mill and a palace beside, And a harbour as well where my vessels may ride.

  • Kirk anchored in Lough Swilly, and contented himself with sending messages to the town, to hold out to the last.

  • So innocuous was the fire of the artillery, that it has been supposed that Kirk had previously bribed the officers commanding the forts.

  • The delay of Kirk had cost the defenders of Londonderry more than half their number.

  • I wish Kirk had not turned coward, but had landed his troops.

  • Now if our Johnnie could only beat Bob Kirk (as he certainly would, we said, seeing that he had beaten Morris who had beaten Kirk), why then he would prove himself beyond denial best man of the three.

  • He was just about to come forward to explain what he had seen when Mr. Kirk found the ball and the incident terminated.

  • Poor Young Tommy being no more, Bob Kirk was the great man, for the time being, at St. Andrews, and he was chosen as the Scottish champion.

  • They said hard things about poor Bob Kirk afterwards when he came up to Scotland, and especially to the last stage, at St. Andrews, a beaten man.

  • Unhappily the propositions of golf do not work themselves out as logically as those of Euclid, though often arriving at his conclusion "which is absurd," and Bob Kirk had the better of our local hero most of the way round.

  • It was about this time that arrangements were made for bringing down Young Tommy and Bob Kirk to Westward Ho!

  • Kirk of Edinburgh, and otherwise slandered by his evil willers, as art and part of the heinous murther of the King, .

  • At length, finding Maggie was not to be provoked into words, she pretended suddenly to observe her kirk clothes--"Whatna for hae you that fine merino on this night?

  • Your offer is a providence; it is as if God put out his own hand and Opened the kirk door for him.

  • It isn't vera kindly taken, his using a boat for kirk business.

  • Version allowed by General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland.

  • And you let me walk wi' you frae the kirk on the next Sabbath.

  • Also, the Sabbath was all her own; and her place in the kirk to which she regularly went was generally filled an hour before service bells.

  • You will be a miserable divine, let me tell you, if you have not plenty of humanity in you; and the kirk and the household are bound together with bands that cannot be broken.

  • She did not go regularly to kirk and meeting.

  • Before her mother had been a twelvemonth under "the cold blanket o' the kirk yard grass," her father and brothers found rest among the clear cold populous graves of the sea.

  • In the kirk his pale grave face was bent toward his Bible, or lifted to the preacher.

  • The first one was to prepare the room she had rented for its strange guest and it gave her many a pang to fold away the "kirk clothes" of her father and brothers and lock them from sight in the big "kist" that was the family wardrobe.

  • Deed, sir, it is just an invite to misfortune to bring the kirk into the boats.

  • I served my time in Largo, and I can cut a skirt or josey, and mak' a kirk gown, better than any one nearer.

  • Kirk had exhausted his line of argument and fell silent, but Jack Staples stepped into the breach.

  • Kirk by way of opening the conversation with the silent one.

  • Kirk had hardly exaggerated when he bracketed the name of this slender and graceful wife of the gigantic broker with that of Mary Burton as the two most beautiful women in society.

  • This time Haswell did not vouchsafe even a monosyllable in reply, and the tactless Kirk assumed the double burden of the conversation.

  • General Kirk sent a vain summons to Willich for aid, and fell mortally hurt in an heroic effort to form his men.

  • Let the sofa be mountains, the carpet be sea, There I'll establish a city for me: A kirk and a mill and a palace beside, And a harbor as well where my vessels may ride.

  • The kirk and the palace, the ships and the men, And as long as I live and where'er I may be, I'll always remember my town by the sea.

  • The style of Mr. Kirk is as clear as crystal and sometimes as brilliant.

  • I wish to Heaven, all this tartan fever bode well to the Protestant succession and the Kirk of Scotland.

  • I cannot tell what innovations in Kirk and State may now be proposed, but our fathers were friends to both, as they were settled at the glorious Revolution, and liked a tartan plaid as little as they did a white surplice.

  • The Old Kirk has a great deal of wealth, a great many churches, and a great deal of pomp.

  • Edinburgh, a leading minister of the Kirk of Scotland.

  • Seaton, knowing from the data of their first journey, that the controls could be so set as to duplicate their feat in every particular without supervision, stepped into his seat in the new controller, pressed a key, and spoke.

  • There was a mighty splash and a miniature tidal wave as that mass of humanity struck the water.

  • Dorothy stepped out, radiant, and returned Seaton's enthusiastic caresses with equal fervor before she spoke.

  • It can be formed only by the absolute maximum of temperature and at a pressure which can exist only momentarily, even in the largest conceivable masses.

  • Richer than they were for the Kirk claim!

  • Kirk had it in '89, ordered up big and special just for him.

  • Maybe he would hit a real bonanza, as Kirk did in '89, or Edmonson and Arsler in '93.


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