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  • PARRIS: It cannot be forgot, sir, that when I summoned the congregation for John Proctor's excommunication there were hardly thirty people come to hear it.   (source)
    congregation = group of people who worship together in the same building
  • I'm getting more people in my congregation every day.   (source)
    congregation = people who worship together in the same building
  • He was used to us getting hand-me-downs from the congregations and that was fine with him.   (source)
  • Some were in our congregation and some from other churches, but they had all come together to pray for our son.   (source)
  • He turned toward the congregation with the air of a preacher himself.   (source)
  • He tells his congregation that he is living proof that religion can save anyone.   (source)
  • But I like being part of a congregation.   (source)
  • The other members of the congregation turned to watch her, as they always did, and most of them were smiling.   (source)
  • He told the congregation to go in peace,   (source)
  • Your wife has become a most valued member of our congregation.   (source)
  • Then he ... went to the church where the congregation was waiting.   (source)
  • I thought Mr. Marshall was decidedly attractive; but Mrs. Lynde says he isn't married, or even engaged, because she made special inquiries about him, and she says it would never do to have a young unmarried minister in Avonlea, because he might marry in the congregation and that would make trouble.   (source)
    congregation = group of people who worship together in the same building
  • ...the very soft singing of the hymns by the congregation.   (source)
    congregation = people who worship together in the same building
  • The king he visited around in the evening, and sweetened everybody up, and made himself ever so friendly; and he give out the idea that his congregation over in England would be in a sweat about him, so he must hurry and settle up the estate right away and leave for home.   (source)
    congregation = group of people who worship together in the same building
  • "People say," said another, "that the Reverend Master Dimmesdale, her godly pastor, takes it very grievously to heart that such a scandal should have come upon his congregation."   (source)
  • How can two sermons a week, even supposing them worth hearing, supposing the preacher to have the sense to prefer Blair's to his own, do all that you speak of? govern the conduct and fashion the manners of a large congregation for the rest of the week?   (source)
  • The congregation gives her a standing ovation.†   (source)
  • Mrs. G was super-religious and spent most of her time in the OASIS, sitting in the congregation of one of those big online megachurches, singing hymns, listening to sermons, and taking virtual tours of the Holy Land.†   (source)
  • People in my congregation fall faint if I walk in on a Sunday.†   (source)
  • "That's a pastor addressing his congregation," Johann replied carefully.†   (source)
  • I've worshiped with thousands of other Christians in the Yoido Full Gospel Church, the world's largest Christian congregation, in Seoul, Korea.†   (source)
  • It was the same pulpit where over twenty years earlier I had spoken to the congregation about casting and catching stones.†   (source)
  • We waited for him to speak, like a congregation expecting the minister's benediction.†   (source)
  • Leaving the small congregation of agents behind, Fache led Langdon farther down the darkened hallway.†   (source)
  • For the next few minutes, the health of several other members of the congregation was discussed, and the prayer list grew by three more names.†   (source)
  • The pastor at the First Hill Lutheran Church had on four successive Sundays asked his congregation to pray not only for Carl Heine's soul but for Susan Marie's "deliverance from grief in the course of time" as well.†   (source)
  • His manner and performance often came up for discussion; the congregation was paying him, after all, which licensed us to discuss at will whether we were getting value for our money.†   (source)
  • The pastor looked out over the congregation.†   (source)
  • After that, the first lieutenant cleared his throat and the congregation could hear him more distinctly.†   (source)
  • A quiet message has been sent throughout the congregation and all of the community, that if anyone knows who's in the book or who wrote it, it's not to be discussed.†   (source)
  • The sound of pattering footsteps filled the temple, and the congregation stood.†   (source)
  • This morning, at the synagogue, the rabbi told his congregation that the Nazis have taken the synagogue lists of all the Jews.†   (source)
  • An imposing congregation had massed itself around her first certainties, and now it was waiting and she could not disappoint it at the altar.†   (source)
  • She was given a microphone and she spoke into it, telling the congregation what she'd told the reverend, that she had been investigating Islam, and that— The preacher cut her off.†   (source)
