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  • I studied her in seminary.†   (source)
  • "I had this Sunday School teacher," Ellerby goes on, "and every time I asked her a tough question—like 'How come nobody ever caught Jack the Ripper?' or 'Why did my big brother get killed when he got straight A's clear through college and was going into the seminary?†   (source)
  • When she was eighteen, Baby Kochamma fell in love with a handsome young Irish monk, Father Mulligan, who was in Kerala for a year on deputation from his seminary in Madras.†   (source)
  • Whatever happened, in his early twenties he eventually ended up in a seminary in Australia.†   (source)
  • He was a Liberal and a Mason, just like his brothers, and yet he wanted his son to go to the seminary.†   (source)
  • In my mind's eye, I saw Jesus, with Colton on his lap, brushing past all the seminary degrees, knocking down theological treatises stacked high as skyscrapers, and boiling down fancy words like propitiation and soteriology to something a child could understand: "I had to die on the cross so that people on earth could come see my Dad.†   (source)
  • It was a seminary, but there was no obligation to the priesthood.†   (source)
  • Jim's mother had come from South Korea—a grandfather had served as a minister to the last Korean king—and she had studied at Union Theological Seminary with Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich and become a Confucian scholar, and ended up for many years a housewife in Muscatine.†   (source)
  • Tell a seminarian that he has to hurry and all of a sudden he starts to ignore bystanders in obvious distress.†   (source)
  • He wished he had exercised self-control and gone into the seminary.†   (source)
  • So I decided to pose the question in seminary.†   (source)
  • The U.S. wants to be respected by the Vietnamese, and yet they're propping up this nobody seminarian as her president.†   (source)
  • Back when I was at seminary, I imagined I heard my grandfather's voice: I thought God was supposed to love you unconditionally Those sure sound like a lot of conditions to me.†   (source)
  • The Samson Raphael Hirsch Seminary and College was the only yeshiva in the United States that offered a secular college education.†   (source)
  • Besides the physical inheritance, they left him the legacy of service to Christ-a mantle he'd worn ever since he entered the seminary at the age of fifteen.†   (source)
  • …in various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them, especially the university at Cambridge, public schools, and grammar schools in the towns; to encourage private societies and public institutions, rewards and immunities, for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce,…†   (source)
  • They send the seminarians there, too.†   (source)
  • The seminary.†   (source)
  • And then, with a serious expression, she asked if I was planning to go to seminary and become a lady preacher or something—to which I just laughed.†   (source)
  • It was in this office, upstairs in Lebanon Seminary, that she learned the extent of the network of stops on the Underground Railroad.†   (source)
  • Alan, Jase, and Willie are ordained ministers and attended seminary at White's Ferry Road Church.†   (source)
  • Willie was attending seminary school at White's Ferry Road Church and was living with six guys in a small house in town.†   (source)
  • The last thing I wanted to happen to me was to get serious with some seminarian.†   (source)
  • His father wanted him to be a seminarian, but the First World War broke out and when Hoss was but a stripling of sixteen he joined the army.†   (source)
  • But I didn't change my opinions to match those of a teacher who didn't know Little Round Top from Seminary Ridge.†   (source)
  • "Besides," I added, "right now, the seminary is the best place for him."†   (source)
  • Don't you remember your seminary classes?†   (source)
  • Carlo told the priest that he planned to enter seminary but that first he needed to understand evil.†   (source)
  • I couldn't have found God in the seminary, he thought, as he looked at the sunrise.†   (source)
  • His focus is one instilled by mentors at the seminary: "Either we are with the poor, or we are not.†   (source)
  • He was straight out of seminary and brimming with new ideas.†   (source)
  • None of his old seminary training was helping in the least.†   (source)
  • The bishop told Carlo that if he entered seminary he would be exempt from this duty.†   (source)
  • When he returned from the military, Carlo entered the seminary.†   (source)
  • Fewer and fewer men are entering the seminary.†   (source)
  • On Thursday, at two in the afternoon, Jose Arcadio left for the seminary.†   (source)
  • Darley and Batson decided to replicate that study at the Princeton Theological Seminary.†   (source)
  • The seminary and its lush campus boundary of green stuck out in comparison.†   (source)
  • The headquarters was in a small stone house on Seminary Ridge.†   (source)
  • Expected: church, seminary, the Book of Mormon.†   (source)
  • It was only when I was at seminary that I learned the correct translation was to bind.†   (source)
