To this I will reply that, in the first place, these teachers, bigots, soldiers, and sextons are not so bad as they are imagined to be.
Constantine had the funeral escort met at the gate by torch-bearers, and the sextonsof the Blacherne Chapel.
The sextons lit their long candles, and formed in front.
And even parsons didn't themselves interfere there, 'cause the practice made sextons and church officials easy to find as nuts in the Edge Wood.
Looking again at the census, we see that 129 out of every thousand janitors and sextons are colored.
During the first fortnight of June, the family being sufficiently provided for, the sextons strike work and my cages are deserted, so far as the surface is concerned, in spite of new arrivals of Mice and Sparrows.
The Mole is placed in the centre; and my squad of sextons is let loose upon the body.
In this case all my experiments emphatically assert that the fall of the stake undermined by the sextons is a pure matter of imagination.
But there seems to be no reason to set aside the tally of the sextons to that extent; the returns were made weekly from one hundred and forty parishes, and might easily have been exact to within a few in each.
The Parish Clerks brought out their bill regularly, although Hodges says that the sextons failed at length to keep an accurate account of the number of corpses.
In that case, as all my experiments emphatically declare, the fall of the stake undermined by the sextonsis a pure matter of imagination.
In order to excavate the soil, our sextons have to feel the weight of their dead upon their backs.
The Mole is placed in the centre; and my bands of sextons are let loose upon the body.
In the first fortnight of June, the family being sufficiently provided, the sextons strike work and my cages are deserted on the surface, in spite of new arrivals of Mice and Sparrows.
But a few happen to die as they are crossing a road or path; these lie where they fell, because the sextons cannot there pierce the hard ground, and seldom even dare venture on the road to carry them off to softer spots for burial.
Like human sextonsand undertakers, they adopt their lugubrious calling for the sake of gain: they expect to be paid for their sanitary services.
One of the sextons had to jump into the grave and empty it with his shovel with a slow rhythmical movement.
The priest, who looked surly, stood waiting in the wind; some sextons were there with their shovels.
It was part of himself, the best part, his illusions and his enthusiasm, which the sextons were taking away to lower into the depths.
The Sabbath following the installation of the new sextons marked a change in the appearance of the old church.
One request the trustees growled vigorously over, which was that the new sextons should be paid in advance for a half-year's work.
We have actually found before now plans which the sextons and the guardians of the tombs had made for themselves, of all the tombs in the cemetery which was in their care.
And as every body is getting incorporated now-a-days, I see no good reason against our being incorporated, as a society of sextons and surgeons.
The board of sextons have met, and we have concluded not to recommend a revival of the ancient custom of burning the dead.
And then our toils and vexations would, in some measure, be solaced, by pleasant meetings and convivial suppers, at which the surgeons would cut up roast turkeys, and the sextons might bury their sorrows.
When sextons have no particular digging to do, out of doors, it seems well enough for them to dig in their closets.
There is really no lack of business, and it is quite abominable, for thoughtless young sextons to pray for the advent of the cholera.
The employment of sextons has been rather singular, in some countries.
All thesextons were on duty, but Lutton, as we called him--his real name was Lemuel Ludden.
Poor Eli--as the old man was familiarly called by the Boston sextons of his time.
Then the body is lowered into the grave: one of the sextons strikes up a lament, and the shrill voices of the women in the house join in the melancholy strain.
Heedless of the divine promise, these primitive sextons persisted in leaving their dead father in the grave.
Such bodies are cast into the trench like those of dogs, and often naked, as the survivors or sextons strip them even of their rags.
In other parochial burial grounds and cemeteries the duties and rights to fees of the incumbents, clerks and sextons of the parishes for which the ground has been provided are the same as in burials in the churchyard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sextons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
