"Rector" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... particularly glad to go there because, from certain jokes of Withers's, who had known the Sherwoods since boyhood, he gathered that Chev and the rector's daughter were engaged. And just as he would have liked Chev to meet Sally Berkeley, so he wanted to meet Miss ...
— O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 • Various
... The rector of the parish my friend lived in was a man who added to the income he derived from his living a very handsome private fortune, which he devoted entirely to the benefit of the poor around him. Among the objects of his bounty ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete • Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
... Chancellor of the king's (Edward II.) exchequer; Prebendary of York; Rector of Cottingham, in Yorkshire. Bishop Hotham was a munificent promoter of the great architectural works carried on under the rule of Prior Crauden, and from the designs of Alan de Walsingham, then Sacrist. In his time the ...
— Ely Cathedral • Anonymous
... man trotted to confessional, and related his case with all humility to the rector of the parish, who was a good old priest, capable of being up above, the slipper of ...
— Droll Stories, Complete - Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine • Honore de Balzac
... beauty in it. The mouth was wide, the complexion dull, the features irregular. Even her eyes— and perhaps they were Prissie's best point— were neither large nor dark; but an expression now filled those eyes and lingered round that mouth which made the old rector feel solemn. ...
— A Sweet Girl Graduate • Mrs. L.T. Meade
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