sexton
கோயில் பணியாள்
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Although many of Doyle's paintings depict the comical and amusing characters of his environment, it should be noted that Doyle was an intensely religious person who attended church regularly and served as the sexton of his church.
a person who looks after a church and churchyard, sometimes acting as bell-ringer and formerly as a gravedigger.
translation of 'sexton'
கோயில் பணியாள்
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Those were the days of six o'clock closing when the screech of the huge iron cemetery gates could be heard regularly at 6.15 p.m. as they were slammed shut by the 'sexton' on his way home from the pub.
The 'sexton' had the task of digging the grave in the churchyard.
The silence was often broken by the 'sexton' coming to check the heating, or just popping in for a gossip, always accompanied by Lassie - the result of a moment's acrobatic limbo-passion between a local sheepdog and a Jack Russell.
Although many of Doyle's paintings depict the comical and amusing characters of his environment, it should be noted that Doyle was an intensely religious person who attended church regularly and served as the 'sexton' of his church.
There, Algot, the hunchback 'sexton' , tells Tomas before the service something that has been troubling him about the Gospels: Christ's physical agony could not have been as bad as his own.
Paul Revere tells Johnny to tell Robert Newman, the 'sexton' at Christ's Church, to hang two lanterns.
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.
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.
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.
After his enforced retirement from the army, Gillray's father became a 'sexton' for the Moravians, a fundamentalist Christian sect of Bohemian origin.
Marriage, however, could be tough: a parson visiting Ellerburn encountered the clerk and the 'sexton' watching a husband and wife fight.
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.
Their family was a respected one, the most notable member being their maternal grandfather, Morten Klemetsen, who was a third generation teacher and served also as the 'sexton' in the local church until 1905.
I went round to the vestry and was delighted to see the 'sexton' .
Whereas the 'sexton' 's son, Heidegger, had decided that the life of philosophy was incompatible with the dogmatic system of the Church, Stein was led by phenomenological study to God.
There are also humble 'sextons' like Heidegger's father; heroes come in all shapes and sizes.
A presentation was made to John Correll, Aghade, to honour the long service of the Correll Family as 'sextons' of All Saints Church, Aghade.
In short, what with undertakers, embalmers, joiners, 'sextons' and your damned elegy hawkers, I got not one wink of sleep.
The Scottish Tories have been very diligent 'sextons' in the graveyard of their political hopes.
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