churchwoman

Example Sentences

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A good Churchwoman, sir, a good Churchwoman, in the best sense of the word.”

From Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

Yet as a Churchwoman, Mrs. Wilding, you ought to speak with respect of English sauces.

From The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes by Waters, W. G., Mrs.

Clearly, Susanna Wesley is not to be considered as having merely accepted the ecclesiastical situation, turning "Churchwoman" by marriage.

From Excellent Women by Various

Lady Mary was annoyed, or, more properly speaking, she was "moved in the spirit," which in a Churchwoman seems to be the same thing as annoyance in the unregenerate or unorthodox mind.

From The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers by Cholmondeley, Mary

Perhaps she would have grown up a Churchwoman... and "ladylike."

From Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 by Richardson, Dorothy Miller