How To Use Verger In A Sentence
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Our Acolytes range in age from 7 to 70 and serve as crucifers, torch-bearers, thurifers, vergers and other roles to help make our worship experience complete.
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A city centre church verger has the power to summon scores of police and dozens of security guards at the touch of a button.
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He went to see the vicar at St Michaels, who just listened and smiled as he poured tea, then offered him a part-time job as a verger.
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Colleagues and friends of the verger, who had worked at the Minster for 25 years, have been quietly reflecting on his life.
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` I will send for a glass of water, sir, 'said the clergyman leaving the vestry to call the verger, or clerk, ` the lady is fainting.'
Valerie
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As the head verger led me into the Cathedral I summoned my remaining strength to concentrate on the service.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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A city centre church verger has the power to summon scores of police and dozens of security guards at the touch of a button.
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The verger has banked up the coke stove ready for early service.
THE WHITE DOVE
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I later contacted the verger at the church closest to Woolsthorpe, who made inquiries through the parish records on my behalf.
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The thurifer processes directly in front of the crucifer and behind the verger, if the verger is processing.
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Labels: evolution, groucho marx, linguistics, nature, vergerhade posted by John McGrath @ 1: 03 AM 2 Comments
Archive 2007-10-01
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The verger was a man past fifty, but there was no knowing by how many years, for he himself did not know the exact year of his birth, though he knew the day and month.
The Raven In The Foregate
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A verger was a sort of caretaker, she knew that much.
Moontide
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Mr Angus had joined the Minster staff in October 1980 as part of a team of vergers who help with the day-to-day running of the cathedral.
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Maurice Duverger, in Political Parties, developed a more extended typology of modern parties based on Weber's analysis.
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Church officials gave more details yesterday about a popular verger who plunged more than 100 ft to his death from York Minster on Sunday.
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From words they passed to blows; the bedell and vergers tried to keep order, but "were buffeted and stricken," [339] and the meeting broke up in wild uproar and confusion.
The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)
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In 1995 the Dean was accused in a consistory court of having had an adulterous affair with a former verger, nearly 30 years his junior.
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This is apparently the process by which the once little-used "vergerhade" came to be defined as an animatronic groucho marx in a tutu and straitjacket.
Archive 2007-10-01
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What I want to know is who was the so called verger who gave you the shove.
The Diocese of Niagara is employing bouncers « Anglican Samizdat
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The vicar and verger watched, openmouthed, as the gargoyle rubbed its head.
The Gates
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For example, the doorkeeper did most of the jobs we would now associate with the modern verger.
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This verger was the son and the grandson of vergers.
The Fire Within
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I was alone with the Dean and the two residentiary Canons as the vergers toured the Cathedral before locking up for the night.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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Mark was stopped in the porch by a man in a black gown he took to be the verger, who said, `May I have your name, please, sir?
DOUBLE DECEIT
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He has resigned with immediate effect but will continue with some of his tasks until a new verger is found.
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He and the verger retreated into the church and locked the door.
The Gates
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Only the old verger allows himself no rest, and still rings the service in and out.
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I was the last verger of the Garrison Church and took part in the final service.
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It hung in the air, and the vicar and verger could almost feel the dead man below straining to move it higher, but then the stone fell down again and all was quiet.
The Gates
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His father sent Bob and Chris cables describing the madness of the crisis: the RAF bombed his office and hit the church next door killing the verger, just one of a "series of catastrophic mistakes" that infuriated and shocked the family.
Christopher Hampton: My Egyptian paradise
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A verger accidentally locked up without realising that Mr Poole, a former chief general manager with the Norwich Building Society, was still inside.
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After seeing what is left of the girdle of the Virgin, which the verger thought it very important that we should see, we spent what time we had left in gazing up at the interesting corbeling of the nave and the two hollow, stone pyramids that form its roof.
In Château Land
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Tom and the rest rushed into bed and finished their unrobing there, and the old verger, as punctual as the clock, had put out the candle in another minute, and toddled on to the next room, shutting their door with his usual "Good-night, gen'lm'n.
Tom Brown's Schooldays
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The verger looked at the vicar, then nodded and smiled.
The Gates
