What is "preparers"

Usage examples of "preparers".

Avelyn and Thagraine had been formally named as the Preparers, the two monks who would leave the chartered ship and go onto the island of Pimaninicuit to collect and prepare the stones, while Quintall and Pellimar would remain aboard, going onto the island only should one of the chosen pair falter.

For the four chosen Preparers candidates, Avelyn and Quintall, Thagraine and Pellimar - two students from the class of God's Year 815 - life was even more difficult.

Toward his fellow Preparers, young men he would compete against for the coveted two positions of those who would actually step onto the island of Pimaninicuit, Avelyn felt no rivalry.

As the year progressed, as Avelyn further separated himself from the other three candidate Preparers, he came to dread his daytime matches against any of them, particularly Quintall.

While Thagraine and Avelyn, as Preparers, were paramount to the mission, Quintall and Pellimar had been given higher positions on the voyage to and from Pimaninicuit.

For the four chosen Preparers candidates, Avelyn and Quintall, Thagraine and Pellimar -- two students from the class of God's Year 815 -- life was even more difficult.

For the four chosen Preparers candidates, Avelyn and Quintall, Thagraine and Pellimar—two students from the class of God’s Year 815 -- life was even more difficult.

Yet back in Francis Gouliard's time, the Preparers were en­couraged, according to the text, to detail their accounts of the journey!

They became guards, food preparers, slaughterers, work gang supervisors, agriculturists, a wealth of occupations about which he knew little.

We are blessed that this occurred during our lifetime, but more blessed was Brother Avelyn, for he was one of the four monks chosen to voyage to the island, one of the two Preparers allowed to go onto Pimaninicuit and witness the stone shower.

Next time he would order the preparers to cut out the seeds before serving them.