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  • She was married forever after at the main altar of the Cathedral, with a Mass at which three bishops officiated, at eleven o'clock in the morning on the day of the Holy Trinity, and without a single charitable thought for Florentino Ariza, who at that hour was delirious with fever, dying because of her, lying without shelter on a boat that was not to carry him to forgetting.†   (source)
  • I actually stiff-armed him all the way out of bounds, and the officiating crew called it a personal foul on him.†   (source)
  • The voice of the officiating inmate had just become audible.†   (source)
  • Sabina, meanwhile, strode back and forth, wine in hand, going on about her grandfather, who'd been the mayor of a small town; Sabina had never known him; all he'd left behind was this bowler hat and a picture showing a raised platform with several small-town dignitaries on it; one of them was Grandfather; it wasn't at all clear what they were doing up there on the platform; maybe they were officiating at some ceremony, unveiling a monument to a fellow dignitary who had also once worn a bowler hat at public ceremonies.†   (source)
  • Father Walter and I would alternate officiating at Mass or hearing confession; sometimes we'd be asked to drop in and teach a class at the parochial school one town over.†   (source)
  • One might suppose that Astaroth had just secretly designated you to be his officiate for Walpurgisnacht.†   (source)
  • Pastor Peter Whitney officiated, taking his text from I Chronicles: "He died in good old age, full of days ....and honor."†   (source)
  • In my tradition, an uncircumcised male cannot be heir to his father's wealth, cannot marry or officiate in tribal rituals.†   (source)
  • When Jane thanked Harvey for officiating, he shook his head.†   (source)
  • Major Robinson, who ran the prison, would officiate at the tournaments.†   (source)
  • We've probably conducted a dozen weddings at our house, with Alan officiating most of them.†   (source)
  • The officiating noncommissioned officers ordered everybody out, down, made them form lines.†   (source)
  • In fact, I'm officiating at some immensely important ritual sacrifice, on which depends the fate of the crops or of a military expedition.†   (source)
  • She was a theosophist, but she was also an expert on the ritual of the Orthodox Church, and even when she was toute transports, in a state of utter ecstasy, could not refrain from prompting the officiating clergy.†   (source)
  • The tough part was finding a Catholic priest who would be willing to officiate at a mixed marriage.†   (source)
  • His eyes briefly flicked from Max's to his officiate.†   (source)
  • A moment later, we were standing beside Harvey Wellington, the minister I'd asked to officiate.†   (source)
  • You permitted a wretched smee to desecrate this holy night and serve as a false officiate!†   (source)
  • Are you familiar with the officiate's responsibilities?" inquired the imp.†   (source)
  • Father Nicanor Reyna-whom Don Apolinar Moscote had brought from the swamp to officiate at the wedding—was an old man hardened by the ingratitude of his ministry.†   (source)
  • But Maria Teresa, who always loved drama and ceremony, had kept postponing the christening until it could be done "properly" in the cathedral in San Francisco with the bishop officiating and the girls' choir from Inmaculada singing "Regina Coeli."†   (source)
  • He would go to the bathroom in a shabby robe with golden dragons on it and a pair of slippers with yellow tassels, and there he would officiate at a rite which for its care and length recalled Remedios the Beauty.†   (source)
  • Grandmother wanted the Rev. Lewis Merrill to perform the ceremony, and the Rev. Dudley Wiggin had every reason to expect that he would get to officiate.†   (source)
  • The school minister did not usually officiate morning chapel; the most frequent officiant was the headmaster himself.†   (source)
  • And there was that spring when I was in Gravesend for Grandmother's funeral—it was at the old Congregational Church, Grandmother's lifelong church, and Pastor Merrill did not perform the service; whoever had replaced him at the Congregational Church was the officiant.†   (source)
  • At the start of the winter term of our tenth-grade year at Gravesend Academy, the school's gouty minister—the Rev. Mr. Scammon, the officiant of the academy's nondenominational faith and the lackluster teacher of our Religion and Scripture classes—cracked his head on the icy steps of Hurd's Church and failed to regain consciousness.†   (source)
  • My father was an unofficial priest and presided over ritual slaughtering of goats andcalves and officiated at local traditional rites concerning planting, harvest, birth, marriage, initiation ceremonies, and funerals.†   (source)
  • I wasn't officiating—it was my day off, so Father Walter was presiding, along with a deacon named Paul O'Hurley.†   (source)
  • There is not an individual in the neighborhood of Charlottesville who does not believe the story, and not a few who know it...The AFRICAN VENUS is said to officiate as housekeeper at Monticello.†   (source)
  • Why did she not tell me the story—this demure woman in a sari who was once "bath prefect" at Bishop's College Girl's School, who officiated over the cleansing of my lean five-year-old nakedness?†   (source)
  • I was sluggish today—not only was my head buzzing with questions about what I'd read, but I was also—for the first time in a year—not officiating at this evening's midnight Mass.†   (source)
  • For as you sought to deceive me, you have been yourselves deceived.... And turning, the Demon stared at his false officiate.†   (source)
  • Told him that I was Astaroth's handpicked officiate and that if he made us one second late, we'd use his empty little brainpan as the wine cup!†   (source)
