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  • Tell them I'll ignore their operations as long as they give me a ducal tithe.†   (source)
  • My pastor's salary was also small, cobbled together from the tithes of a small but faithful congregation.†   (source)
  • It is her duty to ensure that the families of our clan pay their agreed-upon tithes to Bregan Hold, that our herds are driven to the proper fields at the proper times, that our stocks of feed and grain do not fall too low, that the women of the Ingeitum weave enough fabric, that our warriors are well equipped, that our smiths always have ore to smelt into iron, and in short, that our clan is well managed and will prosper and thrive.†   (source)
  • Tithes of Dr. Musoke's blood went to laboratories around the world so that they could have samples of living Marburg for their collections of life forms.†   (source)
  • The window he had to pay for, the ER bill he had to pay for, tithing 10 percent when everything was up 10 percent and he had a new baby coming.†   (source)
  • Liberals could emulate the willingness of many evangelicals to tithe--to donate 10 percent of their incomes each year to charity.†   (source)
  • Barbara still tithed her 10 percent, prayed for strength and faith, and usually dropped a $20 into the Sunday basket.†   (source)
  • Then there are those who live outside Idris and choose to make money in the mundane world; it's not forbidden, as long as they tithe a part of it to the Clave.†   (source)
  • There were too many sermons about tithing.†   (source)
  • My uncle Ed gives her twenty dollars a week, holding it out of the money he tithes to the church.†   (source)
  • The first John Adams, remembered as Deacon John, was a farmer and shoemaker, a man of "sturdy, unostentatious demeanor," who, like his father, "played the part of a solid citizen," as tithing man, constable, lieutenant in the militia, selectman, and ultimately church deacon, taking his place on the deacon's bench before the pulpit.†   (source)
  • She spoke of Charleston as though it were a prize that exacted an awesome tithe of spirit from those who loved it.†   (source)
  • I talked straight through the night, and he silently took my confessions, maledictions, as though he were some font of blessing at which I might leave a final belated tithe.†   (source)
  • Because, believe you me, the people that collect the stuff are not about to let the Horvath take more than a tithe of it.†   (source)
  • They are sparing only a tithe of their strength.†   (source)
  • Since she seldom dealt with money, other than to take it in and to tithe to the church, I supposed that the weekly ten cents was to tell us that even she realized that a change had come over us, and that our new unfamiliarity caused her to treat us with a strangeness.   (source)
    tithe = donate 10% of income
  • Clearly offended, Lev says, "Tithing's in the Bible; you're supposed to give 10 percent of everything."   (source)
    tithing = donating a percentage of income to a church
  • Do you still want me to write the tithe check?†   (source)
  • There will be no increase in lands or tithes for anybody.†   (source)
  • 'If you're right in your reckoning, we haven't dealt with a tithe of them yet.†   (source)
  • You don't even have any tithes yet.†   (source)
  • Even now, to honor the sacrifice made by Jesus, his followers proffered their own feeble gestures of personal sacrifice …. fasting, Lenten renunciation, tithing.†   (source)
  • We'll bank the entire tithe openly in the name of Shaddam IV and deduct it legally from our levy support costs.†   (source)
  • The sermon was the annual call to stewardship, the usual chiding to tithe a bit more, the challenge to step up and give the Lord his 10 percent, and to do so happily.†   (source)
  • On top of the TV Guide is an orange envelope from the U.S. Treasury: a stub noting the direct deposit of her check and the automatic 10 percent deduction into a savings account for her church tithing.†   (source)
  • "I heard about tithing, where you give ten percent of your income to the church," Murvelene explained.†   (source)
  • It was as bad as paying tithes.†   (source)
  • Lands were granted; tithes were paid.†   (source)
  • Francie was proud of the center altar because the left side had been carved by Granpa Rommely more than half a century ago when, as a young fellow lately come from Austria, he had begrudgingly given his tithe of labor to his Church.†   (source)
  • Word of it crept in among the nuns; the beggars in front of the church spoke of it, for they would be there to take the tithe of the first fruits of the luck.†   (source)
  • If he had done a tithe of what was rumoured about him, how much he must have suffered!†   (source)
