On our way back to town one of my friends told me that he "had met a sexton the day before, and had asked him how trade was with him.

" "I have," interrupted Frantz, with an air of extreme solemnity, "seen, as I believe, those children and their father!" "Mein Gott!" cried the sexton in excessive alarm"seen them?Seen Herr Von Weetzer!

Michael, though he had no great reverence for Mr. Wood's ministrations, had constituted himself sexton, an office which had devolved on him in consequence of his skill with the spade.

Among other reasons alleged by the vestry of Stepney parish for dismissing their sexton in 1601 was because he made "composic[i]on with diu[er]s & sundry p[ar]ishoners for the duties of the church to the hinderannce & great damage of the bennefitt of the church & p[ar]ishoners.

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

"My good friend, will you allow me to take away this skull with me?" "St. Winifred bless us!" exclaimed the sexton.

As soon as I had posted it, I walked sedately twice round the cathedral, and then I found the sexton at the door, who commiserating me of my former vain applications, and having the hope of lucre before his eyes, let me in.

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

" He led the sexton to his chamberdesired him to raise the mysterious hearthstone, and dig up the ground beneath it.

Eustace followed with a solo: "Nigh to a grave that was newly made, Leaned a sexton old on his earth-worn spade.

What would people say?the sexton of the Temple!

He forcibly reminded me of the Scotch dominie who stopped at the stove to shake off the water one rainy morning, and to rebuke the sexton for not having a fire.

In 1858 the legislature passed an act requiring the sextons of the different churches to ring the church bells fifteen minutes whenever there was an alarm of fire.

I shivered, seeing once more those grim sextons of the Pacific seaboard.

you've got to quit it and go to one of those churches where the right answer to the question, "What is the chief end of man?" is "Dividend," and where they think you're throwing a fit and sick the sexton on to you if you forget yourself and whoop it up a little when your religion gets to working.

He rowed her to the church, taking up the sexton and his boy on their way.

So Dick identified a forlorn mound as his last resting-place, and told the sexton that a marble cross would be erected there under his (Dick's) direction.

No one had tipped the old sexton to strengthen his memory of the resting-place, and it was a new and ignorant sexton that greeted the anxious Constanze.

I asked the sexton, who was just opening the church for an evening lecture, when Richard Colman died.

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

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.