  • When David had nearly reached the cathedral floor, the Demon strode to the empty scarlet robes of the officiate and plucked up the golden goblet.†   (source)
  • I have just been informed that the Great God himself will be joining us and that he has selected Your Excellency to serve as his officiate for the opening toast.†   (source)
  • Of course, when Astaroth had interrogated him, Max had not known that David would be standing on the altar or that a smee would be impersonating Astaroth's officiate.†   (source)
  • AN OFFICIATE'S TOMB.†   (source)
  • We were to have a little trouble regarding the officiating divine; he was a disaster, but I was happily unaware of this as I stood with Larry that afternoon, greeting the mourners.†   (source)
  • Father Kleinsorge was in the hospital in Tokyo, so Father Cieslik officiated.†   (source)
  • She couldn't find her teeth and refused to officiate without them.†   (source)
  • But I have known them before this to be named by a grateful mother for the doctor who officiated.†   (source)
  • He asked her to get the death certificate from the officiating doctor.†   (source)
  • High Mass was at eleven the next morning, the parish priest officiating and the Bishop in the Episcopal chair.†   (source)
  • After first-aid and a thorough medical examination by Dr. Jefferson Reginald Alfonso Spaugh, the popular GIN-ecologist, the guests adjourned to the Ball Room where dance music was provided by Zeke Buckner's Upper Hominy Stringed Quartette, Mr. Buckner himself officiating at the trap drum and tambourine.†   (source)
  • Only this morning I officiated at early celebration—†   (source)
  • Mr. Power stood up to officiate, offering her his chair.†   (source)
  • We had to walk two miles to Brocklebridge Church, where our patron officiated.†   (source)
  • Officiates as a kind of Gentleman Usher, in bringing various People together†   (source)
  • The day before his departure I had officiated as bridesmaid to a young friend.†   (source)
  • 'Is it possible that I had the honour, sir, of officiating when —?'†   (source)
  • Mr. Power again officiated.†   (source)
  • On his return to the humble dwelling, which he designated, with a smile, as his palace, he said to his sister, "I have just officiated pontifically."†   (source)
  • Mrs. Penniman's real hope was that the girl would make a secret marriage, at which she should officiate as brideswoman or duenna.†   (source)
  • No wonder, then, that they made a straight wake for the whale's mouth—the bar—when the wrinkled little old Jonah, there officiating, soon poured them out brimmers all round.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile the officiating clergy had got into their vestments, and the priest and deacon came out to the lectern, which stood in the forepart of the church.†   (source)
  • The officiating curate, who had not yet doffed his surplice, perceived the new-comer, and followed him to the communion-space.†   (source)
  • The clerk who had rescued Petya was talking to a functionary about the priests who were officiating that day with the bishop.†   (source)
  • Ralph Touchett subsequently learned that she had at one time officiated as art critic to a journal of the other world; but she appeared, in spite of this fact, to carry in her pocket none of the small change of admiration.†   (source)
  • When an itinerant priest of the persuasion of the Methodists, Baptists, Universalists, or of the more numerous sect of the Presbyterians, was accidentally in the neighborhood, he was ordinarily invited to officiate, and was commonly rewarded for his services by a collection in a hat, before the congregation separated.†   (source)
  • The principal gentleman who officiated behind the counter, took a good deal of notice of me; and often got me, I recollect, to decline a Latin noun or adjective, or to conjugate a Latin verb, in his ear, while he transacted my business.†   (source)
  • She became an indispensable personage in the household, officiating in all capacities, from cook and wet nurse to seamstress.†   (source)
  • It was not necessary to explain everywhere that I had come into a handsome property; but whenever I said anything to that effect, it followed that the officiating tradesman ceased to have his attention diverted through the window by the High Street, and concentrated his mind upon me.†   (source)
  • When the wife of a poor curate contrives, under all her disadvantages, to dress extremely well, and to have a style of coiffure which requires that her nurse shall occasionally officiate as lady's-maid; when, moreover, her dinner-parties and her drawing-room show that effort at elegance and completeness of appointment to which ordinary women might imagine a large income necessary, it would be unreasonable to expect of her that she should employ a second nurse, or even act as a nurse herself.†   (source)
  • Mr. Weston directed the whole, officiating safely between Hartfield and the Vicarage, and every body was in good time.†   (source)
  • A pair of slipshod feet shuffled, hastily, across the bare floor of the room, as this interrogatory was put; and there issued, from a door on the right hand; first, a feeble candle: and next, the form of the same individual who has been heretofore described as labouring under the infirmity of speaking through his nose, and officiating as waiter at the public-house on Saffron Hill.†   (source)
  • The King was now approaching fast towards his end; and fearing lest Norfolk should escape him, he sent a message to the Commons, by which he desired them to hasten the Bill, on pretence that Norfolk enjoyed the dignity of Earl Marshal, and it was necessary to appoint another, who might officiate at the ensuing ceremony of installing his son Prince of Wales.†   (source)
  • Adam and Seth were coming next, with their mother between them; for Joshua Rann officiated as head sexton as well as clerk, and was not yet ready to follow the rector into the vestry.†   (source)
