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  • His parents were Anglican missionaries who gave up the material comforts of their middle-class life in Vancouver to work among the poor.†   (source)
  • When the British came to Malabar, a number of Paravans, Pelayas and Pulayas (among them Velutha's grandfather, Kelan) converted to Christianity and joined the Anglican Church to escape the scourge of Untouchability.†   (source)
  • Having dallied with the priesthood in the Anglican Church, he abandoned it to become a caseworker.†   (source)
  • Still searching for a place to do his work, he had traveled back to the central plateau and was spending some time in the company of a Haitian Anglican priest named Fritz Lafontant.†   (source)
  • Our church in Redding Ridge was the Anglican Church.†   (source)
  • Oliver lived in Beda Hall, the Anglican hostel, and though I did not have much contact with him at Fort Hare, it was easy to see that he was destined for great things.†   (source)
  • My family is vaguely Anglican, like everyone else, but the truth is that we rarely went to church in India.†   (source)
  • I look up and recognize Nakayama-sensei, the round-faced minister with round eyes and round glasses from the Anglican church in Vancouver.†   (source)
  • She almost called Andy McGuire from the Anglican church; he would have been a comfort and most willing.†   (source)
  • As rector of King's Chapel, the first Anglican church in Boston, the Reverend Caner was the leading Church of England clergyman in Massachusetts and a greatly respected figure among all denominations.†   (source)
  • Why, it were the Anglican ministers, just such as yourself.†   (source)
  • They were Lowland Scots who had settled in Northern Ireland, where their Presbyterian faith brought them into conflict with the Catholic Irish and the Anglican English.†   (source)
  • And you're an Anglican.†   (source)
  • Then, too, she would have advised against my marriage to Lelia, the lengthy Anglican goddess, who'd measure me ceaselessly while I slept, continually appraise our vast differences, count up the ways.†   (source)
  • He had a priestly black suit made for him in Hong Kong complete with an Anglican benediction sewn into the collar under the name of a Savile Row tailor.†   (source)
  • Death will find me long before I tire of contemplating an evening spent in his company during which he enthralled a mixed audience consisting of a fur trader, a Cree Indian matron, and an Anglican missionary, with an hour-long monologue on sexual aberrations in female pygmy shrews.†   (source)
  • In November the hospital ship of the tiny Anglican fleet tied up at the float as it did every six weeks, and the doctor was brought up the river by canoe, and turned the old vicarage into a clinic.†   (source)
  • Near the end, Grandmother didn't remember that I had become an Anglican—and a Canadian.†   (source)
  • It was as simple as that: joining a church, becoming an Anglican.†   (source)
  • They say there's no zeal like the zeal of the convert—and that's the kind of Anglican I was.†   (source)
  • But this suits me now; both churches are Anglican.†   (source)
  • I observe all holy days, which only the most old-fashioned Anglicans call red-letter days.†   (source)
  • A good thing: Grandmother never knew much about Anglicans.†   (source)
  • Anglicans too went in for tattered military flags, and war memorials of other kinds.†   (source)
  • Tall trees stand beside courtyards and walkways and walls, artful constructions of concrete and stone, which mount the forested hillside, past an ambulatory clinic and a women's clinic, a general hospital, a large Anglican church, a school, a kitchen that prepares meals for about two thousand people daily, and, near the top, a brand-new building for the treatment of tuberculosis.†   (source)
  • It was an old Anglican private school, established for the daughters of English clergy, property owners, and overseers.†   (source)
  • No. His model for mastering his circumstances would be a different sort of captive altogether: an Anglican washed ashore.†   (source)
  • In the evening, his best friend, Archdeacon Hay, the Anglican pastor who lived on the other side of the hill, would come over and sit on Donald's veranda, and together they would expound on the problems of Jamaica.†   (source)
  • This is a part of my particular faith that meets with opposition from my Congregationalist and Episcopalian and Anglican friends.†   (source)
  • I was more of an Anglican than I ever was either a Congregationalist or an Episcopalian—or even a nondenominational, Hurd's Church whatever-I-was.†   (source)