  • Willie was still attending seminary school, and I wanted him to go to Harding University with me.†   (source)
  • I have worked for the church, gone to seminary, and completed mission work.†   (source)
  • I wasn't religious, but I thought these seminary people were.†   (source)
  • Telling seminarians to hurry turned them into bad citizens.†   (source)
  • Al eventually decided to go to seminary school and started working for a local church.†   (source)
  • They were moving into line in the fields behind Seminary Ridge, out of sight of the Union guns.†   (source)
  • In seminary, we learned about the Gnostic gospels.†   (source)
  • That's what we pretty much learn in seminary.†   (source)
  • Seminary Ridge was thick with trees, but the fields on both sides were bare.†   (source)
  • His friendly voice told me to come to the seminary, four miles from where I was calling from.†   (source)
  • I wanted this night to go on forever, but we had to get back to the seminary.†   (source)
  • Armistead rode with him back into the woods along Seminary Ridge.†   (source)
  • He stopped by the Seminary and had a cup of coffee.†   (source)
  • ChefMenteur turned into Gentilly Boulevard, and after a few blocks I saw the seminary.†   (source)
  • Lee was up on the rise by the Seminary, walking back and forth under the shade trees.†   (source)
  • He rode back to the Seminary, looked down the road.†   (source)
  • Although he had been an award-winning physics student while in university, he'd heard another call and gone into the seminary.†   (source)
  • Then, during the years of Hoyt's study in seminary, Dur had been on an important Church-sponsored archaeological dig on the nearby world of Armaghast.†   (source)
  • These very polite and proper young women, some of them never having set foot outside their own small country towns, except to come to the Seminary, thought nothing of packing up for India, Africa, the Orient.†   (source)
  • But when the temple of the theological seminary was built in La Manga, with a private beach and its own cemetery, they no longer went to the Cathedral except on very solemn occasions.†   (source)
  • But I always thought their unofficial motto should have been our community covers the world, because no sooner had a young woman got through Spelman Seminary than she began to put her hand to whatever work she could do for her people, anywhere in the world.†   (source)
  • This social condition closed the doors of the seminary to Florentino Ariza, but he also escaped military service during the bloodiest period of our wars because he was the only son of an unmarried woman.†   (source)
  • There, in the sand of the plaza of that small city, the boy read the names of his father and his mother and the name of the seminary he had attended.†   (source)
  • To Lenar Hoyt as a boy, Father Dur had been a somewhat godlike figure when glimpsed during his rare visits to the preseminary schools, or on the would-be seminarian's even rarer visits to the New Vatican.†   (source)
  • I did that for years after seminary.†   (source)
  • She began to study with a teacher of teachers, whom they brought for that purpose from the city of Mompox, and who died unexpectedly two weeks later, and she continued for several years with the best musician at the seminary, whose gravedigger's breath distorted her arpeggios.†   (source)
  • When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life.†   (source)
  • In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow sacred Scripture, properly interpreted, of course.†   (source)
  • Very early in the morning she had ordered the car to take her to the nearby seminary burial ground, which in those days was called La Manga Cemetery, and as she stood in front of his crypt, she made peace with her dead husband in a monologue in which she freely recounted all the just recriminations she had choked back.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza continued to patrol La Manga, continued to hear Mass without devotion in the basilica of the seminary, continued to attend civic ceremonies that never would have interested him in another state of mind, but the passage of time only increased the credibility of the story he had heard.†   (source)
  • …as well that at this time it became fashionable to drive out in the afternoon in hired old Victorias that had been converted to one-horse carriages, and that the excursion ended on a hill where one could appreciate the heartbreaking twilights of October better than from the lighthouse, and observe the watchful sharks lurking at the seminarians' beach, and see the Thursday ocean liner, huge and white, that could almost be touched with one's hands as it passed through the harbor channel.†   (source)
  • And then when Tony's parents died in a car accident about ten years later, Tony, barely out of seminary, but true to his original promise, took in his brother and cared for him ever since.†   (source)
  • In that way the child gave her the information that was denied her by her eyes, and long before he went away to the seminary Ursula could already distinguish the different colors of the saints' clothing by the texture.†   (source)
