Long-stemmed clay pipe

Usage examples of churchwarden.

Crown and Anchor, went through a noisy bar where Hokas sat puffing churchwardens and lying about their exploits with many deep-sea oaths, and proceeded up a narrow stair.

Then he lit one of the churchwardens which the landlady had supplied, stretched his legs to the blaze, and heaved a prodigious sigh.

The sexton was a meek, acquiescing little man, of a bowing, lowly habit, yet he had a pleasant twinkling in his eye, and if encouraged, would now and then hazard a small pleasantry, such as a man of his low estate might venture to make in the company of high churchwardens and other mighty men of the earth.

The president puffed at a churchwarden and exchanged genial banter with those who came up to deposit offerings.

Greg walked in to the familiar battered oak chest, the bat stand, churchwarden mirror, ancient tiles with fresh muddy footprints.

Simon Templar watched him walk slowly past, discussing some point in the case he had just won with the air of a parson conferring with a churchwarden after matins, and the reeking hypocrisy of the performance filled him with an almost irresistible desire to catch Mr.

Smith was a worthy man and a faithful churchwarden, and I hope posterity will be able to spell out his name on his monumental window.

Michael's church, which I request the clergyman and churchwardens to permit.

The great importance attached to this memento of ancient revelry by modern churchwardens, at first puzzled me.

The churchwarden believed Sir Blayne Gorton was not in Erith and vanished.

And in villages they are commonly made churchwardens, sidesmen, aleconners, now and then constables, and many times enjoy the name of head boroughs.

Speaking with restraint and with the accent of a highly educated gentleman, and puffing at intervals at his long churchwarden pipe, he proceeded to tell me some of the most horrible stories I have ever heard in my life: how one of the Eyres in the former ages had hanged his own father.

There was Walt Roediger with his churchwarden pipe and academic demeanor.

Hands folded upon his spacious chest, the small craftsman let a long churchwarden pipe rest in his palms.

When he accepted, she rang for a servant, who appeared with churchwarden pipe in hand and bare feet on which the hair had been combed upward.