"conventicle" in the hope of securing her fortune for themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,] Reference

“And so I suppose you went to a conventicle?” said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Mortality] Reference

The moral starch of the conventicle stiffened up instantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference

I crossed over no conventicle, nor did I meet with ill tidings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nothing At All] Reference

Churchman he smacks a little of the conventicle, and is given to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference

Here again was acted the solemn farce of the conventicle of Brixen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century] Reference

It was this day a brothel, and the next a conventicle for enthusiasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference

Passing the gate of Wadham he meets the upbreaking of a little conventicle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference

In particular they remembered a conventicle of Protestants in the house of one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference

I am sure that in his modest conventicle I can think of a thousand eloquent things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 25th, 1920] Reference

In this letter, the decree of the conventicle is lost in the insolence of the king.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century] Reference

Would you have conventicle hymns twanging from every lane in every city in the world?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Pendennis] Reference

Another bay was added to the Burgess conventicle, and the cathedral services were resumed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch] Reference

If any man is trying to decide whether he should go to their conventicle or to the theater, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference

They said she enlivened the sombre court of King Leopold, which is usually as gloomy as a conventicle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Charlotte Bronte] Reference

Of the sermon I cannot speak so favourably, for in truth it savoured somewhat of the conventicle style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819] Reference

Once more, and for the last time, the king's officer asked her to make the promise never to attend a conventicle again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

A clerk of Parma, named Roland, was charged with the delivery of this letter, and the decrees of the conventicle of Worms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century] Reference

Chapel to be turned into a conventicle or not, a compromise appears to have been effected by shutting up the Chapel altogether. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference

He was described as a greasy bilious man, with a peculiarly conventicle aspect -- that is, one that affects a union of gravity and love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference

Holland was not even certain what a conventicle was, but he thought it had to do either with the promises or the premises of Dissenters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mistaken Wife] Reference

Parliament again enforced the Test Act, and renewed the conventicle Act, making it a capital offence even to be present at a conventicle.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)] Reference

Quakers, on account of that crown of humility by these worthies worn: neither of them were ever known, however, to set foot in a conventicle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference

I have, however, quoted enough to show that it was not merely a sectarian conventicle, but a forum for intellectual debate in its fullest sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King] Reference

Ye never gaed to a prayer - meetin 'or Whig conventicle in yer life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lilac Sunbonnet] Reference

During the covenanting troubles, when a night conventicle was held upon the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edinburgh Picturesque Notes] Reference

He continued, however, to sit in the rebellious conventicle; but "spoke," says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley] Reference

It was in a state of utter confusion -- part monastery, part foundry, part conventicle.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

It was enacted that anyone of the age of sixteen or upwards present at an unlawful assembly or conventicle was to incur fine or imprisonment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference

The "Mud Beggars" of the Hague, tired of tramping to Ryswyk of a Sunday to listen to Henry Rosaeus, determined on a private conventicle in the capital.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

I have no patience with half-hearted carlines, that complies on the Lord's day morning with the kirk, and comes taigling the same night to the conventicle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lay Morals] Reference