  • From the Palace of the Tuileries, through Monseigneur and the whole Court, through the Chambers, the Tribunals of Justice, and all society (except the scarecrows), the Fancy Ball descended to the Common Executioner: who, in pursuance of the charm, was required to officiate "frizzled, powdered, in a gold-laced coat, pumps, and white silk stockings."†   (source)
  • There was something funereal in the whole affair, and Mr. Casaubon seemed to be the officiating clergyman, about whom it would be indecent to make remarks.†   (source)
  • There was nobody in the church besides the officiating persons and the small marriage party and their attendants.†   (source)
  • The officiating undertakers made some protest against these changes in the ceremonies; but, the river being alarmingly near, and several voices remarking on the efficacy of cold immersion in bringing refractory members of the profession to reason, the protest was faint and brief.†   (source)
  • Mr. Thesiger, a moderate evangelical, wished for the appointment of his friend Mr. Tyke, a zealous able man, who, officiating at a chapel of ease, had not a cure of souls too extensive to leave him ample time for the new duty.†   (source)
  • And the old man not only let his house to the Colonel but officiated as his butler whenever he had company; Mrs. Raggles operating in the kitchen below and sending up dinners of which old Miss Crawley herself might have approved.†   (source)
  • M. the Prior and Vicar-General of Saint-Germain des Pres ordered a solemn procession of all his clergy, in which the Pope's Nuncio officiated.†   (source)
  • As an observer of human nature, I regularly frequent St. George's, Hanover Square, during the genteel marriage season; and though I have never seen the bridegroom's male friends give way to tears, or the beadles and officiating clergy any way affected, yet it is not at all uncommon to see women who are not in the least concerned in the operations going on—old ladies who are long past marrying, stout middle-aged females with plenty of sons and daughters, let alone pretty young creatures in pink bonnets, who are on their promotion, and may naturally take an interest in th†   (source)
  • They never see the officiating priest, who is always hidden from them by a serge curtain nine feet in height.†   (source)
  • She always occupied it alone because this gallery, being on the level of the first story, the preacher or the officiating priest could be seen, which was interdicted to the nuns.†   (source)
  • He was an officiating priest and a man of war; from the immediate point of view, a soldier of the democracy; above the contemporary movement, the priest of the ideal.†   (source)
  • Suppose a church whose choir is grasped in a gigantic hand, and folded in such a manner as to form, not, as in ordinary churches, a prolongation behind the altar, but a sort of hall, or obscure cellar, to the right of the officiating priest; suppose this hall to be shut off by a curtain seven feet in height, of which we have already spoken; in the shadow of that curtain, pile up on wooden stalls the nuns in the choir on the left, the school-girls on the right, the lay-sisters and the novices at the bottom, and you will have some idea of the nuns of the Petit-Picpus assisting at divine service.†   (source)
  • They all did so; and the lovely Sophia, who was now in private become a bride too, officiated as the mistress of the ceremonies, or, in the polite phrase, did the honours of the table.†   (source)
  • When I behold this goodly frame, this world,
    Of Heaven and Earth consisting; and compute
    Their magnitudes; this Earth, a spot, a grain,
    An atom, with the firmament compared
    And all her numbered stars, that seem to roll
    Spaces incomprehensible, (for such
    Their distance argues, and their swift return
    Diurnal,) merely to officiate light
    Round this opacous Earth, this punctual spot,
    One day and night; in all her vast survey
    Useless besides; reasoning I oft admire,
    How Nature wise and frugal could commit
    Such disproportions, with superfluous hand
    So many nobler bodies to create,
    Greater so manifold, to this one use,
    For aught appears, and on their orb†   (source)
  • The principal difference lay in two instances; for, first, the present company poured the liquor only down their throats; and, secondly, the serjeant, who officiated as priest, drank the last; but he preserved, I believe, the antient form, in swallowing much the largest draught of the whole company, and in being the only person present who contributed nothing towards the libation besides his good offices in assisting at the performance.†   (source)
  • It was then contrived that my mother and myself only should attend at the time, and that Mrs Wilkins should be sent out of the way, as she accordingly was, to the very furthest part of Dorsetshire, to enquire the character of a servant; for the lady had turned away her own maid near three months before; during all which time I officiated about her person upon trial, as she said, though, as she afterwards declared, I was not sufficiently handy for the place.†   (source)
  • She had officiated as nurse to Miss Bridget, in a violent fit of illness, and had sat up many nights with that lady; besides which, she had been seen there the very day before Mr Allworthy's return, by Mrs Wilkins herself, though that sagacious person had not at first conceived any suspicion of her on that account: for, as she herself said, "She had always esteemed Jenny as a very sober girl (though indeed she knew very little of her), and had rather suspected some of those wanton trollops, who gave themselves airs, because, forsooth, they thought themselves handsome."†   (source)
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