  • He paces back and forth, waves his stick, tells us we must never forget that the moment the Holy Communion is placed on our tongues we become members of that most glorious congregation, the One, Holy, Roman, Catholic and Apostolic Church, that for two thousand years men, women and children have died for the Faith, that the Irish have nothing to be ashamed of in the martyr department.†   (source)
  • Chencha had just finished serving beans to the congregation at the fifth breakfast mess.†   (source)
  • The congregation gathered around the coffin, and the yellow church swelled like a throat with the sound of sad singing.†   (source)
  • The rabbi would begin the service in a strong, vibrant voice that soon blended in with the voices of the congregation.†   (source)
  • The men in the congregation try to help.†   (source)
  • Certain members had been assigned the construction of a platform to raise the preacher a few inches above his congregation, but it was a less than urgent task, since the major elevation, a white oak cross, had already taken place.†   (source)
  • It is almost inconceivable that the scattered seedship colony of four centuries ago could have supported a large enough congregation to warrant the presence of a bishop, much less a cathedral.†   (source)
  • This was like a gunshot in our congregation.†   (source)
  • And I stood before each congregation with Samuel and Corrine and the children and sometimes our mouths just dropped open from the generosity and goodness of those Harlem people's hearts.†   (source)
  • He paused a moment, then said, "I think it quite necessary that the authorities here should be prepared to meet and deal with the greatest congregation of criminals that ever yet met in this country."†   (source)
  • He cannot be over thirty-five; he must be well connected, thinks Simon, to have risen so fast in the Methodist establishment, and to have procured such an affluent congregation.†   (source)
  • I looked around at his congregation of sturdy villagers and farmers and saw that they did not care for such ideas.†   (source)
  • He switched the band and dialed across bursts of music, news, a preacher haranguing a softly moaning congregation, a weather report.†   (source)
  • The minister at Vince's mother's church mentioned my name and had the congregation say a special prayer for me.†   (source)
  • Alberto thrust his head forward out of the brown monk's cowl and surveyed his congregation, which consisted of a fourteen-year-old girl.†   (source)
  • At the end of the service, the congregation stood, and Deborah's mouth twisted as she fought to scream.†   (source)
  • What sounded very much like a congregation in the vault of the theater above.†   (source)
  • As a sign of mourning, the statues of the saints were shrouded in purple robes that the pious ladies of the congregation unpacked and dusted off once a year from a cupboard in the sacristy.†   (source)
  • Phil Kitchin, the current pastor, said a multinational congregation presents all sorts of problems that a more homogenous church would not.†   (source)
  • "If we place our faith in the Lord," he said as his gaze swept across the faces in the congregation, "we'll always be safe.†   (source)
  • After only two months she left the congregation and instead began reading books about the Catholic faith.†   (source)
  • A thin, middle-aged man, Ethlbert, marched to the edge of the congregation and shouted, "You're all fools!†   (source)
  • Beside me, Jody's cheeks bloomed like good apples, and here and there in the little congregation I recognized other faces of other girls from college and my home town who had known Joan.†   (source)
  • At the end, when the congregation began to break up, he raised his arms signaling for attention.†   (source)
  • Jess could tune it out the same way he tuned out school, with his body standing up and sitting down in unison with the rest of the congregation but his mind numb and floating, not really thinking or dreaming but at least free.†   (source)
  • People bring in their own foldup chairs and lawn chairs, and so sometimes it looks more like the congregation is watching a parade or sitting at a barbecue instead of being at church.†   (source)
  • "People are in dire need," he tells the congregation.†   (source)
  • A moment before, he seemed to be lifted high above the congregation, carried aloft by his own rhetoric.†   (source)
  • Hamstrung, the old old man foundered to his knees, as did his suppliant images, his congregation of terrified selves one week, one month, two years, twenty, fifty, seventy, ninety years from now!†   (source)
  • She used to be in the West Fork Church congregation years ago.†   (source)
  • Since Virginia Beach is a military town, each Sunday the congregation at Atlantic Shores Baptist Church prayed to God to watch over all who were serving, and almost every Sunday they also prayed for the families and souls of those killed the previous week.†   (source)
  • ...And to all Thy people give Thy heavenly grace and specially to this congregation here present ...†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 36 Believed The congregation relaxed, and a more enthusiastic murmur ran around the half circle.†   (source)
