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Example sentences for "read prayers"

  • I read prayers to him, found he had settled all things; and, when I came out, the nurse asked me whether I thought it possible he could live; for the doctors thought not.

  • Now Sir Andrew Fountaine is recovering, he desires to be at ease; for I called in the morning to read prayers, but he had given orders not to be disturbed.

  • We read prayers, and afterwards walked round the terrace.

  • I read prayers to the company of yesterday, and we took a drive round by Drygrange Bridge.

  • Being Sunday, I read prayers to our guests, then went a long walk by the lake to Huntly Burn.

  • Read prayers to what remains of our party: being Anne, my niece Anne, the four Skenes, and William Forbes.

  • There's one thing though--it comes over me strong that I should like to read prayers in the old place again.

  • The rector drove to Glaston in his dog-cart to read prayers.

  • In his wife's eyes, Mr. Bevis was now an absolute saint, for not only had he begun to build a chapel in his own grounds, but to read prayers in his own church!

  • Sometimes, almost as many would go away, for want of room, as came in; and it was with great difficulty that I got into the desk, to read prayers or preach.

  • Many more came to hear me; and the last Sunday I was in town I read prayers twice, and preached four times.

  • During his residence in the metropolis, Whitefield's work in the Tower was to read prayers twice a week, catechize and preach once, and visit the soldiers in the infirmary and barracks daily.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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