  • "Looking after his tithes, hang'un (only he used the same wicked word).†   (source)
  • I should hear less grumbling when my tithe is paid.†   (source)
  • This is Saint Andrew's day with us, we are taking our tithes."†   (source)
  • …hogsheads; girls canned tomatoes quickly in August or worked rudely at the Five-and-Tens on Christmas Eve; half-breed Indians toiled on Brazilian coffee plantations and dreamers were muscled out of patent rights in new tractors—these were some of the people who gave a tithe to Nicole, and as the whole system swayed and thundered onward it lent a feverish bloom to such processes of hers as wholesale buying, like the flush of a fireman's face holding his post before a spreading blaze.†   (source)
  • Because of his lack of comprehension of the actualities as well as his lack of experience of the stern and motivating forces of passion, he was unable to grasp even a tithe of the meaning of this.†   (source)
  • —Not within the walls of York, ransack my house and that of all my tribe, wilt thou find the tithe of that huge sum of silver that thou speakest of.†   (source)
  • Such a lady gave a neighborliness to both rank and religion, and mitigated the bitterness of uncommuted tithe.†   (source)
  • Not that he laid claim to the tithe pig; but, as an analogous mode of reverence, he went his rounds, every morning, to gather up the crumbs of the table and overflowings of the dinner-pot, as food for a pig of his own.†   (source)
  • They have gone on to the tents; for surely they must have tents pitched for the haymakers—the house would not hold a tithe of the folk, I am sure.†   (source)
  • But you don't love me; if you had a tithe of the feeling for me that I have for you, it would be impossible to you to think for a moment of sacrificing me.†   (source)
  • Moreover, at a proper season, the tithing-men must take heed that she go both to school and to meeting.†   (source)
  • They receive from the Danish Government a ridiculously small pittance, and they get from the parish the fourth part of the tithe, which does not come to sixty marks a year (about 4 pounds).†   (source)
  • "I am paying my tithes," he said.†   (source)
  • One of the men had ten children; and he said that last year when a priest came and of his ten pigs took the fattest one for tithes, the wife burst out upon him, and offered him a child and said: "Thou beast without bowels of mercy, why leave me my child, yet rob me of the wherewithal to feed it?"†   (source)
  • You'll want a portly rector to complete the picture, and take his tithe of all the respect and honour you get by your hard work.†   (source)
  • Not that it was one of those barren parishes lying on the outskirts of civilization—inhabited by meagre sheep and thinly-scattered shepherds: on the contrary, it lay in the rich central plain of what we are pleased to call Merry England, and held farms which, speaking from a spiritual point of view, paid highly-desirable tithes.†   (source)
  • Besides, when making a passage from one feeding-ground to another, the sperm whales, guided by some infallible instinct—say, rather, secret intelligence from the Deity—mostly swim in VEINS, as they are called; continuing their way along a given ocean-line with such undeviating exactitude, that no ship ever sailed her course, by any chart, with one tithe of such marvellous precision.†   (source)
  • Limits Of The Township The township of New England is a division which stands between the commune and the canton of France, and which corresponds in general to the English tithing, or town.†   (source)
  • —Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint, and anise, and cumin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith; these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.†   (source)
  • This refusal to take any refreshment seemed to him the most odious hypocrisy; all priests tippled on the sly, and were trying to bring back the days of the tithe.†   (source)
  • The town, or tithing, as the smallest division of a community, must necessarily exist in all nations, whatever their laws and customs may be: if man makes monarchies and establishes republics, the first association of mankind seems constituted by the hand of God.†   (source)
  • The Irwines should dine with him every week, and have their own carriage to come in, for in some very delicate way that Arthur would devise, the lay-impropriator of the Hayslope tithes would insist on paying a couple of hundreds more to the vicar; and his aunt should be as comfortable as possible, and go on living at the Chase, if she liked, in spite of her old-maidish ways—at least until he was married, and that event lay in the indistinct background, for Arthur had not yet seen the…†   (source)
