This verger was the son and the grandson of vergers. From Wordnik.com. [The Fire Within] Reference
A verger was a sort of caretaker, she knew that much. From Wordnik.com. [Moontide]
What I want to know is who was the so called verger who gave you the shove. From Wordnik.com. [The Diocese of Niagara is employing bouncers « Anglican Samizdat] Reference
"` I will send for a glass of water, sir, 'said the clergyman leaving the vestry to call the verger, or clerk, ` the lady is fainting.'. From Wordnik.com. [Valerie] Reference
The verger was the next person examined. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Dunbar A Novel] Reference
Carruthers said, and stomped off toward the verger. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
He pointed to the verger, who was heading toward us. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
For the verger to find tomorrow and burst into tears. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
The verger shows his bald head in the pulpit of truth. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He looked over at the verger, who was coming toward us. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
Near Andrey Andreyitch stood the verger Matvey, the midwife. From Wordnik.com. [The Schoolmistress and other stories] Reference
The place of verger to the cathedral becoming vacant, Swift called. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell] Reference
“She would,” the verger said, shaking his bald head reverently. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
“But weare from the AFS,” I heard Carruthers say to the verger. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
“The verger wanted to know what the Queen looked like,” he said. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
“I never heard of any Post Thirty-six,” the verger said suspiciously. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
I appealed to the verger gravely to know if it was considered a good likeness. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
It was the verger, who came to inform me that it was time to close the library. From Wordnik.com. [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference
Catlin, so many years the principal verger of the abbey, in which Catlin inquires. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 56, November 23, 1850] Reference
I nodded solemnly at the verger, winked at Carruthers, and went back to my digging. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
“I thought there were barricades up,” the verger said, still clutching his shovel. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
There were five of us — Carruthers and the new recruit and myself, and Mr. Spivens and the verger. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
“Here it comes,” the verger said, and Carruthers and the new recruit hauled it up out of the rubble. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
That very night, after prayers, East followed the Doctor, and the old verger bearing the candle, upstairs. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Brown's Schooldays]
It was physically impossible for the verger to be suffering from time-lag, unless it was somehow contagious. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
The metal was black with soot, and it was badly crushed and twisted, but I knew what it was, and so did the verger. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
“It takes some of them that way,” the verger said, looking over toward where Mr. Spivens and the new recruit were. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
“Last path on the left, near that pink marble monument to the late mayor,” the verger in charge of the cemetery had said. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret Stonewalled]
The verger Matvey set before him a little table with the memorial food upon it, and a little later the requiem service began. From Wordnik.com. [The Schoolmistress and other stories] Reference
Two-pence each was accordingly paid, and then the surly janitor, or verger, as he is called, admitted us within the building. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
He nodded and went back over to the verger, and I stood there looking at the wrought-iron stand and wondering what to do next. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
“My wife tried to get me to hire her brother to work on the fire watch,” the verger said, shaking his head sympathetically. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
I looked over at Carruthers, but he was deep in royal conversation with the verger and, presumably, getting some information out of him. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
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