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After half an hour or so a sexton will bustle in to prepare for Mass, and Nora will rouse herself and peek outside.
Paul Revere tells Johnny to tell Robert Newman, the sexton at Christ's Church, to hang two lanterns.
I had just begun to draw a whole line of monkeys sitting on another wall, when the church sexton rode up on a motorcycle and introduced himself.
The city appointed a sexton to oversee burials and set rates at six dollars for a coffin and hearse and four dollars to dig the grave.
Joe Bleddon, the church sexton, pulled his kitchen door open and stepped outside to see what the weather was doing.
The friends of the dead will all be gone by two, and when the sexton locks the gate we shall remain.
Godparents would bring gifts for the child, and, in the past, for the mother and the church sexton, who would ring the church bells to mark the occasion.
As Reverend Dimmesdale leaves his pulpit, the sexton meets him, holding out one of Dimmesdale's black gloves, which was found on the scaffold that morning.
The sexton had the task of digging the grave in the churchyard.
His father Friedrich was the cellarman and sexton of the local church.
I went round to the vestry and was delighted to see the sexton.
The daughter of Lise Marsan, Julie Nagel and her spouse Patrick Savaria, bought the house of the sexton in L'Acadie.
Clustered around the church of St. Gallus in Tettnang are a number of buildings that belong to the community: the community centre including the kindergarten, the youth centre and the houses of the priest and the sexton.
There's the gravedigging sexton beetle, life and death on the Skerries for a colony of tern chicks, the shenanigans of some frisky deer and some myth-busting about spiders.
Mayobridge spurned another goal chance on the seventh minute when a beautifully placed high ball from Benny Coulter fell to Ronan Sexton.
Language in this poem, as elsewhere in Sexton, pre-exists and dominates the subject.
While auditing a class taught by Robert Lowell at Boston University, Sylvia met another poet hell-bent on suicide, Anne Sexton.
The energetic chemistry between Power and Sexton drives the play forward as they share moments of love and hate with a fiery passion.
With his fingerpicking and his yodel, Sexton takes us to his roots, to the buried sound of another place.
The Kildare keeper saved well and Sexton flung himself through the air but could not direct the ball into the net as the clock ran out on Down's challenge.
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He beckoned the sexton and the sexton's daughter to draw near and stand as witnesses.
The sexton and the policeman carried the coffin to the church-door, which the curate opened.
Scarcely was it safe, when the sexton buried the old man and his secret with him.
One of the three was the sexton of the church, another was the curate, the third was a policeman.
He pushed the empty chest into the river and then went home with the sexton to get his bushelful of money.
The sexton and his man had lowered the coffin to its last home, and then stepped aside.
Before long the sexton came by and saw his master, the parson, running behind three girls.
The sexton started up, in a state of the most amazed consternation.
Is he in need of the small salary your church must give its sexton?
The sexton therefore took him into his house, and he had to ring the church bell.
The old sexton, leaning on a crutch, was taking the air at his cottage door, and gave her good morrow.
I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it.
Newland Archer, at a signal from the sexton, had come out of the vestry and placed himself with his best man on the chancel step of Grace Church.
Charlie took tenor, and Sybil treble, and I alto, and the sexton bass.
The farmer's wife and the sexton sat at the table, but there was no one else.
We have often seen each other,' said Little Dorrit, recognising the sexton, or the beadle, or the verger, or whatever he was, 'when I have been at church here.
The marshal approached and extended toward Sexton a copy of the restraining order.
Old Sexton Grimwet kept getting considerable feeble, and dele she took to helping him with his work.
Happily less, far less, than usual of the windbag about Sexton.
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