  • …pale-faced memento of solemnities, instead of a reasonably faulty man whose exclusive authority to read prayers and preach, to christen, marry, and bury you, necessarily coexisted with the right to sell you the ground to be buried in and to take tithe in kind; on which last point, of course, there was a little grumbling, but not to the extent of irreligion—not of deeper significance than the grumbling at the rain, which was by no means accompanied with a spirit of impious defiance, but…†   (source)
  • "I would," said the leader, "we could hear tidings of our joyous chaplain—he was never wont to be absent when meat was to be blessed, or spoil to be parted; and it is his duty to take care of these the tithes of our successful enterprise.†   (source)
  • They are, however, still further subdivided; and amongst the municipal officers are to be found parish commissioners, who audit the expenses of public worship; different classes of inspectors, some of whom are to direct the citizens in case of fire; tithing-men, listers, haywards, chimney-viewers, fence-viewers to maintain the bounds of property, timber-measurers, and sealers of weights and measures.†   (source)
  • In fact, Mrs. Cadwallader said that Brooke was beginning to treat the Middlemarchers, and that she preferred the farmers at the tithe-dinner, who drank her health unpretentiously, and were not ashamed of their grandfathers' furniture.†   (source)
  • Mr. Casaubon was out of the question, not merely because he declined duty of this sort, but because Featherstone had an especial dislike to him as the rector of his own parish, who had a lien on the land in the shape of tithe, also as the deliverer of morning sermons, which the old man, being in his pew and not at all sleepy, had been obliged to sit through with an inward snarl.†   (source)
  • But so little interest had be taken in the matter, that he owed all his knowledge of the house, garden, and glebe, extent of the parish, condition of the land, and rate of the tithes, to Elinor herself, who had heard so much of it from Colonel Brandon, and heard it with so much attention, as to be entirely mistress of the subject.†   (source)
  • In these lands are men who own great flocks and herds; now as his liegemen, they will pay tithes and sumptuous honor to him, prospering as they carry out his plans.†   (source)
  • I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.†   (source)
  • As for Colonel Brandon, she was not only ready to worship him as a saint, but was moreover truly anxious that he should be treated as one in all worldly concerns; anxious that his tithes should be raised to the utmost; and scarcely resolved to avail herself, at Delaford, as far as she possibly could, of his servants, his carriage, his cows, and his poultry.†   (source)
  • In these lands are men who own great flocks and herds; now as your liegemen, they will pay tithes and sumptuous honor to you, prospering as they carry out your plans.†   (source)
  • This is no longer the clean-cut tithe he pulled out of his parents' car more than two months before.   (source)
    tithe = in this book:  person to be sacrificed as a donation
  • There are also people who tithe their first, second, or third child.   (source)
    tithe = in this book:  sacrificed (a child as a donation)
  • That was my fault—and the fault of everyone who raised you to be a tithe.   (source)
    tithe = in this book:  person to be sacrificed as a donation
  • I know it's an honor and a blessing to be a tithe, but I can't stop wondering why it has to be me.   (source)
    tithe = in this book:  someone being sacrificed (as a donation)
  • Lev was a tithe from the moment he was born.   (source)
    tithe = in this book:  person to be sacrificed as a donation
  • I know this woman who got a tithe's ear.   (source)
    tithe = in this book:  person sacrificed as a donation
  • But lots of those people don't tithe at all—even families in our church—and nobody blames them.   (source)
    tithe = donate a portion of income to a church
  • My uncle got the heart of a tithe and now people say he can perform miracles.   (source)
    tithe = in this book:  person sacrificed as a donation
  • Shouldn't the life line of a tithe divide out like the branches of a tree?   (source)
    tithe = in this book:  person to be sacrificed as a donation
  • We try to make sure every tithe enters the divided state in the proper frame of mind.   (source)
  • He knew he was a tithe from the time he was little.   (source)
    tithe = in this book:  someone being sacrificed (as a donation)
  • Every evening, a candle is lit for each tithe being unwound the next day.   (source)
    tithe = in this book:  person to be sacrificed as a donation
  • The tithes at Happy Jack are like first-class passengers on the Titanic.   (source)
    tithes = in this book:  people being sacrificed (as a donation)
