465 examples of sexton in sentences

Over the sexton's grave The growing grass Cried out: "Come home!

Sexton himself had to admit that in his speech.

"Mr. Sexton did everything he could, but it was quite useless.

[Footnote 8: Hamlet has asked on what ground or provocation, that is, from what cause, Hamlet lost his wits; the sexton chooses to take the word ground materially.]

and then said to the sexton, 'How long will a man lie i' th' earth ere he rot?'

The grave upon whose brink he has been bandying words with the sexton, is for her!

Thus their militia, like its patron Mars, is the issue only of the mother, without the concourse of royal Jupiter: yet law it is, if they vote it, in defiance to their fundamentals; like the old sexton, who swore his clock went true, whatever the sun said to the contrary.

She was a decent, godly woman, and the bold manners and evil words of street vagrants were terrible to her; and so, when the church gates were open for daily morning and evening prayers, she had often begged the sexton to let her little ones come in and hear the singing, and wander hand in hand around the old church walls.

The old sexton came to the side door and threw out an armful of refuse greens, and then stopped a moment and nodded kindly at them.

" Just now the door opened again, and the sexton began sweeping the refuse out of the church.

The sexton stood and looked and laughed as he saw the little ones so eager for the scraps and remnants.

They made the course of the church and came round by the door again, where the sexton stood smiling on them.

The sexton, seeing their zeal, brought out to them a little cross, fancifully made of red alder-berries and pine.

The sexton looked after them.

But here was I put to a most horrid quaking the moment I passed the door, to perceive old Simon standing foremost in the throng about the altar, in his leather cap (which he would not remove for clerk or sexton, but threatened them, as I am told, with the law if they lay a finger on him).

Is it possible they can be any relations? 'Tis worth the research, when you can find a sunny day, with ground firm, &c. Master Sexton is intelligent, and for half-a-crown he'll pick you up a Father.

" "He is gone to visit the sexton, who is ill of the plague," replied the watchman.

" "And that will be for years, you accursed jade," replied the sexton; "Dr. Hodges says I shall recover.

"How have you obtained your wealth?" "I have discovered a treasure," replied, the sexton, with a mocking laugh,"a secret hoarda chest of goldha!

"Perhaps it might," replied the sexton; "but if I die, the knowledge of the treasure shall die with me.

"I am chilled to the heart," grasped the sexton, shivering from head to foot, while chill damps gathered on his brow.

When the bystanders recovered sufficient courage to drag the unfortunate sexton out of the pit, they found him quite dead.

"It seems that the sexton had found a chest of treasure buried in Saint Faith's, and being haunted by the idea that some one was carrying it off, he suddenly sprang out of bed, and rushed to the church, where, sure enough, Mr. Lilly, Mr. Quatremain, the Earl of Rochester, and Sir George Etherege, having, by the help of mosaical rods, discovered this very chest, were digging it up.

Hodges carefully examined the body of the unfortunate sexton, but though he entertained strong suspicions, he could not pronounce positively that he had been improperly treated; and as the statement of Mrs. Malmayns was fully borne out by the vergers and others, he did not think it necessary to pursue the investigation further.

Whereupon he got better and better; and when the sexton came to ring the bell for nine o'clock, they only just heard his steps in time to steal away unobserved through the starry darkness, and go round past the pine-grove.

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