Use reverend in a sentence
Sentences starting with reverend
- Reverend Sir,--I shall not come to your study this day. [6]
Sentences ending with reverend
- Had not Miss Wetherell heard the song wherein seniors were designated as grave and reverend? [9]
Sentences containing reverend two or more times
- The Reverend Mather,--I use a mode of expression he often employed when speaking of his honored brethren,--the Reverend Mather was right this time, and the irreverent doctors who laughed at him were wrong. [3]
- It was not unwillingly that the Reverend Chauncy Fairweather had relinquished the duty of conducting the service to the Reverend Doctor Honeywood, in accordance with Elsie's request. [6]
- The manuscript of the "Observations" was received by Professor Smyth, as he tells us in his introduction, about fifteen years ago, from the late Reverend William T. Dwight, D. D., to whom it was bequeathed by his brother, the Reverend Dr. Sereno E. Dwight. [6]
- It is usually so in cathedrals; the Right Reverend So-and-So is assisted by the very Reverend Such-and-Such, and the good deal Reverend Thus-and-Thus, and so on. [4]
- Here preached the Reverend Pierrepont Honeywood, D. D., successor, after a number of generations, to the office and the parsonage of the Reverend Didymus Bean, before mentioned, but not suspected of any of his alleged heresies. [6]
- His son, the Reverend Joseph Emerson, minister of the town of Mendon, Massachusetts, married Elizabeth, daughter of the Reverend Edward Bulkeley, who succeeded his father, the Reverend Peter Bulkeley, as Minister of Concord, Massachusetts. [6]
- The Reverend Pierrepont Honeywood, D. D., entered the study of the Reverend Chauncy Fairweather. [6]
More example sentences with the word reverend in them
- Their Reverend Samuel Willard wrote us a not over-wise report of a case of hysteria; and our Jean Astruc gave them (if we may trust Dr. Smith's Dictionary of the Bible) the first discerning criticism on the authorship of the Pentateuch. [3]
- A reverend friend, who thought I had certain projects in my head, wrote to me about lecturing: where I should appear, what fees I should obtain, and such business matters. [6]
- I was present when my honorable and reverend patron, the Lord Bishop of London, Doctor King, entertained her with festival state and pomp beyond what I had seen in his great hospitality offered to other ladies. [4]
- In the afternoon we went by invitation to a "tea and talk" at the Reverend Mr. Haweis's, at Chelsea. [6]
- The Reverend Doctor was very far from taking offence at the old physician's freedom of speech. [6]
- And thus it was till his chief confessor, Master Leonard Derrer, the reverend Prior of the Dominicans, came in with the sacristan, to administer to him extreme unction. [10]
- I reckon he was the best-hated man among us, except the Reverend Burgess. [5]
- The old Doctor was sitting alone in his study when the Reverend Mr. Fairweather was ushered in. [6]
- But the Widow was not exactly mansion-house-bred, and so thought it necessary to give the Reverend Doctor a peculiar look which he understood at once as inviting his professional services. [6]
- The College Pharmacopoeia was loaded with the most absurd compound mixtures, one of the most complex of which (the same which the Reverend Mr. Harward, "Lecturer at the Royal Chappel in Boston," tried to simplify), was not dropped until the year 1801. [3]
- The Reverend Doctor was human, as the Apostle was not ashamed to confess himself. [6]
- His mettle was up, he was not the Reverend William Rufus Holly, missionary, but Billy Rufus, the champion cricketer, the sportsman playing a long game. [11]
- First she heaved up a glaring white shoulder, the right one, so that the Reverend Doctor should be stunned by it, if such a thing might be. [6]
- His face looked tough and weather-worn; while the Reverend Doctor's, hearty as it appeared, was of finer texture. [6]
- The old minister took it for granted that the Reverend Mr. Fairweather knew the private history of his parishioner's family. [6]
- But with regard to the deeds committed by your followers, tell me yourself--and I appeal to you reverend Father--what inspired them: Love or Hate. [10]
- Then I began to make preparations, and meanwhile fell to thinking again about him who was now the Reverend Galt Roscoe. [11]