  • There's plush furniture throughout the tithing house.   (source)
    tithing = in this book:  related to the sacrifice of a person as a donation
  • This kid isn't in tithing whites but wears torn jeans and a dirty red T-shirt.   (source)
  • "Why don't you go back to the tithing house?" the doctor suggests.   (source)
  • Maybe, thinks Connor, he's over the "duty" of being tithed.   (source)
    tithed = in this book:  sacrificed (as a donation)
  • Tithes don't participate in the same activities as the terribles.   (source)
    tithes = in this book:  people being sacrificed (as a donation)
  • Even so, his tithing party ends much too soon.   (source)
    tithing = in this book:  related to the sacrifice of a child as a donation
  • ...and people don't ask questions about children who are tithed.   (source)
    tithed = in this book:  sacrificed (as a donation)
  • "What kind of tree was it to begin with?" asks one of the tithes.   (source)
    tithes = in this book:  people being sacrificed (as a donation)
  • It's after dinner, and Lev is alone in the tithing house workout room.   (source)
    tithing = in this book:  related to the sacrifice of a person as a donation
  • Please—you don't understand—you can't take me now, I'm being tithed.   (source)
    tithed = in this book:  sacrificed (as a donation)
  • The tithes endure the occasional jeers and hisses from the terribles, like martyrs.   (source)
    tithes = in this book:  people being sacrificed (as a donation)
  • But then, tithes don't generally know many other tithes.   (source)
  • Lev thinks about what happened, and says, "I would never have run from my own tithing."   (source)
    tithing = in this book:  sacrifice of a person as a donation
  • Today Lev's unit of tithes are taking a nature walk to commune with creation.   (source)
    tithes = in this book:  people being sacrificed (as a donation)
  • The terribles hate the tithes the way peasants despise royalty.   (source)
  • ...don't generally know many other tithes.   (source)
  • Tithes are never supposed to be left alone.   (source)
  • Connor has already heard how tithes are treated differently than the regular population.   (source)
  • I still very much believe in God—just not a god who condones human tithing.   (source)
    tithing = in this book:  related to the sacrifice of a person as a donation
  • It's no use trying to explain to this godless pair what tithing is all about.   (source)
    tithing = donating a percentage of income to a church (and in this book, including some children)
  • There are no presents at a tithing party.   (source)
    tithing = in this book:  related to the sacrifice of a child as a donation
  • "Tithes" and "Terribles," that's how the staff refers to the two kinds of Unwinds.   (source)
    tithes = in this book:  people being sacrificed (as a donation)
  • "You sound like a tithe," says Diego.   (source)
    tithe = in this book:  person to be sacrificed as a donation
  • True, this isn't the harvest camp he and his parents had chosen, but he's a tithe—it's a lifetime pass that's good anywhere.   (source)
  • He and Risa had kept moving through the woods all day, as best they could with Connor having to carry an unconscious tithe.   (source)
  • He was a "true tithe." With five natural siblings, plus one adopted, and three that arrived "by stork," Lev was exactly one-tenth.   (source)
  • He didn't tell people he was a tithe.   (source)
  • They've never seen a fallen tithe before, much less one who, like the prodigal son, has renounced his sins and returned to the fold.   (source)
  • He doesn't know a tithe; he knew one.   (source)
  • Not bad for a lousy little tithe.   (source)
  • Why'd your parents tithe you, Fry?   (source)
    tithe = in this book:  sacrifice as a donation
  • I'm a tithe!   (source)
    tithe = in this book:  person to be sacrificed as a donation
  • So, you're a tithe!   (source)
  • I know a tithe.   (source)
  • I'm a tithe.   (source)
  • He leaves the office with the pastors, who babble about his place in the scheme of things and the joys of tithing.   (source)
    tithing = in this book:  related to the sacrifice of a person as a donation
  • As far as anyone knows, you've been tithed, and people don't ask questions about children who are tithed.   (source)
    tithed = in this book:  sacrificed (as a donation)
  • Lev nods his approval, thinking back to his tithing party and how Marcus was the only one to stand up for him.   (source)
    tithing = in this book:  related to the sacrifice of a child as a donation
  • The tithes examine it, touching its branches cautiously, as if it might at any moment turn into the burning bush.   (source)
    tithes = in this book:  people being sacrificed (as a donation)
