The manse housekeeper, who followed Cunningham with his hat and saw that he took his food at more or less regular intervals, was at her wit's end before that Sabbath.
Robert Winning, of Eaglesham, was ever hospitable; if he knew of any poor student, he would invite him to the manse for a month, on the plea that he would help to prepare him for his examination in Hebrew and Greek.
The old manse servant, also an original, was paid a sum of money as compensation for refusing tips from visitors.
It was plain, I may add, before he spoke, that we had offered the hospitality of the manse to a man of gentle breeding.
The manse is a desert; and sister Judith was never so uncongenial a companion to me as I feel her to be now.
Katarina was just about to answer, when a piercing shriek from the courtyard of the manserent the air.
The servants of the manseall huddled together, screaming with terror; Wallachian cries and Tartar curses were mingled with threats and screams for mercy.
Near the end of her life she moved from the manse with expressions of gratitude, and her daughters took up and continued the school for some years after her death.
Muir's widow was allowed to continue on in the manse where she conducted a school for several years.
The "Contract for the erection of the manse was let in July, 1787, to Mr. Robert Brockett.
The moon had not yet set as he started on foot up the driveway of the manse and the bare trees stood out stark and inky against the silver mists.
Tollman, who was taking supper at the manse that evening, noted the pallor of her face, but made no comment.
Among the guests who for several days filled both the manse and Tollman's house, were two who were not entirely beguiled by Conscience's gracious and buoyant demeanor.
In the days that followed Stuart Farquaharson's car standing at the front of the old manse became a fixture in the landscape.
Crossed the bridge, and passed by the manse and chapel, our road carrying us back again in the direction we had come; but on the opposite side of the river.
But in front there was a beautiful lawn and garden--the prettiest Manse garden that ever was seen.
Scarcely a week passed that some of the far-distant tenantry even, who lived on the other side of the peninsula, did not cross the hills, walking many miles for no reason but to ask at the Manse what was the latest news of "our earl.
I wished for my own sake to come to the Manse again, and to ask if I might come every day and take my lessons here--it's so dreary in that big library.
Mrs. Campbell, anxiously and affectionately, when she reappeared from the Manse kitchen.
Besides, there were six boys to be brought up, and put into the world somehow, and the Manse income was small, and the salary offered by Mr. Manteith very considerable.
And now let us take a quiet drive together, and fetch all the Manse people up to dinner at the Castle.
The Manse table was a perfect picture of family sunshine and family peace, and, as such, the two Edinburg guests carried away the impression of it in their memories for many a day.
My father's church and the manse where we lived were in upper New York, and to satisfy my desire for excitement I used frequently to take a run down town.
My violin instructor was an old German, who was to come to the Manse once a week to give me a lesson.
If I don't reach land I shall go to my mother, but yours is in the Manse of Lunda, and would break her heart if anything happened to you.
I hope to find the Manse boys at Havnholme, and will tell them, so that they can explain to you.
And then he turned, as the Manse boys had always been taught to turn in trials, to Him who is near at all times, a present help in time of trouble.
I wish the Manse boat had come along after all;" and Yaspard scanned the sea, hoping some boat might be in sight; but there was nothing moving on the water save the wild birds and his own skiff.
Perhaps he missed on purpose, only shot to aggravate the Manse boys.
There was a good deal of whispering between Yaspard and the Manse boys before they parted; and there was a very significant "Good-bye," from the Yarl of Broch.
How nicely it all fits in for to-morrow--the Harrison boys to go with the letter in my boat, and the Manse boys spending the night on Havnholme!
He asked me a heap aboot wis a'--I mean aboot the Manse folk, and Dr.
His sister and Mrs. Mitchell had come to plan a picnic in honour of Yaspard, and the Manse boys were of course "to the fore" on such an occasion.
He therefore, took leave of Mrs. Little; Helen shook hands with Tom, and bade him be sure to remember his promise of coming to the Manse to see her.
Do you take out three of the pots, and give them to me; and I will carry them as far as the Manse for you; for my mammy will not expect me home for two hours.
Accordingly, the next day Marion was brought down to the Manse by her father; and John was not a little surprised and pleased to find her established there when he came in the evening.
He came to the Manse on his nomination, merely to look at the house, and see what preparations it might require, as he was on the point of marriage with an amiable young woman to whom he had been long attached.
The worthy schoolmaster accordingly left the Manse early the following morning, by which time Mrs. Martin was in the height of a brain fever, knowing no one, and screaming every instant for William.
Their arrival at the Manse relieves Mrs. Martin's anxiety.
Mr. Armstrong insisted on her being left perfectly quiet; and they now thought it would be best for John to return to the Manse and ease Mr. Martin's mind as to her safety.
It was not long before they came through the coppice and told me of the fearful devastation which Satan had made in the village and manse by the permission of all-righteous God.