  • He gave me my first Anglican prayer book, my first Canadian prayer book; it is The Book of Common Prayer that I still use.†   (source)
  • Then I became an Anglican; the Anglican Church of Canada has been my church— ever since I left the United States, about twenty years ago.†   (source)
  • It will be a by-the-book Anglican service, the kind that would make my former fellow Congregationalists fidget in their pews.†   (source)
  • Being an Anglican is a lot like being an Episcopalian—so much so that being an Anglican occasionally impresses upon me the suspicion that I have simply become an Episcopalian again.†   (source)
  • Canon Mackie is keen on having guest ministers deliver the sermon—which does spare us the canon's loquacity—but whoever the preacher was today, he was some sort of "reformed" Anglican, and his thesis seemed to be that everything that first appears to be different is actually the same.†   (source)
  • When I die, I shall attempt to be buried in New Hampshire— alongside my mother—but the Anglican Church will perform the necessary service before my body suffers the indignity of trying to be sneaked through U.S. Customs.†   (source)
  • These Grace Church on-the-Hill Anglicans were conservative; "conservative"—about certain matters of propriety, especially— is perfectly all right with us Wheelwrights.†   (source)
  • When some of those Grace Church on-the-Hill Anglicans asked me what I thought of Prime Minister Pearson's "old point of view"— that the deserters (as opposed to the war resisters) were in a category of U.S. citizens to be discouraged from coming to Canada—I actually said I agreed!†   (source)
  • They are Anglicans.†   (source)
  • There was one other meetinghouse—a much smaller, more recent Anglican church—a schoolhouse, gristmill, village store, blacksmith shop, granite quarry, a half dozen or more taverns and, in a section called Germantown, Colonel Quincy's glass factory.†   (source)
  • Do you know that Alderman Wilson, the man who says such damning things about us, has a father who is an Anglican clergyman?†   (source)
  • A roman priest might be wedded to black, but not an Anglican vicar; a solid grey was perfectly acceptable under the collar.†   (source)
  • The young couple were married on July 26 in the ancient Anglican church known as All Hallows Barking by the Tower of London.†   (source)
  • One Sunday it would be an Anglican priest, the next a Dutch Reform predikant, the next a Methodist minister.†   (source)
  • Colonel Reynolds was easy to pick out of a crowd, and he made the other Anglican communicants look like an anemic, malnourished race indeed.†   (source)
  • St. Mary's, built in 1680, was the first Anglican church in India (but by no means the first church, that being the one built in A.D. 54 by St. Thomas the Apostle, who landed on the Kerala coast).†   (source)
  • "Anglican" meant English Church; in England everybody had to belong to it, or at least they were supposed to.†   (source)
  • I would read the inscriptions on walls, and carved into floors, a special foible of rich Anglicans who thought they'd get more points with God by being engraved.†   (source)
  • Over at Redding Center there was a Presbyterian Church naturally, if you were a Presbyterian, you built your house over there and if you were an Anglican, you built here on the Ridge, although of course there were lots of farmers all around who didn't live near either church and just went to the one they wanted.†   (source)
  • From there, after correspondence with Amma, the sister-sisters would head south, not to the Congo (which the French and Belgians had covered), not to Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, or Nigeria (the Anglicans had their fingers all over those souls and disliked competition), but perhaps to Ghana or Cameroon.†   (source)
  • One of our first ministers was an Anglican priest by the name of Father Hughes, a gruff, burly Welshman who had served as a chaplain in the submarine corps during the Second World War.†   (source)
  • With numerous denominations to choose from (everything except Congregational), he tried nearly all—the Anglican Christ Church, the meetinghouses of the Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Quakers, the German Moravians—and passed judgment on them all, both their music and the comparative quality of their preaching.†   (source)
  • Nakayama-sensei, the Anglican minister, has just left, Obasan says, with the news that Uncle will be arriving this afternoon.†   (source)
  • Mr. Jarvis, will you speak at the Anglican Young People's Association in Sophiatown?†   (source)
  • I too am an Anglican.†   (source)
  • Edward was perfectly willing that the girls should be Catholic; the boys must be Anglican.†   (source)
  • If your Anglican Chaplain thinks you've stolen a march on him—'†   (source)
  • Yet Gottlieb did not move, but pondered the unknown chemical structure of antibodies, interrupted by questions as to whether Pearl Robbins had enough pencils, whether it would be quite all right for Dr. Holabird to receive the Lettish scientific mission this afternoon, so that Dr. Sholtheis might attend the Anglican Conference on the Reservation of the Host.†   (source)
  • So would she be to him a kindly star, an elevating power, a companion in Anglican worship, a tender friend.†   (source)
  • You know, this is to say, whether they will go rigidly through with the whole programme from the underdone beef to the Anglicanism.†   (source)
  • Confession need harm no one—it can satisfy that test—and though it was un-English, and ignored by our Anglican cathedral, Leonard had a right to decide upon it.†   (source)
  • And once a hostess who of old time had been proud to know him, a hostess whose maiden name was Straufnabel and who had married into the famous old Anglican family of Rosemont when Gottlieb bade her "Auf Wiedersehen" cried out upon him, "Dr.†   (source)
  • Jude sat watching her pretty shoulders, her easy, curiously nonchalant risings and sittings, and her perfunctory genuflexions, and thought what a help such an Anglican would have been to him in happier circumstances.†   (source)
  • It contained Anglican books, stationery, texts, and fancy goods: little plaster angels on brackets, Gothic-framed pictures of saints, ebony crosses that were almost crucifixes, prayer-books that were almost missals.†   (source)
  • But it is probable that her reason will never be sufficiently restored to let her appreciate the meaning of the Anglican marriage service.†   (source)
  • Today, St. Hubert is all sugar-cane and Ford cars, oranges and plantains and the red and yellow pods of cocoa, bananas and rubber trees and jungles of bamboo, Anglican churches and tin chapels, colored washerwomen busy at the hollows in the roots of silk-cotton trees, steamy heat and royal palms and the immortelle that fills the valleys with crimson; today it is all splendor and tourist dullness and cabled cane-quotations, against the unsparing sun.†   (source)
  • I fondly thought at first that you felt as I do about that, as you were so mixed up in Christminster Anglicanism.†   (source)
  • But the boys must be given the opportunity of choosing—and they must have first of all the Anglican teaching.†   (source)
  • I should marry Nancy if her reason were ever sufficiently restored to let her appreciate the meaning of the Anglican marriage service.†   (source)
  • He went silently up to his room and sat there for a long time—until the girl was well in bed—reading in the Anglican prayer-book.†   (source)
  • He went on to say that all his daughters were tall, upstanding, clean-limbed and absolutely pure, and he reminded Colonel Ashburnham that, they having been married on the same day, though in different churches, since the one was a Catholic and the other an Anglican—they had said to each other, the night before, that, when the time came, one of their sons should marry one of their daughters.†   (source)
  • The Puritans,[528] a growing and energetic party and the religious among the Anglican Church,[529] would suppress them.†   (source)
  • A person who had not taken the Sacrament according to the Anglican rite could not stand as a candidate for sheriff of London.†   (source)
  • When Becky left Brussels, the sad truth is that she owed three months' pension to Madame de Borodino, of which fact, and of the gambling, and of the drinking, and of the going down on her knees to the Reverend Mr. Muff, Ministre Anglican, and borrowing money of him, and of her coaxing and flirting with Milor Noodle, son of Sir Noodle, pupil of the Rev. Mr. Muff, whom she used to take into her private room, and of whom she won large sums at ecarte—of which fact, I say, and of a hundred…†   (source)
  • Isabel was sure moreover that her mild forehead and silver cross referred to some weird Anglican mystery—some delightful reinstitution perhaps of the quaint office of the canoness.†   (source)
  • "Do you really think of that?" said Lucy, her eyes brightening with a proud pleasure that made her neglect the argumentative interests of Anglicanism.†   (source)
  • "He's an Anglican."†   (source)
  • In the church, Roman, Anglican or Nonconformist: exemplars, the very reverend John Conmee S. J., the reverend T. Salmon, D. D., provost of Trinity college, Dr Alexander J. Dowie.†   (source)
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