  • Pentecostal churches typically encourage all members of the congregation to speak up and preach during the service.†   (source)
  • Of the Baptist congregation of Houston ....Hello?†   (source)
  • I listened as the inmate's voice rose; it was powerful yet broken, amid the weeping, the sobbing, the sighing of the entire "congregation": "All the earth and universe are God's!"†   (source)
  • Canaan's congregation, the poor who lived in a thirty-block area around Brewster Place, still worshiped God loudly.†   (source)
  • Indeed, the congregation in the square might have been expecting a parade, or attending a political rally.†   (source)
  • One Sunday, Barbara was, as usual, down in the church basement, cooking the congregation's dinner, to be served after the midday service.†   (source)
  • Since there weren't enough sober men in church that morning to carry it inside, Mrs. Pink Higgins, who played it, had to sit out in the street and bang away at the hymns, while the rest of the congregation, ten ladies and a preacher, stayed inside and sang.†   (source)
  • THE POLICE SUPERINTENDENT—a member of our congregation—is waiting on the platform in street clothes.†   (source)
  • The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy.†   (source)
  • Two of the charismatics come in to watch TV These are people from the top floor, operating the only church in the Wall, a congregation of pentecostals seeking to receive the gift of the Spirit, laying on hands, shouting out words, prophesying—the whole rocking socking package that makes Edgar want to run and hide.†   (source)
  • Then the congregation, led again by Mrs. Duncan, flew into "Precious Lord, take my hand, lead me on, let me stand."†   (source)
  • The church had a bank of glass front doors, but Jack liked to preach with them open, so none of the glass flew inward at the congregation.†   (source)
  • The man would be allowed to join the congregation, but Father insisted there must be no third wife.†   (source)
  • Over time, though, the congregation had added the obligatory metal buildings—one beside the chapel that dwarfed it, and one behind it where the youth played basketball.†   (source)
  • The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church is the same congregation that launched the Children's Crusade on Birmingham in May 1963.†   (source)
  • That May, after my rape, I arrived back to a congregation that was traumatized, no one more so than Father Breuninger himself.†   (source)
  • His eyes traveled across the congregation, searching out the miners and their families, and addressing himself to them, particularly.†   (source)
  • But a friend of his son Corky, Dale Collins, remembered noticing a sign of the pain Ed kept inside: "In church there was a table in front with little U.S. flags representing the boys of the congregation that had gone off to war.†   (source)
  • He would tell the congregation that Qurong and Justin were planning to ransack the forest as soon as the Guard had accepted peace.†   (source)
  • Now Steph swears that he does this with lots of people in the congregation, but I'm not totally convinced.†   (source)
  • The voice rose and fell in a rhythmical, dreamlike recital-part enumeration of earthly trials undergone by the congregation, part rapt display of vocal virtuosity, part appeal to God.†   (source)
  • One witness reported seeing a group of well-dressed people from a German saloon singing one tune after another while, a few tombstones away, a small congregation of Methodists held a prayer meeting.†   (source)
  • Hennie beganspeaking in lofty language, and at one point, asked the congregation to close its eyes and pray.†   (source)
  • While he spoke to his congregation of Juan Diego and the Miracle of Guadalupe, he found himself silently asking God, Why a child?†   (source)
  • The congregation at the paddock alone was greater than the track's total attendance the day before.†   (source)
  • Can stand up in front of a congregation and speak with confidence about matters I don't feel confident about even when alone.†   (source)
  • The priest's voice boomed out, reaching to the lofty ceilings, and the congregation's responses echoed after.†   (source)
  • In her absence, and in the absence of anyone like her, he was drawn to many things that, in being beautiful, were her allies— the blue of the stage-set in the floodlights, the grace of a cat as it turned its small lion-like face to question a human movement, a fire that blazed from within the dark of a blacksmith's shop or a baker's and caught his eye as he passed, a single tone arising from a cathedral choir to shock a jaded congregation with its unworldly beauty, the mountaintops as snow was lashed from them by blue winds, the perfect and uncontrived smile of a child.†   (source)
  • "And also with you," the congregation answered.†   (source)
  • HOLLAND 1944 On Sunday 15th October there were strangers among the congregation gathered in the severe and unadorned country church west of Apeldoorn.†   (source)
  • 'May the sacred ancestral spirits grant her peace and purification!' he shouted, his eyes roving, stopping, staring at each member of his congregation.†   (source)
  • A whisper moved through the congregation, followed by the rustle of pages as prayer books were opened.†   (source)
