The precentor looked pleased, and the saintly Koos nodded repeatedly.
Edmund, afterwards Canon and Precentor of Lincoln, i.
It was a very simple tune, too; yet, as he sang, the old precentor started from his chair and pressed his wrinkled hands together against his breast.
And those were the songs that the precentor was at the greatest pains to have him sing in perfect tones, making him open his mouth like a little round and let the music float out of itself.
The old precentor stood with his hands still clasped against his breast.
He, moreover, willed that the precentor of the cathedral should have the option of being also warden of the alms-house, if the bishop approved.
It was settled that Mr. Harding should still be the precentor of the cathedral, and a small living within the walls of the city was given to him.
Mr. Harding had been precentor of Barchester for ten years when the murmurs respecting the proceeds of Hiram's estate again became audible.
The precentor remarked on the friendliness of the visit.
Theophilus Grantly, son of the bishop, archdeacon of Barchester, and rector of Plumstead Episcopi, and a few months after her marriage her father became precentor of Barchester Cathedral.
Derived from cantor, meaning a singer, and is used to designate the north side of the choir, where the precentor sits.
It was in less than an hour after Margaret spoke thus tranquilly to Babbie that theprecentor got into the manse.
The precentor locked the doors, and buttoned up the keys in his trousers pockets.
I never heard that Nanny needed a candle to licht her to her bed," the precentor muttered.
Gavin spoke with feeling, for the precentor had already put him through his catechism, and it was a stiff ordeal.
Ay, lay them down," the precentor whispered, "but keep your feet on them.
There's no water in hell," the precentor said grimly.
And He's closing His neive ticht on't again," said the precentor solemnly.
Yes, I saw the precentor pass through the kitchen, with such a face on him as no man ever saw him wear again.
But the rain came to her rescue by lashing the precentor until even he was forced to run from it.
Indeed, Gavin's appearance in church without the precentor would have been as surprising as Tammas's without the minister.
Up Windyghoul did he pursue her, and it was well that theprecentor was not there to see.
As certainly as the shutting of a money-box is followed by the turning of the key, did the precentor walk stiffly from the vestry to his box a toll of the bell in front of the minister.
On one communion Sunday, the precentor observed the noble family of Eglinton approaching the tables, and saw that they were likely to be kept out by those who pressed in before them.
This has been pronounced by an authority, the late Precentor Venables, to have been “the finest Roman building in the kingdom.
The fame of this apartment having been noised abroad, the precentor came one day to inspect it.
The Tenor meantime had remained standing with his hat in his hand patiently waiting, and he still stood, but the precentor did not take the hint.
And the precentor was sure that the dean had been taken in by a clever impostor, which would not have been the case, he asserted, if the matter had been referred to him as it ought to have been.
He found the Tenor with his hat in his hand on the point of leaving the house; but the precentor was not delicate about detaining him.
The precentor found the music, the organist retired to his instrument, the dean took a seat, and the stranger sang.
The precentor stood up to his knees in water on what had once been the bank, and wrung his hands.
It would be much more suitable that Mr Harding should be dean of Barchester than vicar of St Cuthbert's and precentor to boot.
There was a pause, during which the precentor tried to realise the fact that the wife of the bishop of Barchester had been thus designated, in the close of the cathedral, by the lips of its own archdeacon: but he could not do it.
And so the archdeacon and the precentor took their departure, bowing low to the lady, shaking hands with the lord, and escaping from Mr Slope in the best manner each could.
Till they had passed this small gate and entered the close, neither of them spoke a word; but the precentor clearly saw from his companion's face that a tornado was to be expected, nor was he himself inclined to stop it.
Here was a sermon to be preached before Mr Archdeacon Grantly, Mr Precentor Harding, and the rest of them!
He is still Precentorof Barchester, and still pastor of the little church of St Cuthbert's.
His lordship then presented them to his lady wife; the archdeacon first, with archidiaconal honours, and then the precentor with diminished parade.
There was nothing said as to the wardenship being held by the precentor of the cathedral, nor a word as to Mr Harding's right to the situation.
Precentor of Norwich), and that which describes the Fragments, the Charters and the Manuscripts was drawn up by Rev.
Chaplain of New College, nowPrecentor of Canterbury.
There was no organ or other musical instrument, nor was the voice of the precentor especially powerful.
The precentor stood directly in front of the preacher, facing the audience and just within the railing of the stage.
The minister then repeated the first two lines of the verses to be sung, and the precentor struck his tuning-fork on the desk.
As soon as the preacher gets into the pulpit the precentor leaves reading, and sets a psalm-singing with the people, till the minister by some sign orders him to give over.
The Precentor of the Cathedral, Rector of East Kilbride, had a manse near the Castle, the approach being by the Vicar's Alley.
The reader was usually also precentor, and it will be a natural transition, therefore, to pass on now to an account of that part of the Sunday service which the precentor conducted.
Though I am the Free Church precentor in Thrums (ten pounds a year, and the little town is five miles away), they have not seen me for three weeks.
The old, reverent custom in the kirk was for the precentorto read out the psalm a line at a time.
Had it not been for the impatience of the precentor and the grumbling of the mourners outside, there is no saying when the remains would have been lifted through the "bole," or little window.
The austere precentor admonished fiery youth to beware of giving way to passion; and it was a proud day for the Auld Lichts to find their leading elder so conversant with apt Scripture texts.
The precentor was a cobbler, though he never knew it, shoemaker being the name in those parts, and his dwelling-room was also his workshop.
However, I have always been of opinion that the thought of the precentorin his box gave Cree a fleeting sense of humour.
In almost all Cathedrals of old foundation in England, and very generally on the Continent, the precentor was the first dignitary in the chapter, ranking next to the dean.
In all new foundations the precentor is a minor canon, holding a rank totally different from, and inferior to that of his namesake of the older foundation.
To his lot falls the immediate management of the cathedral services; he is, as Bishop Godwin says, "the Precentor to govern the choir.
At Saint David's the Precentorwas President of the Chapter and at Llandaff the Archdeacon.
Bishop John is called the uncle ofPrecentor Reginald.
As the Church of Saint David's had no Dean, the Precentor was the President of the Chapter.
Of John, the precentor of the Apostolic see, who came into Britain to teach.
Before the risingprecentor could give out his hymn Uncle Jimmie Rankin had sprung to his feet and started "Rock of Ages" in one of the wildest minors of the early pioneers.
The precentor and organist, aided by Bishop Pangraz Sinzenhofer and Blasius, the captain of the city guard, had endeavoured to collect the papers which proved Wolf's noble birth.
Alderman of London, whose son was Precentor here; and James Cattel, cathedral librarian, 1877.
Here lies the body of John Quebecca, precentor to my Lord the King.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "precentor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