  • The other tithes know Lev is different.   (source)
  • This is the man who always told him that tithing was a holy thing from the time he was a small boy—and then told him to run from it.   (source)
    tithing = in this book:  related to the sacrifice of a person as a donation
  • "Those are tithes," a kid tells Connor.   (source)
    tithes = in this book:  people being sacrificed (as a donation)
  • What a wonderful family. They take in storked babies, and send their own flesh and blood to be unwound. Oh, sorry—tithed.   (source)
    tithed = in this book:  sacrificed (as a donation)
  • What he doesn't tell CyFi is that the closest he's ever been to a date or even kissing a girl was the slow dancing at his tithing party.   (source)
    tithing = in this book:  related to the sacrifice of a child as a donation
  • ...a monthlong regimen of mental and physical assessments even before one's tithing party, so all the hard work is done at home, before they get here.   (source)
  • For a moment, as the tithes disappear over a hillside, Connor thinks that he recognizes a face among them, but he knows it's just his imagination.   (source)
    tithes = in this book:  people being sacrificed (as a donation)
  • He flew halfway across the country to be here at Lev's tithing party, and yet he's barely danced, or spoken, or been a part of any of the festivities.   (source)
    tithing = in this book:  related to the sacrifice of a child as a donation
  • Lev hadn't lingered long once he got back to the tithing house—he took the first opportunity to slip out.   (source)
    tithing = in this book:  related to the sacrifice of a person as a donation
  • Lev was born to be tithed—and the man who convinced him this was a glorious and honorable fate doesn't believe it.   (source)
    tithed = in this book:  sacrificed (as a donation)
  • Levi Jedediah Calder is one of the very special guests of Happy Jack Harvest Camp, and he is wearing his tithing whites once more.   (source)
    tithing = in this book:  related to the sacrifice of a person as a donation
  • There are tons of activities for the tithes, but unlike the terribles, no one is forced to participate.   (source)
    tithes = in this book:  people being sacrificed (as a donation)
  • It's not unusual to see tithes unsupervised on the grounds of Happy Jack, although they're usually in clusters—or at the very least, groups of two.   (source)
  • The other tithes, they all stayed back.   (source)
  • A staffer sees him and makes a beeline toward them—after all, everyone knows tithes and terribles do not mix.   (source)
  • Lev, dressed in his silk tithing whites, eats carefully, so as not to leave any stains on his clothes.   (source)
    tithing = in this book:  related to the sacrifice of a child as a donation
  • He does not see Connor on the volleyball court because the tithes are strictly instructed not to look at the terribles.   (source)
    tithes = in this book:  people being sacrificed (as a donation)
  • Most of the other tithes are in the rec room at this time of the evening, or in any number of prayer groups.   (source)
  • Pastor Dan wasn't telling him to run away from the kidnapper that day—he was
    telling Lev to run away from him. From his parents. From his tithing.   (source)
    tithing = in this book:  sacrifice of a person as a donation
  • Their path back to the tithing house takes them by fields and courts where the terribles are being observed and brought to the best possible physical condition before their unwinding.   (source)
    tithing = in this book:  related to the sacrifice of a person as a donation
  • There are, of course, a few other tithes at his school, but they're all from other religions, so Lev has never felt a real sense of camaraderie with them.   (source)
    tithes = in this book:  people being sacrificed (as a donation)
  • All he knows for sure is that he was on his way to his tithing, he was kidnapped by a murderous teenager, and for some strange reason the image of Pastor Dan keeps coming back to him.   (source)
    tithing = in this book:  sacrifice of a person as a donation
  • Part of preparation for tithing is a monthlong regimen of mental and physical assessments even before one's tithing party, so all the hard work is done at home, before they get here.   (source)
    tithing = in this book:  the sacrifice of a child as a donation
  • But …. but my tithing ….   (source)
    tithing = in this book:  sacrifice as a donation
  • There are pastors of all faiths in the tithing house—ministers, priests, rabbis, and clerics—because that notion of giving the finest of the flock back to God is a tradition as old as religion itself.   (source)
    tithing = in this book:  related to the sacrifice of a child as a donation
