One vicious tithingman invented, and was allowed to exercise on the boys, a punishment which was the refinement of cruelty.
The tithingman could arrest any who walked or rode at too fast a pace to and from meeting, and he could arrest any who "walked or rode unnecessarily on the Sabath.
The ecclesiastical functions and authority of the tithingman lingered long after the civil powers had been removed or had gradually passed away from his office.
There is no record, however, to tell whether the Indecent fashion was abandoned, but I warrant no tithingman was powerful enough to make Andover women take off their proudly worn Sunday bonnets if they did not want to.
The colonists could not leave the meeting-house before the long sen ices were ended, even had they wished, for the tithingmanallowed no deserters.
Persons are now living who in their early and unruly youth were rapped at and pointed at by a New England tithingman when they laughed or were noisy in meeting.
The Norwalk people come down through history shining with a halo of gentle lenity, for their tithingman was ordered to bear a short, small stick only, and he was "Desired to use it with clemency.
Another catastrophe from too fierce zeal on the part of the tithingman is recorded.
Tithingman of Bedford in DAVID LANE, } behalf of himself and five } others.
But the tithingman had seen Lady Wiggleworth's nodding plumes.
Little Ben went to the South Church on Sundays, and the tithingman was there.
The tithingmanstands still; he has nothing to do for a time.
A crafty man was thetithingman in the pursuit of his duties.
Gently, very gently, the tithingman took from his side pocket a feather.
We said that the tithingman was sometimes a terror to old women.
When the sand had all run through, the tithingman turned the glass over and the sand began to tell another hour.
She pulled her little daughter down quickly and whispered, "Do you want the tithingman to come?
Illustration: The tithingman tickling the nodding lady] When he saw a lady nodding during the sermon, he stepped around to her pew and tickled her face with the fur end of the rod.
Besides keeping the boys from playing and the grown people from going to sleep, the tithingman must turn the hourglass.
The tithingman could arrest any who walked or rode too fast in pace to and from meeting, and he could arrest any who “walked or rode unnecessarily on the Sabbath.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tithingman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
