Church bell ringer

Usage examples of sexton.

As, however, the sexton with growing frequency overslept himself, the Archdeacon preferred to keep the key of the church himself, and it was with this in his hand that he came to the west door about half-past six the next morning.

I was still enjoying myself with my fine company, when the sexton of the church came in to tell me that they were waiting for me in the vestry.

William Guy, Patterson, Trinkle, Covin, Forbes, and Sexton ventured to come out of the labyrinth, where they were on the verge of death by starvation.

Sexton howl with delight, he went to his desk and penned a grateful acceptance to Miss Gordon, saying that although he was going away for a few days on a decanal tour, not even the Archbishop of Canterbury would keep him from her party.

Dominic, George Ashworth, Maddock, probably the vicar and the sexton too.

Sexton washes the salt from the first-floor windows while Honora scrubs the kitchen cupboards.

As she washes him, she thinks about how fate contrived to have Sexton Beecher open a map and select a route and drive to Taft, New Hampshire, and walk into a bank and find Honora Willard on the other side of the grille.

Wailee Ming, Rachel Sexton, Norah Mangor, Michael Tolland, and Corky Marlinson.

I step through the single gated opening in the high wall and wave to the sexton, a guileless old man named Samuel, whose principal job seems to be to sit on an overpainted metal bench near the neat little stone cottage just inside the cemetery gates, smiling vacuously at every person who enters the grounds.

With Sexton trailing badly in the primary polls and his message of government overspending falling on deaf ears, Gabrielle Ashe wrote him a note suggesting a radical new campaign angle.

In many instances, the sum originally devised for the sustentation of a grave or monument is not sufficient, in the present day, to remunerate residents in London for looking after it, and the money has been transferred to the parish in which the testator lies, and has become the perquisite of the sexton.

These were William Guy, Patterson, Roberts, Coyin, Trinkle, also Forbes and Sexton, since dead.

Sexton Blake continue to run true to form against this new unmonastic background?

The friends of the dead will all be gone by two, and when the sexton locks the gate we shall remain.

Be that as it may, she ended up seducing the poor sexton, who fell so deeply, so hopelessly in love with Amalia that he ended up in the hut of a nagual man.