The sexton of the church performs the functions which are attended to here by ushers.
TRIED IN THE FIRE I had been sexton for over five years, and had been greatly blessed, when my wife became ill.
Mary was already there, and I took charge of the Church of the Sea and Land at Market and Henry Streets, where I remained assexton for ten years.
It came about like this: I had been sexton of Sea and Land Church about four years, was growing in grace and getting on finely.
Went through the people to the minister's pew, but, finding it locked, I returned to the vestry till the sexton could be found.
The sexton had found her lying on the pavement in a swoon, and when she recovered, her mind for the time had totally lost its equipoise, and it became necessary to place her under the restraint of watchful attendants.
Dolph now learned from the worthy sexton the consternation and rumour to which his mysterious disappearance had given rise.
She was sitting one day knitting by her fireside, in great perplexity, when the sexton entered with an air of unusual vivacity and briskness.
The sexton had been squared, and he had not made the grave very deep, nor had he heaped the earth thickly over it.
Here they ate and chattered between services, as already said, and here were served with ale by the sexton or clerk.
To church, and before sermon there was a long psalm, and half another sung out while the Sextongathered what the church would give him for this last year.
Of course the sexton came in for the purpose of removing the animal, but it dodged into a vacant pew upon the other side of the aisle and defied him, barking vociferously all the time.
He went home bareheaded, and the sexton brought his humiliating hat around after dinner.
Then I'd carry her out, and most likely it'd kick at me all the way down the aisle and end up by dancing her around the vestibule, until the sexton would rebuke her for waltzing in church.
Then the sexton became warm and indignant, and he flung a cane at the dog, whereupon the dog flew out and bit his leg.
Well, the son of the old sexton at Blangy, a splendid fellow, so the people about here tell me, was drafted at the great conscription.
When I took Pere Niseron as sexton I told him what Rigou's intentions were.
Now how many of you will be silent in the morning when the old sexton comes to ring us?
The good old sexton has gone to the church at last!
For more than an hour the oldsexton had been working at the ropes in vain.
And the sexton leaned over to the magistrate and said: "Why do you allow the Cinderella to make such an outcry?
He was only a middle-aged man, and therefore not yet arrived at sextonial ripeness; for a sexton only begins to be mellow when he is ninety or thereabouts.
Pumpkin--and he looked as if he were meditating putting the little sexton up the chimney, for the mere naming of such a thing.
I spoke innocently, for I thought only of ticketing some grouse for my friends southward: but the question staggered my sexton so sensibly, that I came to the uncharitable conclusion--he had stolen it.
The sexton having fled in terror, leaving his lantern behind and the church door open, the lady in her shroud made her way out of the vault and through the church to the residence of her brother-in-law, the Rev.
The attempt of the sexton to recover a valuable diamond ring from the finger is said to have been made at an early hour the next morning.
Her maid and the sexton opened the coffin the following night to steal the jewellery, when some hot wax from the candle they were using fell on the woman’s face and woke her up.
The coffin had been lowered to the bottom of the grave, and the sexton had begun to cover it with earth, when he heard muffled sounds proceeding from it.
If two farmers had their goolthise on the same day the parson and sexton favoured one and the clerk the other.
It may be remarked that, until the roof fell into St. Levan's Well, and it became choked up, the sexton always kept it clean and fetched water thence for the baptismal office.
It was the custom then for the great farmers to invite the parson and clerk to supper on goolthise (harvest-home) day, and the sexton usually came to work and see his reverend master safe home.
Sponsken stayed long enough to take a glimpse of the ghost's face and to recognize the features of the sexton beneath the flour; then he went on his way homeward, whistling as merrily as before.
Sponsken's parents were only too glad to fall in with any plan which seemed likely to reform their unruly son, so the sexton went off to make his arrangements.
The sexton groaned again, louder than before, and waved his arms wildly.
It was the dark of the moon, and the place the sexton had chosen was very lonely.
In Denmark writing-schools for both boys and girls were organized, and the sexton of each parish was ordered to gather the children together once a week for instruction in the Catechism.
The evolution, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, of the German vernacular school-teacher out of the parish sexton is one of the interesting bits of our educational history.
The sexton climbed up, placed the sick boy beside him, held him carefully but firmly and thus Toni drove out into the world, with a horse, for the first time in his life.
I think he is quite near," said the doctor; he went out, and soon came in again with the sexton and Toni.
He immediately came to the seashore, where the sexton had heard the voice.
One day, very early in the morning, she heard the sexton ringing the bell and inviting the people to church.
At Rengen, in the Eifel Mountains, the sexton rings the church bell for an hour on the afternoon of Midsummer Day.
The Independent smiled grimly as he replied, "Nay, friend, it is well for thyself, for never should sexton have been better paid for the knell he tolled.
Here have we been nigh two hours in doing what Diggon the sexton would have done to better purpose in half a one.
The old man rested on his spade as the Master approached him, as if to receive his commands; and as he did not immediately speak, the sexton opened the discourse in his own way.
The sexton again looked sharply up at him, as he answered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sexton" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: acolyte; beadle; clergyman; clerk; deacon; elder; lector; lecturer; reader; sacristan; sexton
