tithe

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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) Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969

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) Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1861

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) Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813

Why, others asked, should all their tithes go to helping strangers, to the extent of building a room to feed them supper?†  (source) Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey, 2006

Do you still want me to write the tithe check?†  (source) Todd Burpo, Heaven Is for Real, 2010

Does God's Work necessarily include vows of chastity, tithing, and atonement for sins through self-flagellation and the cilice?†  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Barbara still tithed her 10 percent, prayed for strength and faith, and usually dropped a $20 into the Sunday basket.†  (source) Ron Suskind, A Hope in the Unseen, 1998

There will be no increase in lands or tithes for anybody.†  (source) Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars, 2006

Liberals could emulate the willingness of many evangelicals to tithe—to donate 10 percent of their incomes each year to charity.†  (source) Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky, 2009

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) Kathryn Stockett, The Help, 2009

...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) Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969

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) Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible, 1998

Tell them I'll ignore their operations as long as they give me a ducal tithe.†  (source) Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965