'You're a sidesman and a trustee, and the Lord alone knows what all. From Wordnik.com. [VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea] Reference
As we rose from our knees one Sunday a sidesman said, ` Vicar, I wish you would pray for my boy. From Wordnik.com. [The Kneeling Christian] Reference
He was recorded on over 300 albums as a leader and a sidesman on various record labels such as Impulse!. From Wordnik.com. [BV on Sports] Reference
Whether the John of 1646 was the same as the sidesman of 1605 or not, he was certainly buried in the parish. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare's Family] Reference
West coast americans particularly love fishy reggae: check out whole LPs by erstwhile Ry Coder sidesman, David Lindley, inl Rayo X mode. number one in the UK?. From Wordnik.com. [Word Magazine - Comments] Reference
He managed to elude the solicitations of a sidesman and slip into a seat facing the aisle in the back row where he sat with his long hands clasped round his knee. From Wordnik.com. [Overture to Death]
Each, as a young man, was attached to religious organizations -- Mallows was a sidesman at one of the churches, Chidforth was a Sunday-school teacher at one of the chapels. From Wordnik.com. [The Borough Treasurer] Reference
A sidesman, with an air of portentous gravity, as one who, in opening doors, performed an office more on behalf of the Deity than the worshippers, was usually at hand to usher the party in. From Wordnik.com. [Simon Called Peter] Reference
The sidesman gave him a prayer book and a hymn book, and he chose a seat towards the back, because the order of the service was still strange to him and from there he could see when other people knelt, and when they stood. From Wordnik.com. [On The Beach]
The Vicar who preached was a stranger to him; but in the sidesman who came down the aisle afterwards with the offertory-plate he recognised one Billy Smithers, who had been a crony of his some twenty years ago; who had, in fact, helped him more than once to milk Retallack's. From Wordnik.com. [Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts] Reference
He was Deputy-Mayor, and Chairman of the General Purposes Committee of the Town Council; he was also a Guardian of the Poor, a Justice of the Peace, President of the Society for the Prosecution of Felons, a sidesman, an Oddfellow, and several other things that meant dining, shrewdness, and good-nature. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Five Towns] Reference
"superstars" with the masterly P.J. wright, longtime Steve Gibbons sidesman, on very electric rock guitar. From Wordnik.com. [Word Magazine - Comments] Reference
1628 was appointed a borough churchwarden, in 1629 a sidesman, and in. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare's Family] Reference
The sidesman halted and rubbed his chin. From Wordnik.com. [Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts] Reference
You know what He is since He's been sidesman. From Wordnik.com. [The Combined Maze] Reference
‘sidesman’. From Wordnik.com. [English Past and Present] Reference
Captain Noyes was appointed sidesman. ". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 25, 1917] Reference
Smithers, sidesman, proceeded down the aisle, wondering, but not suspecting. From Wordnik.com. [Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts] Reference
Sir Robert Schomburgk was shewn by the rector of the parish, the Rev. J.H. Gittens, an old vestry-book of St John's, in which various entries occur of the name of Ferdinando Palæologus, from 1649 till 1669, as vestryman, churchwarden, trustee, surveyor of the highway, sidesman to the churchwarden, and lieutenant, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 419 Volume 17, New Series, January 10, 1852] Reference
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