- Then, forcing himself to be calm, he exclaimed in broken sentences, whilst Biberli was helping him put on his armour: "Your wish, reverend Father, is also mine. [10]
- He had many times listened to the Reverend Mr. Weightman read the parable from the pulpit, but he had never reflected how it would be to be the father of a real prodigal. [9]
- At times he thought he recognized these in his conversation with the Reverend John Hodder at Bremerton,--especially in that last interview in the pleasant little study of the rectory overlooking Bremerton Lake. [9]
- Such escapades as those of that terrible old sinner and ancestor of great men, the Reverend Stephen Bachelder, interest him as they never did before. [6]
- He had met this young lady, and been much pleased with her, in the country, at the house of her grandfather, the Reverend Doctor Honeywood,--you remember Miss Letitia Forrester, whom I have mentioned repeatedly? [6]
- The minister was there, the Reverend Mr. Doddridge, who would have made, in appearance at least, a perfect Puritan divine in a steeple hat and a tippet. [9]
- His widow became the wife of the Reverend Ezra Ripley, Doctor of Divinity, and his successor as Minister at Concord. [6]
- A knock at the Reverend Mr. Fairweather's study door called his eyes from the book on which they were intent. [6]
- But now, when the reverend Father came toward the dying man with the Body of the Lord, there was so dreadful and sorrowful a sight to be seen as I may never forget to my latter day. [10]
- On Saturday evening the Reverend Chauncy Fairweather received a note which was left at his door by an unknown person who departed without saying a word. [6]
- You should see the poor man, reverend Father. [10]
- It was to the Master of Trinity, the Reverend William Hepworth Thompson. [6]
- His wife was the daughter of the Reverend Daniel Bliss, his predecessor in the pulpit at Concord. [6]
- It was enough that the Reverend Doctor knew all Elsie's history. [6]
- Yet I remember that the reverend and venerable Dr. [3]
- It was not that of the Reverend Lorenzo Dow. [11]
- At the time that Elie Mattingley, in Jersey, was awaiting hanging on the Mont es Pendus, and writing his letter to Carterette concerning the stolen book of church records, in a town of Brittany the Reverend Lorenzo Dow lay dying. [11]
- He commandeered my sulky and that rawbone I bought from the Reverend Tripple, and away he went like greased lightning over the bridge. [11]
- The Reverend Dr. Sprague's valuable and well-known work, "Annals of the American Pulpit," contains three letters from which we learn some of his leading characteristics. [6]
- On the port side sat the Reverend in the seat of honor; the pale young man next to him; I next; next to me an aged Bermudian, returning to his sunny islands after an absence of twenty-seven years. [5]
- The good people seemed to have forgotten they ever had had any other minister, except Deacon Shearer and his set of malcontents, who were doing a dull business in the meeting-house lately occupied by the Reverend Mr. Fairweather. [6]
- Not always in secret the Reverend Lorenzo Dow loved the good things of this world. [11]
- Even the Reverend said he saw it, a thing which was manifestly not so. [5]
- He found the Reverend Chauncy Fairweather just taking leave of the Doctor. [6]
- One forenoon the Reverend ascended the stairs and knocked at Alonzo's door. [5]
- If such a public character was not to be had, so that there was no chance of heading the Report with the name of the Honorable Mr. Somebody, the next best thing was to get the Reverend Dr. Somebody to take that conspicuous position. [6]
- Such was the present state of mind of the Reverend Chauncy Fairweather, when his clerical brother called upon him to talk over the questions to which old Sophy had called his attention. [6]
- We are not prepared to believe so, the reverend Doctor and his friend to the contrary notwithstanding. [5]
- The reader must pardon this digression, which introduces the visit of the Reverend Chauncy Fairweather to Elsie Veneer. [6]
- A slip of paper was handed to the Reverend Doctor on which these words were written:--"The name is Charles Hazard. [6]
- It was girt on to him by reverend Bishops, after that he had received from the hand of the Pope's legate a banner which his Holiness had himself blessed, and which was borne before him by the Count of Hohenlohe as he went forth. [10]