  • In Philadelphia, almost every evening after work, Harriet climbed the long flight of stairs which led to a loft in the building which housed Lebanon Seminary.†   (source)
  • In the beginning of the third week of July, my father's research for the article he was writing made it necessary for him to travel to the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary in Manhattan.†   (source)
  • He worked for Duck Commander for a few years, then attended seminary and worked as a pastor at White's Ferry Road Church in 1988, eventually becoming a senior pastor there.†   (source)
  • Around the time they were preparing Jose Arcadio for the seminary she had already made a detailed recapitulation of life in the house since the founding of Macondo and had completely changed the opinion that she had always held of her descendants.†   (source)
  • Bradford's brother) of Auburn Theological Seminary, said: "Her [Harriet's] household is very likely to consist of several old black people, 'bad with the rheumatiz,' some forlorn wandering woman, and a couple of small images of God cut in ebony.†   (source)
  • As for Becca and Emily and the rest of my seminary crowd, well, they'd always been relatively worthless, anyway.†   (source)
  • He had discovered that psychology in the Samson Raphael Hirsch Seminary and College meant experimental psychology only, and that the chairman of the department, Professor Nathan Appleman, had an intense distaste for psychoanalysis in general and for Freud in particular.†   (source)
  • IN THE BEWILDERMENT of her last years, Ursula had had very little free time to attend to the papal education of Jose Arcadio, and the time came for him to get ready to leave for the seminary right away.†   (source)
  • Do you know about seminary?†   (source)
  • Indeed, on several occasions, a seminary student going to give his talk on the parable of the Good Samaritan literally stepped over the victim as he hurried on his way.†   (source)
  • He went to seminary after high school, then worked for the church for a little while, but essentially came straight to work at Duck Commander.†   (source)
  • Every priest knew that what we were taught in seminary had a Catholic spin put on it—yet there was an incontrovertible truth behind it.†   (source)
  • For sure not at seminary.†   (source)
  • If you ask people to predict which seminarians played the Good Samaritan (and subsequent studies have done just this) their answers are highly consistent.†   (source)
  • By the time I came back to work at Duck Commander, Al had gone to seminary and become a preacher and Jase had become a really big part of the operation, making the duck calls and appearing on the DVDs with Phil.†   (source)
  • Jose Arcadio, who left the seminary as soon as he reached Rome, continued nourishing the legend of theology and canon law so as not to jeopardize the fabulous inheritance of which his mother's delirious letters spoke and which would rescue him from the misery and sordidness he shared with two friends in a Trastevere garret.†   (source)
  • Seminary.†   (source)
  • Darley and Batson met with a group of seminarians, individually, and asked each one to prepare a short, extemporaneous talk on a given biblical theme, then walk over to a nearby building to present it.†   (source)
  • You go to seminary for a certain number of years, and then you become a member of the transitional deaconate …. learning the ropes under the guidance of a more experienced parish priest.†   (source)
  • …in the calm and virile protection of Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, but she had not been able to overcome them, not even with the most desperate act of her old age when she would bathe the small Jose Arcadio three years before he was sent to the seminary and caress him not as a grandmother would have done with a grandchild, but as a woman would have done with a man, as it was said that the French matrons did and as she had wanted to do with Pietro Crespi at the age of twelve, fourteen,…†   (source)
  • At first, putting him on the stand seemed to be a sure way to lose a case—but the guy had a PhD from the Princeton Theological Seminary, and there had to be some merit in putting a former atheist on the stand.†   (source)
  • He had introduced himself as Bill Hanks and told me he was a graduate student at a seminary in New Orleans.†   (source)
  • On the tenth Christmas, when little Jose Arcadio was getting ready to go to the seminary, the enormous box from their grandfather arrived earlier than usual, nailed tight and protected with pitch, and addressed in the usual Gothic letters to the Very Distinguished Lady Dona Fernanda del Carpio de Buendia.†   (source)
  • The seminary girls didn't have a curfew, but not getting her home from our first date to the French Quarter wouldn't look too good.†   (source)
  • It was easy to see why, in seminary, this had been taught as heresy: the basis of Christianity was that there was only one God, and He was so different from man that the only way to reach Him was through Jesus.†   (source)
  • He told Gamble to dismount and dig in along the crest of the ridge just past the seminary, facing the Rebs who would come down that road.†   (source)