That they should meanwhile put my manse to rights to the best of their power, seeing that the cold was become very irksome to me.
The means of communication between the members of the nomadic profession is almost perfect in its frequency and accuracy, and Saunderson's manse was a hedge-side word.
He first met her when she came to the manse one evening to discuss the unlawfulness of infant baptism and the duty of holding Sunday on Saturday, being the Jewish Sabbath.
Milk'll dae fine for yon birkie: he micht be gled tae get onything, sorning on a respectable manse every ither week.
Had he even looked at the dear face he must have given way, but he kept his shoulder to the Rabbi, and at that moment the sound of wheels passing the corner of the manse gave him an ungracious way of escape.
It is my invariable custom to examine the bed to see that everything is in order, and any one sleeping in Kilbogie Manse will find the good of such a precaution.
That is the first and last time I ever slept in the Free Church Manse of Kilbogie.
Once only did this eminent man visit the manse of Kilbogie, and in favourable moments after dinner he would give his choicer experiences.
Miss Kate had gone off for a long walk, and I am not saying but that she will be calling at Kilbogie Manse before she comes back.
She stood at the open door of the mansewith her lover thinking of these things, but with no real sense of what pain or deprivation the thought included.
I wish he were as anxious to serve in the Lord's temple--I would build him a kirk an' a manse for it.
Her father was the minister of Lambrig and the manse stood in a very sequestered corner of the big parish, facing the bleak east winds, and the salt showers of the German ocean.
A new minister was the first inevitable change, and then a removal from the comfortable manseto a little cottage in the village of Lambrig.
That part of the Porter Manse containing the room referred to was built early in the last half of the seventeenth century.
As they stood a moment at the manse door the minister said, "Your aunt Sabiston has gone the way of all flesh.
And he went out of the mansewithout telling one of all the glorious things he had resolved to tell.
And then they talked of David's life in Uig, and when he left the manse he knew that he had found a friend.
So when he got back to the manse he sent for Elder Peterson, and gave him his last words.
The young man went out of the manse with this thought in his heart.
They went together to the manse door, and then the minister followed him to the gate of the small croft.
On page 14, does it seem to you that Hawthorne had forgotten the Old Manseenough so that it could be called a digression?
Perhaps the reader, whom I cannot help considering as my guest in the Old Manse and entitled to all courtesy in the way of sight-showing,--perhaps he will choose to take a nearer view of the memorable spot.
After receiving and returning the British fire, the militia, led by Major Buttrick, charged across the narrow bridge, overcame the regulars by dint of weight and numbers, and drove them back past the Old Manse into the village.
Indeed, though Manse is undeniably comic, she also commands as much respect as the Spartan mother when she bids her only son bear himself boldly in the face of torture.
Manse and Cuddie forced me to laugh out aloud, which one seldom does when alone.
You look like a picture I once saw on Mr. Sherwood's table when I was up at the manse one day 'fore I got so bad I couldn't walk.
The manse is the fourth house after you turn the third corner.
At the end of that time they "happened" to meet at the manse and talked the matter over with the harassed minister.
The day after the funeral, Allan Telford sat in the study of his littlemanse among the encircling wintry hills.
An invitation to lunch at the manse is an honour not to be trifled with.
They breathed more freely and their steps slackened as soon as the corner which hid the manse had been safely passed.
As the girl's thought trailed naturally into the problem paths of every day, her weeks of freedom, her new interests, the strange experience in the manse garden seemed already remote.
Manse he had so often visited when a young and happy boy.
Manse for ever, and sail away in a ship to India never more to return!
And what can the Minister be about, can anybody tell, that he does not come flying from the manse to save the lives of his parishioners from cannibals, and gypsies, and Eerish, murdering their way to the gallows?
Therefore, if the unknown man had, by chance or otherwise, taken refuge in the Manse grounds, he must only have done so for temporary concealment, or have used these grounds as a short cut to his real lair.
There was somebody moving along towards the palisade on the boundary between the Manseand Durley Dene.
If the Thug got out that way--he has evidently been hiding in the secret loft over the barn--how did he get into the Manse when he tried to murder my father?
The Manse gardener was working outside one of the greenhouses, and respectfully saluted young Carrington as he strolled up to him.
Manse and the village of Northden, in which it stands.
That passage may, for all I know, end in the Manse itself.
Next, the attempted murder of Mr. Carrington, and, finally, the discovery that the master of Durley Dene had visited the grounds of the Manse at midnight for some mysterious purpose as yet unknown.
By this time the porch of the Manse was reached, but the door being closed, and Laurence having mislaid his key, it was necessary to wait for a servant to answer the bell.
Then, in an instant, he knew the secret of the Manse barn.
But a question of deepest importance that suggested itself to the amateur investigator was how it was that, if the strange cyclist came from the adjoining house, he had ventured into the barn which stood well within the Manse grounds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
