Sample Sentences for
tithe
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    I do not mean, however, to assert that we can be justified in devoting too much of our time to music, for there are certainly other things to be attended to. The rector of a parish has much to do. In the first place, he must make such an agreement for tithes as may be beneficial to himself and not offensive to his patron.  (source)
    tithes = a percentage of income donated to a church
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    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
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    Of barges, sailing colliers, and coasting-traders, there were perhaps, as many as now; but of steam-ships, great and small, not a tithe or a twentieth part so many.  (source)
    tithe = 10%
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    Tell them I'll ignore their operations as long as they give me a ducal tithe.†  (source)
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    My uncle Ed gives her twenty dollars a week, holding it out of the money he tithes to the church.†  (source)
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    Moreover, at a proper season, the tithing-men must take heed that she go both to school and to meeting.†  (source)
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    Barbara still tithed her 10 percent, prayed for strength and faith, and usually dropped a $20 into the Sunday basket.†  (source)
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    Do you still want me to write the tithe check?†  (source)
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    At first they'd insulted my father by turning us down, even after our Bethlehem congregation had done special tithes for a whole year to fly us here for the perfusion of Jesus' name.†  (source)
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    That means after I pay the light bill, the water bill, the gas bill, and the telephone bill, I got thirteen dollars and fifty cents a week left for my groceries, my clothes, getting my hair done, and tithing to the church.†  (source)
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    ...he began to speak of Mrs. Taylor, "A godly woman, who gave to the poor, visited the sick, tithed to the church and in general lived a life of goodliness."  (source)
    tithed = donated 10% of her income
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    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)
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    There will be no increase in lands or tithes for anybody.†  (source)
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