  • What did I have to offer compared to the programmed future a preacher from the seminary could give her?†   (source)
  • We all had, in seminary.†   (source)
  • He went back inside the Seminary and waited for the firing to begin again before sending his first word to Reynolds.†   (source)
  • I knew the Baptists didn't have nuns, but whatever kind of girl went to a seminary couldn't be anything too hot.†   (source)
  • He came out into the open just below the Seminary and he could see Headquarters field filled with smoke and light, hundreds of men, dozens of fires.†   (source)
  • The seminary loomed like a clean oasis surrounded by low-hanging storm clouds, swarming mosquitoes, hundreds of pedestrians and honking cars.†   (source)
  • After all, I was on a seminary campus.†   (source)
  • They began to move out onto the road by the Seminary, regiment after regiment, moving with veteran gloom, veteran silence, steady men, not many boys.†   (source)
  • I knew the people here didn't wear black robes, but still I thought anyone who attended a seminary had to be unusual.†   (source)
  • The moon shone on the white cupola of the seminary across the road- lovely view, good place to see the fight.†   (source)
  • Now that I was not so tense, the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary seemed to have the kind of quiet I needed in order to write my article for National Geographic.†   (source)
  • He galloped back to the Seminary and climbed the cupola and gazed back to that southern road, but there was nothing there.†   (source)
  • Skirmish firing broke out in the fields below Seminary Ridge; musketry popped in patches of white smoke as the lines felt and probed.†   (source)
  • I didn't get near her that night at the party, but in a new sort of way, this party was one of the best I had ever been to and it didn't matter that it was on a seminary campus.†   (source)
  • He yelled, "I don't care if you're a Methodist, I don't care if you're a Catholic, I don't care if you're a Presbyterian or Pentecostal, I don't care if you're a pastor or a seminary professor.†   (source)
  • On the far side of the town there was a red brick building, the stately Seminary, topped with a white cupola.†   (source)
  • He rode back toward the Seminary.†   (source)
  • Me at a seminary?†   (source)
  • A seminary?†   (source)
  • Buford rode back to the Seminary.†   (source)
  • Beyond the tavern was a rise-Herr Ridge, Johnston said, a continuation of the ridge leading out from town, facing Seminary Ridge about a mile away, not two miles from the Rocky Hill.†   (source)
  • The soldiers coming over the last ridge by the Lutheran Seminary could see across the town to the hills beyond and a winding gray road coming up from the south, and as the first gray troops entered the town there was motion on that southern road: a blur, blue movement, blue cavalry.†   (source)
  • Therefore, there was the black leather Bible which I fished out of my suitcase just before the train pulled into Union Station, and also there was the address I inscribed in a large hand on the register, as if to decisively validate my dulcet-voiced and unguentary ministerial bearing: Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia.†   (source)
  • He spent six years at some American seminary.†   (source)
  • He came to us directly from the Seminary.†   (source)
  • It seemed to him that the dunce of any seminary could have done as well… or better.†   (source)
  • Then one day while at the seminary he realised that he was no longer afraid.†   (source)
  • He asked how long Latour had been at the Seminary.†   (source)
  • Father Jean and Father Joseph heard him lecture at the Seminary, and talked with him in private.†   (source)
  • He believed at once that his own belief about the seminary had been wrong all the while.†   (source)
  • He had not needed to live in the seminary a year before he learned better than that.†   (source)
  • There he entered the Seminary and began a life of laborious study.†   (source)
  • And when you were at the Seminary, you made a resolve to lead a life of contemplation.†   (source)
  • The two boys had not come together until they were Seminarians at Montferrand, in Clermont.†   (source)
  • The city college Simon and I attended wasn't a seminary in charge of priests who taught Aristotle and casuistry and prepared you for European games and vices and all the things, true or not true, actual or not actual, nevertheless insisted on as true and actual.†   (source)
  • And how Hightower had come straight to Jefferson from the seminary, refusing to accept any other call; how he had pulled every string he could in order to be sent to Jefferson.†   (source)
  • But as he had turned over to me his orders for books on theology, literature, history, and philosophy, and I copped Ranke's History of the Popes and Sarpi's Council of Trent for the seminary students, or Burckhardt or Merz's European Thought in the Nineteenth Century, I sat reading.†   (source)
  • Twenty-eight years - that immeasurable period between his birth and his first parish: all childhood and youth and the seminary lay there.†   (source)
