We were no sooner seated than the monks entered in procession, preceding their abbot, who ascended his throne, having a row of sacristans at his feet and canons on his right hand, in their cloth of gold embroidered vestments.
It was growing late when we arrived, and their feathered sanctities were gone quietly to roost; but the sacristansin waiting, the moment they saw us approach, officiously roused them.
One of the sacristans was drumming a tattoo upon the bells.
At his command the sacristans ascended the bell-tower and proceeded to arouse the town.
His convent was at that time occupied by the municipal authorities; and so he lived in a small nipa house with his two dogs, his Latin library, and the sacristans who at night slept scattered about the floor.
Again as "generous Spain" appointed even the sacristans in its remotest colonies, the Society must be acquitted of all blame in not giving an entire hierarchy to Lower California.
Nowhere have I found sacristans so stupid and so ignorant as in Toledo.
After the religious services on Palm Sunday, it was anciently the custom of the sacristans of St. Mark's to release doves fettered with fragments of paper, and thus partly disabled from flight, for the people to scramble for in the Piazza.
For we in this place are not mere head-sacristans or superiors of a monastery, but men called to share with the Pope his care for the whole Church; allow us therefore to take the state of the world into our prudent consideration.
The servants and sacristansreceived her coldly, scarcely answering her greetings.
Fans, hats, and handkerchiefs agitated the air; children cried, and gave the sacristans a hard enough task getting them out.
Preceded by two sacristansand followed by another monk, who bore a great book, Father Dámaso made his way through the crowd.
A procession of Venetian sacristans would, by the way, be a strange and grotesque spectacle.
John's own church, built according to his instructions to Bishop Magnus, and it has one of the keenest little sacristans in Venice.
He has five other chaplains under him, besidessacristans and assistants.
It has its sacristans and other assistants for the service, propriety, and pomp of the worship; and a fine band of singers, with suitable salaries.
The sacristans promised to do what was necessary, but apparently they had been quite willing to see them disappear.
Through the darkness the high altar loomed before us, dimly lighted by a few candles where the sacristans were setting up the properties for the grand mass of the morrow,--Our Lady of the Snows.
So that the curses of the sacristans at their work, the prayers of penitents at the altar, the wailing of breaking hearts bowed on the pavement through many years, are all recorded mysteriously, in these rocky walls.
Inside, the sacristans were preparing a catafalque, bordered with candles placed in wooden sockets.
Padre Damaso passed through the congregation preceded by two sacristans and followed by another friar carrying a massive volume.
He has great estates and when he works he works with music and has sacristans to help him.
Ibarra stood in one corner while Maria Clara knelt near the high altar in a space which the curate had had the courtesy to order the sacristans to clear for her.
The servants andsacristans received her coldly, scarcely acknowledging her greeting.
One, however, the son of a country woman who visited me during my illness, had not returned on account of having been made a sacristan, and the senior sacristan says that the sacristans must not attend school: they would be dismissed.
But you'll see how he'll not pay it himself, but the sacristans will.
Children shouted and cried, which kept the sacristans busy putting them out of the sacred edifice.
I always like to begin by crossing the palm with a good gold crown, or a piece of eight, or at least a quarto, for, I am like the sacristans who rejoice when there is a good collection.
And also certain other Indians who were Singers and Sacristans of the Convent, as is customary .
The sacristans looked at him with that rudeness characteristic of people who are in the habit of being ill-treated.
The procession was headed by three sacristans carrying silver candlesticks.
Chinese and Indians for the payment of "schoolmasters, vaccinators, defence of criminals, chanters, and sacristans of churches.
Preste (celebrator of high mass) in his black cope, with two sacristans at the right and the left.
As if not satisfied with this blasphemy, as if it were not enough, he turned to the sacristans by him, to ask them if they could not hear the angels sniffing as they leaned forward out of their clouds.
Down below, in the church, he watched the sacristans and the acolytes, careful that the canons and beneficiaries should have no cause of complaint in the services.
The sacristans produced from the deep shelves, as though they were books, the splendid and famous frontals of the high altar.
I do not wish my money to share the fate of that of the sacristans in the proverb.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sacristans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