- At the right of the Hostess, Dudley Veneer, next him Helen Darley, next her Dr. Kittredge, next him Mrs. Blanche Creamer, then the Reverend Doctor. [6]
- At the left of the Hostess, Bernard Langdon, next him Letty Forrester, next Letty Mr. Richard Veneer, next him Elsie, and so to the Reverend Doctor again. [6]
- A thousand remembrances of the good old man returned to him, and I heard him telling Mr. Carroll and some other gentlemen, with much emotion, how he had loved his reverend preceptor, from whom he had learned nothing but what was good. [9]
- Edward Emerson, son of the first and father of the second Reverend Joseph Emerson, though not a minister, was the next thing to being one, for on his gravestone he is thus recorded: "Mr. Edward Emerson, sometime Deacon of the first church in Newbury. [6]
- The important events of the day or the week, the weather, the wind, the tides, were recorded, together with sundry meditations of the Reverend Lorenzo Dow. [11]
- The mansion-house gentry of Rockland were pretty fairly divided between the little chapel, with the stained window and the trained rector, and the meeting-house where the Reverend Mr. Fairweather officiated. [6]
- On the 11th of March, 1829, Emerson was ordained as colleague with the Reverend Henry Ware, Minister of the Second Church in Boston. [6]
- I said, "Most noble, grave, and reverend Signor, on or about the 10th day of October, 1861, John Wilson Macken--" "That is sufficient, sir. [5]
- These walks which Myrtle had taken with her reverend counsellor had given her a new taste for the open air, which was what she needed just now more than confessions of faith or spiritual paroxysms. [6]
- I have known Mr. Secretary Hay--John Hay, as the nation and the rest of his friends love to call him--I have known John Hay and Tom Reed and the Reverend Twichell close upon thirty-six years. [5]
- When the Reverend Mr. Cauvin and his associates burned my distinguished scientific brother,--he was burned with green fagots, which made it rather slow and painful,--it appears to me they were in a state of religious barbarism. [6]
- The Reverend Dr. Morison, formerly the much respected Unitarian minister of New Bedford, writes to me as follows:-- "After Dr. Dewey left New Bedford, Mr. Emerson preached there several months, greatly to the satisfaction and delight of those who heard him. [6]
- Ranulph joined his men at the wreck, and the Reverend Lorenzo Dow went about the Lord's business in the little lean-to of sail-cloth and ship's lumber which had been set up near to the toil of the carpenters. [11]
- The one nearest me was private John B. Noyes of Company B, Massachusetts Thirteenth, son of my old college class-tutor, now the reverend and learned Professor of Hebrew, etc., in Harvard University. [6]
- The Reverend Dr. Lowell says: "He always found the right piece, and that was better than almost any of his brethren could have found in what they had written with twice the labor. [6]
- The Reverend Jedediah Langdon, grandfather of our young gentleman, had made an advantageous alliance of this kind. [6]
- The Reverend said it had transpired during the interview that "Cholley" Adams's father was an extensive dealer in horses in western New York; this accounted for Cholley's choice of a profession. [5]
- The Reverend Twichell is one of those people filled with patience and endurance, two good ingredients for a man travelling with me, so we got along very well together. [5]
- Sebek, the steward, informed Orion that he had asked for him, and that his mother wished that he should immediately join them and pay his respects to the very reverend Father. [10]
- Night before last, in a speech, the Bishop of the Diocese of New York complimented me for my contribution to theology, and to-night the Reverend Doctor Mackay has elected me to the ministry. [5]
- And that night I had reason to thank the Reverend Mr. Allen, for the first and last time in my life, that I could stand a deal of liquor, and yet not roll bottom upward. [9]
- At my uncle's house that night, with the exception of certain learned and reverend gentlemen, Ann alone was not of gentle birth. [10]
- We found the house close packed, but managed to get through the rooms, shaking innumerable hands of the reverend gentleman's parishioners and other visitors. [6]
