"That's proof of it right there," said the tithingman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heartfire]

She was very much afraid of the tithingman, who sat on a high seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child's World Third Reader] Reference

When the sand had all run through, the tithingman turned the glass over and the sand began to tell another hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child's World Third Reader] Reference

Besides keeping the boys from playing and the grown people from going to sleep, the tithingman must turn the hourglass.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child's World Third Reader] Reference

When a couple quarreled, it was a tithingman who went to them to help them iron it out, or to separate them for a time if that was needed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heartfire]

And a man didn't last long as a tithingman in a New England town if he fancied himself to be possessed of some sort of personal authority.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heartfire]

Page was chosen an assessor, in 1710 a tithingman.    From Wordnik.com.  ["More Wonders of the Invisible World," by Robert Calef, 1700 ; from Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706] Reference

Some of these duties they shared with the tithingman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sabbath in Puritan New England] Reference

A crafty man was the tithingman in the pursuit of his duties.    From Wordnik.com.  [True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin] Reference

The tithingman stands still; he has nothing to do for a time.    From Wordnik.com.  [True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin] Reference

But the tithingman had seen Lady Wiggleworth's nodding plumes.    From Wordnik.com.  [True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin] Reference

We said that the tithingman was sometimes a terror to old women.    From Wordnik.com.  [True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin] Reference

Gently, very gently, the tithingman took from his side pocket a feather.    From Wordnik.com.  [True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin] Reference

Little Ben must have looked from the family pew in awe at the tithingman.    From Wordnik.com.  [True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin] Reference

One vicious tithingman invented, and was allowed to exercise on the boys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sabbath in Puritan New England] Reference

Thus it may be seen that the ancient tithingman was pre-eminently a general.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sabbath in Puritan New England] Reference

Another catastrophe from too fierce zeal on the part of the tithingman is recorded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sabbath in Puritan New England] Reference

Various were the subterfuges to outwit the tithingman and elude his vigilance on the Sabbath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sabbath in Puritan New England] Reference

The sermon was still beating the sounding-board, and a more vigorous duty devolved upon the tithingman.    From Wordnik.com.  [True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin] Reference

Though he was a man of dignity, for he sat in his own pew, he could not escape the rod of the pragmatical tithingman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sabbath in Puritan New England] Reference

These last two classes of offenders were first admonished by the tithingman, then "Sett in stocks," and then cited before the Court.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sabbath in Puritan New England] Reference

The old-time ministers pictured the Lord himself as being a kind of a tithingman, sitting up in heaven and watching out for the unwary.    From Wordnik.com.  [True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin] Reference

Bachelors were under the special spying and tattling supervision of the constable, the watchman, and the tithingman, who, like Pliable in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference

A virago in New London, more openly courageous, threw scalding water on the head of the tithingman who came to collect the minister's rate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sabbath in Puritan New England] Reference

The ecclesiastical functions and authority of the tithingman lingered long after the civil powers had been removed or had gradually passed away from his office.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sabbath in Puritan New England] Reference

Persons are now living who in their early and unruly youth were rapped at and pointed at by a New England tithingman when they laughed or were noisy in meeting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sabbath in Puritan New England] Reference

She pulled her little daughter down quickly and whispered, "Do you want the tithingman to come?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child's World Third Reader] Reference

"Glad you know it," said the tithingman proudly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heartfire]

"Oh, it's no misconception," said the tithingman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heartfire]

Duxbury tithingman?), and indignantly left the pulpit, ejaculating, "I'll not preach while that man sits before me.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sabbath in Puritan New England] Reference

But there was the tithingman again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child's World Third Reader] Reference

The tithingman jumped.    From Wordnik.com.  [True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin] Reference

127 tithingman peppermint.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child's World Third Reader] Reference