He having perceived that there had been trick and shuffling in the casting of the lot, and suspecting the Sacristan to be cognizant thereof, refused to pay.
The Sacristan returned at night with a servant, bringing lights and a supper.
We pass through the gateway, and the old sacristan lets us into the church.
Andrew, erst sacristan of Muchelney, was another who left the Order for his first love, but his dislike of the life was less cogently put.
When the singing ceased, one heard through the dreamy murmur of the organ the spluttering of the burning candles and the clatter on the brass dish of the sacristan making the collection.
The bells rang out, the priest sang with the sacristan and the whole procession triumphantly entered the wide church-doors.
Toil to fetch a tinker through the squalor of San Niccolò, and there shall fall on you the shadow of the bell-tower where the old sacristan saved to the world the genius of the Night and Day.
As they went out, the sacristan stopped them, and proposed to show the cemetery of the convent, where the deceased members of the fraternity are laid to rest in sacred earth, brought long ago from Jerusalem.
The sacristan was quickly found, however, and lost no time in disclosing the youthful Archangel, setting his divine foot on the head of his fallen adversary.
To this day, I often express myself in signs and words, which, however consistent in the mighty ruler and magnificent tyrant, are little adapted to the humble sacristan of Bergen.
At this time the sacristan of the church died; his place was offered to me by the bishop and accepted.
The sacristan was a feeble, tottering old fellow, and was persuaded without difficulty to hand over the key of the tower, on the promise of the English officer to return it within an hour.
They went straight to the sacristan of the Hervormde Kerk, whose cottage was known to the Dutch youth.
The sacristan rapped upon the door to let the turnkey know it was time to unlock.
The sacristan placed the temporary altar beside the foot of the bed, arrayed it, and recited the Confiteor.
There was lightning in my arm as it took the sacristan around the neck and let him limp upon the stones.
He opened no wider than the breadth of the priest, who stepped out as the sacristan bent for the portables.
But he escaped, by choking a sacristan so that the poor man will long bear the marks on his throat.
I heard the priest and his sacristanjoking in the corridor before they entered carrying their sacred parcels.
The priest said the Exaudi nos, exhorted the insensible figure, then recited the Credo and the Litany, the sacristan responding.
The sacristan now began to strip the altar and pack all the sacred implements into their cases: preparing his load in the center of the room.
I said to myself it would be impossible to use that trick on the sacristan if he left the cell behind the deaf old priest.
The sacristan himself was in the church; over the fire sat a thin pale-faced man, engaged in putting the last strokes to a carved oaken box of most delicate workmanship.
See that the door is safely closed, for John the sacristan will not be back yet awhile.
They took me to the church, and there the little old brown-faced sacristan joined us, punctuating our way with groans and sobs of horror.
It is a long time before anyone can speak again, though the little sacristankeeps on moaning to himself.
Blessed be the holy man who was raised from the dead and the good sacristan to whose eyes the miracle was vouchsafed!
I must confess I am puzzled at the whole of that sum having been extracted from the coffer, when, with the greatest pains the sacristan could not replace more than half of it.
Our honest Peppe held the sacrilegious miscreant as in a vice until the sacristan entered the church to light the candles.
This decision of their pastor was approved of by the pious flock, and the sacristan hastened to fill the box with as much of the treasure as it was capable of containing, while still a large portion remained over.
Perhaps the new sacristan had taken them away to clean after the departure of the congregation.
The worthy sacristan had not recovered from his surprise when the people began to pour in by twos and threes to hear mass, all of them starting and falling back in horror at the spectacle before them.
Have you not heard that the arch-priest himself believes it, that all the village believes it, that the good Ricardo the sacristan was an eye-witness of the miracle?
So far from it, indeed, that I began to see more clearly than ever that there had been some trick or imposture, at the bottom of which was the sacristan himself.
How they were surprised by the sacristan early the next morning.
On hearing this he replied that he had rather that the money should be disposed of in that way than that blackleg of a sacristan should get a penny of it.
The duplicity and avarice of the sacristan having now fairly come to light, he was dismissed, and another chosen to supply his place.
So he paid the sacristan to quarter the ground continually for him, while he was engaged elsewhere.
Why should the sacristantake any interest in them?
Once more the sacristan seemed to be about to purse his lips into a circle, and to put on an air of blank stupidity, and the clerk saw that the time had come to use the password.
Ask the sacristan to direct you to find Rustan Karaboghazji, by four toes and by five toes,' she said at last.
Having understood Rustan's mode of procedure, Omobono had extracted from the sacristan such information as the latter possessed about Zoe and Kyria Agatha, but that was not very much after all.
Omobono remembered how the sacristan had winked and laughed, when he had spoken of Rustan's walks in the dismal lane, and the Venetian now proceeded to draw from what he had seen and heard a multitude of very logical inferences.
