By and by one of thesevergers came through the screen with a gentleman and lady whom he was taking around, and we joined ourselves to the party.
We peeped through the barrier, and saw some elaborate monuments in the chancel beyond; but the doors of the screen are kept locked, so that the vergers may raise a revenue by showing strangers through the richest part of the cathedral.
But such is the popular ignorance of workmanship, and of its intimate connection with design, that no doubt the vergers will go on repeating their apocryphal tale as long as vergers continue to fill the office of personal conductors.
To all these thanks are due: also to the Cathedral authorities for facilities of access, and to the Vergers of the Cathedral and Chapter House for their services during my examination of the buildings.
The vergersfollowed his example, but smiled broadly.
The vergers were very gorgeous; the leader carried a silver staff and wore a white wig and a white robe, his two assistants also in white wigs but with red velvet robes.
By and by one of these vergers came through the screen, with a gentleman and lady whom he was taking round, and we joined ourselves to the party.
Sometimes, too, one of the vergers would come in with a handful of little boys, whom he had caught playing among the tombstones.
One afternoon as I was coming from the cathedral prayers, one of the vergers was sent to inform me that his lordship desired to speak with me.
The northwest transept, so say all guidebooks and vergers (and they certainly ought to be truthful), was the scene of the murder of the Archbishop à Becket.
Arrived at the Poets' Corner once again, they found that one of the vergers was just about to conduct a party "in behind the scenes," as Barbara called it.
The vergers and beadles arrayed themselves upon one side or the other, and by the solemnity or levity of their carriage, the twinkle in the eye or the far-off, absent gaze, made known their views.
The vergers followed his example, but smiled a good deal.
Break into laughter, if you feel inclined, provided thevergers do not hear it echoing among the arches.
This latter iconoclast is in especially bad odor with the sextons and vergers of most of the old churches which I have visited.
In 1514, he went with Erasmus on pilgrimage to Becket's tomb and ridiculed the accounts which the vergers gave of the healing power of the relics.
It was to the effect that he had now arrested my father, and that if the vergers attempted in any way to interfere between him and his prisoner, his brothers were to arrest both of them, which, as special constables, they had power to do.
It ran:- "You see those vergersstanding near my brothers, who gave up their seats to us.
Almost immediately, however, he perceived that while his eyes had been turned on Hanky, two burly vergers had wormed their way through the crowd and taken their stand close to his two brothers.
Let those vergerscatch sight of the warrant which I shall now give you.
The vergers made a dash for him--but George's brothers seized them.
The old vergers and bedesmen came; some of the clergy came; Judy came; and the dean came.
First two vergers come out of the village church, dressed in "tights," and covered from their ankles to their necks with ivy-leaves.
It is a tradition of the vergers that he died whilst endeavouring to imitate the example of Our Lord by a fast of forty days.
Tradition ascribes it to Bishop Lacy's tomb, and the vergers even at the present day inform visitors that it was erected to commemorate his attempt to fast during Lent.
Similar scenes have taken place in churches and cathedrals throughout England and Scotland, and in many instances the women have been most barbarously treated by vergers and members of the congregations.
One kneeling man, who happened to be near one of the women, forgot his Christian intercessions long enough to beat her in the face with his fists before the vergers came.
They had hardly finished this prayer when vergers fell upon them and with great violence hustled them out of the Abbey.
Ladies in beautiful spring dresses were following the vergers up the aisles.
Vergers in yellow and buff, with knee-breeches, silk stockings, and powdered wigs, were receiving the congregation at the doors.
The scarlet Perrero headed the march, then came the black vergers and Silver Stick, making the tiles of the pavement ring with the blows of their staffs.
The vergers and Wooden Staffs wore starched ruffs and perukes, and though they had scarcely enough to eat, brocade and velvet covered all the people from the Claverias; even the acolytes wore gold embroidered dalmatics.
Later it was called "del Mollete," because every day after high mass the acolytes and vergers assembled there for the blessing of the half-pound loaves, or rolls of bread distributed to the poor.
Mr. Copley thinks I have been feeing the vergers too liberally, so I wrote a song about it called 'The Ballad of the Vergers and the Foolish Virgin,' which I sang to my guitar.
Few people possess the gift of humour in the same degree as the late Bishop Walsham How, and his stories of the race of parish clerks and vergers must not be omitted, and are here published by permission of his son, Mr. F.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vergers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