- The Reverend Doctor Honeywood rose and left the priest and his disciple together. [6]
- The Reverend Doctor Honeywood performed the ceremony, of course. [6]
- The Reverend Doctor Honeywood had been very busy with his benevolent associations, and had discoursed chiefly on practical matters, to the neglect of special doctrinal subjects. [6]
- When I came home from school I found Scipio beside my grandfather's empty seat in the dining-room, and I learned that Mr. Carvel was in the garden with my Uncle Grafton and the Reverend Bennett Allen, rector of St. Anne's. [9]
- The hermit, grinding his teeth in impotent rage, moved swiftly out of the bedchamber, closing the door behind him; and straightway the King heard a talk, to this effect, proceeding from the 'chapel':-- "Homage and greeting, reverend sir! [5]
- Old Sophy was his parishioner, but the Veneers had a pew in the Reverend Mr. Fairweather's meeting-house. [6]
- Then he raised his head, so as to command the Reverend Doctor's face through his spectacles, and said, "I did not say that. [6]
- I can see him in his bushy wig, exactly like that of the Reverend Dr. Samuel Cooper (who died in December, 1783) as Copley painted him,--he hangs there on my wall, over the revolving bookcase. [6]
- The Reverend said he would go, too; a good man, one of the best of men, although a clergyman. [5]
- You are--" The half-breed interrupted: "Yes, I know, a Pagan fattening--" here he smiled, and looked at his thin hands--"fattening for the shambles of the damned, as you have said from the pulpit, Reverend Ezra Badgley. [11]
- The Reverend Doctor had no such scruples. [6]
- The Reverend Doctor had lived a good deal among books in his study; the Doctor, as we will call the medical gentleman, had been riding about the country for between thirty and forty years. [6]
- The life he had led for a brief space was not only beautiful in outward circumstance, as old Sophy had described it to the Reverend Doctor. [6]
- Her dead husband had been a schoolmate of her suitor's, and of his brother the very reverend lord Bishop, and he had thought highly of Master Ulman. [10]
- If the year had been 1692 and the place had been Salem Village, Maurice Kirkwood would have run the risk of being treated like the Reverend George Burroughs. [6]
- The yacht Dorset had aboard her the Reverend Lorenzo Dow, an old friend of her commander. [11]
- Your learning is great, Reverend Abbot, but I know the old writers, too. [10]
- I am not going to see you any more alone, reverend sir. [6]
- But Ann knew full well how truly I honored the reverend and illustrious uncle, and for sure if he had brought her good tidings she would forthwith have sent me word, or have come to me herself. [10]
- The Reverend came frequently and lamented the delay, and told of measures he had taken to hurry things up. [5]
- He had been forlorn in his great house of late, but no such cause as that was needed to move him to cast his eye on the fair widow of his very reverend brother's best friend. [10]
- It was built for the Reverend William Emerson, his grandfather. [6]
- He charged nothing for his map, and but a trifle for his services: so the Reverend doubled it. [5]
- The singer was flatting, as usual, the five notes that follow the first two in the chorus, when the Reverend interrupted her with this word, in a voice which was an exact imitation of Alonzo's, with just the faintest flavor of impatience added: "Sweetheart? [5]
- For the last few months, while all these various matters were going on in Rockland, the Reverend Chauncy Fairweather had been busy with the records of ancient councils and the writings of the early fathers. [6]
- Persons, however, have fallen into trances,--as did the Reverend William Tennent, among many others,--and learned some things which they could not tell in our human words. [6]
- The Reverend Chauncy Fairweather's congregation was not large, but select. [6]
- The Reverend Chauncy Fairweather, hearing that his parishioner's daughter, Elsie, was very ill, could do nothing less than come to the mansion-house and tender such consolations as he was master of. [6]
- The Reverend Chauncy Fairweather was too much taken up with his own bodily and spiritual condition to be deeply mindful of others. [6]
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