My husband is a very devout man; the sacristan knows him well.
The sacristangrinned and winked at the Venetian clerk in a knowing way.
The sacristan was still standing by the same pillar.
If he is not there, ask the sacristan where he is.
Amen,' answered the sacristan indifferently, for it was the custom to do so.
Guides offer their assistance, but they are of no use, as the sacristan alone can unlock the doors.
The sacristan is generally in the small room next the main entrance.
It was the chiefsacristan who had thus stolen upon the children.
With a stroke on the cheek the sacristan made him let go, and dragged off Crispin, who commenced to cry, let himself fall, tried to cling to the floor, and besought Basilio to keep him.
It is true his arrival was always heralded with music, he was given banquets by his debtors, and loaded with presents; but he was laughed at in secret, and called Sacristan Tiago.
Like all impenitents, the alférez did not mend his ways for that, but went out swearing under his breath, arrested the first sacristan he met, and made him clean the yard of the barracks.
The head sacristan won't let us leave yet," said the elder.
The one-eyed sacristan held his book; a choir boy had in charge the holy water and sprinkler.
Here was once the tomb of Jayme el Conquistador, which we had looked upon that very morning with our amiable sacristan on the left of the Coro in Tarragona cathedral.
The verger or sacristan was very proud of these capitals, and of the whole cathedral: full of energy and enthusiasm: understood every detail, delighted to linger at every turn.
I only know that she's engaged to be married, and that a certain sacristan is madly but I hope honourably in love with her, and that she's had nothing whatever to do with the disappearance of your necklace.
They call him sacristan instead of sexton because St. Nicodemus is High, as I daresay you know, sir, living so close.
The sacristan or custodian of the church was frequently also the teacher of the elementary school, the two offices being combined in one person.
Somewhat consoled by this promise, the Sacristan took his leave of Cortado, who then returned to the place where Rincon had privily witnessed all that had passed.
You will readily find the Sacristan of some church who will give your worship the offering-bread of All Saints' Day, for cutting him his paper flowers to decorate the Monument[8] on Holy Thursday.
Now, what an enormous absurdity it would be to believe that Camacha could change human beings into brutes, or that the sacristan served her for years under the form of an ass.
Before leaving the cathedral you should get the sacristan to tell you the famous legend of Papa-Moscas.
A sacristan came up to me and whispered in my ear, as though he was telling me a secret.
The very high-roads are imperceptible then, and the villagesacristan rings the church bells in order to guide the belated traveller to his home.
A sacristan is always at hand to exhibit the treasury, worth, so it is said, some millions of francs, and which is to be commended to all lovers of jewels and old lace.
The sacristan exhibited a tooth of St. Peter and skulls of the saints, but these are treasures we can look on without envy.
Curé and the sacristan were both absent, and as no one else possessed the key of the crypt, my chance of seeing it seemed small.
The sacristan made us free of a perfectly dark church, and we rewarded him as if it had been noonday.
At this hour the sacristan is heavy with sleep; he dodges uncertainly at the tapers as he lights and extinguishes them; and his manner to the congregation, as he passes through it to the altar, is altogether rasped and nervous.
The sacristan brought a ponderous silver key, and unlocking the door behind the pulpit, showed us the Hebrew Scriptures used during the service by the Rabbi.
I think all this has tended to chill the soul of the sacristan, who is the feeblest and thinnest sacristan conceivable, with a frost of white hair on his temples quite incapable of thawing.
The sacristan gradually expels her with the visitors, and at one o'clock locks the door and goes home.
In the centre of the church, the sacristan scraped the carpenter's rubbish away from a flat tablet in the floor, and said that it was Tintoretto's tomb.
Footnote: Members of the family of Tintoretto are actually buried in this church; and no sacristan of right feeling could do less than point out some tomb as that of the great painter himself.
My sense of security was sweet, but it was false, for on going into the church of St. Mark, the keener eye of the sacristan detected me.
We asked the sacristan why he sent us up, and he answered:--"To see the construction of the Church!
There was a small door in one of the projections of the lantern, which the sacristantold us to enter and ascend still higher.
I asked the sacristan for the tomb of Lorenzo the Magnificent.
At least he would not leave us - not even when Vivian, the King's Clerk, would have made him Sacristan of Battle Abbey.
Who knows, he may yet be Sacristanof Battle, for, to do him justice, he is a good writer.
And lest Fulke should forget, he has written below, 'To be Sacristanof Battle'.
High up over the chancel they could see the Rector and the shiny-pated sacristan leaning from the windows of the bell-ringers' chamber and scratching with wands at some blind arches where bats might most improbably lurk.
So he and thesacristan have gone up in the tower to see what can be done about it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sacristan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
