ministrant

Example Sentences

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

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

In the centre of the window, gazing out in a distrait manner over piles of apples and grape-fruit, a white-robed ministrant at a stove juggled ceaselessly with buckwheat cakes.

From Jill the Reckless by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Revived at last, he inclined towards his ministrant, and, in a voice disastrous with a cough, said:—"I am old and miserable, a poor beggar, not worth a shoestring—how can I repay you?"

From The Confidence-Man by Melville, Herman

The first regular ministrant to the German congregation at Philadelphia was the Swede, John Eneberg, and it is probable that it was organized by him.

From The Organization of the Congregation in the Early Lutheran Churches in America by Schmucker, Beale M.

Now shall I live a ministrant of gods and slave to Cybebe?

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir