ministrant

Example Sentences

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

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Nobilibusque trahunt, a cincto corde, venenum, Succis et gemmis, et quæ generosa, ministrant Ars, et natura, instillant.

From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by Donne, John

The Wind, Silence, and Love: yes, I think of them as good comrades, nobly ministrant, priests of the hidden way.

From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Macleod, Fiona

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)

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