  • It was an English book, but from his years in an American seminary he retained enough English to read it, with a little difficulty.†   (source)
  • He has had it ever since the seminary.†   (source)
  • Literary phrases from what seemed now to be another life altogether - the strict quiet life of the seminary - became confused on his tongue: the names of precious stones: Jerusalem the Golden.†   (source)
  • Did he remember days in the seminary, the kindly rebukes of his elders, the moulding discipline, days, too, of frivolity when he acted Nero before the old bishop?†   (source)
  • That was what the word seminary meant: quiet and safe walls within which the hampered and garmentworried spirit could learn anew serenity to contemplate without horror or alarm its own nakedness.†   (source)
  • We sent him to the Seminary in Durango, but he was either too homesick or too stupid to learn anything, so I'm teaching him here.†   (source)
  • Suddenly he remembered - for no apparent reason - a day of rain at the American seminary, the glass windows of the library steamed over with the central heating, the tall shelves of sedate books, and a young man - a stranger from Tuscon - drawing his initials on the pane with his finger - that was peace.†   (source)
  • He believed with a calm joy that if ever there was shelter, it would be the Church; that if ever truth could walk naked and without shame or fear, it would be in the seminary.†   (source)
  • While at the seminary, after he first came there, he often thought how he would tell them, the elders, the high and sanctified men who were the destiny of the church to which he had willingly surrendered.†   (source)
  • His hair, sunburned to the shade of dry hay, had originally been tow-coloured; "Blanchet" ("Whitey") he was always called at the Seminary.†   (source)
  • After six years at the Seminary, Martínez had returned to his native Abiquiu as priest of the parish church there.†   (source)
  • He can remember how when he was young, after he first came to Jefferson from the seminary, how that fading copper light would seem almost audible, like a dying yellow fall of trumpets dying into an interval of silence and waiting, out of which they would presently come.†   (source)
  • I hope to bring some more hardy Auvergnats back with me, young men from our own Seminary, and I am afraid I must put one of them in Albuquerque.†   (source)
  • When he quitted the seminary he had a small income inherited from his father, which, as soon as he got his church, he forwarded promptly on receipt of the quarterly checks to an institution for delinquent girls in Memphis.†   (source)
  • When Jean Marie was in his second year at the Seminary, he was standing on the recreation ground one day at the opening of the term, looking with curiosity at the new students.†   (source)
  • He seems to watch himself, alert, patient, skillful, playing his cards well, making it appear that he was being driven, uncomplaining, into that which he did not even then admit had been his desire since before he entered the seminary.†   (source)
  • Woman (not the seminary, as he had once believed): the Passive and Anonymous whom God had created to be not alone the recipient and receptacle of the seed of his body but of his spirit too, which is truth or as near truth as he dare approach.†   (source)
  • It would be a shame to any man coming from a Seminary that is one of the architectural treasures of France, to make another ugly church on this continent where there are so many already.†   (source)
  • During their Seminary years he had easily surpassed his friend in scholarship, but he always realized that Joseph excelled him in the fervour of his faith.†   (source)
  • Ave Maris Stella, the song which one of his friends at the Seminary used to intone so beautifully; humming it softly he returned to his desk and was just dipping his pen in the ink when the door opened, and a voice said, "Monseigneur est servi!†   (source)
  • He was absent for nearly a year, and when he returned he brought with him four young priests from his own Seminary of Montferrand, and a Spanish priest, Father Taladrid, whom he had found in Rome, and who was at once sent to Taos.†   (source)
  • They had bought the cloth for those coats in Paris, long ago, when they were young men staying at the Seminary for Foreign Missions in the rue du Bac, preparing for their first voyage to the New World.†   (source)
  • We have done the things we used to plan to do, long ago, when we were Seminarians,—at least some of them.†   (source)
  • In the year 1885 there came to New Mexico a young Seminarian, Bernard Ducrot, who became like a son to Father Latour.†   (source)
  • From his home he had gone to the seminary to bid adieu to many schoolmates.†   (source)
  • I express myself so as to be understood; I …. am not a seminary rat.†   (source)
  • Cuff, on the contrary, was the great chief and dandy of the Swishtail Seminary.†   (source)
  • I had been at the seminary from nine years old; in three days I should have been twenty.†   (source)
  • Then what a nursery of aspirations is a seminary!†   (source)
  • In this way he came to the prefecture, then to the seminary.†   (source)
