Manse Sentence Examples

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  • In 1896 a new manse was built in Mill Street.

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  • Joanna Baillie, the poetess,, was born in the manse, and a memorial has been erected in her honour.

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  • Emerson wrote Nature, and Hawthorne his Mosses from an Old Manse, containing a charming description of the building and its associations.

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  • After his return from England in 1833 he went to live with his mother at the old manse in Concord, Mass., and began his career as a lecturer in Boston.

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  • There is an old manse, with a glebe worth £ 37.

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  • We're in one, a handsome Victorian manse where we are in comfortable rooms.

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  • How does she feel when the neighbors tell her about Claire, the old lady who owned the house before the Smiths and vowed to kill anyone foolhardy enough to purchase the old manse?

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  • The houses, mostly white with coloured roofs, are generally built of wood and iron, and have glazed porches, gay with fuchsias and pelargoniums. Government House, grey, stone-built and slated, calls to mind a manse in Shetland or Orkney.

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  • An Act of Assembly of 1753 declares pactions simoniacal whereby a minister or probationer before presentation and as a means of obtaining it bargains not to raise a process of augmentation of stipend or demand reparation or enlargement of his manse or glebe after induction.

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  • James Nicol (1769-1819), the poet, was minister of Traquair, and his son James Nicol (1810-1879), the geologist and professor of natural history in Aberdeen University, was born in the manse.

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  • The minister is vested with the manse and glebe, to be held by him for himself and his successors in office, and along with the kirk-session he administers church ordinances and exercises church discipline.

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  • Though gradually shorn of much of its old importance, the heritors' meeting retained the power of imposing an assessment for the purpose of providing and maintaining a church and church - yard and a manse and glebe for the minister.

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  • Later they built a handsome manse for their Minister, which is now called ' Ardmore ' .

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  • Exceptionally some Districts have a manse and substantial reserve funds and investments.

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  • Is the pastorate willing to consider changing the manse if asked?

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  • Alter the change had come, John, on visiting the manse, often found Chalmers poring over the Bible.

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  • Wilma owns the old manse in Tomintoul, and she would like to restore the garden to its former state.

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  • Family home in a former manse over 150 years old with an ancient standing stone in the garden.

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  • For me, living in community rather than alone in a large manse has not proved difficult.

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  • The stipend of the minister is £ 250, with a manse, built in 1813.

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