Word: churchwarden
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...follows two main groups: the family of farmer Kari Oscar Neilson, and the religious cell of a preacher-sansordinance, Danjell (uncle of Kristina, Neilson's wife). Both groups are directly impelled to emigrate by personal oppression on the part of their overlords (the sheriff, the constable, the deacon, the churchwarden...
...statesman but only a farm hand in the tiny (pop. 150) Lincolnshire village of South Ormsby. As long as he can remember, Enderby, 65, has been worshiping at St. Leonard's Church, a weathered, three-century-old stone building. Enderby has also been the parish's diligent churchwarden for more than two decades. Rising at dawn, he arrives at St. Leonard's shortly before 8 o'clock holy communion, tolls the ancient bell, carefully lights the altar candles, and then drops his usual small offering into the collection envelope. Commendable though it is, Enderby...
...cancer, I'd sadly snuff it out." Business Editor Joe Purtell, who has smoked little since corn-silk days, takes a cigar "when given to me," smoked two while editing the cover story (both were gifts). Purtell's favorite smoking instrument is his ancient, 13-in. churchwarden, now held together by tobacco tar and Scotch tape...
Soon pilgrims began to stream into Cihost. From Prague, the Czech Communist government sent commissions to investigate. Policemen turned the pilgrims away. Father Toufar and his churchwarden were arrested. The Communists closed the church two days later; villagers are allowed to enter it only for Sunday Mass...
...implication of rather thoroughgoing research. They turned down a memorial offered by Woolner's aging daughters, because "any man who is asked to do things like that is not suitable to be commemorated in a church tablet." To clear his parish of any possible suspicion of complicity, Churchwarden W. Jones told the consistory court at Bury St. Edmunds : "Woolner's connection with Hadleigh was entirely fortuitous. He happened to be born there...