  • "I'm being tithed," Lev says.   (source)
    tithed = in this book:  sacrificed (as a donation)
  • Tithes never are.   (source)
    tithes = in this book:  people being sacrificed (as a donation)
  • I want to be tithed.   (source)
    tithed = in this book:  sacrificed (as a donation)
  • Come, let us go; Our corn's to reap, for yet our tithe's to sow.†   (source)
  • A murderer and a villain; A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe Of your precedent lord; a vice of kings; A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole And put it in his pocket!†   (source)
  • …first, as I have already observed, it would greatly lessen the number of Papists, with whom we are yearly over-run, being the principal breeders of the nation, as well as our most dangerous enemies, and who stay at home on purpose with a design to deliver the kingdom to the Pretender, hoping to take their advantage by the absence of so many good Protestants, who have chosen rather to leave their country, than stay at home and pay tithes against their conscience to an episcopal curate.†   (source)
  • And he gave him tithes of all.†   (source)
  • …frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; who is whipped from tithing to tithing, and stocked, punished, and imprisoned; who hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his body, horse to ride, and weapons to wear;— But mice and rats, and such small deer, Have been Tom's food for seven long year.†   (source)
  • I have search'd, I have inquired, so has my husband, man by man, boy by boy, servant by servant: the tithe of a hair was never lost in my house before.†   (source)
  • His tithes payed he full fair and well, Both of his *proper swink*, and his chattel** *his own labour* **goods In a tabard* he rode upon a mare.†   (source)
  • And in the Kingdome of the Jewes, during the Sacerdotall Reigne of God, the Tithes and Offerings were the whole Publique Revenue.†   (source)
  • One good woman in ten, madam, which is a purifying o' the song: would God would serve the world so all the year! we'd find no fault with the tithe-woman, if I were the parson: one in ten, quoth 'a! an we might have a good woman born before every blazing star, or at an earthquake, 'twould mend the lottery well: a man may draw his heart out ere he pluck one.†   (source)
  • If the vicar of Aldergrove should die (as we hear he is in a declining way), I hope you will think of me, since I am certain you must be convinced of my most sincere attachment to your highest welfare—a welfare to which all worldly considerations are as trifling as the small tithes mentioned in Scripture are, when compared to the weighty matters of the law.†   (source)
  • …straight on kisses dream,— Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues, Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are: Sometime she gallops o'er a courtier's nose, And then dreams he of smelling out a suit; And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig's tail, Tickling a parson's nose as 'a lies asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice: Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five…†   (source)
  • And thence it is, that Tithes, or other tributes paid to the Levites, as Gods Right, amongst the Israelites, have a long time been demanded, and taken of Christians, by Ecclesiastiques, Jure Divino, that is, in Gods Right.†   (source)
  • *oftentimes* Full loth were him to curse for his tithes, But rather would he given out of doubt, Unto his poore parishens about, Of his off'ring, and eke of his substance.†   (source)
  • They may also if they please, commit the care of Religion to one Supreme Pastor, or to an Assembly of Pastors; and give them what power over the Church, or one over another, they think most convenient; and what titles of honor, as of Bishops, Archbishops, Priests, or Presbyters, they will; and make such Laws for their maintenance, either by Tithes, or otherwise, as they please, so they doe it out of a sincere conscience, of which God onely is the Judge.†   (source)
  • <2> For smalle tithes, and small offering, He made the people piteously to sing; For ere the bishop caught them with his crook, They weren in the archedeacon's book; Then had he, through his jurisdiction, Power to do on them correction.†   (source)
  • Therefore the Sabbath (Gods day) is a Holy Day; the Temple, (Gods house) a Holy House; Sacrifices, Tithes, and Offerings (Gods tribute) Holy Duties; Priests, Prophets, and anointed Kings, under Christ (Gods ministers) Holy Men; The Coelestiall ministring Spirits (Gods Messengers) Holy Angels; and the like: and wheresoever the word Holy is taken properly, there is still something signified of Propriety, gotten by consent.†   (source)
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