What is "whitefield"

Usage examples of "whitefield".

It was that little moon which gleamed a pale blue upon our visiplates that made Whitefield sweat and that had spoiled four nights’ sleep for me already.

Out of the corner of my eye, I could see Whitefield trying to move the case nearest the wall.

He was so excited that he never thought to ask us what we were doing in the storeroom in the first place, and for that Whitefield and I were duly grateful.

According to Jonathan Edwards, the great North­ampton preacher who was second only to Whitefield in contemporary fame, many blacks were “truly born again” in “this late remarkable sea­son,” and indeed the conversion of black slaves to Christianity in large numbers dates from this time.

Nathan Cole, a Connecticut farmer, remembered that as he set out one morning in October 1740 to hear Whitefield preach at the old meetinghouse in Middletown, he saw in the distance a great mist rising like a gathering cloud.

The pictures of George Whitefield and the Duke of Wellington hung there, one on each side of the mirror, and frowned so sternly at me all the time I was in, especially if I dared peep in the mirror, which was the only one in the house that didn't twist my face a little.

George Whitefield and the Duke have been relegated to the upstairs hall.