ministrant

Example Sentences

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“Here is to your health, ministrant spirit!” he said.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

I am no ministrant, nor have I held The dreadful mystic key, nor have I touched Boldly or timidly the sacred gate That leads to Life's deep-hidden mysteries.

From Life Immovable First Part by Phoutrides, Aristides E. (Aristides Evangelus)

Well, this prevailed, and the lot fell on me, Unlucky man! to be the ministrant Of this fair service.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

Brodrick's suffering was Gertrude's opportunity, the open, consecrated door where she entered soft-footed, angelic, with a barely perceptible motion of her ministrant wings.

From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May

That power ministrant, —— —— and with quick despatch Unfolds the Stygian doors, that jarring hoarse Slow on their adamantine hinges turn'd, And open'd to their ken the dread abyss, Unfathomably deep, mother of woes.

From Gustavus Vasa and other poems by Walker, William Sidney