Rectory

Examples

• My dear Miss Sharp, she says, why not bring over your girls to the Rectory? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The moon rises at half-past eight, and I will walk up to the rectory with you at nine. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• All the Crawleys from the Rectory came to dine. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Her Ladyship kept her room when the ladies from the Rectory visited their cousins at the Hall. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• This little rectory CAN do no more than make Mr. Ferrars comfortable as a bachelor; it cannot enable him to marry. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• In the parson's croft, behind the rectory, are the musicians of the three parish bands, with their instruments. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I should like you to be brought to the rectory, and given to me and mamma. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• But you know, Mrs. Pryor, it is scarcely _living_ to measure time as I do at the rectory. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I rather long to leave the rectory. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I seed 'em saddling his little nag as I passed at back o' t' rectory. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Now, dear Lina, she continued, let us turn our faces to the cool morning breeze, and walk very quietly back to the rectory. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She asked after all the people at the Rectory with great interest; and said she was thinking of paying them a visit. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• If ever you want a home, if the day should come when Briarfield rectory is yours no longer, come to Nunnely vicarage. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Seeing that Moore waited and was resolved to hear something, she at last said, Miss Keeldar spent a day at the rectory about a week since. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Now, if the accident had happened at the rectory gates, and old Helstone had taken in the martyr, neither Yorke nor his wife would have pitied him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

Editor: Paula