ministrant

Example Sentences

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

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

How will the Gods and saints partake The offerings that the prince would make, And he a vile and outcast thing, His ministrant one born a king?

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

Later, the druid bids Gwennole build a Christian sanctuary on the spot where "the belated ministrant of a fallen faith" died beside Gradlon Maur, the Great King.

From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Macleod, Fiona

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)

Epaphroditus was no mere agent; he was a "ministrant," commissioned from a high quarter—the Philippians' love.

From Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians by Moule, H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn)