What is "thirteeners"

Usage examples of "thirteeners".

She had played the piano with facility, and as the Galls had been Baptists before Mr Gall and his wife took up with the Thirteeners, Ellen had found herself organist and leader of the choir at the smallest and least important of Salterton's Baptist churches.

He disliked the untidy beliefs of the Thirteeners, as they were often called.

Thirty-odd years later, in two or three hundred cities in the USA and Canada, a few thousand Thirteeners continued his mission.

It had started badly, for the earliest guests to arrive were twelve young Thirteeners, the others in the sept of thirteen with which Monica, at puberty, had been received into the Beamis flock.

But vitality did not seem to be a characteristic of young Thirteeners, and they were quiet, almost furtive, in their approach to merry-making.

But the young Thirteeners were leavened after ten minutes by the arrival of Chuck Proby, who had a very worldly air, and then by Mrs Gall's favourites, Alex Graham and Kevin Boyle.

They were not Thirteeners, but they were pleasantly solemn about religion, and occasionally ventured philosophical reflections to the effect that there were a lot of things in the Universe that we didn't understand yet, and that it stood to reason that there was Something at the back of the wonderful world which we saw all around us.

He was a man of pro­fessional tact, and he knew that the Thirteeners belonged in that category of religion which they themselves called "the moderate-stricts".

Even the young Thirteeners loosened up, and sniggered and neighed their delight.

When the Quartet had finished, a few callow Thirteeners thought to applaud, but Gus stilled this unseemliness with a quick gesture.

The young Thirteeners, considering their general lack of vital­ity, ate astonishingly.

She would never forget her family, of course, and she would certainly never be a loose-liver, as some internationally-known divas had so reprehensibly been, but she would no longer be bound by the chains of the Thirteeners or the social habits of Salterton.

The Thirteeners, and everybody else with whom she had ever been intimately ac­quainted, thought very poorly of nakedness.

But, miraculously, at this moment when she should have stood in awe of her mother, and Pastor Beamis and the whole moral code of the Thirteeners, she felt, on the contrary, free of them, above and beyond them as though reunited with something which they sought to deny her.

She had outgrown the Thirteeners and in one or two daring moments had thought of herself as finished with religion.