  • It's said the congregation freely hands money to him after the service in envelopes.†   (source)
  • Her teacher had lifted her arms through the air like a priest ordering a congregation to stand, so that her slip showed, gray and raggedy.†   (source)
  • Apparently, in the process of rising for the prayer, Jeannie had contrived to cast a backward glance at the congregation.†   (source)
  • My arms are outstretched as if I'm conducting a sermon and this entire not-very-big, dull, dull town is my congregation.†   (source)
  • The church had been built piece by piece, one dollar at a time, by thedeacons and stout men in the congregation.†   (source)
  • You've got a mighty fine congregation," he observed.†   (source)
  • I felt so revived in spirit that I put five dollars in the plate, and afterward, in front of the church, shook hands warmly with the minister and as many of the congregation as I could.†   (source)
  • , and there quickly flashed across my mind a vision of the homely yellow-brick temple housing the Congregation Rodef Sholem in my hometown in Virginia.†   (source)
  • Three hundred and seventy thousand dollars it will cost, a thousand dollars from every member of the congregation!†   (source)
  • Like they were a sort of congregation.†   (source)
  • Either Preacher Henry was too old, or the Afro-Repose congregation had tired of his scolding and awful prophecies, for he no longer preached except on those Sundays when Afro-Repose's new minister, a light-skinned college graduate, was out of town.†   (source)
  • The fasting congregation was going to mass.†   (source)
  • The entire congregation around me groaned when they saw the boat; it looked as if it had been designed and constructed during the Peloponnesian War.†   (source)
  • The whole congregation was there, it seemed like, and new faces that might be relatives or friends of the contestants.†   (source)
  • The poor souls that were not saved were darker and more pitiful than those that were, and still there was not any of the radiance he would have hoped to see in such a congregation.†   (source)
  • One Sunday, when regular service was over, Father James had uncovered sin in the congregation of the righteous.†   (source)
  • Adding to the furor were revelations that the Church was aware of some of the abusive priests, and simply shuffled them from congregation to congregation instead of taking action.   (source)
    congregation = people who worship together in the same building
  • Charismatic or Pentecostal congregations may be spontaneously moved by the Holy Spirit rather than follow a formal order of service.   (source)
  • There are over 50 million Baptists worldwide in nearly 200,000 congregations...   (source)
  • There was a rustling of dresses, and the standing congregation sat down.   (source)
    congregation = group of people who worship together in the same building
  • On the Sabbath day, when the congregation were singing...   (source)
    congregation = people who worship together in the same building
  • Each member of the congregation...   (source)
  • It is felt that distinctness and energy may have weight in recommending the most solid truths; and besides, there is more general observation and taste, a more critical knowledge diffused than formerly; in every congregation there is a larger proportion who know a little of the matter, and who can judge and criticise.   (source)
    congregation = group of people who worship together in the same building
  • Momma was the minister, Carrie the congregation.†   (source)
  • Mal'akh was dragging Langdon across the living room when the congregation declared, "Amen!"†   (source)
  • It makes for a better congregation if the preacher was settled down and married.†   (source)
  • As for the congregation, it had vanished completely among the trees.†   (source)
  • Since he could remember, he'd wanted to lead his own congregation.†   (source)
  • This preacher, this leader of this church and congregation, was using this tone to refer to Allah.†   (source)
  • Back home in Imperial, their congregation gathers for a prayer meeting.†   (source)
  • I told the congregation that we can't simply watch that happen.†   (source)
  • Celaena yawned, but nodded with the rest of the congregation as the choir gave their blessings.†   (source)
  • Alberto held up one hand as priests do when they want the congregation to be seated.†   (source)
  • With one of his huge hands he reached out to the congregation, pulling them in.†   (source)
  • The station was now broadcasting a televangelist leading his congregation in the Lord's Prayer.†   (source)
  • The congregation went silent, and Hegbert nodded at me, willing me to be patient.†   (source)
  • Instead, during the spring she had sought out a Pentecostal congregation in Hedestad.†   (source)
  • Both the village of Made and the congregation of Willem's church had declined in recent years.†   (source)
  • Perrin was an unlikely advocate for a multiethnic congregation.†   (source)
  • He spoke to the entire congregation but looked only at the sorceress.†   (source)
  • Bishop Allen gave him a congregation up there.†   (source)