  • There's always a petard in a seminary fellow.†   (source)
  • One can't be alone for a minute in that great seminary of a house, with all the doors wide open, and always a servant bringing tea, or a log for the fire, or the newspaper!†   (source)
  • Many of the boys who sat in those front benches a few years ago are perhaps now in distant lands, in the burning tropics, or immersed in professional duties or in seminaries, or voyaging over the vast expanse of the deep or, it may be, already called by the great God to another life and to the rendering up of their stewardship.†   (source)
  • I can forgive mother almost everything except the fact that in a sudden burst of religiosity toward the end, she left half of what remained to be spent in stained-glass windows and seminary endowments.†   (source)
  • An exhorter—a secret preacher—one, who in defiance of all the tenets and processes of organized and historic, as well as hieratic, religious powers and forms (theological seminaries, organized churches and their affiliations and product—all carefully and advisedly and legitimately because historically and dogmatically interpreting the word of God) choosing to walk forth and without ordination after any fashion conduct an unauthorized and hence nondescript mission.†   (source)
  • And he imagined the consternation and the ejaculations of his mother and the young lady at the seminary as they drank his recitals.†   (source)
  • That forest-dell, where Lowood lay, was the cradle of fog and fog-bred pestilence; which, quickening with the quickening spring, crept into the Orphan Asylum, breathed typhus through its crowded schoolroom and dormitory, and, ere May arrived, transformed the seminary into an hospital.†   (source)
  • For the little seminary …… 1,500 livres Society of the mission …… 100 " For the Lazarists of Montdidier …… 100 " Seminary for foreign missions in Paris …… 200 " Congregation of the Holy Spirit …… 150 " Religious establishments of the Holy Land …… 100 " Charitable maternity societies …… 300 " Extra, for that of Arles …… 50 " Work for the amelioration of prisons …… 400 " Work for the relief and delivery of prisoners ….†   (source)
  • After marching through a number of streets the patrol arrested five more Russian suspects: a small shopkeeper, two seminary students, a peasant, and a house serf, besides several looters.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Goddard was the mistress of a School—not of a seminary, or an establishment, or any thing which professed, in long sentences of refined nonsense, to combine liberal acquirements with elegant morality, upon new principles and new systems—and where young ladies for enormous pay might be screwed out of health and into vanity—but a real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a reasonable price, and where girls might be sent…†   (source)
  • The author gives the following statement of facts, on the authority of Professor C. E. Stowe, then of Lane Seminary, Ohio, with regard to emancipated slaves, now resident in Cincinnati; given to show the capability of the race, even without any very particular assistance or encouragement.†   (source)
  • They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank, and were therefore in every respect entitled to think well of themselves, and meanly of others.†   (source)
  • Fifthly, The schools of learning and religion are so corrupted, as (besides the unsupportable charge of education) most children, even the best, wittiest, and of the fairest hopes, are perverted, corrupted, and utterly overthrown by the multitude of evil examples and licentious behaviours in these seminaries.†   (source)
  • Tuesday Eve Had a lively time in my seminary this morning, for the children acted like Sancho, and at one time I really thought I should shake them all round.†   (source)
  • This development was reached with different degrees of speed in different institutions: Hampton is still a high school, while Fisk University started her college in 1871, and Spelman Seminary about 1896.†   (source)
  • "You don't know I quit the seminary?"†   (source)
  • Miss Temple, through all changes, had thus far continued superintendent of the seminary: to her instruction I owed the best part of my acquirements; her friendship and society had been my continual solace; she had stood me in the stead of mother, governess, and, latterly, companion.†   (source)
  • Saturday afternoons are riotous times, whether spent in the house or out, for on pleasant days they all go to walk, like a seminary, with the Professor and myself to keep order, and then such fun!†   (source)
  • He neither derogated from his own dignity, nor gave offence to others; he vouchsafed a passing smile at the seminary Latin, and stood up for his bishop; drank two small glasses of wine, but refused a third; accepted a cigar from Arkady, but did not proceed to smoke it, saying he would take it home with him.†   (source)
  • I returned to the seminary.†   (source)
  • Thenardier had that peculiar rectilinear something about his gestures which, accompanied by an oath, recalls the barracks, and by a sign of the cross, the seminary.†   (source)
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