  • Pastor Ford looked out over the congregation.†   (source)
  • It was with some shock that I realized I had a congregation.†   (source)
  • The rest of the time each member of the congregation was on his or her own.†   (source)
  • She could feel Matt's father's eyes on her, could hear the whispers of the congregation.†   (source)
  • AT SUNDAY CHURCH SERVICE, Shirley Boon gets up in front of the congregation.†   (source)
  • Owen shouted at them; but Mr. Fish, and surely half the congregation, felt that they stood accused.†   (source)
  • Pullum told the congregation to give me a hand, and the room erupted in cheers.†   (source)
  • A congregation of mourners with lantern jaws and broken noses.†   (source)
  • Each time his loyal congregation screams, "Mookoo!†   (source)
  • He was listening closely, but he didn't seem worried about losing a member of the congregation.†   (source)
  • A public bus struck a Sudanese man in front of a church with a mostly Sudanese congregation.†   (source)
  • The congregation began to sing "Blessed Assurance."†   (source)
  • I'd never sat in a congregation before, let alone spoken in front of one.†   (source)
  • If I wanted to preach, I'd be a minister, I'd have a congregation—wouldn't I?†   (source)
  • He trying every little thing to get him a congregation together.†   (source)
  • The pews had no backs, and since the congregation was also the choir, it didn't need a stall.†   (source)
  • Baby JaBrea waved her hands and let out a loud happy screech, and the congregation yelled amen.†   (source)
  • He chastised the congregation calmly at first, and then with increasing annoyance.†   (source)
  • According to Nelson's accounting, nearly half my father's congregation were relatives of dead twins.†   (source)
  • The congregation coughed; they creaked in the old, worn pews.†   (source)
  • It was then that a group of church elders met to discuss the congregation's future.†   (source)
  • The radio a live mass of wire oozing from his trunk, a seething congregation of snakes.†   (source)
  • When he looked down at the congregation and upon her, his eyes opened wide.†   (source)
  • Like a commanding officer reviewing his troops, the Christ Child surveyed the congregation.†   (source)
  • Deborah whispered, "Uh-oh," as the entire congregation followed his pointing finger to look at me.†   (source)
  • Opening up the bargaining table to a would-be congregation.†   (source)
  • Without the chief's blessing he could have no congregation.†   (source)
  • The ragtag congregation chimed in with every sort of word and tune.†   (source)
  • The people of your congregation are mostly what we call in Kikongo the lenzuka.†   (source)
  • Ruth went and when the congregation went to the altar to receive the host, she went also.†   (source)
  • Alan had yelled, within earshot of the priest, the congregation.†   (source)
  • A congregation in church — a skinny flophouse — maybe even their defense headquarters.†   (source)
  • He once asked, "Where is the Devil?" and pointed straight at the congregation.†   (source)
  • Before the congregation Adam and Kelley said their vows and Newlyweds Adam and Kelley.†   (source)
  • Ira slowly stood and addressed the congregation.†   (source)
  • Reverend Richard and his congregation scraped up enough money to buy his church and save it.†   (source)
  • I do not say that you do ill in making your congregation feel righteous in staying here.†   (source)
  • The congregation was not stoic and never silent.†   (source)
  • "And also with you," the congregation again answered.†   (source)
  • I have a message for you, from one of the parishioners in my congregation.†   (source)
  • Sister Lucille waved her arms, leading the congregation in the response.†   (source)
  • The congregation knew whom he was talking about and voiced agreement with his analysis.†   (source)
  • It was Rabbi Eliahu, who had headed a small congregation in Poland.†   (source)
  • Dart thought that this was an insensitive choice of topic, given the state of the congregation.†   (source)
  • " And a congregation of voices answered: "That blackness is most black, brother, most black ...."†   (source)
  • The combination of rabbit and frog innards had caused quite a congregation of turtles to collect.†   (source)
  • The orator had once again altered his strategy in dealing with his congregation.†   (source)
  • The congregation is clapping now, singing another song.†   (source)
  • Well, no Reverend, I'm not a member of the congregation, but I was raised up in the church.†   (source)
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  • Led by her, I passed from compartment to compartment, from passage to passage, of a large and irregular building; till, emerging from the total and somewhat dreary silence pervading that portion of the house we had traversed, we came upon the hum of many voices, and presently entered a wide, long room, with great deal tables, two at each end, on each of which burnt a pair of candles, and seated all round on benches, a congregation of girls of every age, from nine or ten to twenty.   (source)
    congregation = group
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